Iowa's Ben McCollum is READY for Year One with the Hawkeyes
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish sits down with new Iowa head coach Ben McCollum at Big Ten media days ahead of year one at the helm for the Hawkeyes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball |
| 0:12.4 | podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. |
| 0:19.4 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. |
| 0:20.7 | And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. Different deal today, as you'll soon realize. Matt Norlander is not here with me, and that's because I'm in Chicago for Big Ten Media Day. And while here, I sat down with most of the coaches and some of the players for quick |
| 0:40.7 | conversations about their programs and college basketball in general. |
| 0:45.0 | And we figured, or at least we hoped, that you guys might like to listen to those conversations. |
| 0:50.2 | So we're placing them in the I own college basketball feed. |
| 0:53.4 | It's me, GP, at Big Ten Media Day. |
| 0:56.4 | The conversations I had with coaches and players, they are on tap. |
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| 1:34.3 | Gary Parrish here with first year Iowa head coach, |
| 1:37.2 | Ben McAllum. |
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