A strong experienced Coach, inconsistent play so far from starters, but younger players will get better, contribute more game by game. The Big Ten is the toughest conference in the NCAA.
LOVE our freshmen 💛🖤💛🖤✨✨✨ Everyone on the team did their part today. It was great seeing the rooks get some heavy minutes this game. Good preparation for when we play more Top 25 match ups!
Today showed us a lot! Hawks didn’t play their best game. But with the number of scorers, and with the defense they play, this team has a lot of potential! I believe they are a tournament team. Plus, they are well positioned for the future (NIL and portal variants aside.)
This game made me happy that there is a coach who believes that playing bench players significant minutes grows the strength of the team, and engenders those players' confidence and enjoyment of the game, when it can be done without losing the game. Too many coaches don't give bench players that opportunity (e.g., USC, Indiana Fever). Taylor Stremlow and Aaliyah Guyton are two bench players who are grateful for, and speak to, this philosophy. The box score for the Iowa team is an example of an ideal result of this strategy. It's my hope that the way coach Jensen utilized the whole team, encourages other coaches, in all sports, to play bench players more than the last few minutes of games when one team is highly favored. These two players felt appreciated for being allowed to play so much, which is a way to increase players' and coaches' confidence, team cohesiveness, reward bench players for putting in the work in practice, and allow all of the players to have fun, which is why they play the game. The 5 starters scored 42 pts. in 104 min. The 8 bench players scored 42 pts. in 96 min. Only one player scored in double figures (12) and only one player didn't score. Ten players had double-digit minutes. The other three players only played three minutes, so it's not perfect equity, but it's far more so than the typical blowout game in general. Playing time ranged from 3 to 24 minutes in the 40-min. game. Here's the box score: www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401721501
Love our Frosh girls. We have a good solid team ,a really nice bench who can step up in play.. Defensively we are going to need to improve on the defensive side when we play better teams .. Like our squad.❤❤❤❤
the sound engineer just doesn't get it, and today the cameraman joined the club. positioning the camera so Guyton's face was hidden behind her microphone! let Jan's kids run the show. they're a couple of smart cookies.
I’m not upset, but it’s a little funny: who sent a player to a press conference they can’t talk very well because they lost their voice? On that note, plenty of teams send student athletes to press conferences who have no idea how to deal with the press. I the other have, Iowa always seems to have really composed young ladies.
Kinda nice that with scoring widely distributed throughout the team, we'll get to know more players through these post game pressers. 😁
A strong experienced Coach, inconsistent play so far from starters, but younger players will get better, contribute more game by game. The Big Ten is the toughest conference in the NCAA.
LOVE our freshmen 💛🖤💛🖤✨✨✨
Everyone on the team did their part today. It was great seeing the rooks get some heavy minutes this game. Good preparation for when we play more Top 25 match ups!
Stremlow is a beast!
Today showed us a lot! Hawks didn’t play their best game. But with the number of scorers, and with the defense they play, this team has a lot of potential! I believe they are a tournament team. Plus, they are well positioned for the future (NIL and portal variants aside.)
Poor Aaliyah and her voice! She played like a pro today and had huge energy on the floor.
This game made me happy that there is a coach who believes that playing bench players significant minutes grows the strength of the team, and engenders those players' confidence and enjoyment of the game, when it can be done without losing the game. Too many coaches don't give bench players that opportunity (e.g., USC, Indiana Fever).
Taylor Stremlow and Aaliyah Guyton are two bench players who are grateful for, and speak to, this philosophy. The box score for the Iowa team is an example of an ideal result of this strategy. It's my hope that the way coach Jensen utilized the whole team, encourages other coaches, in all sports, to play bench players more than the last few minutes of games when one team is highly favored. These two players felt appreciated for being allowed to play so much, which is a way to increase players' and coaches' confidence, team cohesiveness, reward bench players for putting in the work in practice, and allow all of the players to have fun, which is why they play the game.
The 5 starters scored 42 pts. in 104 min. The 8 bench players scored 42 pts. in 96 min. Only one player scored in double figures (12) and only one player didn't score. Ten players had double-digit minutes. The other three players only played three minutes, so it's not perfect equity, but it's far more so than the typical blowout game in general. Playing time ranged from 3 to 24 minutes in the 40-min. game. Here's the box score: www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401721501
Good job Hawks!!!
Love our Frosh girls.
We have a good solid team ,a really nice bench who can step up in play..
Defensively we are going to need to improve on the defensive side when we play better teams ..
Like our squad.❤❤❤❤
Move the microphones closer to the players , what are you thinking?
the sound engineer just doesn't get it, and today the cameraman joined the club. positioning the camera so Guyton's face was hidden behind her microphone! let Jan's kids run the show. they're a couple of smart cookies.
I’m not upset, but it’s a little funny: who sent a player to a press conference they can’t talk very well because they lost their voice?
On that note, plenty of teams send student athletes to press conferences who have no idea how to deal with the press. I the other have, Iowa always seems to have really composed young ladies.