The Iowa Professional Sports Writers Association has released its 2024-25 all-state boys’ basketball teams. Six players from the Gazette area have been named first teamers.
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The Iowa Professional Sports Writers Association has released its 2024-25 all-state boys’ basketball teams. Six players from the Gazette area have been named first teamers.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association announced Friday afternoon it has come to an agreement with Iowa PBS for broadcasts of football, boys’ basketball and wrestling state tournaments, beginning next school year.
Blake Aalbers hit a 3-point shot from about 24 feet with 1.6 seconds left to give MOC-Floyd Valley a 44-41 win over Cedar Rapids Xavier in the Class 3A boys’ state basketball tournament semifinals Thursday afternoon.
Two-time defending champion West Des Moines Valley tied this Class 4A state tournament semifinal Wednesday night against Linn-Mar with a putback at the buzzer, then won it in overtime, 58-56, on a made shot again at the buzzer.
Capsules for Thursday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school boys' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
North Linn’s boys’ basketball team had some good shots Wednesday morning in its Class 1A state basketball tournament quarterfinal. But not enough of them went in, and the Lynx fell to Gladbrook-Reinbeck, 61-55.
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LaPorte City Union Community boys’ basketball players were certain Gavin Rohrbach was watching them play their Class 2A state tournament quarterfinal Tuesday night. The Knights lost to West Lyon, but surely Rohrbach, who died in September in an automobile accident, is proud of the season his teammates put together.
The Jesup boys’ basketball team had to win four games to get to the state tournament because it was a ‘3’ seed in its district. it upset Cascade, MFL MarMac and North Fayette Valley along the way. All of which made a 69-38 Class 2A quarterfinal loss to top-ranked Western Christian sting a lot less.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s girls’ basketball team was an ‘8’ seed at last week’s state tournament but ended up winning a championship. Its boys’ basketball team is a ‘7’ this week, yet is on that title trajectory after a 52-37 win over unbeaten Knoxville in a Class 3A state tournament quarterfinal Tuesday.
Capsules for Wednesday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school boys' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
Girls basketball: Rowan Jacobi posts 44 points, 16 rebounds in her home-court finale, a 63-37 Class 1A regional-semifinal win over Lone Tree.
These wounds matter. These nicks, cuts and abrasions are fully earned. And all Mount Vernon’s top-ranked and unbeaten 157-pound senior needed to do to reveal their deeper meaning was calmly raise his forefinger to indicate there’s merely one more match to win to finally join two of his older brothers as a state champion.
Seventh-ranked Linn-Mar fell to No. 1 Waukee Northwest , 3-2, in the Class 3A girls’ state soccer championship at the Cyclone Sports Complex in Ames, Iowa Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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