Here's a portion of what the Hawkeyes' head coach told the media after No. 2-seeded Iowa's narrow win over 15th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson.
Q. What was it that they were able to do the whole game and what was your message to the players during the time-outs every time they kept making runs at you?
JAN JENSEN: I think that they did a nice job of sagging off and trying to give the illusion of you kind of can't pass it into the post. If you have a post at the high and a post at the low, they're kind of sagged off and letting the pass to the high post be made. They're kind of just sagging off. The pass to the post would have been open had we thrown it a little bit more. That we've seen a lot of different ways that they can guard that high low. I think mostly what it was is they're just a really well-coached team. Stephanie Gaitley is one of the best to ever do it. 550-plus wins. So the game plan was sound and they're not going to go away offensively.
Q. Ava's presence seemed to be a real determining factor, especially offensively, career high 29 points. What she did in the fourth quarter. Did it come down to that realization of just get the ball to Ava and let her do something?
JAN JENSEN: Yeah, eventually when we started -- initially when we started out, I was just wanting to not call as many sets and we were finding the bigs pretty well. There was a combination when we got tight, Ava stopped demanding where she needed it and when as did Hannah. Then our guards got really hesitant. And then we held and held and held to wait and we had so many last-second average shots. So we started out really well using our strengths and then we got really muddy and sticky and then we ended up going to what really, if you could have maybe consistently done that, it wouldn't have been as close as it was at times.
Q. You had single-digit points in back-to-back quarters. How do you account for that?
JAN JENSEN: Yeah, I can't believe how many wide open shots we missed. We were 7% from the three and I don't know when's the last time we've gone 1 for 13 from threes. We just didn't have -- Chit-Chat I think I called about six different plays for her and she didn't pull the trigger. We deferred. I think it was just on a really -- that first big stage type of game, what I've been really working with Chat. When we've had our best runs in this season and really have done well, Chit-Chat has taken a good amount of shots. She shot a great percentage and she doesn't really defer.
Q. The temperature became kind of a story line that lives on on social media. Did it impact your team at all? Do you think it impacted the game?
JAN JENSEN: It wasn't great. It wasn't ideal, but it's just, you know, some kids probably handle it a little bit better than others but what are we going to do? I don't think we can fault Iowa. We can't fault the NCAA. We're mad at mother nature when it's too cold. Now we get it warm and now we're mad because it did it. Was it the reason Georgia didn't win and Virginia did? I just think it's a good lesson to everybody. It's like control the controllables. It worked out for the couple of us that won today, but we both had to play a lot of different kids, so I guess we'll see what happens on Monday.