Sometimes you just never know. I'm thinking about the UF basketball player, Keyonte Johnson (?), injured in the UF/FSU game, hospitalized, coma-induced (?), improves, comes back as a student coach for the Gators and gets a green light to head to the portal to see if another school will take him if he passes their physical. Bet UF thought for months he would never play again yet there he was with KSU this season. But agree, Ava's got a long way to go, but what a fire that burns within her.
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ava wiill not count. she will qualify for a medical exemption. its what the sec lives on for football.
So, you think Ava will take a medical exemption/scholarship and then if she's at some point able to play, that she will transfer to another school? Because that's what would happen.
So her and Maddyn Greenway could be the next Clark and Czinano? 😉We are full for next year so someone would need to transfer out first. We are also rather stacked at the post tbh.
6’4, Top 40. Signed quite a few months ago. Class of 2024 tho
I’ve thought a gap year may do her good as well. If nothing else from a basketball standpoint, muscle memory needs to be relearned and she could work on getting herself stronger. Ideally she could then show up to campus walking and doing ADLs as normally as she did pre accident and hopefully be feeling confident about her academic abilities as well. (Btw I say this all as speculation only—I know nothing more than what’s been posted here about what she’s been going through).
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We are also in contention for a top 10 G recruit out of SoCal for 2025 — Addison Deal.
No one can predict the future for Ava Jones. I personally would love to see her enrolled at Iowa next year and sitting on the Iowa bench during the games. What an inspiration for the team that she could become.
Am pretty sure Martin was considered a good catch. Swiss Army knife, dirty work player. Had a rough start with a broken nose/face and wore a mask for first year or 2.
Kate's the best free throw shooter on the team. Pure stroke and high confidence. Really helped put Colorado away late.
That's what I had thought I heard at the time it was announced Ava was definitely going to enroll at Iowa as she recovers.
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Not shading Martin at all, she is playing at a very high level right now. Love that she’s coming back. I believe her other offers were along the lines of Marquette, DePaul, Northwestern is all. Again, credit to Bluder for catching her.
I think Stuelke is being highly underrated moving forward. She's way more athletic than Monica. Currently Monica is way more skilled ( 4 years of working w/Jensen, the best post coach in college basketball) learned a ton from Gustafson I'm sure as well. We will get better on the defensive end w/Stuelke next year. It will certainly take time to catch up on the offensive end. The work Monica puts in before she gets the ball, the zero to 1 dribble that she learned from Jensen is just insane. Stuelke seems like a great teammate and willing worker. I see her as a future star.
Don't they have medical scholarships for injured players that don't count against the 15 limit?
But now that Iowa is a final four team, if you can get interest from other good players who want to play with a great player like Caitlin, you want to have rides for these players so you can possibly maintain this elite status.
Ava Heiden is the 6'4 post from Oregon in the 2024 class who is committed. I think O'Grady will get the first shot at the post next season, assuming she decides to stick around. Hannah is more of a 4, she has much more to her game than she is showing, she wasn't shy about taking a 3 early in the season but the coaches had her focus on other areas where she could help the team. Check out her AAU video's with the AIA you'll see she has a lot more to her game.
My thinking is that Hannah's skills and potential would make her much more dangerous at the 5. She will be able to guard other team's 5s, and at the same time be a match-up nightmare for other team's 5s.
Also would like to see Affolter get a lot more minutes next year. I like her mental toughness, and she showed signs of being able to get to the hoop on drives. Hope she works on her outside shot over the summer.
Lisa had the inside track on Martin because of Jan Jensen and her partner.
Was talking about potential players we could get from the portal and not having Jones count against our 15 scholarships. I always thought they had medical scholarships for players that got hurt that didn't count against allotted scholarships.
If they put Jones on a Medical Scholarship, and she recovered over the next 5 years and would be able to play BB again, then she would have to go to a different university or college. Think about that for a moment. Do you think, in that example, after all Iowa has done for her, that she would want to go anywhere else? As far as Lisa is concerned, a Medical isn't going to happen, only if Ava requests it. Thank you Lisa for again doing the right thing.
Lisa has said multiple times that they are honoring her scholarship. If it turns out to me a medical scholarship, that will be Ava's choice, not Lisa. This has been discussed ad nauseum.
Bluder has mentioned that AOG needs to develop some tenacity and a mean streak to up her game. Implied that she is 'Soft'.
Kate may be from southern Illinois, but she has relatives all over southeast Iowa. Never a doubt where she was going to play. Attended BB camps at Iowa from way back.
I really Like Hannah's game (outside Free throws). She's going to be great, just not at the 5. Too many good teams (and that's the realm that Iowa is competing in now) have 6'5" or taller players that at 6'2", Hannah is not going to compete at effectively. You complement her with a good tall big, and Iowa will stay where it's at.
ESPN is not showing any obvious choices in the portal if a spot was available.
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Can someone provide some clarification on this? If she was able to play again, would she have to go to another college to get a scholarship, or would she have to go to another college no matter what? In other words, if she was able to come back, could she be on the team as a non-scholarship player? I bring this up because I believe Ava's comeback story would generate a ton of NIL money.
Good question regarding non scholarship player, and I don't know for sure, but I would think that she could stay at Iowa and pay her own way, like a walk on.
Possibly. What makes our team so good now is that we have 4 players that hit from almost anywhere on the court and spread the floor which leaves Monica 1 v 1 in the post. Playing 2 bigs shrinks the floor a bit, and w/Clark being such an incredible passer as well as shooter 1 big is the perfect scenario. Stuelke is already a damn good rebounder, and she can beat most bigs up and down the court next year. Not saying there's times we shouldn't be using 2 bigs but our high octane offense works better when the court is wide open w/shooters.
There is a story on ESPN about the Lady Hawks being the only team that made the Sweet Sixteen that didn't have a portal starter.
IMHO we will be fine with the bigs. Depending on matchup, Hannah gets the starts and dominates at the 5 with AOG spelling. Maybe reversed if the opponent has a real height advantage. But generally, Hannah's athleticism and quickness will give her the 5.
My biggest worry is replacing McKenna. I just don't see her combination of size and outside shooting on the roster right now and I think her threat at 3's will be sorely missed. She always seems to get hot when Gabbie is cold... and vice versa. McCabe will be the next sniper to replace Gabbie, with crossed fingers regarding perimeter defense capability, but who replaces McKenna? A forward/guard combo with height and range.
My biggest worry is replacing McKenna. I just don't see her combination of size and outside shooting on the roster right now and I think her threat at 3's will be sorely missed. She always seems to get hot when Gabbie is cold... and vice versa. McCabe will be the next sniper to replace Gabbie, with crossed fingers regarding perimeter defense capability, but who replaces McKenna? A forward/guard combo with height and range.
AAAhhhh.... Lauren Ware, 6'5" (Arizona) from the mid-west and a center with past recruiting history with Iowa???
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I’m really not worried about losing Warnock. I made a lengthy post in the 2022-2023 season thread about this yesterday. But in short, I think our returning starters + McCabe/Davis (and maybe a healthy Feuerbach) will make up for her 3 pt prowess and Stuelke/Affolter (and definitely a healthy Feuerbach) will make up for her missed rebounding.
Furthermore, everyone mentioned here (save maybe McCabe) is a better ball handler than Warnock, who is our biggest liability in that regard.
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