The Center Point-Urbana boys basketball team has won eight consecutive games and gained a No. 9 ranking in Class 3A. That eighth win came Tuesday night against Marion, 69-58.
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The Center Point-Urbana boys basketball team has won eight consecutive games and gained a No. 9 ranking in Class 3A. That eighth win came Tuesday night against Marion, 69-58.
Photos from the boys and girls basketball game between Marion vs. Center Point-Urbana Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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Very young, inexperienced, undersized, all that combined to make Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s boys basketball team less than stellar in the early going this season. But the Cougars have figured things out despite three freshmen who are playing big roles and are on a five-game win streak after Monday night’s 72-68 win at Linn-Mar.
Cedar Falls remained the No. 1 team in Class 4A and Algona Garrigan the No. 1 team in 1A as the Iowa High School Athletic Association released its weekly boys basketball rankings Monday. The other two top-ranked teams are new: Storm Lake in Class 3A and Carroll Kuemper in 2A.
Neil James is listed at 6-foot-1, which might be stretching it. But he continually found success at the hoop Friday night, scoring 18 points on the inside as Iowa City West beat Iowa City Liberty, 73-48..
Photos from boys and girls basketball games between Iowa City West and Iowa City Liberty Friday, January 30, 2026.
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The Union Community boys basketball team got hot in the postseason last season and unexpectedly qualified for the state tournament in Class 2A. With the guts of that team returning, the Knights have a 14-1 record and No. 7 ranking.
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Tevin Schultz is a 6-foot-7 senior forward for Dubuque Senior’s boys basketball team, a four-year starter. He scored 26 points Tuesday night as his Class 4A fifth-ranked Rams won at 3A No. 7 Cedar Rapids Xavier, 59-36. He broke Senior’s record for most career points in the process.
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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