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With Luka Garza back, it's time to believe in Iowa as a national championship contender

The 2019-20 season is still a loose thread for all of us college hoop-heads, and therefore it needs closure, something we will (hopefully) get next April when months of waiting result in a champion being crowned. This extended story, the one that started last October, needs a protagonist, and we may have gotten ours when Luka Garza announced his return to Iowa on Sunday.

As you may recall, Garza was Superman dressed as a Hawkeye last season and was a Naismith Player of the Year finalist. Since 2005, fans have had a say in the voting process, so let's use that as our universe for this study.