Jan Jensen

So you're going to have some tough tests sooner than you think.

And so you're hopeful if you're Jan Jensen and you're hopeful if you're the players that you can kind of work some of the kinks out of this four-out, one-in offense that they've changed back to out of necessity.

to really put your best foot forward.

You have another kind of tune-up game, if you will, coming up against Eastern Illinois on Thursday night, and then it gets real with UConn out on the road on Sunday.

So you'd like to see a better performance.

Isaac, right, with this game, what did you make of the performance last night for Jan Jensen's bunch? I mean, they won 73-45, so in the end, hey, you know, you win...

Everybody's happy that it was a win and not a loss, but I think it looked a little uglier than people were hoping to for much of that game last night.

Yeah, it was certainly not a pretty game, but I think a lot of it is... fixable or correctable.

Lots to get to there, and then we'll talk some college hoops.

We'll hear from Jan Jensen and T.J. Otzelberger ahead of tonight's games for the Hawkeyes and for the Cyclone men.

Iowa women hosting Towson down at Carver Hawkeye Arena.

The Towson Tigers in town to start up their season.

That is a 7 o'clock tip-off there on Big Ten Plus.

The Hawkeyes number 10 in the country to start the season.

They are opening up against Towson, like I said, Jan Jensen, saying the starting lineup and rotation not set in stone.

So something to watch tonight as they start to work through the first couple of games of the season.

She had a fantastic postseason last year.

I like what Jan Jensen did this year, reuniting the Georgia Tech backcourt of Chit Chat Wright and Danny Carnegie.

You have other players, obviously, around them that fill out a quite talented roster they're challenging themselves in the non-conference they have a game against uconn but also i'm the big 10 is going to be really freaking good this year and very very deep um and so i think that's a conference that we're going to see a ton of teams make the ncaa tournament they're all going to be really tested uh from you know one through however many make the tournament and so Ava Hyden is really someone that, you know, their postseason wasn't as long as I think a lot of Hawkeye fans would have liked last season, thanks to the upset by Virginia at home in the second round.

But, you know, what... what she can do for that team, I'm super intrigued.

You're going to be feeling good about it.

Brust through in year number three of Jan Jensen and get there.

And we're all going to be singing Kumbaya.

I think Danny Carnegie raises that even more.

It's going to be a fun year.

They're going back to the old offense and the four out, one in with Hyden in the middle of it.

I think a chance to be a really special season for Jan Jensen.

That'll do it for today.

Right.

And Jan Jensen played basketball at Drake.

She was on my mom's team.

Right.

Iowa women in action tonight against Maryville down at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

We'll get some thoughts on that from Jan Jensen and also the Northern Iowa men playing tonight.

Kyle Green, his quasi-debut up in Cedar Falls.

They're playing Upper Iowa tonight at the McLeod Center.

Sports menu, including a look at a couple exhibition games for college hoops teams here in the state of Iowa.

Iowa women, UNI men in action tonight.

We'll hear from Jan Jensen and Kyle Green before 6 p.m. And we'll send you out to ESPN Radio at the end of the show tonight.

Of course, Thursday Night Football coming up past 6.30.

Brian Wolfe, how about a hand for Doc? He keeps the Hawks upright and competing at the highest level, he and his team, each and every game day.

We're going to talk with Hawkeye women's basketball coach Jan Jensen next year on Hawk Talk with Coach Ferentz from Learfield and View Rooftop.

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It's always great to welcome Coach Jan Jensen to the microphone or to the headset.

Hawkeye women's basketball, rip-roaring, ready to go.

Hawkeye fans, of course, took that loss to Virginia in double overtime of the NCAA tournament.

And You know, Maddie, I know you and Jeff Linder were both kind of on hand and have learned a lot about this women's team under Jan Jensen.

Bouncing back from that, that's where I kind of want to go in terms of what they have said that, you know, the returning players from that team, that seemed to be a pretty big through line at their media day being asked about that and sort of.

letting that heartbreak kind of marinate, but in a good way to fuel them into next season.

Did you kind of pick up on that when talking to Jan Jensen and some of these players?

Oh goodness, yes.

Chitchat told us over the summer, she rewatched the UVA game constantly, just looking at what she did wrong, looking at different situations, or she could have passed the ball better, or she could have taken a shot overpassing it, all that kind of stuff.

And so I think she's got a little bit more of a challenge for her.

When we come back on the other side, we'll continue the Hawkeye conversation with Tom Caker from HawkeyeReport.com. What was it like to be in the room when Kirk let it slip that Jeremy Heklinski was going to be the starter? Plus, we'll talk some hoops.

A five-star is on campus right now visiting for Jan Jensen's Iowa women's basketball team.

And the starting lineup for the first two games Secret scrimmage games that are never too secret.

Well, we found out who those are.

So she's from Massachusetts.

Really good, rangy wing player, it seems like, at 6'4", being a small forward.

So Jan Jensen continues to get involved with some of the best players in the country and getting a positive response from them.

So that's a big deal.