who entered the draft, in last season’s Associated Press player of the year voting. The 6-foot-11 forward averaged 23.9 points and 9.8 rebounds per game to join Purdue’s Joe Barry Carroll (1979) and Glenn Robinson (1994) as the only Big Ten players with at least 740 points and 300 rebounds in a single season.
He was the first player since Ohio State’s Dennis Hopson in 1987 to score 20-plus points in 16 straight Big Ten games.Garza's return catapulted Iowa to the No.
5 spot in the AP Top 25, its highest preseason ranking since opening the year No. 4 in 1955-56.“The team that we could have and the potential, the history we could make is something that years from now I would have regretted not being a part of,” Garza said. “That definitely.