That's a lot of words to say nothing.
As a fan, would you rather have success in the conference season or the NCAA tournament, if you could choose?
You think you're intelligent?
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As a fan, would you rather have success in the conference season or the NCAA tournament, if you could choose?
You think you're intelligent?
I would strongly encourage anyone to either not interact with him or put him on ignore. It greatly improves the experience on this board.
Shun him like he is a rogue Amish man.
For real.I'm new here and it's prob a stupid question, but how do I do that? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but listening to an idiot defensively misread ppl's statements and reply with nonsense is insufferable and making the forum a considerably worse experience
Click on posters name on the left of the page, A box will pop up, At the bottom of the box you have the option to click on ignore.
Excellent, thanks! I'd suggest everyone do that instead of wasting your own replies feeding it. It's too antisocial to read the room and adjust it's behavior, so please just ignore it until it goes away
She's not that good. And she is NOT getting that much money -- from anyone. Again, because she's not that good. If she was that good, someone would be paying her that much money and she would have committed by now. Faison is a much better prospect as a potential 3 or 4 in Iowa's 4-out system. We aren't missing out much on MacCowan if she goes elsewhere.
The ranking with the 110 best players in the Transfer Portal. Only 12 have not yet committed. And some of these 12 uncommited players would be a great fit for Iowa.
Ranking top players in 2026 women's college basketball transfer portal
The transfer portal doesn't officially open for women's basketball until after the national championship, but some players have already declared.
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23 wins her 1st season, 28 season 2 and looks like possibly a better team next season! Don’t think any others could have done better!?
Well yeah. For the high low to be most effective, the high post has to be willing and able to hit the midrange shot. It worked great when Ava was high but came to a standstill when Hanna had the ball up there because Ava ended up with 2 defenders dropping down low on her. I'm hopeful that with McKenna and Journey running that, that particular issue is no more.
Sa'Myah Smith from Virginia is still available. 6'2 forward. 10 rebounds against Iowa. Was also on the 2023 LSU team that won the national championship, and the following year's team that lost to Iowa.The ranking with the 110 best players in the Transfer Portal. Only 12 have not yet committed. And some of these 12 uncommited players would be a great fit for Iowa.
Ranking top players in 2026 women's college basketball transfer portal
The transfer portal doesn't officially open for women's basketball until after the national championship, but some players have already declared.www.usatoday.com
If Jan could get two or three of these here, the team would be really strong:
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What are you basing that opinion on? Not necessarily disputing it, but assuming it because she hasn’t committed is circular logic. I’m just curious from a basketball skills perspective what you find lacking in her game compared to our needs
Sweet 32 in both her NCAA tourney appearances.
If you don't have a HC that can surpass that point, guess you lower your expectations.
Problem solved.
I appreciate your reasoned post. I can't say her bringing positivity is "over rated". I'll defer to you, as I've never coached beyond my boys youth league games in various sports. Basically I just think its hard to measure what we may have been able to accomplish this season (especially post McCabe's injury) had we had another developing depth piece instead of a 2 girls with 4 years in the program who never been able to contribute in regular season games in Jada and Kenise Johnson. Then there's the "if only" of losing Ava Jones in her accident, just left us with a hole at that wing spots and overall.
Thank you for understanding my take Kceasthawk. I obviously have strong feelings on the issue but that certainly doesn’t make me right or wrong. One can for sure see the weakness in my stance with what happened this year concerning our unfortunate injuries. Each coach has to decide their approach to team makeup, trust their judgement in recruits, and live with the consequences.
I’m not certain of the approach Jan is taking. Obviously we have a number of spots to fill. Do we have the resources to fill with quality depth at the Big 10 level? What is the number she feels is quality depth? I know she is concerned about the right fit and perhaps is gun shy after the disappointing situation with Emely.
My own feeling is we still need at least two more quality players who need to be shooters. Part of my philosophy on building a team is modeled after the legendary coach Don Meyer. His comment was give me a great post player and 4 good perimeter shooters to surround him (her) and we are in business. If one buys into that, I think it’s pretty obvious we have the post. I feel we are short of having enough shooters. I’m interested in your opinion as it appears we can have a civilized, respectful conversation even though we may have different opinions.
I’m not certain of the approach Jan is taking. Obviously we have a number of spots to fill. Do we have the resources to fill with quality depth at the Big 10 level? What is the number she feels is quality depth? I know she is concerned about the right fit and perhaps is gun shy after the disappointing situation with Emely.
