Jeff Linder

Time, TV and notes for Thursday’s women’s basketball game between No. 4 Iowa and Michigan.

All-conference girls’ basketball teams for 2023-24. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley, Wamac East and West, River Valley North and South, Tri-Rivers East and 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 3A regional semifinals.

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

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark needs 7 points to reach Kelsey Plum’s record as the all-time NCAA Division-I women’s basketball scorer.

Women’s basketball: Caitlin Clark, after the Hawkeyes’ loss to Nebraska, said, “There’s no reason to freak out. We need to look in the mirror and find ways to get better. We still control our destiny, and that’s all that matters.”

Women’s basketball: Fourth-quarter fade costs No. 2 Iowa in an 82-79 loss to Nebraska.

Caitlin Clark’s pursuit of the NCAA Division-I women’s basketball scoring record has reached its crescendo. Thirty-eight points to catch Kelsey Plum, 39 to pass. Now, it’s a matter of when. And where.

Time, TV and notes for Sunday’s women’s basketball game between No. 2 Iowa and Nebraska.

Ranked No. 1 in Class 4A, Clear Creek Amana got some big moments from Lena Evans down the stretch, some big boards by both of it big girls, and held off No. 11 Marion, 66-58, in a Wamac Conference cross-division girls’ basketball game Friday night at Clear Creek Amana High School.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Saturday in Class 3A quarterfinals and Class 2A regional first-round games.

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark needs 38 points to reach Kelsey Plum’s record as the all-time NCAA Division-I women’s basketball scorer.

Hannah Stuelke scored a career-high 47 points — the most ever by a player, male or female, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and one short of the Iowa women’s basketball record — to lead the second-ranked Hawkeyes past Penn State, 111-93, in a Big Ten game Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Conference realignment continues to be a topic on Call It Both Ways, The Gazette’s Iowa high school basketball podcast. This week’s episode begins with the latest updates as the Northeast Iowa Conference appears on the brink of collapse. Then, we take a look at more postseason brackets released by the IGHSAU (5A and 4A) and IHSAA (2A and 1A) and the big games involving top teams last week.

A stable high school athletics conference for more than a century, the Northeast Iowa Conference is now on the brink of collapse. Crestwood has been accepted by the Upper Iowa Conference, Waukon and New Hampton have been invited, and Decorah is in no-man’s land in terms of geography and enrollment.