IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Iowa center Luka Garza hopes to be ready for the season opener next month after doctors removed a 9-pound cyst attached to his spleen in early September.
Garza said on Monday during the team’s annual media day that his doctors don’t really know when or why the cyst developed, though he said he played last season without any pain in that area.
But Garza said that, had the cyst not been removed, he would have run the risk of it rupturing in practice or during a game. Damage to the cyst might have caused the spleen to rupture as well, a scenario that would’ve put Garza’s life in danger.
The Hawkeyes open their season on Nov. 8 against UMKC.
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