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You are getting close to Anon level. I love the round 32 reference while completely ignoring the 2 championship games we just went to.
Clark ain't coming back.
Hell, you could have coached them to the Final 4 with CC.
They didn't achieve that solely because of Jensen.
You could say they achieved that in spite of Jan.
Trying to make "Iowa City" into a hard sell is nothing more than manufacturing an excuse if the staff doesn't have a good portal season.
IC is an easy sell.
And someone mentioned the staff might be looking for a replacement for JadaG???
That's hilarious on so many levels unless there's no one capable of doing TikTok videos.
ESPN stats says she has scored 2256 in three years, CC scored 3951. Jan would never bring her in over Ava, who is a true basketball player, not a bulldozer.
I am pretty sure Audi is a true basketball player. I have seen her on a basketball court playing the game.
He's a very small man. He feels even smaller in such large hands.
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Tell me more about the face of vocal leadership to help stop the bleeding?
Did they step up to stop it?
"“As long as the whole thing's winning, she's pretty content,” head coach Jan Jensen said of Stremlow recently. “… She just comes back after a mistake and gets everybody to move on. She loves it, and she wins. And she's pretty selfless. That's a pretty cool way to play.” (From HawkeyesWire)
After 3 games of not getting the team to move on, what does that say to you?
As far as I recall, Iowa should be flying high after beating Michigan a second time by 17+ points and holding them to 44 or less points each time.
To me the most important problem to solve is leadership with one of our portal pickups. The problem is I don't know if that can be solved via the portal. Probably it's possible but the odds to get them might not favor us. I suspect Heiden could be this, but since I'm not at practice, I can't tell where she's at. I have seen Ava being vocal on the floor at times but this has been where she has the advantage over the opponent.
Leadership needs to kick in even more when the ship is sinking.
Audi won’t be primary option wherever she goes. The next coach won’t put up with her loafing on the defensive end . No more Fennely free pass
Ya the next place she goes is going to shell out huge cash to an all American to not score.
You can’t read. I said primary! The new team will bring her in to complement another big scorer. Your obsession with Audi is baffling
So you're blaming the sophomore who only had a dozen starts under her belt for not providing the necessary leadership on a team that started 2 seniors and 2 other players who started all year?
Is it? Go to the Football, or the MBB board and you'll find plenty of threads complaining about the lack of recruiting success Iowa coaches have had when it comes to 5* talent over the years.
i have a serious question Anon. What’s your “Why” for being on this forum?Trying to make "Iowa City" into a hard sell is nothing more than manufacturing an excuse if the staff doesn't have a good portal season.
IC is an easy sell.
And someone mentioned the staff might be looking for a replacement for JadaG???
That's hilarious on so many levels unless there's no one capable of doing TikTok videos.
Kids, can't we quit all the pissing matches please and stay on topic??
I thought it was clear that I'm talking about the post-CC era and the difficulty the commercial team has in capitalizing on and selling the team that was the main stage for the greatest moment in WBB history. If everybody accept starting the season with two super seniors guards starters with 6 PPG in careers (Kylie e McCabe), everybody accept a very low bar for a name as big as Iowa. Answering the other comment: Yes, it's a lack of talent, and when we needed it, that became clear. The two starting guards played 48/49 minutes and made 4 / 5 points. Nobody gets to the Sweet 16 like that, much less the Elite Eight. Sorry if it sounds like an attack on the team, but it's actually the opposite. It's a great deal of respect for the Iowa brand and a belief that this name deserves more than Round 32.
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What part does leadership play when in the two NCAA games the guards can’t throw the ball in the ocean?
I get pretty much everyone is disappointed with how the season ended, Many are doing an autopsy to figure out what went wrong, I guess I’m just overly simplistic, You have to be able to make open shots at a reasonable percentage. Iowa got great looks in both NCAA games and they missed far more than they made. Can you find aspects of coaching to critique, Sure, When you lose coaching comes under more of a microscope, Understandable, But damn you have to get better than 13% shooting out of your perimeter players. The ability to put the ball in the basket always has been and always will be a core part of the game.
So a top 10 team for the majority of the year, the #2 team in the B1G, the runner up in the B1G tournament - 2 5 stars, 3 4-stars commits isn't good enough for you? We got 2 massive wins against Michigan. So what that we lost 1 game we should have won, it just so happened in the tournament. Maybe you are anon. Yes it is an attack, its also unrealistic expectations.
?Deal - I agree with her freshman year. But what will she do in the next 3? That may be what we lost.
Against Virginia, we missed 24 threes and 29 two-point shots. That's 53 shoots for the game! And, we were a miserably 8 for 16 from the foul line. I've never seen a team shoot this bad.
Next 3 or next year, because it's really a year by year kind of thing. This is the problem with bringing in a highly touted freshman that struggles. She wasn't worth close to what she was getting paid and now her handlers are asking for more. You have the choice of paying her top dollar again, hoping that she will make huge strides, or taking that money and spending it on a portal player who has already shown what they can do at the college level. Hope is not a strategy. This was a no brainer.
How are those mid-major transfers coming along? It’s wild. Two Final Fours, the greatest player in women’s basketball walks through your doors, and now we’re out here shopping the clearance aisle because nobody else wants in? That’s not reloading, that’s scrambling. How far have we actually fallen?
You'd been stating the last 3 games have been out of character. I would expect a leader to get them out of that funk and move on.
