In a shocking turn of events Monday afternoon, Lisa Bluder announced her retirement as University of Iowa women’s basketball coach. Longtime lieutenant Jan Jensen has been named head coach, effective immediately.
Monika Czinano has been watching Iowa’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament run from Hungary, where she is playing professionally. “I always had belief that they would make it back to the Final Four,” she said.
Third-round draft pick Monika Czinano was cut by the Los Angeles Sparks a few days before the WNBA season began.
Medical school, Iowa’s Monika Czinano said, “will always be there.” A chance to play in the WNBA, though, is once in a lifetime.
Monika Czinano blossomed into one of the most efficient shooters in NCAA history. And Monday night, she became a WNBA Draft pick. The Los Angeles Sparks selected Czinano in the third round, as the 26th overall pick.
Women’s basketball: The 31-win, NCAA runner-up Iowa Hawkeyes were entertaining, wildly successful and adored.
NCAA women’s basketball tournament: Two days after stunning No. 1 South Carolina, Hawkeyes will try to complete a championship journey Sunday against LSU.
Iowa women’s basketball players have been appreciative of “understanding” professors as they continue their Final Four run Friday.
South Carolina center Aliyah Boston finds it impressive how Monika Czinano, her counterpart at Iowa, “doesn’t dribble.”
NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa faces a tall task, a big challenge in No. 1 South Carolina at the Final Four.
NCAA women’s basketball tournament: For Iowa assistant coach Jan Jensen, Sunday was a day of loss, a night of victory.
NCAA women’s basketball tournament: As the Hawkeyes keep winning, Megan Gustafson keeps watching from Greece. ‘The Final Four is history; I think they’re going to get it done.’
NCAA women’s basketball tournament: Iowa’s ability to run in transition, from guards to posts, is “unheard of,” according to Colorado coach JR Payne.
When Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder was asked Thursday for a season-defining moment, she didn’t point to any of the Hawkeyes’ 28 victories. The spark for the late-season run came in a lopsided loss at Maryland.
Ask McKenna Warnock and Monika Czinano about their favorite memories at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and they’ll bring up the same moment.
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