Luka Garza to withdraw from draft, return to Iowa – ESPN

IM BACK BABY WHERE THE LOVE? #tunein pic.twitter.com/aSXpXBdDt8— Luka Garza ✞ (@LukaG_55) August 2, 2020

Garzas return strengthens the Hawkeyes as a genuine competitor to win the Big Ten championship and national title. The program has not reached the Final Four considering that 1980 and has actually not won a Big Ten title given that 1979.
” I like this place excessive to leave it,” Garza said in a Sunday press conference.
Garza, who lost the two-man race for last seasons Wooden Award with previous Dayton star Obi Toppin, will top every trusted list as a preseason All-American and the forecasted national player of the year.
College gamers who have actually gotten in the draft must withdraw by Monday to preserve their collegiate eligibility. Garza, who just recently got a welcome to the NBA integrate, stated he “felt highly” he would have been prepared and said he had offers in Europe.
” Its been hard and actually weird with COVID-19,” Garza said. “It added a great deal of unpredictability. At the end of the day, I felt really positive that I wished to come back and finish my profession at the University of Iowa.”

Iowa center Luka Garza will withdraw from the NBA draft and go back to school, he revealed Sunday.