Jordan Bohannon (born June 19, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes for six seasons.
Bohannon was a four-year varsity basketball starter and captain for Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa.[1] He averaged 17.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game as a junior and led Class 4A with 77 three-pointers.[2] As a senior, he averaged 25.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, leading his team to a 17–6 record and the Class 4A sub-state final. He led Class 4A with 593 points in the season, ranking third in the state, and scored 44 points in his final game, a loss to Cedar Falls High School. Bohannon was named Iowa Mr. Basketball and Iowa Gatorade Player of the Year.[3][4] He left as Linn-Mar's all-time leader in three-pointers and free throws.[1] Bohannon played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball for Martin Brothers alongside future Iowa teammates Ryan Kriener and Cordell Pemsl.[5] Bohannon also played golf for four years in high school.[6]
Bohannon did not have any NCAA Division I offers until playing on the AAU circuit after his junior season.[4] On August 28, 2015, before his senior year, he committed to play college basketball for Iowa.[7] By the end of his high school career, Bohannon was considered a four-star recruit and the top player in Iowa by ESPN.[8]
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Marion, IA | Linn-Mar (IA) | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | 170 lb (77 kg) | Aug 28, 2015 | |
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On February 6, 2017, Bohannon was named Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week after averaging 16 points, three assists and 2.5 rebounds per game, shooting 69 percent from three-point range, in wins over Rutgers and Nebraska.[9] On March 2, he recorded 11 points and five assists and made a game-winning three-pointer with 9.7 seconds remaining in a 59–57 victory over 21st-ranked Wisconsin.[10] Four days later, he was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for a second time.[11] Bohannon registered double-doubles in each of his final three games of the season.[1] In the second round of the 2017 Big Ten tournament, Bohannon posted 24 points and 10 assists in a 95–73 loss to Indiana.[12] In his season finale at the second round of the 2017 National Invitation Tournament, he recorded season-highs of 25 points and 13 assists in a 94–92 overtime loss to TCU.[13] As a freshman, Bohannon averaged 10.9 points, 5.2 assists and 2.2 rebounds per game, earning Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors. He set Iowa freshman single-season records in three-pointers and assists.[1]
For much of his sophomore season, Bohannon played through plantar fasciitis in his right foot.[14] On November 22, 2017, he scored a sophomore season-high 30 points, shooting 6-of-8 from three-point range, in a 95–85 win over UAB.[15] He averaged 13.5 points, 5.4 assists and 2.2 rebounds, shooting 43 percent on three pointers, and was an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection by the media.[1] On February 7, 2019, as a junior, he scored a season-high 25 points, including his team's final 11 points, in a 77–72 victory over Indiana.[16] Three days later, Bohannon scored 11 points and made a game-winning three-pointer in an 80–79 win over Northwestern.[17] On February 22, he scored 17 points and made three three-pointers in overtime to help defeat Indiana.[18] In his junior season, Bohannon averaged 11.6 points, 3.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game, surpassing Jeff Horner as Iowa's all-time leader in three-pointers. He was selected to the third team All-Big Ten by the coaches and was named honorable mention All-Big Ten by the media.[1][19] In May 2019, Bohannon underwent surgery on his right hip, which had been causing him pain since the beginning of his junior season.[20] On December 16, after playing 10 games as a senior, he announced that he would undergo season-ending surgery for a left hip injury, which he first noticed about one month after his previous surgery, and would seek a medical redshirt to play another season.[21]
After leading Iowa in assists and three-pointers in 2020–21, and also averaging 10.6 points per game, he announced that he would return for a rare sixth season of eligibility in 2021–22. Because of disruptions to college sports caused by COVID-19, the NCAA ruled that the 2020–21 season would not be counted against the eligibility of any student-athlete in an NCAA winter sport, including basketball.[22]
During the early hours of May 23, 2021, Bohannon was assaulted in a bar by another patron not far from the Iowa campus in Iowa City, suffering what was described as a serious head injury. He was expected to recover in time for the 2021–22 season,[23] and returned for the start of the Hawkeyes' season.[24]
On November 18, 2021, Bohannon set the Big Ten record for career three-point field goals when he hit his 375th in a game against Alabama State. Bohannon passed Ohio State's Jon Diebler.[25] On March 12, 2022, he scored 12 points and hit the game-winning three-pointer in an 80-77 win against Indiana in the Big Ten tournament.[26] Bohannon was named Honorable Mention All-Big Ten.[27]
Bohannon went undrafted in the 2022 NBA Draft. On November 2, 2022, Bohannon was named to the opening night roster for the Iowa Wolves.[28]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2016–17 | Iowa | 34 | 28 | 29.6 | .388 | .416 | .855 | 2.2 | 5.1 | .9 | .1 | 10.9 |
2017–18 | Iowa | 33 | 33 | 31.8 | .423 | .430 | .904 | 2.2 | 5.4 | .7 | .0 | 13.5 |
2018–19 | Iowa | 35 | 35 | 31.0 | .381 | .383 | .872 | 2.4 | 3.4 | .7 | .0 | 11.6 |
2019–20 | Iowa | 10 | 6 | 25.0 | .298 | .328 | 1.000 | 1.6 | 3.3 | .8 | .0 | 8.8 |
2020–21 | Iowa | 31 | 31 | 29.2 | .389 | .390 | .889 | 3.1 | 4.4 | .5 | .0 | 10.6 |
2021–22 | Iowa | 36 | 36 | 26.9 | .385 | .382 | .889 | 1.3 | 1.8 | .8 | .0 | 11.0 |
Career | 179 | 169 | 29.4 | .389 | .397 | .887 | 2.2 | 3.9 | .7 | .0 | 11.4 |
Bohannon's father, Gordy, played quarterback for Iowa.[29] Bohannon has three older brothers, Jason, Matt and Zach. Jason earned Iowa Mr. Basketball honors at Linn-Mar High School and played for Wisconsin before a brief professional career in the United States and Germany.[4] Matt played for Northern Iowa, and Zach played for Air Force and Wisconsin.[30][31]
Jordan Bohannon, the Hawkeyes' leading returning scorer at 10.6 points per game, finished with 18, making six 3-pointers, his final two from the arc giving the Hawkeyes a 39-point bulge early in the second half. The 24-year-old Bohannon, beginning his sixth season....
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