{"id":253912,"date":"2025-09-25T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253912\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:39:09","slug":"hawkeye-hoops-from-downtown-set-for-oct-17-iowa-hawkeyes-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253912\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkeye Hoops From Downtown Set for Oct. 17 &#8211; Iowa Hawkeyes Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013<\/strong> The University of Iowa Athletics Department will host \u201cHawkeye Hoops from Downtown presented by HyVee\u201d on Friday, Oct. 17, at the outdoor basketball court behind Burge Residence Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The hour-long event, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. (CT), will give fans the opportunity to get their first look at the 2025-26 Hawkeye men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams. It is the unofficial tipoff to the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will get an up-close look at the Hawkeyes, which are led by first-year men\u2019s coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/staff\/ben-mccollum\" title=\"Ben McCollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben McCollum<\/a><\/strong> and second-year women\u2019s coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyesports.com\/staff\/jan-jensen\" title=\"Jan Jensen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Jensen<\/a><\/strong>. The evening will include player introductions, fan and player contests, prizes and music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to joining forces with our women\u2019s team in the \u201cHawkeye Hoops from Downtown\u201d event,\u201d said McCollum. \u201cThis will be a great opportunity to build excitement for our programs and for our players to interact with the Hawks Nest, students and our community.\u00a0 It should be a great on-campus event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so excited to see our fans at the Hawkeye Hoops from Downtown event with our men\u2019s basketball team,\u201d said Jensen. \u201cThe best fanbase in the country will get a chance to see our new players and teams for the very first time. We look forward to seeing everyone on Oct. 17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to all.\u00a0 Parking is available in any of the downtown Iowa City parking ramps.\u00a0 Parking is free for the first hour with each additional hour costing $2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013 The University of Iowa Athletics Department will host \u201cHawkeye Hoops from Downtown presented by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-253912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115265691001277810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}