Girls basketball: An area reset as action resumes this week. Clear Creek Amana, Maquoketa Valley enter January at 7-0.
Girls basketball: An area reset as action resumes this week. Clear Creek Amana, Maquoketa Valley enter January at 7-0.
Girls basketball: Unbeaten Clear Creek Amana goes into the holidays as the clear area frontrunner.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys’ basketball team began this season with four straight road games. It took almost three weeks in before the Hawks got to play on their own floor, celebrating it with a 78-60 win Monday night over Cedar Rapids Kennedy.
Girls basketball: With Iowa City High trailing by 12 points midway through the third quarter, Maybes Miller and Eve Vitense get hot, triggering a 22-2 closing run and a 49-41 victory over Cedar Rapids Xavier.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released its first official boys basketball rankings of the season. Waukee Northwest, Huxley Ballard, Orange City Unity Christian and Fort Dodge St. Edmond are your numbers ones in their respective classes.
A couple of guys intended to play major roles on this season’s Cedar Rapids Xavier boys basketball team didn’t play Friday night due to injuries. The Saints, who will be a main contender for the Class 3A state championship when healthy, found a way to get past scrappy Cedar Rapids Washington, 67-57.
See photos as the Saints hosted the Warriors for two Iowa high school basketball games.
The first of two Crossover Challenge boys basketball events is January 3 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in downtown Cedar Rapids. Pairings were set earlier this week for the event, which consists of 14 teams playing seven games.
Girls basketball notebook: Clear Creek Amana has played a quality schedule, and have beaten all challengers by double digits.
The Gazette sports writers Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talk about the Iowa high school boys and girls basketball 2025-2026 season so far.
Girls’ basketball: Clear Creek Amana strengthens its hold on the top spot in the area Super Ten.
Cedar Falls used a significant size advantage and significant experience advantage to beat Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 79-43, in a boys basketball game Tuesday night at Kennedy.
GIrls basketball: CPU beats Independence for the 26th straight time, but this one doesn’t look like most of the others. Stormin’ Pointers rally late for a 53-49 Wamac Conference East Division victory.
See photos as the Indee Mustangs hosted the Stormin’ Pointers for an Iowa girls high school basketball game.
Girls basketball: Lillie Spicer posts 24 points and 17 rebounds (nine and nine in the fourth quarter) to lead Cedar Rapids Jefferson past Linn-Mar, 50-43.
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.