Redshirt senior [autotag]Jordan Bohannon[/autotag] will get one final opportunity to wear his Iowa jersey when he takes part in the 2022 College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships from Xavier University of Louisiana’s Convocation Center in New Orleans on Thursday, March 31. The event will air live on ESPN at 8 p.m. CT with Bohannon as one of eight participants.
Excited to head down to New Orleans next week to compete in the 3 point contest🖤💛 @CollegeSLAM pic.twitter.com/OMpTxXYIiF
— Jordan Bohannon (@JordanBo_3) March 26, 2022
Bohannon ended his storybook Hawkeye career in Iowa’s 67-63 first round NCAA Tournament loss against Richmond. The 6-foot-1, 175 pound guard from Marion, Iowa, finished by scoring six points on a pair of made 3-pointers against the Spiders.
Bohannon leaves Iowa City with a legacy as Iowa and the Big Ten’s most prolific 3-point shooter. The sharpshooter knocked down 455 3-pointers over the course of his career, which ranks fourth in NCAA men’s basketball history behind only Wofford’s Fletcher Magee (509), Oakland’s Travis Bader (504) and Duke’s J.J. Redick (457). Bohannon’s 455 made 3-pointers is tops in Big Ten men’s basketball history and 81 more than Ohio State’s Jon Diebler made.
Iowa’s Jeff Horner is the next-closest Hawkeye with 262 made 3-pointers from 2003-06. That mark for Horner ranks 28th in Big Ten history.
Bohannon averaged 11 points per game this season and shot 38.2 percent from 3-point range. He also shot 88.9 percent from the free throw line and averaged 1.8 assists per game. For his career, Bohannon was a 38.2 percent 3-point shooter. His deadliest season was in 2017-18 when Bohannon averaged 13.5 points per game and connected on 43 percent of his 3-point tries.
Bohannon helped lead Iowa to a 26-10 overall record that included the program’s third Big Ten Tournament championship in its history. The Hawkeyes accomplished that feat with Big Ten Tournament wins over Northwestern, Rutgers, Indiana and Purdue. Bohannon banked in the game-winning 3-pointer to top the Hoosiers in the Hawkeyes’ semifinal game.
Bohannon also leaves Iowa as the Hawkeyes’ all-time leader in assists with 704 and free throw percentage at 88.7 percent. He becomes the sixth Iowa player to be invited to the event and the first since Peter Jok in 2017. Jok won the event that year in Phoenix on his 23rd birthday. The other Iowa players that have taken part in the event are Dean Oliver (2001), Luke Recker (2002), Horner (2006) and Adam Haluska (2007).
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