Jeff Linder

Women’s basketball: Iowa’s Caitlin Clark is a unanimous AP first-team All-American for the second straight year.

Cedar Rapids native Katie Abrahamson-Henderson will coach her 12th NCAA women’s basketball tournament team (at four different schools) when Georgia faces Florida State on Friday at Iowa City.

When Southeastern Louisiana tackles No. 3 Iowa in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, it faces a lot of ‘new’: An elite player, a high-scoring offensive machine, a tough 2-vs.-15 history and a crowd like nothing it has experienced all season.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: By Monday morning, all 14,382 tickets at Carver-Hawkeye Arena were claimed.

A look at the teams coming to Iowa for the first two rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. Storylines and thumbnails on Florida State-Georgia and Southeastern Louisiana-Iowa.

Iowa earned a 2-seed for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and will play a first-round game Friday at Carver vs. Southeastern Louisiana.

The Gazette’s first draft of 2023-24 Iowa high school girls’ basketball rankings. Pleasant Valley, Clear Creek Amana, Solon, Dike-New Hartford and North Linn are our preliminary No. 1s.

Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder feels the Hawkeyes “deserve a 1 (seed in the NCAA tournament), but I think we’ll get a 2.”

Analyzing Iowa’s NCAA women’s basketball tournament resume, and the case for (and against) the Hawkeyes as a No. 1 seed.

2023 Iowa high school all-state girls’ basketball teams: Six Gazette area players earned first-team all-state status; Audi Crooks of Algona Garrigan is Miss Iowa Basketball 2023.

Final Gazette area girls’ basketball Super Ten rankings: Class 3A state runner-up Benton Community is a narrow pick over Solon and North Linn for the final No. 1 slot.

Girls’ state basketball: Benton Community ‘never got comfortable,’ falls to Sioux Center, 62-47, in the Class 3A championship game.

Girls’ state basketball: A 21-2 advantage in second-chance points tells the tale in Newell-Fonda’s 66-48 Class 1A semifinal win over North Linn.

Girls’ basketball notes: Garrigan’s Audi Crooks is the favorite for Miss Iowa Basketball 2023. Here is a list of challengers.

Girls’ state basketball: Solon’s furious, late, short-handed charge comes up just short. Sioux Center hangs on to win the Class 3A semifinal, 46-44.