Iowa center Luka Garza and UConn's Paige Bueckers were named the 2021 Naismith Player of the Years for men's and women's college basketball on Saturday.
Garza is the first Hawkeyes men's player to win the Naismith trophy. Former Iowa women's star Megan Gustafson, who now plays for the Dallas Wings, won the award in 2019. Iowa is one of six schools to have both a men's and women's player earn the Naismith trophy.
Bueckers, who became the first freshman ever to win the AP women’s basketball player of the year award on Wednesday, is now the first freshman to win the women's Naismith award.