By JOHN BOHNENKAMP

There have been so few blemishes on the box score line for Iowa guard Chazadi “Chit-Chat” Wright that they were easy for her to remember.

Her 16-point, 10-assist game in Sunday’s 119-43 win over Evansville at Carver-Hawkeye Arena was a perfect example of what Wright has brought to the Hawkeyes’ offense since her offseason transfer from Georgia Tech.

Of course, there was that pass that was stolen by Evansville’s Kaiden Kreinhagen with 8:40 left in the first half…

“I did get a turnover tonight,” Wright said as teammate Layla Hays laughed. “But the assists kind of overpower that.”

Wright has 17 assists against two turnovers after the Hawkeyes’ first two games of the season, numbers that show why Iowa coach Jan Jensen wanted her when she entered the NCAA transfer portal at the end of last season.

“The game is slow for her,” Jensen said. “You know, she’s fast, she’s quick, but she makes it slow.”

It’s been a fast start for Wright. She had 12 points and four assists against one turnover in the Hawkeyes’ exhibition win over Ashland, then had nine points and seven assists against one turnover in last Monday’s 86-51 win over Southern, a game in which she also drew six fouls.

Wright had 86 assists against 39 turnovers as a freshman last season at Georgia Tech, and Jensen, needing an experienced point guard with the roster she was going to have this season, knew Wright would fit in well.

“She’s really fast. Explosive,” Jensen said about Wright at Iowa’s media day last month. “Definitely pass first. Pass-first with capital letters on all of it.”

Asked later that morning about Jensen’s comments, Wright was in full agreement.

“I like to see other people score,” she said. “I don’t know. It just excites me more than when I score. So I think that’s where that mentality came from, just seeing others being happy.”

Wright can definitely get the points. She is averaging 12.5 points, shooting 72.7% from the field, 66.7% in 3-pointers.

But she also knows how to get her teammates the ball.

“I try to go out there and not overthink it,” Wright said on Sunday. “I rep this in practice when I’m getting shots up in the gym by myself, so it’s just going out there, playing freely.”

Wright also knows how to pick her spots when she’s looking for her shot.

“I play within the system,” she said. “I let the game come to me. I don’t try to force anything, and just make the right play. That’s my mentality.”

Iowa’s program has been built on strong point guard play beyond what Caitlin Clark did in her historic four seasons with the Hawkeyes. Wright’s nickname comes from the fact that she doesn’t say a lot, and Jensen is OK with that, even at a position that requires a loud vocabulary at times.

“Kamille Wahlin, she was a really great guard, Kristi Smith … they were a little bit more quiet,” Jensen said. “That’s what’s fun. They have a lot of other strengths; it just may not be that one.

If I get her to score a little bit more — she can score at every level, and it’s fun to watch because she’s just so little and fast.

“I think you’ll enjoy watching her.”

In one week, it’s already been a good show.

Photo: Iowa guard Chazadi “Chit-Chat” Wright reacts during Sunday’s win over Evansville. (Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire)