Jeff Linder

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.

Women’s basketball: Miraculous comeback allows Iowa to force overtime at Columbus, but No. 8 Ohio State prevails there, 86-78, ending the Hawkeyes’ six-game win streak.

Women’s basketball: Defense no longer is a detriment to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Four years after ranking dead last in the nation in scoring defense (80.3 ppg), the Hawkeyes have become quite stingy (65.0, their best in more than a decade).

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