Senior (2022-23)
Earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District … Served the team as a captain … Earned a spot on the NABC Honors Court … Played in 25 games with 15 starts … Averaged 7.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.0 steals, and 26.5 minutes per game … Scored in double figures nine times … Shot 74.5 percent from the free throw line … Scored 18 points on 6-of-10 3-pointers vs. Tufts (Dec. 4) … Netted 13 points with five rebounds at Brown (Jan. 6) … Posted 14 points and three assists vs. Elon (Nov. 13) … Scored 13 points at Holy Cross (Nov. 30) and 12 points at UC Irvine (Dec. 20) … Tallied 11 points and six boards at Morehouse (Nov. 7) … Netted 10 points in each of three games – vs. Louisiana (Nov. 11), vs. Cornell (Jan. 21), and vs. Yale (Feb. 3).
Junior (2021-22)
Won the team’s Henry Zimmerman Free Throw Shooting Accuracy Award and Hamilton Fish ’10 Most Improved Player Award … Appeared in and started all 26 games … Scored in double figures in eight of nine games from Jan. 28-Feb. 27 … Netted 14 points with five rebounds and two assists against Princeton (Feb. 27) … Added 13 points, three assists and two steals at Princeton (Feb. 25) … Collected 18 points, seven rebounds and two assists against Cornell (Feb. 19) … Tabbed 13 points, six rebounds, two blocks and three steals against Columbia (Feb. 18) … Notched 12 points, six rebounds, two assists and three steals at Penn (Feb. 12) … Scored 12 points to go with five rebounds at Yale (Feb. 5) … Collected 18 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals at Brown (Feb. 4) … Added 18 points along with three rebounds against Penn (Jan. 28) … Recorded nine points, two rebounds and two assists at Cornell (Jan. 22) … Scored 18 points along with three rebounds in win at Columbia (Jan. 15) … Tallied 10 points, two rebounds and three assists against Howard (Dec. 21) … Picked up seven points and two rebounds against Holy Cross (Dec. 19) … Had 13 points, four assists and two rebounds against Babson (Dec. 6) … Registered 15 points, two assists, one rebound and one block at Massachusetts (Dec. 4) … Picked up eight points, two steals, one assist and one rebound against Rhode Island (Dec. 1) … Recorded nine points, two rebounds and one assist against Northeastern (Nov. 27) … Added 17 points, seven rebounds and three assists against Colgate (Nov. 24) … Totaled a career high 19 points, as well as three rebounds and two assists at Siena (Nov. 22) … Scored 11 points, and a career high five assists and four rebounds against MIT (Nov. 20) … Notched 13 points and six rebounds at Albany (Nov. 17) … Tallied 10 points and three rebounds at Iona (Nov. 13).
Sophomore (2020-21)
Season canceled due to COVID-19.
First-year (2019-20)
Saw action in 20 games, starting vs. Buffalo (Nov. 16) … Averaged 2.1 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 7.1 minutes per game … Eight of 14 field goals were from behind the arc … Played a season-high 17 minutes vs. Buffalo … Scored six points in outings vs. Buffalo and USC (Dec. 1) … Grabbed a season-best three rebounds in 13 minutes at Howard (Dec. 22) … Finished the season with two points and two rebounds in 10 minutes vs. Yale (Mar. 7).
Before Harvard
Four-year letterwinner for Kings Christian Collegiate … Competed on the Under Armour AAU circuit with Canada Elite … Four-year team captain … First team All-OSBA in 2019, second team selection in 2018 … Two-time Biosteel All-Canadian in 2018-19 … All-Canadian 3-point Shootout Champion in 2018 … U16 and U17 Canadian National Team member … Father, Dragisa, played volleyball in Division 1 Yugoslavian League.
Luka Sakota with Steven Pinker - Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology.