My own feeling is we still need at least two more quality players who need to be shooters. Part of my philosophy on building a team is modeled after the legendary coach Don Meyer. His comment was give me a great post player and 4 good perimeter shooters to surround him (her) and we are in business. If one buys into that, I think it’s pretty obvious we have the post. I feel we are short of having enough shooters. I’m interested in your opinion as it appears we can have a civilized, respectful conversation even though we may have different opinions.
I have mentioned her several times. A truly gutsy player. Coming from New Hampshire, a school that is never on TV and with no ESPN coverage. This is the type of player and young woman JJ and Iowa should be able to grab easily; alas, she is still in the portal? Eva is much better than Stremlow, two inches taller and could probably play the 2 or 3 position. The question that won't ever be answered is, has anyone from Iowa reached out to her or for that matter who is JJ and Iowa looking for. What is most important? Shooting percentages? Defensive skills? A natural cultural fit? A religious girl? That mystery will never be answered. Above Hawkbr listed eight possible players still in the portal--> have we reached out to any of them? Ice Brady was good enough for UCONN; might she be good enough for Iowa?
The success that JJ has had over her first two seasons is undeniable. It is even more remarkable that in her first season, she inherited a team that lost the equivalent of four 4-year starters which is an unprecedented loss of experience in just one season for any team.
CC, KM, GM and MD combined for 525 career starts (618 games played), 14,052 career minutes and 8206 career points! Furthermore, two (GM and MD) were in their fifth year and one (KM) was in her sixth year, adding extra maturity on top of experience. And finally two of them were drafted to the WNBA. Many fans did not believe that they would even make it into the NCAA Tournament, let alone the second round. Iowa was similarly misjudged prior to this past season.
I cannot understand how anyone could be critical of JJ for the way that the team very clearly and undeniably overachieved literally everyone’s expectations. My only explanation is that some people just want to focus on the negative for no good reason.
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I agree we need 2 to 3 more players at least, and help from the perimeter with shooters being the biggest need. I also totally understand the point several posters have made that THIS is where it gets really interesting. We're trying to land players who bring something of real value to the roster while knowing they may be behind the 8 ball of having an opportunity to play meaningful minutes. Tough duty for Jan and her staff. I guess this is where we enter the "that's what she gets paid the big bucks" statement. Only landing one player in this years class made the problem that much bigger. A couple more freshman might have been more receptive to a years worth of learning with few opportunities. This is the downside to going portal heavy. Hopefully the 2027 class will be a more filled out class or we'll be doing this all again next year.
I look at her and I see an Iowa girl.
18 PPG 5.5 RPG 2.1APG 43.1FG%
She looks like a classic SF, creates her own shot and is a great defender, strong and fast player.
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Look at her videos....in my opinion, she is bigger, better and more court savvy.But I respect your opinion, we just differ.
So here's where I think these comparisons go awry. Going by the reported heights, she's 5'11 vs Stremlow's 5'10. You watched a few clips of her playing against maybe Albany or Binghamton going up against players that might not start on some high school teams. She scored a lot of points against the likes of those teams along with others like New Jersey Institute of Technology, Merrimack, and Central Connecticut State, and yet her EFG% of 45% was still 20 points below Stremlow who played against competition that was light years better, and she also committed 48 more turnovers than assists vs Stremlow's nearly 2-1 ATO ratio.
Somehow this evidence points to her being a much better player? I struggle with that analysis.
Why does she need to be better than Stremlow? She's a different type of player. And it's good to have players with different styles on the same team.
Having a player or two each year with minimum minutes and stats is par for the course. Sub in a better player in a respective year for Wetering, Ediger, Cook, Sanders, Ramos, Schneden, Till, and Smith probably would have made a difference in wins and NCAA success. Having said that, I agree with what you're saying.
She doesn't. I was responding to the following:
"Eva is much better than Stremlow, two inches taller and could probably play the 2 or 3 position"
According to her high school programs and the ESPN top 100, Stremlow is 5'8", not 5'10", fyi.
I guess my issue is not just that they didn't get minutes, (as we've all discussed here many times, player 11-14 rarely sees the floor). My concern is more that those spots were taken up by players who were never going to see the floor even after 4 years they weren't developing into players capable of ever making any real contribution. I can see a player her first year or two being in that position, but after three years to still be in that 11-14 group? I guess I just see that as problematic. Maybe I'm alone in that thought.
She is 5'9. I've stood next to her and I'm 5'9 so thats about as scientific as it gets lol.
Sure, but you were in heels. Remember?