By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

It’s year two for Jeff Hans as Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball coach. And that’s a good thing, the national championship-winning former Thomas More coach says.

“As long as I don’t have a “sophomore slump’,” he deadpans at Wednesday’s media day when outlining how this team will differ from last year’s.

But first, who’s the team to beat in the Horizon League this year? “I hope we are,” Hans says with a grin of his Norse women picked sixth in the league after an 11-21 season and a fifth-place 8-12 finish in the Horizon a year ago.

Not the norm for Hans, who came to NKU with a 339-42 record (.889), best of any NCAA women’s basketball coach with eight conference regular-season and tournament championships, 11 national tourney appearan

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