IOWA CITY — Jade Rogers got into Iowa’s exhibition basketball game against Concordia with 8 minutes and 12 seconds left in the first half. Three seconds later, she missed an easy layup.

“I was really nervous,” she confessed. “Overwhelming, kind of.”

Rogers enjoyed a magnificent career at Kennedy High School, making the all-state team four straight years, but even prep stars need time to adjust to big-time college basketball.

Rogers is the only freshman on the UI women’s basketball team, which returns all five starters and is ranked 22nd in the country in the Associated Press preseason poll.

The Hawkeyes dressed only nine players on Nov. 19, and Rogers was the ninth and final Hawk to get in the game.

She’s gone from superstar to rookie.

“When you’re the only freshman, it’s such a hard situation coming into, because there’s nobody else at the same level that you’re at, there’s nobody else to compare yourself to,” Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder said. “You think you’re the only one going through all the correctiveness. You know, you think you’re the only one who’s being corrected all the time by coaches.”

College is a learning experience, both in the classroom and on the court.

“Her learning curve is a little bit steeper than everybody else,” Bluder said. “But Jade is so positive, she’s extremely coachable, she’s working hard to get better and I thought she did a couple of nice things out there today.”

Rogers played only two minutes in the first half of Iowa’s 101-59 victory. She missed that layup, committed two turnovers and took a seat for the rest of the first half, but the second half was much better. She played nine minutes in the second half, scored four points, grabbed three rebounds and received some applause from the crowd.