After a 26-10 season that included a Large Ten Event title, Iowa enters the offseason set to interchange a famous person and the Large Ten’s all-time 3-pointers made chief. Sophomore ahead Keegan Murray just lately introduced his intention to enter the 2022 NBA draft and sixth-year senior guard Jordan Bohannon has exhausted his eligibility.
Murray ranked fourth nationally and led all power-five gamers in scoring common with 23.5 factors per recreation. He additionally completed with the nation’s most whole factors with 822. The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native completed second within the Large Ten along with his 8.7 rebounds per recreation. In the meantime, Bohannon completed his Hawkeye profession with 455 made 3-pointers, which is probably the most in each Iowa program historical past and amongst all Large Ten gamers.
Iowa has additionally seen three defections into the switch portal. Redshirt senior guard Austin Ash, junior guard Joe Toussaint and sophomore ahead Josh Ogundele all introduced their choices to enter the switch portal. Toussaint had the most important impression on final season for the Hawkeyes, averaging 4.3 factors, 3.2 assists and 1.4 steals per recreation. Ash averaged 2.9 factors per recreation whereas taking part in a mean of 4.4 minutes per contest. Ogundele averaged 1.5 factors and 1.3 rebounds in 5.2 minutes per recreation.
Whereas Iowa is definitely changing star energy and a gentle hand in Toussaint, no less than one nationwide author thinks extremely of the Hawkeyes coming into subsequent season. 247Sports nationwide faculty basketball author Kevin Flaherty included Iowa in his way-too-early top 23 rankings for 2023. Flaherty ranked Iowa No. 16 and shared why he feels the Hawkeyes will nonetheless be a power within the 2022-23 season.
OK, so Keegan Murray is gone. However Kris Murray was a reasonably salty choice off the bench this yr, and he’ll be a part of forces with Patrick McCaffery, Tony Perkins and Payton Sandfort to discipline a staff that ought to as soon as once more be among the many Large Ten’s finest. With Filip Rebraca saying his return for his further season of eligibility, Iowa returns 5 of its high eight from the Hawkeyes’ lineup within the Large Ten Event title recreation win over Purdue. – Flaherty, 247Sports.
The continued progress of Kris Murray might be one of many largest keys for Iowa subsequent season. Murray averaged 9.7 factors and 4.3 rebounds per recreation in simply 17.9 minutes of ground time on common. Patrick McCaffery averaged 10.5 factors and three.6 rebounds per recreation final season. Murray shot 38.7% from 3-point vary and McCaffery shot 33% from deep. That’s a proficient pair to construct round and Iowa will seemingly look so as to add some gamers out of the switch portal as effectively.
In line with 247Sports, the Hawkeyes signed a pair of three-star guards within the 2022 signing class in level guard Dasonte Bowen out of Brewster Academy in New Hampshire and capturing guard Josh Dix from Abraham Lincoln Excessive Faculty in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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