Meet The Gazette’s 2023-24 all-area high school boys’ basketball team. Decorah’s Jonathan Carlson is the Coach of the Year. Linn-Mar’s Davis Kern is the Player of the Year.
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Meet The Gazette’s 2023-24 all-area high school boys’ basketball team. Decorah’s Jonathan Carlson is the Coach of the Year. Linn-Mar’s Davis Kern is the Player of the Year.
Davis Kern of Linn-Mar and Jacob Williams of Dubuque Senior have been named boys’ basketball players of the year in their respective divisions of the Mississippi Valley Conference.
Bettendorf beat No. 7 Iowa City West 55-52 in overtime in a Class 4A Iowa high school boys’ basketball substate final Tuesday night at Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids to advance to the state tournament.
There were multiple times Tuesday night where it felt like Iowa City West’s boys’ basketball team was on the verge of putting away Bettendorf in their Class 4A substate final at Alliant Energy PowerHouse. But the Trojans never did, and ended up losing in overtime, 55-52.
Iowa City West forward Jack McCaffery is arguably the top junior basketball player in the state. But the youngest son of University of Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has his sights set on playing college ball elsewhere.
Eight teams clinch spots in the boys’ basketball state tournament Tuesday night, as Class 4A substate games are conducted. That includes a double-header at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa City West boys’ basketball team that ended the regular season exactly a week ago with a pretty horrid double-digit loss at Dubuque Senior wasn’t the Iowa City West boys’ basketball team that played Friday night. The Trojans were relatively healthy, locked in and ended up blowing away Davenport North, 90-50, in a Class 4A substate semifinal at West.
Iowa City West beat Davenport North 90-50 in a Class 4A Iowa high school boys’ basketball substate semifinal game Friday night at West High School.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Decorah were ranked No. 1 in the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s first boys’ basketball poll of the season back in late December. They have ended the regular season ranked No. 1 in their respective classes.
Seven area girls’ basketball teams are involved in Class 5A and Class 4A Iowa high school girls’ basketball regional finals Tuesday. Six of them are making lengthy road trips.
A look at Saturday’s Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling finals. A district loss was the perfect motivator for Iowa City High’s Cale Seaton to return to form. A state championship form.
Anamosa’s Austin Scranton, Iowa City West’s Kyler Scranton and Mount Vernon’s Jackson Jaspers are The Gazette’s 3 stars from the Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament Friday.
Full results from Thursday’s Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling quarterfinals, where Iowa City Liberty's Vincenzo Lima scored a reversal with 32 seconds left to outlast Griffin Schultz and climbed into the stands to celebrate with friends and family.
It’s the final game of the season, taking place a month after Iowa finished its regular season in Nebraska. The Hawkeyes had one final chance to pick up a signature win against No. 14 Vanderbilt.
The Hawkeyes picked up their first ranked win since 2021 in the 2025 New Year’s Eve bowl game against the SEC’s Vanderbilt.
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