THE DEEP THREE
1. The Department of Defense. For the third time in Iowa's 5-0 start, the Hawkeyes held their foes under 60 points for the game. That's not unheard of at Iowa, but it's got solid (and recent) company; last year's title-chasing squad did it three times in its first four games, and four in the first six.
This year's Hawkeye team has a new head coach, two new staff members and four new faces in its nine-player rotation, plus two more veteran anchors who missed heavy portions of the offseason to knee surgery.
Iowa had every excuse to put forth a pedestrian effort on defense against a Jayhawk squad good enough for NCAA tourney play-in buzz early on. Instead, the Hawkeyes set the tone early with an 18-4 first quarter.
Not an 18-4 first-quarter run — that was the whole quarter, as the Jayhawks finished the first 10 minutes a miserable 1-12 from the field.
"I've got to watch the film, but I think [Kansas] only missed three they should have made," said Jensen of her team's first-quarter dominance. "And I felt it was just a defensive win tonight."
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Iowa 71, Kansas 58: Defense Locks in at Pentagon
1. The Department of Defense. 2. Long-range Lucy. 3. More than one way to pluck a Hawk.
