Teagan Mallengi enters portal with “Do not contact tag”
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Why? Is Jan out of pizza?
Crooks ain't comin' to Iowa, but if she did, I would no longer watch Iowa women's basketball. But then I'm sure that's just me.
I don't follow the daily lives of these female athletes like some on here.......what stuff would she be going through?
Her boyfriend died in a car accident a couple days ago. There was a thread about it. You should tone down the smugness imo.
You mean like she couldn't get on the court? If it wasn't injuries it was being passed by. I was a bit surprised she came back this season when they brought Erod in.
Ava was around 46 I think. Was Mallegni in the top 50? Even still, after the top 20 or so players its a crap shoot....
Why, would you hope she stays. From what little we've heard she was not a fit with either the other players or the coaches. I can't remember a player on the women's team EVER getting an indefinite suspension during the season, and then never returning. While we may never know exactly what happened, it had to be pretty egregious for that to happen, and for some of the comments Jan made.
Just because it would make you more mad than you already always are.
I think its pretty obvious that most peoples concerns are not that we can't land anyone decent, its that we have so many spots to fill. Did anyone really expect we'd need to fill 6-7 spots? Truthfully?
Serious answer: If she wants to stay and work at being a Hawkeye, we obviously need the players. We don't know why she was suspended, I'm willing to look past it if she wants to stay at Iowa and ball out.
If kits her boyfriend passing how is her leaving going to benefit her? Just asking..
There was a LOT of smoke on why she got suspended, and then the 4 month long "day to day" quasi injury. Needing players if fine. What you don't need is a cancer in the locker room. Do you think Jan played this game with her for most of the season, so she could bring her back? If so, that's a really weird way to handle things, especially when we desperately need another perimeter scorer once we lost Mccabe, and the girl never even dressed the rest of the season.
Iowa is in a transition year that bridges the two eras. This was bound to happen to the "development roster."
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Apr 6, 2026 · 10:14 AM UTC
if there was ever someone who deserves some good luck it is teagan. we will miss you.
Again, why does that really matter how many spots we are going to need to fill? We are set at 2 very important positions, Center and pt guard. Stremlow had a nice season and is young. Is she elite? Probably not. Are we going to fill out a roster of 5 elite players? Probably not. Even in the CC era we were playing Molly Davis from the MAC as our backup pt guard. We did not recruit elite players even with CC. We can win with Stremlow. We're bringing in a top 15 player by all accounts that should hit the starting lineup immediately. That's 4 starting spots. Houston will probably be the 6th man/girl off the bench or even possibly in the starting lineup next year. Her metrics were off the charts this year. Yes, we need wings and shooters. But why does it matter where they come from? Again, we have lots of money by all accounts. Would you not expect us to be able to go get a girl to play in a top 1-2 conference on a top 10 team that's better than what left us? There's probably going to be 35-40 D1 teams in men's bball replacing 10-12 players.
And how many of these teams base so much of who they are on their "culture". Or Jans new catch phrase, "blue collar blue blood". That will be hard to do turning over the roster. As for 5+ players in the portal how many of those teams also had 4 or 5 seniors?
Aw, thank you sweetheart. I'm touched. Where's the heart emoji when you need one.
Its important because its a COMPLETE 180 from who our coaches have said we were for these many years. I mean I get the whole portal era thing, but Jan still professess "culture" and the "Iowa way" . That's all going bye bye if you have to replace 7-8 players on a regular basis. So the question then becomes can Jan and her assistants adapt not only to bringing in so many new players, but build something from that group that is SO "un Iowa". Just like Kirks squad this kind of turnover is unparalleled at THIS school. Jan's been here 26 years. Can she adapt to that kind of roster turnover, and stay somewhat in her comfort zone?
Maybe she wants to be closer to home...maybe a move down to a lesser conference to take some pressure off. Could be anything for her mental health.
I think you will probably see the staff target players they wanted initially, so you end up with a similar roster to what you could have had anyway. The "culture" comes from the personalities more than the time spent with the team. I mean, it has to, right, because this is going to be a yearly dance until longevity contracts come into play. Ideally yo have the glue players that hold the flame, and I think you are seeing those players stick.
Nobody wants this, of course, and I'm sure it's not Jensen's ideal (nor any long-time coach's in NCAAW), but here we are. Fans are just going to have to adjust.
But again, pay attention to the players they look at.
Hare (from Chicago area)
if Speiser (almost a Hawkeye last season)
if Carnegie/Thompson (friends with Chat, relationship with Barrett)
etc.
What I would bet, is that they don't look too far outside that familiarity bubble, so if they weren't initially recruited by Jensen or Barrett, the odds of a speed-dating culture fit diminish, and maybe you start to lose that.
just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something.
Does me saying this have some impact on the young lady? If I thought it did that would be different..
Well, well, well. On to part 2 Sparky. Both transfers in. Now, you gonna find 5-6 more better for us. Maybe you can pony up a a couple Million $ to buy us them blue blood rejects.
The only one that is somewhat surprising is Deal. But the other four players that have entered the portal shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Why is that surprising?? It sounds like were giving our next incoming 5 star pretty close to the same. These contracts are constructed before they ever play here, not on their production for that year. Obviously Deal was going to get much less, next season, which is probably the main reason she's gone. Sucks, but that's what's going on now.
Every team has a culture. And you say you get the whole portal thing but you clearly don’t. I’m not sure every year you want to replace 7 players but you can still have a good culture and have kids transfer out. There’s a ton of reasons, but the majority of kids want to play, somewhere, anywhere. The majority of them won’t get any or very little money but they’ll still get a full ride scholarship plus a chance to play. Before you were stuck on the bench. And I’m sure Jan was honest with them and told them how things were going to be. Her *** is on the line as well to continue to hold the best team she can and get the best players she can.
Well she won’t be getting that wherever she goes now.
If Iowa just announced publicly they would give any incoming 5 star freshman 1m, maybe they'd get Chavez instead.
"Clearly you don't". Oh, I understand it, I just don't like it. And NO every team has not spent so much time openly promoting their "culture". "The circle" and all the other things they hang their hat on. Supposedly its why we landed players like MW because of the "family" over everything that she didn't find anywhere else. Tell me "every team" spends that much time talking about that. I don't but that at all....
Wild guess but if she desires a return to her home state, Wisconsin-Green Bay is a pretty salty mid-major program.
Her boyfriend was stopped at a stop light when another car driven by someone having a medical emergency slammed into multiple cars. He was killed.