2016 – 17 Iowa Hawkeyes men 's basketball team represented the University of Iowa in the 2016 – 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The team was led by seventh-year head coach Fran McCaffery and played their home games at Carver – Hawkeye Arena as members of the Big Ten Conference . They finished the season 19 – 15 , 10 – 8 in Big Ten play to finish in a four-way tie for fifth place . They lost in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament to Indiana . They were one of the last four teams not selected for the NCAA Tournament and thus received a No. 1 seed in the National Invitation Tournament where they defeated South Dakota in the first round before losing to TCU in the second round
Big Ten Tournament
2017 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
2016–17 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team