{"id":290896,"date":"2025-10-10T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290896\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:13:09","slug":"iowa-guard-bennett-stirtz-is-ready-to-prove-himself-in-the-big-ten-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290896\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa guard Bennett Stirtz is ready to prove himself in the Big Ten this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">&#8220;D-2 Drake&#8221; is something <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/another-day-another-all-big-ten-nomination-for-hawkeye-hooper-bennett-stirtz-01k72rrhq1ta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transfer guard Bennett Stirtz <\/a>heard a lot last season in his first and only season with the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">The squad earned that moniker after Ben McCollum was hired as head coach before the 2024-2025 season, and brought four guys with him from the Division II level.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">Stirtz and his teammates used the phrase as motivation, going on to win 31 games and secure a trip to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">After last season, Stirtz followed McCollum once again, this time to Iowa City, where the senior guard has high expectations this season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">He has already earned <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/guard-bennett-stirtz-has-been-named-to-the-preseason-all-big-ten-team-01k4r58mfndj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">multiple preseason All-Big Ten First Team nominations<\/a>, which he stated is nice, but he has not played a game yet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">Before the season begins in a few weeks, Stirtz and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/dearoldgold.com\/new-iowa-forward-cam-manyawu-says-everyone-has-bought-into-the-new-culture-01k0frekg179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cam Manyawu<\/a> represented the program at the 2025 Big Ten Men&#8217;s Basketball Media Days in Chicago. Stirtz talked about his expectations for this season and how the team has looked so far.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">During his time at the podium (posted by &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@iowahawkeyeson247sports5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">247Sports<\/a>&#8220;), Stirtz stated that he is going to play with a chip on his shoulder this season and is prepared to play all 40 minutes if he is called upon.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">He stated that his endurance is built during the summer workouts, and he always wants to be on the court, not on the bench.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">Stirtz was also adamant that the team will be more lethal this season because they have multiple &#8220;pick and pop&#8221; players.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">They are still trying to figure out who they are on offense, but they will be able to spread the floor and create space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">Overall, Stirtz is excited to get the season going and cannot wait to play in front of a packed crowd at Carver-Hawkeye Arena this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;D-2 Drake&#8221; is something transfer guard Bennett Stirtz heard a lot last season in his first and only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290897,"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-290896","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\/115347692789238290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290896","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=290896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}