Aaliyah Guyton Commits to Iowa, Daughter of Indiana Legend A.J. Guyton

A.J. Guyton was a legendary men's basketball player for coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers from 1996-2000. On Monday, his daughter — Aaliyah Guyton — committed to the Iowa Hawkeyes as a four-star recruit in the class of 2024.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Iowa women's basketball team landed a stellar prospect on Monday in Aaliyah Guyton. 

Guyton is a four-star guard out of Peoria, Ill., and is rated as the No. 57 overall best women's basketball recruit in the class of 2024 by ESPN.

Notably to fans of the Indiana Hoosiers, she's the daughter of IU men's basketball legend A.J. Guyton. 

#hawkeyenation what's good?😁💛🖤 pic.twitter.com/NYDmgYjXxo

— Aaliyah Guyton (@aguyton11) September 25, 2023

Guyton played for Indiana from 1996-2000 under coach Bob Knight, and finished his time in Bloomington as the fifth all-time leading scorer in the history of the men's basketball program. In total, he scored 2,100 career points. 

He is also the program's all-time leader in career three pointers made, with 283 three-point field goals during his four seasons of college basketball. Guyton also tallied 403 assists and 129 steals in his collegiate career. He has the eighth most assists in Indiana men's basketball history, and the 10th most steals. 

Guyton was a four-year starter during the final four seasons of the Knight era at Assembly Hall. He burst onto the scene as a freshman in 1996-97, finishing that season with an average of 13.6 points per game and 38.6% shooting from the three-point line. Guyton's play only improved in the following years, as he averaged 16.8, 16.0 and 19.7 points per game in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons, respectively. 

The efforts of the 6-foot-1 guard from Peoria garnered him many awards and recognitions throughout his time in Bloomington. Guyton was named to an All-Big Ten team as just a sophomore in 1997-98, and in 1999-2000, he won Co-Big Ten Player of the Year, and was named a consensus first team All-American. 

After college, Guyton was selected with the 32nd overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls. He would spend two seasons with the Bulls and one with the Golden State Warriors in 2002-03 before ultimately washing out of the NBA. However, Guyton would continue playing basketball professionally overseas until 2010. He's since worked as a basketball coach and director of player development at several different stops, including Illinois Central College, Northwestern and Loyola, Md.

His daughter, Aaliyah, is the Hawkeyes' fourth commit in the class of 2024 that is inside the top 100 of ESPN's HoopGurlz recruiting rankings. She joins Ava Heiden, Teagan Mallengi and Taylor Stremlow as players committed to an Iowa women's basketball team that nearly took home the 2022-23 national championship behind superstar Caitlin Clark. 

Aaliyah is a 5-foot-8 guard, only a tad shorter than the 6-foot-1 her father stands at. If she can shoot anything like he could during his time in Bloomington, than Iowa surely has a superstar women's basketball player on its hands. 

🖤💛
Take care of my baby #hawkeyenation https://t.co/rnvFkkTn15

— A.J. Guyton (@ajguyton) September 26, 2023

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