Articles Tagged: Iowa women’s basketball

Everyone — and that means everyone — has some sort of hot-button opinion about Caitlin Clark and what has surrounded her in the WNBA.

Catching up with six WNBA players with Iowa ties, through games played Thursday.

Iowa women’s basketball announced that Ava Jones will medically retire. She will remain on a scholarship that will no longer count toward the program’s maximum of 15.

New Iowa women’s basketball coach Jan Jensen sat for an hour-long one-on-one interview with The Gazette on Tuesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Former Washington High School Warrior Hannah Stuelke, a star forward for the Hawkeye women’s basketball team, was honored with a Key to the City in the heart of her hometown after a successful Iowa hoops season.

Another domino has fallen within the University of Iowa women’s basketball staff. Former assistant coach Jenni Fitzgerald — who has served the last four years as an advisor — announced her retirement Wednesday.

Here are the 0-4 Indiana Fever’s games, times, and TV for the rest of this week.

Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever club got throttled 102-66 in Thursday home opener against New York. The Fever weren’t good before Clark. They still have a lot of work to do.

ESPN’s broadcast of the Connecticut Sun’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever had the highest viewership for a WNBA game on the network.

There was no expensive search firm. No prolonged speculation on who the next University of Iowa women’s basketball coach would be. “How amazing is it when the easy choice is the right choice?” Iowa athletics director Beth Goetz said Wednesday, introducing Jan Jensen.

There will be no mass exodus of Iowa women’s basketball players after this coaching change. Jan Jensen replacing Lisa Bluder is the definition of stability in a program.

Lisa Bluder discussed her decision to retire after an impressive 24-year tenure as the head women’s basketball coach at Iowa.

Caitlin Clark struggled early in her WNBA debut before finishing with 20 points as the Indiana Fever fell to the Connecticut Sun 92-71 on Tuesday night.

Lisa Bluder answered questions from reporters ahead of an I-Club event in West Des Moines on Tuesday, a day after she announced her retirement as Iowa women’s basketball coach.

The Hawk Off the Press podcast examines the legacy Lisa Bluder leaves a day after her surprise announcement that she is retiring as Iowa women’s basketball coach. Plus, what Jan Jensen’s promotion to head coach means for the program moving forward.