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Iowa basketball: How two bad recruiting classes crushed the Hawks

Between the Iowa basketball recruiting classes of 2014 and 2015, nine scholarship players joined the Hawks.

With the transfer of Isaiah Moss, just one of those nine players will have ever finished their collegiate basketball careers with the Iowa basketball team (Dom Uhl). Not included in that group of nine is former walk-on Nicholas Baer (class of 2014) who arguably carved out a better Iowa basketball career than all of those guys combined.

The interesting thing with recruiting classes at programs like the Iowa basketball program (where they are not bringing in 5-star recruits every year like Kentucky) is the impact of recruiting success or failure is often not felt until a few years later.