Iowa basketball's 2024-25 season is officially over as the program told the Register it will not play in the NIT or the College Basketball Crown.

After 15 seasons, the Fran McCaffery era has come to an end for the Iowa Hawkeyes. The 65-year-old coach was fired Friday by athletic director Beth Goetz, sources told CBS Sports, one day removed from the Hawkeyes' 106-94 second-round loss in the Big Ten Tournament to Illinois.

The Iowa men’s basketball team will not participate in either the National Invitation Tournament or the College Basketball Crown, a spokesperson told the Des Moines Register on Saturday afternoon. The Hawkeyes’ 2024-25 season is now officially over after a dismal 17-16 season that resulted in the school parting ways with longtime head coach Fran McCaffery on