Articles Tagged: Jan Jensen

NCAA women’s basketball: Intentional-foul call on Hannah Stuelke leads to an Oklahoma five-point possession. The Sooners went on to rout Iowa, 96-62, in a second-round game.

NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa’s first-round challenge: Keep Murray State’s Racers from running rampant.

NCAA women’s basketball notes: Kylie Feuerbach talks about her decision to use her sixth year of eligibility at Iowa.

Women’s basketball: Iowa draws a trip to Norman, a Saturday date with Murray State in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

Women’s basketball: Iowa’s NCAA tournament road will be revealed Sunday. By most accounts, the Hawkeyes will be a 6-seed.

Women’s basketball: Iowa takes a five-game win streak into Thursday’s home contest with Rutgers.

Women’s basketball: From slumping to surging, Iowa seeks to continue its climb Thursday at Minnesota. The Hawkeyes have won won three straight games, and a fourth would get them to .500 in the Big Ten.

Women’s basketball: ‘Auditions happen every day’ for playing time at Iowa. Keep an eye on the rotations, and maybe the starting lineup, when the Hawkeyes visit Illinois on Thursday.

Iowa’s new women’s basketball era was on display Thursday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. There’s no Caitlin Clark, no Kate Martin, no Lisa Bluder ... but “right now,” Coach Jan Jensen said, “everybody is undefeated.”

A Cedar Falls native (she was Miss Iowa Basketball in 1997) and former Iowa player, Randi Henderson has been named to Jan Jensen’s staff, as has Sean Sullivan.

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.

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.

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.

Jan Jensen has been the Iowa women’s basketball program’s top assistant, recruiting coordinator and post developer for 24 years. Monday, mere minutes after Lisa Bluder’s retirement was announced, Jensen was announced as the successor.