The 46-year-old Henderson replaces Ben McCollum, who left for Iowa on Monday after leading the Bulldogs to the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season and tournament championships and a first-round win over Missouri in the NCAA Tournament.
Iowa basketball coach Ben McCollum provides insight into his recruiting messaging as he tries to rebuild the Hawkeyes' roster.
Chad Leistikow, Tyler Tachman and Dargan Southard break down a crazy-busy week in Iowa basketball and look ahead to roster reconstruction.
McCollum is replacing longtime Hawkeyes head coach Fran McCaffery. McCaffery, who spent 15 seasons in that role at Iowa, is the all-time winningest coach in program history. But after Iowa's exit from the Big Ten Tournament this season, the Hawkeyes elected to move on from McCaffery and embark on a new era.
Ben McCollum has won at every stop of his coaching career, and dressing for success means ditching the sport coat but still looking professional. “I used to wear different ties, shirts and pants and realized I was terrible at matching.
Based on the circumstances, Iowa is tasked with reconstructing the roster in a way that the program hasn’t been accustomed to in recent history.
New Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball coach Ben McCollum struck all the right notes in his first remarks wearing a gold tie, both on and off the floor.
Drake, understandably, wanted to keep up-and-coming superstar coach Ben McCollum around. The draw of coaching the Iowa Hawkeyes was too much, though.