Jeff Linder

Women’s basketball: Iowa is 0-5 in games that go to the final possession of regulation, and need two victories this week to have a chance to avoid playing in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.

Girls’ basketball: Metro/Iowa City is guaranteed two 5A/4A state berths, could get as many as three more. West-Prairie and City-Liberty matchups highlight Tuesday’s big-school regional finals.

Women’s basketball: Down 12 in the third quarter, No. 3 UCLA rallies to beat Iowa, 67-65. Free throws with 3.8 seconds left spell the difference.

Girls’ basketball: No. 1 Mount Vernon handles Benton Community, 68-22, in a 3A regional final, returns to the state tournament as the team to beat.

What to know about Sunday’s women’s basketball game between Iowa and UCLA. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.

Girls’ basketball: Benton Community has one big upset under its belt; now No. 1 Mount Vernon awaits in a Class 3A regional final.

Girls’ basketball: Second-ranked Iowa City Regina pulls away late from Cascade in a Class 2A regional semifinal, avenge last year’s postseason loss. ‘We wanted this matchup a lot; everybody knows why.’

Women’s basketball: When Iowa hosts No. 3 UCLA on Sunday, it will be a reunion for former teammates Addison O’Grady and Lauren Betts. For three years at Grandview High School in Aurora, Colo., they formed a front line that stood 6-foot-7 and 6-4.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Friday in Class 2A and 1A regional semifinals.

Girls’ basketball: Center Point-Urbana forces Tipton into 30 turnovers in a Class 3A regional-semifinal win, 56-38. Stormin’ Pointers will face No. 2 Dubuque Wahlert on Saturday with a state trip on the line.

Call It Both Ways: High school basketball podcast with Gazette sportswriters Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talking area high school basketball.

Girls’ basketball: The 2024-25 area all-conference portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi & Valley, Wamac East & West, River Valley North & South divisions, Tri-Rivers East & West, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Wednesday in Class 5A and 4A regional quarterfinals and Class 3A regional semifinals.

Girls’ basketball: East Buchanan battles past Ed-Co, 60-53, in a Class 1A regional quarterfinal. Buccaneers prevail despite 24 points, 17 rebounds from the Vikings’ Lilee Boriskey.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Tuesday in Class 2A and 1A regional quarterfinals.