Ben McCollum just wins wherever he goes.
He won four Division II National Championships with Northwest Missouri State, guided Drake to its first NCAA Tournament win since the 1970s, and in one year at Iowa, got them back to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999.
Very few people had Iowa beating the one-seed and reigning champ Florida Gators, but the Hawkeyes came to play early in the game and held on for the biggest win in program history.
Folgueiras' shot ultimately sealed the game for the Hawkeyes, but after the game, Charles Barkley perfectly summed up why this win was a masterclass by Ben McCollum and the Hawkeyes.
Barkley said it was a 'coaching and player clinic' by Iowa
Charles Barkley knows ball, and he complimented Iowa for bringing in a perfect game plan and sticking to it.
Barkley said on the broadcast during postgame that Iowa was not going to let the big guys just stand in the paint. They brought those big guys from Florida way out on the perimeter, and it was a lot of ball movement and body movement, so they didn't get to use their size.
That's how they (Iowa) dominated in the paint.
Barkley closed by calling the performance a "coaching and player clinic" by the Hawkeyes, which is high praise coming from the former NBA great.
The numbers back up what Barkley said as Iowa matched the Gators in rebounds (both grabbed 27), but Iowa grabbed one more offensive rebound and scored two more points in the paint than Florida (32 to 30).
McCollum had a perfect strategy, and his guys followed it perfectly, giving the program the biggest win in its history.