Peter Jok, a 6-foot-6, 200-pound guard, verbally committed to Iowa on Saturday.

“I think they’re (Iowa) getting better every year,” Jok said. “They’re going to be something special. I just want to be part of it.”

Jok generated interest from Kentucky, Michigan State and Notre Dame before a torn patellar tendon sidetracked his junior season.

Jok expects to be 100 percent for his senior season at West Des Moines Valley High School.

“It feels great now,” Jok said of the knee.