Girls’ basketball: Tom Lilly will retire as Cedar Rapids Xavier coach following the 2024-25 season
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Girls’ basketball: Tom Lilly will retire as Cedar Rapids Xavier coach following the 2024-25 season
Freshman Addie McLaughlin scored 26 in her varsity girls’ basketball debut, and 2A No. 9 Iowa City Regina played its “most complete game” in Mary Rogers’ six years, a 79-59 whipping of Cedar Rapids Kennedy.
Class 2A ninth-ranked Iowa City Regina defeated host Cedar Rapids Kennedy 79-59 in an Iowa high school girls’ basketball game Tuesday night.
Girls’ basketball: IGHSAU releases its preseason state rankings. Johnston, Sioux City Heelan, Estherville ELC, Eddyville EBF and Algona Garrigan are No. 1.
Girls’ basketball: A five-time state-championship coach (four at Dike-New Hartford), Bruce Dall inherits a team at Cedar Rapids Prairie that was 16-5 last season and returns its top four scorers.
Girls’ basketball 2024-25: Preseason area Super Ten teams to watch. Mount Vernon, Clear Creek Amana, Cedar Rapids Prairie look like three of the area’s best.
Girls’ basketball 2024-25: 15 area players to watch for the upcoming season, including six first-team all-staters.
Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s 2024-25 preseason rankings. West Des Moines Dowling, North Polk, Estherville ELC, Eddyville EBF and Algona Garrigan are No. 1.
Gordon Rundquist died Friday in Iowa City after a short illness. His 559 head coaching victories at West Branch and Maquoketa Valley are 24th all-time in state boys’ basketball history.
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Girls’ basketball: The schedule for the 20th rendition of Rivalry Saturday is set for Nov. 30 at Johnson Hall on the campus of Kirkwood Community College.
Navon Shabazz is the Iowa men’s basketball team’s first commitment from the Class of 2026. He’ll play for a prep school in Des Moines after helping Davenport Assumption to the Class 3A state title last March.
We’ve all seen and experienced it — kids playing more than one sport in a single season. The practice is controversial, to say the least.
Libby Fandel, a senior-to-be at Cedar Rapids Xavier, announced her commitment Monday to play women’s basketball at the University of Kansas.
Iowa City West senior-to-be Jack McCaffery has verbally committed to play basketball at Butler University in 2025. Months after Patrick McCaffery’s playing career ends at Butler, his younger brother will join the Big East program.
The Iowa Barnstormers AAU basketball program announced it has reached a partnership with NBA players Kris and Keegan Murray and their father Kenyon, and will rebrand to Murray Elite Basketball.
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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