Freshmen front and center as Iowa opens vs. North Dakota

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While the outside focus on the 2023 Iowa Hawkeyes is fixed on subtractions and lost star power, the internal outlook of optimism has everything to do with a freshman class the team views as program-building pillars.

Once the central orbit of the Iowa program, twin brothers Keegan and Kris Murraywere first-round NBA draft picks the past two summers: