A look behind the scenes of how Beth Goetz landed on hiring Ben McCollum as Iowa basketball's next head coach.

Iowa AD Beth Goetz talks about the hiring of Ben McCollum as Iowa men's basketball head coach.

Iowa director of athletics Beth Goetz did not need long to land on Ben McCollum as the right man to lead the Hawkeye men's ...

The No. 2 seed St. John's Red Storm experienced a resurgence this season under legendary head coach Rick Pitino in just his ...

Beth Goetz had a “good handful of conversations” with other coaches, but Drake’s Ben McCollum was always on her radar.

Ben McCollum, the recently-hired head coach of the University of Iowa men’s basketball team, has won at every stop of his ...

Drake's Ben McCollum is heading east. After rumors swirled following Drake's season-ending loss to Texas Tech in the NCAA ...

And she (Beth Goetz) respected that as much as any athletic director can respect that.” This wasn’t the first time that Goetz, Iowa's director of athletics, had made contact with McCollum ...

The Iowa native, born in Iowa City and raised in Storm Lake, replaces Fran McCaffery, the program’s all-time winningest coach ...

Beth Goetz knew that Ben McCollum was the perfect match for the Iowa head coaching job. She was sold on him early and waited ...