Andrew McKeever

Let's get into Iowa basketball next.

I want to talk a lot of women's with you, as I know you were... at iowa city for media day on tuesday on the women's side back to monday though ben mccullum talking to the players it was my first time in person being around andrew mckeever you know i'm not a real tall guy you're a little bit taller than me not much just a little bit uh mckeever though like i'm taught i'm talking to trevin yurok and i've known trevin now for a number of years and then i just see mckeever walk by good god seven three it is incredible just to see that dude in person

He is all of seven, three, I mean, seven, three, two 95, a very nice kid.

Mind you too.

And I think Iowa's got more shooting.

And McKeever is going to give Iowa a lot of opportunities to do some really, really interesting things.

And more importantly, which I thought was very noteworthy from Ben, is Ben basically called Cam and Andrew McKeever out

two of the best passers, if not the best passers

A couple of final thoughts, a- and we'll have more throughout the week as we got time here with the bye week to talk a little bit more basketball, but a couple of things that jumped out.

And seeing Andrew McKeever, the 7'3" guy, the way that he moves, the, the size that he is.

So I was talking with Trevin Yurek, and if you are an everydayer of Locked On Hawkeyes, you know, got to know his family, called a ton of his games in high school, and definitely a guy that was very easy to root for, leading Valley to three straight championships at the 4A level, uh, and a tremendous young man.

I was just talking with him a little bit off the record, just over to the side.

That, those are three things that I've kind of picked up on at this point.

More size is obvious when you bring in an Andrew McKeever, seven-foot-three from St. Mary's.

You know, it's just obvious that you're gonna be, you're gonna have more size.

And then it's almost like Iowa picked up two big men this off-season.

And then Kam Meneh.

So really your only shooting threats in the starting lineup were Cooper Koch and Bennett Sturtz.

Whereas this season, uh, you could have a lineup with a, a Tyree Coleman who shot better than 41% last season, Tate Sage, Cooper Koch, Trey Thompson, and Andrew McKeever.

So you're talking about four guys that have the potential to really spread the floor.

But those guys have made big jumps for us.

You've got a, a tall glass of water, if you will, in Andrew McKeever, a St. Mary's transfer.

I've gotta figure you've never coached someone as tall as him.

So, uh, in a different spin from my Sturtz question, um, how are you adapting to having him? Uh, how will your offense change? This has gotta be f-fun to have a, a new, different kind of toy to play with.

I think there's a lot of different ways they're gonna be able to play.

I think they have a lot of decent shooters on the team, and obviously Andrew McKeever and Cam.

It's, it's a pretty big front court, so I think Iowa feels really good about its rebounding deficits that, you know, compared to what it faced last year.

Uh, but what are your, what's your kind of feeling about Iowa being picked to finish 10th in the Big 10?

And I'm not saying, you know, Cael- or, uh, Isaiah and, um, you know, Tate Sage are gonna be your primary ball handlers, but they're gonna be guys that can be kind of secondary creators, too.

And you know, we've, we've heard all about this off-season, too, if you've been a VIP at Hawkeye Insider, that there's a lot of really good talk about what Tyrique has done in the last, you know, month or so, and Isaiah Howard has been pretty steady throughout the summer.

But, you know, what does Cooper Koch's ascension look like? What does Tate Sage's ascension look like? Kam Maniau, you know, how does Andrew McKeever fit in? Like, how soon does he really get acclimated to the system, and how soon do his teammates really know how to play with him? Because I think that's one of the things that Iowa is maybe trying to figure out right now, is how can they use McKeever to the best of their ability, and how can they get that-

Yeah

J.R. Koch used to be one of my camp counselors when I went to Iowa basketball camp, so I should get his last name right.

Cam Monyewu, who's 6'9", and then Andrew McKeever coming over from St. Mary's at 7'3".

It's a big lineup all of a sudden, right, where they were like running out front courts like 6'7", 6'8", last year.

It's a different look for them this year.