Luka Garza’s 2019-2020 season may be the best single campaign in Iowa basketball history. The skilled big man has now been named player of the year by six major publications, and seems a virtual lock to finish as a consensus first-team All-American. Garza has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, Hawkeye basketball player to ever earn a varsity letter for the program.
Garza is not, however, the best basketball player to ever attend the university. That would be this man:
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Connie Hawkins is unquestionably the greatest player to ever come through the Iowa basketball program.