See photos as the Orioles traveled to Delhi to take on the Wildcats in an Iowa high school basketball doubleheader.
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See photos as the Orioles traveled to Delhi to take on the Wildcats in an Iowa high school basketball doubleheader.
Girls basketball: Down 10 points late in the third quarter, Springville forces overtime, then wins 57-54 to earn its first outright Tri-Rivers West Division title in 10 years.
Not a lot of change in this week’s Iowa High School Athletic Association boys basketball rankings. That’s except in Class 1A, where Algona Garrigan is your new top-ranked club.
Junior guard Maddox Kelley had 24 points and 11 rebounds as the Class 3A No. 6 Solon boys basketball team beat rival Mount Vernon, 64-50, Friday night at Mount Vernon. Kelley came in averaging about six points per game.
Girls basketball: 5A No. 8 City High holds No. 5 West to 20.5-percent shooting, wins a defensive showcase, 33-30.
Photos from girls basketball between Iowa City West vs. Iowa City High Friday, January 23, 2026.
Stephen Bender took over for the legendary Dwight Gingerich this season as head boys basketball coach at Hillcrest Academy. Gingerich, fourth on the all-time wins list in Iowa, left the former Iowa Mennonite School over the summer for Goshen College in Indiana. Hillcrest is 13-1 under its new coach.
The Gazette sports writers Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talk about all Iowa basketball
Monday’s output upped Jacobi’s season average to 24.0 points per game. She is averaging 13.8 rebounds per contest and has posted double-doubles every game this season.
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Girls basketball Super Ten: Top six remain the same, Solon continues to climb, Williamsburg rejoins the top 10.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys basketball team got contributions from a lot of different guys, leading virtually the entire way in a 57-53 win Tuesday night over Dubuque Wahlert. Xavier came in ranked eighth in Class 3A, Wahlert seventh.
Photos from boys basketball game between Cedar Rapids Xavier and Dubuque Wahlert Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Girls basketball: Class 3A top-ranked Maquoketa holds off every Solon challenge, earns its 10th consecutive win, 64-60.
Cedar Falls, Huxley Ballard, Orange City Unity Christian and Fort Dodge St. Edmond remain the top-ranked boys basketball teams in their respective classes in this week’s Iowa High School Athletic Association boys basketball rankings.
Iowa City Regina’s boys basketball team trailed after each of the first three quarters of Friday night’s River Valley Conference game at Alburnett. But the Regals played better down the stretch and pulled out a 58-53 victory.
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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