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After Christian Williams announced his decision to transfer a day before Iowa’s exhibition contest against William Jewell College, Hawkeye fans turned their attention to Connor McCaffery.

According to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, McCaffery will not redshirt this season.

Iowa’s Connor McCaffery is expected to play basketball this year and not redshirt, per Fran McCaffery. Official decision on Tuesday.

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) October 30, 2017

An official announcement is expected to come Tuesday.

In Iowa’s 105-81 win against William Jewell, McCaffery played 18 minutes, scoring 5 points (all on free-throw attempts), dishing out 3 assists, and recording 1 steal.

Questions remained over who would take over the backup point guard duties with Williams’ departure. After the exhibition win, McCaffery said that he and Jordan Bohannon had been going head-to-head in practice at the point. He also added that Brady Ellingson had been in the mix as well, just not as often.

McCaffery, a 6-5, 200-pound guard from Iowa City scored 19.6 points per game as a senior while averaging 4.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and 1.8 steals.