McCaffery was only 28 when he left the head coaching job at Lehigh to become an assistant under Digger Phelps at Notre Dame in 1988. “It seems like a short time ago that I was going through that ...

This will be the first time Iowa and Notre Dame have met since 1990, when the Irish won a second-round NIT game in South Bend, Ind., 77-68. McCaffery was an Irish assistant, taking advantage of ...

McCaffery spent 11 years as an assistant at Notre Dame. He prepared scouting reports for opponents like Indiana, Duke and Kentucky and learned how to become a major college head coach working for ...

Fran McCaffery admits that the past couple of weeks have felt a little bit like a trip ... Tonight it will be Notre Dame, a place where McCaffery spent 11 years in the formative stages of his ...

Fran McCaffery was 28 years old when he took Lehigh to the 1988 NCAA Tournament in his third season as coach. ... He accepted an assistant’s job at Notre Dame under Digger Phelps.

From there, McCaffery decided to take an assistant position at Lehigh. In 1985, he became Division 1’s youngest head coach when he was promoted. After Lehigh, McCaffery took stops at Notre Dame, UNC ...

Fran McCaffery is coming home. ... He left Lehigh to join the staff at Notre Dame for 11 years and then served as the head coach at UNC-Greensboro, Siena and Iowa.

McCaffery, who also worked as a Notre Dame assistant for 11 seasons was the nation's youngest Division I head coach at 26 years old when Lehigh hired him in 1985. "I haven't done anything else in ...

According to McCaffery, he and Izzo developed a close relationship over the years after facing off as assistants at Notre Dame and Michigan State, respectively, and head coaches at their programs.

He first made a name for himself as an assistant at Notre Dame, Lehigh, and Penn before becoming a head coach. While the Hawkeyes now look ahead to a new chapter, McCaffery’s legacy at Iowa is ...

V.J. Beachem is settling in nicely as a starter at Notre Dame. Beachem scored 16 points, Demetrius Jackson had 12 and No. 17 Notre Dame beat Iowa 68-62 in the ...