By JOHN BOHNENKAMP

IOWA CITY — It’s all a matter of viewpoint, Jan Jensen said.

Jensen is Iowa’s new head women’s basketball coach after 24 seasons as an assistant, but there’s a big change that goes beyond the short move from one office into a bigger one.

“When I think about the challenges of this job, I think the unique thing isn’t that anything has been surprising. It’s just now my viewpoint,” Jensen said at the Hawkeyes’ media day on Thursday. “We can kind of joke, you slide six inches over and it’s different or I’m just now the next office over, but the viewpoint of which you view it now, I think, is different.”

It’s why, no matter how long she has been in the program, no matter how long she has been a coach, she felt strange going to the Big Ten coaches meetings in Los Angeles in May, just a few days after ascending to the job following Lisa Bluder’s retirement.

“I often tell our freshmen that there will be many times in life when you’re a freshman, where you have the butterflies and you’re trying to figure out the hallways and what’s my locker combination, and I felt that when I went to the Big Ten meetings because you’re trying to fit in, but you’re also trying to glean and know knowledge,” Jensen said.

That’s why she appreciated when Ohio State coach Ryan Day came over to say hello and welcome her into her new job. Jensen had met Day the previous season when the Hawkeyes played Ohio State, and now here he was helping to ease her transition into a new role.

“He just offered some really good advice. I was really appreciative of that,” Jensen said. “I think sometimes in this business aspect of sport, sometimes you can just elevate people or it becomes such a business, and football people are in their world and men’s basketball people in their world and women’s basketball, track, whatever. But that was just a cool moment because he was just a head coach welcoming a new head coach, and I’ll never forget that.”

It is a different world for the Hawkeyes in this post-Bluder, post-Caitlin Clark era, and Jensen is now ready to command it. If the viewpoint is different, the philosophy hasn’t changed.

“The thing is, with Jan, there’s nobody in the country that is working harder than her, and it’s just been really amazing,” assistant coach Abby Stamp said. “We’ve been on her sometimes to try to take a break here or there, but she’s just pedal to the metal and just going so hard, but it’s been really cool. I mean, there are times I wish she could get home sooner to her family, but it’s been really cool to see her just really taking over. And she’s an incredible leader. Always has been.”

“I wouldn’t say there’s a whole lot of difference in her,” guard Kylie Feuerbach said. “She’s in a new role, but in the grand scheme of things, she’s still our coach as much as she’s always been.”

Jensen had the reputation as an assistant as being one of the best post coaches in women’s basketball. Now, she’s seeing the entire picture.

Again, all about the viewpoint.

“We’re similar to football — there’s more eyes on the team,” Stamp said. “And I’m kind of just talking about practice mode now, but we’re really super focused on our positions, our front of the zone, or whatever it may be. We’re very methodical in how we plan out and who’s going to watch what. So we’re very detailed with those groups. She’s had to really kind of pull back then, obviously, and watch the whole thing.”

It’s something Jensen learned from working on Bluder’s staff, first at Drake, then at Iowa.

“I’d like to think being one of her right-hand (assistants) along with Jenni (Fitzgerald) for 32 years, that was about as empathetic to that viewpoint as I could be, but I always knew at the end of the day it was her viewpoint and the pressure was hers, the end-of-the-day decisions were hers,” Jensen said. “I feel like that — just the weight of it, but in a good way. I wouldn’t say maybe I sleep as easy just because of the viewpoint and the responsibility of it. But I love it, too, at the same time.”

It is a different Hawkeye world without Bluder and without Clark, college basketball’s all-time leading scorer who led Iowa to back-to-back national championship game appearances and turned Carver-Hawkeye Arena into the place to be.

Even with Clark gone, Iowa women’s basketball is a hot ticket — season tickets sold out again for the second consecutive season.

It’s why Jensen took her team to the top row of Carver-Hawkeye one day.

“Coach J had us sit up pretty high up in one of the seats, and she just kind of explained to us, put into perspective, the arena that we’re selling out,” Feuerbach said. “And it really does put in perspective and how special it really truly is that there’s that many people that want to come and watch us every single game.”

For Jensen, it really is all about the viewpoint.

Photo: Iowa head coach Jan Jensen speaks during the Hawkeyes’ media day on Thursday.