Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s first draft of mock brackets for all five classes, all 341 teams.
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Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s first draft of mock brackets for all five classes, all 341 teams.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released its first official boys’ basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season. Your No. 1 teams are Cedar Falls, Huxley Ballard, Western Christian and Bellevue Marquette.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s boys’ basketball team lost Friday night at home to Cedar Rapids Prairie and had a very tough opponent Saturday night in the ServPro Crossover Challenge at Alliant Energy PowerHouse. But Trey McKowen scored 31 points, including the first five of overtime, as the Cougars picked up a good 64-61 win over Johnston.
Kennedy Cougars win in overtime against the Johnston Dragons in boy’s basketball Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
Girls’ basketball: 3A-vs.-2A top-five showdown is all Mount Vernon, 80-34 over Iowa City Regina. Mustangs shoot 64.2 percent from the floor, and hold the Regals to less than half of their typical scoring output.
Iowa City West rolled to a win at Saturday’s ServPro Crossover Challenge, while Iowa City Liberty and Dubuque Senior lost.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys’ basketball team upset Cedar Rapids Kennedy on Friday night but a mere 14 hours later fell to Ames, 60-38, Saturday at ServPro Crossover Challenge
Linn-Mar’s boys’ basketball team definitely belongs somewhere in Class 4A’s top 10. But the Lions dropped one at the ServPro Crossover Challenge to Ankeny on Saturday, 61-55, in part due to the absence of point guard Trey Wright (flu) and not getting the ball inside enough to star Davis Kern.
The Liberty Lightning take on the Bettendorf Bulldogs on Saturday, Jan. 2025
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The Prairie Hawks take on the Ames Little Cyclones on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025
Linn-Mar Lions take on the Ankeny Hawks on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025
The Iowa City West Trojans take on the Assumption Knights
Girls’ basketball: Early 3-point barrage sends Iowa City West past Washington, 55-45. Trojans finish 10 of 24 from long distance, move to 4-0 in the MVC.
Photos from the Iowa City West vs. CR Washington girls’ basketball varsity game at Cedar Rapids Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friay, January 3, 2024.
Senior forward Jack McCaffery lost his No. 22 Iowa City West home jersey, so he’s been wearing No. 52 for games at the school. It’s worked well, as he has had scoring games of 40, 38 and Thursday night 29 in a win over Cedar Rapids Washington.
Photos from the Class 1A, 2A and 3A semifinals during the 2026 IHSAA boys’ state wrestling tournament at the Casey’s Center in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday, February 20, 2026.
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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