As summer workouts begin for the Iowa basketball team Matt Gatens begins working for the program he played for in the city he grew up in. Fran McCaffery named Gatens a new assistant coach last week. He replaces the retiring Kirk Speraw.

Gatens spent the past four seasons at Drake where he was part of the turnaround of the Bulldog program under coach Darian DeVries.

Gatens also had stop at Auburn and says he always though about the possibility of one day returning to Iowa.

Gatens will work with a team that has several key players back from last year’s squad that won the Big Ten Tournament, including sophomore forward Payton Sandfort.

Junior forward Kris Murray remembers watching Gatens play.