Girls’ basketball: Libby Fandel nets 34, and Cedar Rapids Xavier wraps up the MVC Mississippi Division title with a 57-41 win over Iowa City West. The Saints take a nine-game win streak into the postseason.
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Girls’ basketball: Libby Fandel nets 34, and Cedar Rapids Xavier wraps up the MVC Mississippi Division title with a 57-41 win over Iowa City West. The Saints take a nine-game win streak into the postseason.
Photos from the Iowa City West vs. Xavier girls’ basketball game at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, February 14, 2025.
Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Saturday in Class 3A regional quarterfinals and 2A regional first-round games.
Center Point-Urbana’s boys’ basketball team lost its first 10 games last season, but a return of several key players and offseason work turned the Stormin’ Pointers into a team this season that has virtually doubled its win total and won the Wamac Conference East Division championship.
The postseason for boys’ basketball begins Friday night with 17 “pig-tail” district games in Class 1A.
Call It Both Ways: High school basketball podcast with Gazette sportswriters Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talking area high school basketball.
Girls’ basketball: A quick analysis of area regional pairings in Class 5A and Class 4A.
Girls’ basketball: Regional pairings for Class 5A and Class 4A
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier, Cedar Rapids Prairie pursue outright MVC championships Friday. Saints host Iowa City West, which has an eye on a piece of the Mississippi Division crown.
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Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: Mount Vernon replaces Cedar Rapids Prairie at No. 1; MVC Mississippi Division leader Cedar Rapids Xavier makes a big jump.
The North Fayette Valley boys’ basketball team won the Upper Iowa Conference outright Tuesday night, completing a perfect 21-0 regular season with a dominating 72-45 win over MFL/Mar-Mac. It’s the first unbeaten regular season in school history.
Girls’ basketball: Class 3A top-ranked Mount Vernon jumps on Clear Creek Amana early in a 61-42 win. Mustangs take a 19-game win streak into the postseason.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association announced Monday afternoon official postseason brackets for boys’ basketball in Class 1A, 2A. Top seeds in their district include Cascade in 2A and North Linn in 1A.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released boys’ basketball rankings Monday. 38 of the 40 teams in last week’s poll remain this week, with some changing of positions.
The Linn-Mar boys’ basketball team knocked off Class 4A third-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy earlier this week by two points. The No. 4 Lions got another top-10 win Friday night at home, downing No. 10 Cedar Rapids Prairie, 69-57.
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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