Jeff Linder

What to know about Saturday’s NCAA women’s basketball game between Iowa and Murray State. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.

Women’s basketball: Iowa State’s Audi Crooks, Drake’s Katie Dinnebier earn All-American honors from the Associated Press.

Girls basketball: The Gazette’s preseason 2025-26 rankings, first draft. Our very early preseason No. 1 teams: Johnston, Dallas Center-Grimes, Maquoketa, Hinton and Council Bluffs St. Albert.

Women’s basketball: Waterloo native Halli Poock leads Murray State into NCAA battle with Hawkeyes.

BEDS Documents, which determine Iowa high school sports classifications, have been released.

Women’s basketball: Capsules on the four teams at the Norman subregion. Iowa faces Murray State in the first round at 11 a.m. Saturday, then it’s Oklahoma and Florida Gulf Coast.

Women’s basketball: Iowa draws a trip to Norman, a Saturday date with Murray State in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.

Women’s basketball: Iowa’s NCAA tournament road will be revealed Sunday. By most accounts, the Hawkeyes will be a 6-seed.

Linn-Mar AD Tonya Moe will leave to become an assistant director for the Iowa Girls High School Athetic Union.

Girls basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Libby Fandel selected as Miss Iowa Basketball 2025.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: State champions Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A) and Mount Vernon (3A) finish as the top two teams.

Girls’ state basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s ‘overdogs’ send Tom Lilly out as a state champion. Libby Fandel (36 points, 14 rebounds) is fantastic one final time, and the Saints claim the Class 4A crown, 66-47, over North Polk.

Girls state basketball: Four years after 1-20, Mount Vernon completes a steady climb to the summit. Mustangs top Dubuque Wahlert 47-36 for the Class 3A championship.

Capsules for Saturday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school girls' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.

Girls state basketball: Newell-Fonda scores the final 11 points, and tops North Linn, 48-38, in a Class 1A semifinal.