Jan has stated it many times Strem is a vocal leader and a captain of the team. They come from Media Days, pre-games, post-games, HawkTalk shows and the many podcasts inteviewing Jan for Iowa's past and current success.
I could be misinterpreting these statements as well.
"Before the season, Hawkeye players and coaches voted two players as team captains. One was no surprise, a sixth-year senior in Feuerbach. The other? A second-year reserve in Stremlow.
To be voted captain as an incoming sophomore speaks volumes about the consistently positive energy that emanates from Stremlow."
“She's kind of the glue to our team,” starting point guard Chit-Chat Wright said.
“She’s always a bright spot,” Iowa head coach Jan Jensen said. “That kind of becomes your heart and soul. Because she’s all in, all the time.
(From hawkcentral.com Updated March 19, 2026)
So your only reply is to dis Kyle's article?
By Kyle Huesmann
"Now, with Affolter’s move from the court to the coaching staff, it’s time for someone new to step into the role as an emotional leader."
"That tradition of leadership now extends down the ladder a couple of classes to sophomore Taylor Stremlow, who displayed moments of emotion and high energy during her first season with the program."
"Still, this is not a team that is void of veteran voices, with Kylie Feuerbach, Hannah Stuelke and Taylor McCabe returning and combining for 322 career games played. Those three all contribute in their own ways, while McCabe and Feuerbach have mentioned wanting to take on more vocal roles this season, but it’s clear that Taylor Stremlow is cut from a similar cloth to the leaders that came before her."
Hawkeyes next glue player? Taylor Stremlow emerging as the next vocal leader for Iowa
Despite being a sophomore, Taylor Stremlow is emerging as a leader for an Iowa team that has plenty of youth on the roster.
Btw, Kylie pulled a Strem as well in those last 3 games.
I'm probably too dense to understand what that all means. Is that what you're saying?
It was the last 3 games actually. Over the last 4 games Kylie was 1-22 from the field. Over the last 2 games Hanna was 8-22 (36%) from the FT line and Stremlow was 4-18 (22%) from the floor. Chitchat wasn't a whole lot better at 11-30 (33%).
Carnegie and Whiting are both from P4 programs. One is all SEC. Mid-major?
Well there seems to be a general theme for all of those games that's explainable of what happened.
Jan is always preaching to stay loose and not play uptight.
Believe leadership helps to preach that on-count during a game as well.
If other players are sensing uptightness with less confidence in their leaders, it funnels down to the rest.
Both captains and leaders fell asleep in all 3 games. I don't find it to be a mystery as others do about the last 3 games.
Anyways, that's the way I see it. You're welcome to disagree and have a different POV.
This past season they fell to a 2nd place Big10 finish after being projected to not finish in the top 5. WOE I SAY WOE
Dude, just because she's a fiery player and Jan considers her a leader on the court doesn't mean that she was "The Leader" on this team or in the locker room. She was a sophomore who was coming off the bench just a month or so before. The team lacked leadership from the only 2 players who had played in meaningful games and you want to blame the least experienced player out there for the team falling apart. KF and Hanna were seniors from a golden era of Iowa basketball who played in a ton of meaningful games and they were absolutely terrible out there. The team was "Led" all year by Ava and Chitchat, 2 more sophomores. The team did lack experienced leadership. There's little doubt about that. That doesn’t mean that these sophomores, Stremlow included won't grow from this experience. UCLA seniors scored every point in the Final Four. That's not just talent. That's a lot of experience as well that brought them a championship.You'd been stating the last 3 games have been out of character. I would expect a leader to get them out of that funk and move on.
Jan has stated it many times Strem is a vocal leader and a captain of the team. They come from Media Days, pre-games, post-games, HawkTalk shows and the many podcasts inteviewing Jan for Iowa's past and current success.
I could be misinterpreting these statements as well.
"Before the season, Hawkeye players and coaches voted two players as team captains. One was no surprise, a sixth-year senior in Feuerbach. The other? A second-year reserve in Stremlow.
To be voted captain as an incoming sophomore speaks volumes about the consistently positive energy that emanates from Stremlow."
“She's kind of the glue to our team,” starting point guard Chit-Chat Wright said.
“She’s always a bright spot,” Iowa head coach Jan Jensen said. “That kind of becomes your heart and soul. Because she’s all in, all the time.
(From hawkcentral.com Updated March 19, 2026)
So your only reply is to dis Kyle's article?
By Kyle Huesmann
"Now, with Affolter’s move from the court to the coaching staff, it’s time for someone new to step into the role as an emotional leader."
"That tradition of leadership now extends down the ladder a couple of classes to sophomore Taylor Stremlow, who displayed moments of emotion and high energy during her first season with the program."
"Still, this is not a team that is void of veteran voices, with Kylie Feuerbach, Hannah Stuelke and Taylor McCabe returning and combining for 322 career games played. Those three all contribute in their own ways, while McCabe and Feuerbach have mentioned wanting to take on more vocal roles this season, but it’s clear that Taylor Stremlow is cut from a similar cloth to the leaders that came before her."
Hawkeyes next glue player? Taylor Stremlow emerging as the next vocal leader for Iowa
Despite being a sophomore, Taylor Stremlow is emerging as a leader for an Iowa team that has plenty of youth on the roster.www.on3.com
Btw, Kylie pulled a Strem as well in those last 3 games.
I'm probably too dense to understand what that all means. Is that what you're saying?
I have always enjoyed your thoughts, I do disagree with putting all the blame on player leadership. So we shall just disagee.