{"id":414629,"date":"2024-07-30T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=414629"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:06:06","slug":"jack-mccaffery-the-son-of-iowa-basketball-head-coach-fran-mccaffery-commits-to-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=414629","title":{"rendered":"Jack McCaffery, the son of Iowa basketball head coach Fran McCaffery, commits to Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-star forward Jack McCaffery gave a commitment to Butler on Monday. He is the consensus top recruit in <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Iowa<\/a> in the class of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a pretty well-known father in the college basketball world.<\/p>\n<p>Fran McCaffery has been the head coach at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Iowa<\/a> since 2010. He has taken the Hawkeyes to the postseason 11 times including seven trips to the NCAA Tournament. That alone makes the commitment of Jack McCaffery to Butler pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>And to top things off, Butler received a commitment this offseason from <a href=\"https:\/\/collegesportswire.usatoday.com\/2024\/07\/29\/butler-bulldogs-commitment-jack-mccaffery-fran-iowa-basketball\/\">Patrick McCaffery out of the transfer portal<\/a>. Yup, Jack and Patrick McCaffery are brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Which therefore makes them both the sons of Fran McCaffery. Crazy!<\/p>\n<p>Patrick McCaffery played the first five years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4432836\/patrick-mccaffery\">his collegiate career<\/a> for his father at Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we got all that straight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As for Jack McCaffery, he is the No. 73 overall recruit in the nation according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/252248\/jack-mccaffery\">ESPN.com<\/a>. According to On3, McCaffery is the No. 100 recruit in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jack-mccaffery-162554\/\">class of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-8 power forward from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ia\/iowa-city\/iowa-city-west-trojans\/athletes\/jack-mccaffery\/?careerid=uf8ba3mput611\">West Senior (Iowa City, Iowa)<\/a>, he is an impressive shooter and rebounder who is a solid defender on and off the ball.<\/p>\n<p>He moves well in transition and is a very impressive passer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2b50.png\" alt=\"\u2b50\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Jack McCaffery (no. 72 ESPN 100) has committed to Butler <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f436.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc36\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_McCaffery2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jack_McCaffery2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ButlerMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ButlerMBB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hurY60aeTx\">pic.twitter.com\/hurY60aeTx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter NEXT (@SCNext) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCNext\/status\/1817983592137675104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jack McCaffery picked Butler over a very strong offer list that included Bryant, Utah, Virginia, VCU, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest among others.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related shortcode shortcode--related\">\n<h2 class=\"related__header\">Related<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/mckenna-whitham-gotham-fc-american-soccer-history\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">McKenna Whitham makes American soccer history with NWSL debut<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/kiyan-anthony-announces-top-6-schools-includes-melos-alma-mater\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Kiyan Anthony announces top 6 schools, includes Melo&#039;s alma mater<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/quincy-wilson-posts-olympics-pictures-with-lebron-steph-ant\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">16-year-old Olympian Quincy Wilson posts pictures with LeBron, Steph, other stars<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jack McCaffery commits to Butler.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414631,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414629\/revisions\/414631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}