Girls’ basketball: Class 4A top-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier is remarkably crisp (only five turnovers) in a 67-43 back-from-break victory over Iowa City Liberty.
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Girls’ basketball: Class 4A top-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier is remarkably crisp (only five turnovers) in a 67-43 back-from-break victory over Iowa City Liberty.
Girls’ basketball season reset: North Linn looks like the area’s heaviest league-title favorite, and the race of highest intrigue, again, is the Wamac West.
On a two-way contract, AJ Green divides his time between the Milwaukee Bucks and their NBA G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd. Thus far, he has made 12 appearances for the Bucks and is averaging 3.2 points per game. He has played eight games in the G League, with six starts, and is averaging 20.3 points.
Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s 2023 mock regional brackets.
Monticello’s boys’ basketball team has been to the state tournament three years in a row, making it to the Class 2A semifinals last season. The Panthers uncharacteristically lost two games before the holiday break, but hope a big win this week over ninth-ranked Camanche can springboard it in the new year.
Girls’ basketball notes: Chasing its first Upper Iowa Conference title since 1976, Elkader Central is 7-0 (with three postponements).
Area girls’ basketball Super Ten (Dec. 21): North Linn takes over the top spot; Benton Community makes a big jump.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ basketball team ran its record to 7-0 with a 55-43 win Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Washington. The Saints will take a No. 1 ranking into the holiday break, that in Class 3A.
Girls’ basketball: Jenna Twedt leads Benton Community’s 3-point barrage in a 51-36 win over Clear Creek Amana.
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The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released their first-ever official boys’ basketball rankings. Your top-ranked teams are Cedar Rapids Xavier in Class 3A, Waukee Northwest in 4A, Central Lyon in 2A and Grand View Christian in 1A.
Waverly-Shell Rock has agreed to leave the Northeast Iowa Conference following the 2023-24 school year. The other five members of the league previously voted to remove the school from the league, mostly because of its larger enrollment.
Sophomore Jack McCaffery is the youngest of Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery’s children. His Iowa City West team is running its offense through him, despite his young age, and he responded Friday night with a game-high 21 points in a 62-43 win over Linn-Mar.
The Linn-Mar girls’ basketball team knocked off Class 4A top-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier last Friday night. The Lions gave Class 5A No. 6 Iowa City West its first loss of the season Friday night, 49-39.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Kennedy is super sharp early, tops Cedar Rapids Prairie, 44-34.
See photos as the Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors hosted the Clinton River Kings for an Iowa high school football game at Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nelson Brands is an accomplished wrestler, winning three state titles and All-American honors in high school and college. He also trained under Hall of Fame coaches. Brands will bring those experiences to his new role as Iowa City Regina boys’ head wrestling coach.
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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