Todd Lickliter to be named Iowa basketball coach

We went over the Iowa search for a basketball coach here.

New information: The Des Moines Register says Iowa will have a coach in the next 24 hours.  More from the Register.

Iowa will name Todd Lickliter, Butler head coach, and 2007 Coach of the Year.  Until recently Lickliter had the same agent as Steve Alford, ironically.  This seems to be coming from multiple sources.

How about Lickliter's record?  From Butler's site:

Butler men's basketball coach Todd Lickliter has been selected as the Division I Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). Lickliter received his award on Sunday evening (April 1) at the AT & T/NABC Awards Show at the Sydney Marcus Auditorium in Atlanta, Ga. The program was part of the Final Four weekend activities.

Lickliter, who completed his sixth season at Butler, guided the Bulldogs to a school and Horizon League record 29 victories in 2006-07. He led Butler to a regular season co-championship in the Horizon League and then took the Bulldogs to the Sweet 16 of the 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. Butler defeated Old Dominion in the first round of the tournament and then beat #18 Maryland in the second round, before falling to defending national champ Florida in the Sweet 16.

Butler was picked sixth in the Horizon League's preseason poll, but the Bulldogs wasted little time proving the predictors wrong. Lickliter's club opened the season with a 40-point win at Tulane and then captured the Midwest Region title of the NIT Season Tip-Off with back-to-back victories over Notre Dame and Indiana. The Bulldogs continued to roll in New York, defeating #22 Tennessee and #23 Gonzaga to capture the NIT Season Tip-Off championship.

Lickliter led the Bulldogs to 10 straight wins to open the season, including a victory over Purdue in the Wooden Tradition. The 10 wins matched the second-fastest start in school history and the fifth-longest winning streak in school annals. Butler cracked the "Top 25" on Nov. 27 and the Bulldogs were nationally-ranked for a school and league record 16 consecutive weeks. Lickliter's club became the first team in Horizon League history to break into the nation's "Top 10" on Feb. 5!

Katz is reporting this now.

It is interesting that up until 2 weeks ago, both departed Iowa coach Steve Alford and incoming coach Todd Lickliter employed the same agent.  Lickliter has since made a change.