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Iowa Basketball Top Target Profile: Trent Sisley
Breaking down the four-star forward from the Hoosier State, who included Iowa in his top-five on Friday.
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Overview: Heritage Hills (Ind.) four-star forward Trent Sisley is one of Iowa’s top targets in the 2025 class. Sisley took an official visit to Iowa last fall and the Hawkeyes are hoping to get him back on campus soon. Sisley ranks No. 74 nationally on 247Sports and is the No. 19 power forward in the class of 2025.

His Recruitment: On Friday, Sisley released a top-five of Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan State, and Notre Dame. Those are the five schools he will be focusing and has official visits scheduled to all of those schools except for Iowa.

‘It’s special being back’: Kris Murray returns to Cedar Rapids to watch his jersey be retired
Former Iowa stars Keegan and Kris Murray are back in Iowa for the summer and they’ve been enjoying their old stomping grounds after successful NBA seasons. On Thursday night, Kris and Keegan had their jerseys retired inside the Cedar Rapids Prairie south gym.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa– Former Iowa stars Keegan and Kris Murray are back in Iowa for the summer and they’ve been enjoying their old stomping grounds after successful NBA seasons. On Thursday night, Kris and Keegan had their jerseys retired inside the Cedar Rapids Prairie south gym.

The 30-minute ceremony included a couple of videos, several guest speakers and a nice size crowd. Following the ceremony, the Murrays took some time to speak with 247Sports before signing countless autographs for eager fans.

“It’s special being back,” Kris Murray said. “Being back in Cedar Rapids, it brings back a lot of memories from my time here. It’s been five yers since I graduated this high school and to just be able to make a stamp on it, be celebrated, it means the world to me. People in this community have always supported Keegan and I. They’ve always looked to give back to us, they are a huge part of our journey. To be able to see our jerseys retired, it’s special. This is the place I grew up playing in. I always wanted to play varsity basketball and be where I am now. It’s truly insane.”

Following Murray’s high school career, he contemplated giving up basketball. He wasn’t sure he was going to play in college and that his basketball career was over. After discussions with his family, he opted to go to DME Academy in Daytona Beach, FL to try to get a D-1 scholarship. Several schools were interested, but questioned Murray’s competitiveness because of his stoic nature.

“I didn’t know if I would play basketball in college at one point, getting to where I am now took a lot of hard work and believing in myself,” Kris said. “I’ve always had a good support system around me and people who always believed in me to become the player I am today. I owe it all to them.”

Once Murray got to Iowa, he didn’t total a lot of minutes as a freshman, but he significantly stepped up his game during his final two seasons.

As a junior, he was a consensus third-team All-American after being voted third team All-America by Sporting News, United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and the Associated Press this past season. He was also a Naismith, Wooden and Lute Olson Award semifinalist, and was a finalist for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year. Murray also earned NABC and USBWA All-District accolades and was a unanimous all-conference selection.

Murray said that he has learned a lot about the NBA and is excited about his second-year opportunity. In the final game of his rookie season, he got the matchup that everyone had been waiting for… Kris versus Keegan.

“It was cool. I got my matchup a little bit before the game. I knew I was guarding him and I knew he was guarding me. Just being able to have that moment, just a play a whole entire game against him because it was really special. It doesn’t happen a lot. We’re both competitors, so there’s not a ton of talk on the floor.