After the Big Ten Tournament loss vs. Illinois, Fran McCaffery shared if he expects to be back as Iowa basketball's head coach next season.

Iowa coach Fran McCaffery would have preferred to bid farewell to his seniors in front of the crowd Thursday night. Instead, his second-half ejection forced that scene to play out in the privacy of the Hawkeyes' locker room.

With Iowa down by nine in the second half against Illinois, Hawkeyes head coach Fran McCaffery was ejected from the game. What started as a relatively calm interaction quickly escalated into more. McCaffery stood near the Hawkeye bench with his hands in his pockets,