The 2025-26 season for the Iowa Hawkeyes is going to be the start of a new era with new head coach Ben McCollum in place after the program parted ways with longtime head coach Fran McCafferey. With McCollum at the helm for Iowa, several of his former Drake players followed him via the transfer portal, including Bennett Stirtz who was one of the top mid-major guards in college basketball last season.

Bennett Stirtz began his college basketball career playing Division 2, then made the jump to Division 1 with Drake, and is now making the transfer to a high-major in the Iowa Hawkeyes. During a recent appearance on longtime college basketball analyst Andy Katz’s podcast, ‘The Sideline with Andy Katz,’ Stirtz spoke about the possible pressure that comes with playing at a different level t

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