Prior to making the move to Des Moines, Wheeler spent two seasons as an assistant at Southeast Missouri State, where he helped guide the program to its first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth. It was the first NCAA appearance in more than 20 years.

Luke Barnwell was an assistant coach for two years at Texas Tech before joining McCollum’s Hawkeyes. The Red Raiders went to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight this season. Luke Barnwell, an assistant coach on Texas Tech’s Elite Eight men’s basketball team in the season just ended, has joined Ben McCollum’s first Iowa coaching staff.

The Iowa Hawkeyes have been gutted in the transfer portal this offseason after the firing of Fran McCaffery, but new head coach Ben McCollum is certainly making up for it. The ex-Drake Bulldogs coach has landed his fifth transfer from his former team,