After a breakout season, Kris Murray introduced a bounce that was anticipated. The 6-foot-8, 220 pound ahead from Cedar Rapids formally introduced his intentions to enter the 2023 NBA draft.
“First off, I need to thank coach McCaffery, the teaching employees, my teammates, and Hawkeye Nation for an unimaginable three years. Rising up in Cedar Rapids and attending to put on the black and gold has allowed me to dwell out my dream and achieve a lot on the basketball flooring.
“I admire everybody who has supported me by way of this journey and who will proceed to help me as I chase my highest targets! Now, it’s time for the subsequent chapter in my basketball journey. With that being stated, I will probably be coming into my identify into the 2023 NBA draft!” Murray wrote in his announcement on Twitter.
— Kris Murray (@KrisMurray24) April 7, 2023
Murray noticed his averages balloon from 9.7 factors and 4.3 rebounds per recreation final season to twenty.2 factors and seven.9 rebounds per recreation this season. He shot 47.6% from the ground, together with 33.5% from 3-point vary.
Murray surpassed the 30-point plateau on 4 events through the 2022-23 Iowa hoops season and eclipsed 25 factors 9 occasions. He recorded six double-doubles, together with an unimaginable 30-20 recreation towards Georgia Tech on Nov. 29, 2022.
Murray was the guiding pressure behind Iowa registering its fourth straight NCAA Event berth. The Hawkeyes are one in every of simply 10 packages nationally that may boast that truth.
For his standout season, Murray was honored as a consensus All-American. With that distinction for Murray, Iowa has now had a consensus All-American in 5 of the previous eight seasons and in every of the final 4. Murray joins Jarrod Uthoff, Luka Garza, and Keegan Murray as Hawkeyes which have earned consensus All-American standing up to now eight seasons.
After exploring the NBA draft waters final offseason, Murray appears poised to be a surefire first-round decide on this 12 months’s go-around. His resolution to return has paid off along with his NBA draft inventory spiking.
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