{"id":747756,"date":"2026-05-30T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:03:15","slug":"taylor-stremlow-a-standout-in-spring-workouts-for-the-hawkeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/747756\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Stremlow a standout in spring workouts for the Hawkeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the current climate of college basketball, fanbases spend the first couple months of the offseason focused on the transfer portal. However, while the coaching staff goes out and makes the necessary additions to bolster the roster, the returning players are already back in the gym preparing for the next season. Iowa WBB head coach Jan Jensen has tabbed Taylor Stremlow<\/a> as a player that made strides during spring workouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Taylor Stremlow, she was a really good cog in our wheel last year, but her spring was exceptional. She attacked the three-point shot about as hard and as well as anybody, I\u2019ve seen,\u201d head coach Jan Jensen told HawkeyeReport. \u201cShe\u2019s using the sting of the ending of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes saw their season end on their home floor, falling to the 10th-seeded Virginia Cavaliers in double overtime. In the loss, they were just 5-of-29 (17.2%) from three-point range and Stremlow, who was a 40.0% shooter for most of the season, was 1-of-10 from behind the arc. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s basketball. That\u2019s what we\u2019re here for and that\u2019s why we practice so much, so it just really sucks that they weren\u2019t falling,\u201d said Stremlow after the season-ending loss. <\/p>\n

It appears that loss has become a major sticking point with Taylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think (Taylor) had the biggest jump, but I was really happy with all of those five returners. They were pretty focused, and they\u2019re pretty excited about next season,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p>\n

Difficult ending to the season aside, Stremlow had a breakout campaign, averaging 7.9 (\u21915.5) points, 2.9 (\u21910.4) rebounds and 4.3 (\u21912.2) assists per game. As a true freshman, she shot just 30.8% (26 att) from three-point range, but saw dramatic improvement, knocking down 43 triples at 37.1% as a sophomore. She also led the Hawkeyes with 146 assists, including a 29.3% assist rate that was near the top of the Big Ten. Now, Taylor is looking to take her game to the next level and she\u2019s off to a good start with five months until her junior season begins.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes have a strong top four in the backcourt with Stremlow, as well as Chit-Chat Wright, Dani Carnegie (Georgia) and Amari Whiting (Oklahoma State). Whether it\u2019s Whiting or Stremlow that earns what is thought to be the final spot in the starting lineup, it\u2019s a big development to have Taylor making strides on top of what she showed last season. <\/p>\n

Even if she comes off the bench as a sixth player in the rotation, a Taylor Stremlow that can shoot 40.0% from three and continue to finish around the basket at a high level would be a solid offensive option off the bench. If she can cut down on her turnovers, while still displaying her high-end passing ability from the wing\u2011guard spot, she has a chance to be one of the more underrated guards in the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought her approach (to workouts), sometimes kids, they click over to that upperclassman (mentality),\u201d said Jensen. \u201cThere was a comfortability about her workouts in the way she was interacting with the team and just a consistency of the workouts. We did some three-on-three competition, and I thought her consistency with that outside shot was exceptional, so I\u2019m excited about that. She\u2019s been working on her footwork a lot too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the current climate of college basketball, fanbases spend the first couple months of the offseason focused on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,25970,465],"class_list":["post-747756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-iowa-womens-basketball","tag-womens-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116662488936915191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}