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The Iowa women’s basketball program is known around the country. Households know the Hawkeyes for Caitlin Clark’s generational run, but also for the program’s consistent success.
While Jan Jensen said the core of the program’s recruiting will remain in the Midwest, the Hawkeyes have shown they can compete with other top programs for the nation’s top recruits.
“The timing of how the Big Ten was expanding was in line with the Caitlin Clark era,” Jensen said. “The Big Ten is expanding different places and Caitlin is moving a needle, and all of a sudden Iowa is on a lot of televisions, we’re in a lot of news stories. Then the story wasn’t just Caitlin. It became a little bit more about the others on the team. Then, I think it really shined a light on what I’d like to think we’ve been doing here for a long, long time, which is playing a really fun style of basketball with quality young women. We’ve always started with that. Then if there was ever a time when with the commitment of Addie Deal and others, if there was ever a time to keep broadening that, I thought it was the time to go for it.”
The Hawkeyes tip-off against Ashland in an exhibition game on Oct. 30. at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
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