Jeff Linder

INDIANAPOLIS — When Iowa last faced Purdue, it took a last-ditch sprint to survive. The Hawkeyes would prefer something a …

The final Gazette area girls’ basketball Super 10 for the 2020-21 season. 1. Maquoketa Valley 25-1 (14-0 Tri-Rivers …

There’s no debate where the best area girls’ basketball storylines resided this winter. They were in Class 2A. North Linn …

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and Monika Czinano have been selected to the all-Big Ten women’s basketball first team, by both the …

DES MOINES — They defended. They rebounded. They executed. The Maquoketa Valley Wildcats did everything, but finish. Back-to-back 3-pointers by …

DES MOINES — Here we go again. The rematch that everyone expected is all systems go. Tenacious and relentless, second-ranked …

DES MOINES — Capsules for Saturday’s games involving area teams at the Iowa girls’ high school state basketball tournament at …

DES MOINES — West Branch scrapped and fought and worked itself back in the game. But each time the Bears …

DES MOINES — Ella Imler had a chance to clinch it at the free-throw line. She didn’t. ‘I told her …

DES MOINES — Capsules for Friday’s games involving area teams at the Iowa girls’ high school state basketball tournament at …

DES MOINES — Taya Young was willing to give basketball a second chance. Jarod Tylee was willing to do the …

DES MOINES — It wasn’t Jada Gyamfi’s scoring that quelled Iowa City West’s comeback bid. It was her rebounding. And, …

DES MOINES – Anna Nefzger’s memory is etched in ink. It’s in the ink, written in a score book before …

DES MOINES — When things started going downhill for Montezuma, that was a good thing. The sixth-ranked Bravettes separated themselves …

DES MOINES — Capsules for Thursday’s games involving area teams at the Iowa girls’ high school state basketball tournament at …