It’s been a boring last 2 weeks so I hope this team and game is boring or gets ugly like the UCLA game … or MSU game … they need to get their shit together and play like they are supposed to and can… Ho Hawks

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This is overdue, but in an effort to make recruiting information easier to find I'm starting a separate thread for the class of 2026. Here are some of Iowa's top targets in the class:

Maddyn Greenway
Basic Information: 5'8" point guard from Plymouth, Minnesota
Ranking: #17 in ESPN's Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Iowa, UCLA, Stanford, Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Michigan, Iowa State, Minnesota, Creighton, TCU
Iowa Visits: Many, including Iowa's recent game against Ohio State

Jenica Lewis
Basic Information: 5'10" guard from Johnston, Iowa
Ranking: #23 in ESPN's Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Iowa, UCLA, USC, Texas, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Indiana, Louisville, Maryland, Tennessee, Iowa State, Miami, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Michigan, Michigan State, Kansas, TCU, Kansas State, Baylor, Nebraska
Iowa Visits: Several, including the Crossover at Kinnick and Iowa's game against Ohio State

Addison Bjorn
Basic Information: 6'2" guard/forward from Kansas City, Missouri
Ranking: #8 in ESPN's Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Iowa, UConn, Stanford, Notre Dame, Texas, Maryland, Ohio State, UCLA, Indiana, Virginia Tech, Baylor, Oregon, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Michigan, Iowa State, Arizona, North Carolina, Colorado, TCU, Kansas State, Oklahoma
Iowa Visits: At least three, including vs. Ohio State

Trinity Jones
Basic Information: 6'2' guard/forward from Bolingbrook, Illinois
Ranking: #7 in ESPN's Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Iowa, South Carolina, LSU, UCLA, Louisville, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Baylor, TCU, Illinois, Michigan State, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan
Iowa Visits: October 21, 2023

Other Targets

Ava Miles
Basic Information: 6'0' guard from Kansas City, Missouri
Ranking: Not Ranked in ESPN's Top 25 for the Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Iowa, Colorado, Kansas State, Nebraska, Creighton, Oklahoma State, Kansas, West Virginia, Auburn, Pittsburgh
Iowa Visits: Multiple, last known February 27, 2023

Ashlyn Koupal (no Iowa offer Yet)
Basic Information: 6'3" guard/forward from Wagner, South Dakota
Ranking: Not ranked amongst ESPN's Top 25 in the Class of 2026
Notable Offer List: Indiana, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa State, Creighton
Iowa Visits: March 3, 2024 -- Iowa's game vs. Ohio State

Natalie Kussow
Basic Information: 5'11' guard from Wisconsin
Ranking: Ranked #22 by ESPN
Iowa Visits: October 2022
Info: Kussow keeps her recruitment quieter than most top recruits. I haven't seen info of her taking a more recent visit than October 2022.

Top Targets With Offers But No Visits (Rankings are from ESPN)

Olivia Vukosa (New York)- #2
Brihanna Crittendon (Colorado)- #10
Sanai Green (Virginia)- #15
Amari Byles (Texas)- #16

Just an absolute display of weakness. A real man and leader keeps his emotions in check when facing adversity.

My goodness. Has it just taken this long for shock to wear off after the election for the real meltdown to begin? It's crazy. This board lost its mind (what mind it had) all of a sudden.

Badgers offered already

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Recorded it. Just now am finishing it. Mahomes will play against Pittsburgh is my guess and then shut him down for the last regular season game.

Tank Dell injury was horrific. I hope the best for him and the Texans.

Hollywood, Hopkins, and Worthy are enough to worry about. Expect Kelce to be more open down the stretch or long TDs

The road to the SuperBowl goes through KC AFC fans.

With the ruling that JUCO athletes retain all 4 years of NCAA eligibility regardless if they play at a JUCO for two years, how does that impact recruiting in sports? I would think it makes jucos more enticing for players to attend as they are pretty much a prep school now, especially with DI rosters being cut in most sports. Login to view embedded media

With the current playoff and bowl game situation, does a team even want to be a lower qualifying team for the playoff system? Indiana's post season reward is a trip upstate to South Bend? Oh my what fun. Obviously the benefit of post season is the extra practice, but every bowl team gets that.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end anyway. Especially for post season bowls with the transfer portal and opt outs. I know Iowa is feeling a bit of pain there too, but Nashville is still a better destination than South Bend.

If anyone wants to test me

I doubt that all of those laid-off D voter government workers who go without a paycheck during the holidays will be happy.

It's been well documented that PSU has been killing it recruiting wise for more than a decade. Iowa has benefited recently with some transfers, but unless Iowa can get more top level (top 10 p4p) HS recruits every year, they will have a hard time winning another ncaa title.

Looking at most recent two years, here's how FLO has Iowa and PSU recruits ranked on their Big Board:

Class of 2024:

Iowa: #1
PSU: #2,5,6,8,9,18

Class of 2025:

Iowa: #8
PSU: #1,2,15,18

PSU has 10 top 20 recruits vs 2 for Iowa. Not even close.

Sounds like Pribula will be visiting. He's already visited Mizzou and sounds like he'll also be visiting Indiana and UCF. Not sure we have the ability to get him or not.....Indiana's got a pretty good NIL war chest via Mark Cuban and Mizzou is a pretty good player in the NIL space as well. But getting him on campus is huge and at least gives us a shot.