Luka Garza

Luka Garza

Luka Garza is an American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. As a junior he was named a consensus first-team All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year. He declared for the 2020 NBA draft. On August 2, he announced he was withdrawing from the draft and returning to Iowa.

About Luka Garza in brief

Summary Luka GarzaLuka Garza is an American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. As a junior he was named a consensus first-team All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year. Garza was a four-star recruit and chose to play college basketball for Iowa over offers from Georgetown, Georgia and Notre Dame, among others. He is of half-Bosnian descent and his mother is from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both of Garza’s parents have basketball experience: his father, Frank, played for Idaho, and his grandfather, James Halm, played professionally on his father’s side, Hawaii on his uncle’s side.

He was named to the midseason watch lists for the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Oscar Robertson Trophy. He declared for the 2020 NBA draft. On August 2, he announced he was withdrawing from the draft and returning to Iowa. He joined John Johnson as the only players in program history to record two 40-point games. He left as his school’s all-time leading scorer, with 1,993 points.