Iowa City Regina announced Monday that it has hired Paul Rundquist to be its new boys’ head basketball coach. Rundquist spent the past five seasons as co-head coach at Iowa City West and won a state championship with Mount Pleasant in 2012.
Prep basketball: Rule change makes the bonus quarterly and eliminates the one-and-one.
Cedar Rapids Prairie announced Tuesday that it has hired Todd Kuntz to lead its varsity boys’ basketball program. Kuntz comes to Prairie from Dunkerton, where he had a state tournament team this past season.
Ashley Joens has only been in Texas for a few weeks, but the second-round pick of the Dallas Wings in the 2023 WNBA Draft already is making a strong impression on her new teammates.
Even Brauns is returning to Iowa City, as a scholarship player for the Iowa men’s basketball team. A power forward, he started 30 games last season for Belmont.
Inside Carolina reported Wednesday that Linn-Mar High graduate Marcus Paige is expected to become the North Carolina men’s basketball program’s director of team and player development for head coach Hubert Davis.
Keegan Murray of Cedar Rapids Prairie and the University of Iowa was fifth in the NBA Rookie of the Year voting, announced Tuesday.
Sixteen boys’ basketball teams, most of them from the Mississippi Valley Conference and Central Iowa Metro League, will participate in the inaugural MVC-CIML Showdown. It’s a two-date event in January, with teams playing at an undetermined site in the Des Moines area and a full day of games at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids.
Mount Vernon graduate Keaton Kutcher contemplated joining the Illinois men’s basketball program as a walk-on after his all-state prep career. He ended up at South Dakota for two years, but will transfer to play for the Illini.
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Girls’ basketball: Two games have been announced for Rivalry Saturday, and both are dandies: Dike-New Hartford vs. Solon, North Linn vs. Clear Creek Amana.
Heather Heddens’ high school heroics came on the court in the 1970s when girls played six-on-six basketball. The game changed to 5-on-5, full-court basketball in 1994, but the enthusiasm the sport stirs among Iowans remains the same.
Cedar Rapids’ Keegan Murray has an NBA rookie record 188 3-pointers for a Sacramento Kings team headed for the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
A fabulous 15. Here is The Gazette’s area boys’ basketball team for 2023. Colby Dolphin of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is our player of the year. Kennedy’s Jon McKowen the coach of the year.
Girls’ basketball: Benton Community’s duo of Jenna Twedt and Jeff Zittergruen headlines The Gazette’s 2022-23 all-area team.
Jeremy Rickertsen has resigned as head boys’ basketball coach at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School.
Iowa City Liberty defeated Dallas Center-Grimes 4-2 in a Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state soccer quarterfinal game Tuesday.
Hawkeye Wrestling Club members Spencer Lee and Austin DeSanto earned a spot in Thursday night’s men’s freestyle semifinals at the U.S. Open in Las Vegas.
The Des Moines Hoover Huskies defeated the Cedar Rapids Xavier Saints 6-0 in a Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state soccer quarterfinal game Tuesday.
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