Jeff Linder

Girls’ basketball: Class 3A No. 3 Solon sinks 22 of 23 from the free-throw line, rallies past No. 13 Mount Vernon, 56-50.

Women’s basketball: Back-to-back-to-back brilliant performances have Iowa back in the top 10. Up next, a trip to East Lansing, where the Hawkeyes have lost 10 of their last 11.

Women’s basketball: No. 12 Iowa put the hammer down immediately in a 108-67 bombardment of Penn State.

Girls’ basketball: Clear Creek Amana’s interior defense stymies Center Point-Urbana in a Wamac Conference West Division showdown, 55-34.

Women’s basketball: Iowa begins a stretch of three straight pressing teams Saturday against Penn State.

Girls’ basketball: Kamryn Kurt hit 7 of 7 from long range and crossed the 1,000-point threshold. North Linn is 12-0 after a 72-52 win over Iowa City Regina.

Watch or listen to the January 12, 2023, Prep Basketball Podcast as Jeff Johnson and Jeff Linder discuss the latest Iowa high school basketball rankings and possible upcoming changes.

Prep football: The Iowa Department of Education passes the amendment for socioeconomics to be a factor in football classification.

Girls’ basketball: Decorah’s Bryar Duwe and Yazmeen Whitsitt have forged an alliance, and it hasn’t always been that way. They comprise one of the area’s best backcourts, and for the Vikings, the possibilities are endless.

Women’s basketball: Caitlin Clark falls just short of another triple-double, Hannah Stuelke stirs the Carver crowd and No. 12 Iowa roasts Northwestern’s “blizzard” defense in a 93-64 romp.

Iowa women’s basketball recruit Ava Jones scored an uncontested left-handed layup on the first possession of Tuesday’s game. The senior committed to Iowa on July 3. Two days later, in Louisville, Ky., she and her family were struck by an impaired driver.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten (Jan. 11): North Linn remains on top, then there’s congestion galore after that.

Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar places four in double-figures, rules the boards in a 57-47 win over Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

Iowa women’s basketball: Trying to solve the mystery that is the 2023-24 roster. Molly Davis will be back for a fifth year, meaning two of three other seniors (McKenna Warnock, Kate Martin and Gabbie Marshall) would be eligible to return, as well.

The first women’s basketball game televised by FOX goes to No. 16 Iowa, 94-85, over Michigan in a win that ends a five-game Crisler Center losing streak.