Girls basketball: Mount Vernon is back to full strength and extremely dangerous, and the Mustangs have a convincing win over 4A No. 1 Clear Creek Amana to prove it.
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Girls basketball: Mount Vernon is back to full strength and extremely dangerous, and the Mustangs have a convincing win over 4A No. 1 Clear Creek Amana to prove it.
See photos as the Mustangs hosted the Clippers for an Iowa girls high school basketball game.
The Gazette sports writers Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talk basketball across Iowa over the past week including boys and girls high school basketball and Iowa Hawkeyes men's and women's basketball.
Photos from the boys basketball game between Decorah and Marion Monday, February 9, 2026
Christian Stacy had a huge first half offensive for the Marion boys basketball team Monday night in its game against Decorah. Tait Rahe had a huge second half. And don’t forget 10-year-old Taylor Messerli. The daughter of head coach Pete Messerli sat on the end of the bench as a good-luck charm in a 67-50 win over Decorah.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released all postseason pairings for Class 1A and 2A Monday.
In the latest Iowa High School Athletic Association’s boys basketball rankings, Fort Dodge St. Edmond (Class 1A) and Huxley Ballard (Class 3A) climbed to No. 1 spots this week in their respective classes. It’s the same 10 teams that are ranked in the lower three classes, with two newbies climbing into the 4A poll.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys basketball team has a goal of hosting each of its Class 4A substate games. The Hawks are unranked in the class and need to get into the top eight in the next two weeks. A 65-59 win Friday night over Linn-Mar was Prairie’s ninth win in 10 games.
Girls basketball: Cedar Rapids Washington shoots 71 percent from the floor in the second half, sprints past Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 62-46.
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High School Girls Basketball Cedar Rapids Washington at Cedar Rapids Kennedy on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
Girls basketball: IGHSAU has released regional pairings for 3A, 2A and 1A.
It hasn’t been an easy first season as head boys basketball coach for former J-Hawks player RoyShawn Webb. But he and his team got a huge first victory Tuesday night when Jefferson beat Waterloo West.
Girls basketball: Friday showdowns abound in the MVC. Washington visits Kennedy, City welcomes Liberty, Iowa City West heads to Cedar Falls.
It’s just that his mom, Jan Jensen, has been one of the best post player coaches in the country for years. Jan is head women’s basketball coach at the University of Iowa, of course.
Girls basketball Super Ten: Clear Creek Amana remains a clear-cut No. 1, then there’s major shuffling after that.
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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