Iowa basketball’s Connor McCaffery will return for final season

On Thursday, Iowa males’s basketball realized one key member of final yr’s staff is returning after a number of departures to start out the low season. Senior guard Connor McCaffery introduced that he is returning for a sixth season through his Twitter account. He introduced his resolution privately at Iowa males’s basketball staff awards banquet on Thursday night time. 

McCaffery’s tallied 134 profession video games over 5 seasons at Iowa. After beginning in each sport from 2019-2021, McCaffery got here off the bench for the Hawkeyes final season. He averaged 2.5 factors and a pair of.5 rebounds per sport whereas capturing 34% from the three level line. He additionally had a team-best 5.0 assist-to-turnover ratio,. 

McCaffery with Keegan Murray. acquired The Chris Avenue Award at Iowa’s finish of the season banquet on Thursday. The award is offered yearly to ‘a Hawkeye participant, or gamers, who greatest exemplify the spirit, enthusiasm, and depth of Chris Avenue’. Avenue was an Iowa basketball participant who died in an auto accident in 1993, halfway by his junior yr.

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The Iowa Metropolis native was again within the health club lower than per week after Iowa’s NCAA Event loss to Richmond, McCaffery stated Thursday. He hasn’t began lifting but however has been lively in basketball associated actions. 

“I have been enjoying numerous pickup,” McCaffery stated. “Going to the wellness heart generally after which we’ll play over at this place in North Liberty, some guys from right here, some semi-professionals that stay on the town and a few gamers from (Northern Iowa) will come down. It is good runs.” 

Very like the 2021-22 season, Iowa will depend upon McCaffery for management and defensive versatility subsequent season. His capability to defend guards and forwards aided the Hawkeyes of their Huge Ten Event championship run. He’ll doubtless serve in the same position as he did final season coming off of the bench. 

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Kennington Lloyd Smith III covers Iowa Hawkeyes soccer and males’s basketball for the Des Moines Register. You may join with Kennington on Twitter @SkinnyKenny_ or e mail him at ksmith@gannett.com.