DES MOINES – Basketball has motivated a tight-knit group of Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior athletes from a young age. The game can take as much as it gives, though, and that pain was visited on the Rebels in their Class 1A state semifinal on Thursday. G-R made just one of 13 shot attempts in a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa coach Fran McCaffery would have preferred bid farewell to his seniors in front of the crowd Thursday night. Instead, his second-half ejection forced that scene to play out in the privacy of the Hawkeyes’ locker room. McCaffery drew two technical fouls for arguing ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — BYU coach Kevin Young still remembers the day then-Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie pulled the up-and-coming assistant into a conference room and showed him what amounted to a heat map of 3-pointers. The analytical revolution was in full swing in the NBA, and ...

West Marshall’s Bella Borgos, North Tama’s Ava Breakenridge and BCLUW’s Savannah Moeller have been invited to this weekend’s Larry Niemeyer Senior All-Star girls basketball games, held by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association at Cedar Falls High School on Saturday, March 15. Borgos will ...

DES MOINES – North Linn put one of Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s worst free-throw shooters this season on the line, with the game on the line, time and time again in a 1A boys basketball state quarterfinal on Wednesday morning. The savvy move for a savvy Lynx program, defending champions and aiming ...

DES MOINES — Grundy Center boys basketball’s defense gave the Spartans a chance on Tuesday night. Unity Christian’s defense reigned supreme in crunch time, however, rallying to a 48-46 victory over the Spartans in a Class 2A state quarterfinal at Wells Fargo Arena. The Spartans’ ...