Hawk Central: Summer preview for Iowa's football, basketball programs

About this episode

The episode discusses the upcoming summer program for Iowa's football and basketball teams, focusing on key storylines and player developments.

The summer program is about to begin for Iowa football and men's and women's basketball, and it is a really big summer for all three. The Register's Chad Leistikow and Tyler Tachman start with football's biggest summer story lines, including of course the quarterback situation between Hank Brown and Jeremy Hecklinski. Oh, and highly acclaimed QB recruit Tradon Bessinger arrives soon, too. Chad recaps his recent conversation with Iowa women's coach Jan Jensen while Tyler unpacks a lot of the top story lines for Ben McCollum and the Iowa men.

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad Leistikow, Tyler Tachman

Topics covered

• Iowa football
• Iowa basketball
• quarterback situation
• summer program
• coaching insights
• recruitment

Keywords

• Iowa football
• Iowa basketball
• quarterback
• Tradon Bessinger
• Jan Jensen
• Ben McCollum
• Hank Brown
• Jeremy Hecklinski

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iowa football, Iowa men's basketball, Iowa women's basketball

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