DES MOINES — When the No. 8 Grundy Center and No. 2 Treynor girls’ basketball teams meet up in today’s Class 2A semifinals as part of the Iowa Girls’ High School State Basketball Tournament, it will be a meeting of the top two defenses in the 2A field. The Cardinals have allowed a ...
NEW YORK — With Michigan’s stars saddled with foul trouble, and the shots just not falling, the 15th-ranked Wolverines got a lift from their senior sixth man to survive their Big Ten Tournament opener. Duncan Robinson made Michigan’s only field goal in overtime, a go-ahead 3-pointer ...
INDIANAPOLIS — The Iowa women’s basketball team started off its Big 10 Tournament run strong on Thursday with a 55-45 win over Northwestern in the second round. The Hawkeyes (24-6) started off the game on an incredible 22-1 run in the first quarter, as the Wildcats (12-20) shot a dismal ...
CHICAGO — The Drake women’s basketball team erased a three-point deficit at the start of the second quarter against Loyola Thursday night and cruised to a 97-53 Missouri Valley Conference victory at Gentile Arena. The Bulldogs (22-7, 17-0) went on an impressive 49-7 scoring run from the ...
VALPARAISO, Ind. — The Norther Iowa women’s basketball team had no trouble against Valparaiso on Thursday night, walking away with a 76-53 victory on the road in its penultimate Missouri Valley Conference game. The Panthers (16-12, 12-5) never trailed, leading by as much as 34 late in the ...
ST. LOUIS — Wyatt Lohaus scored 15 points, Hunter Rhodes added 14, and No. 8 seed Northern Iowa never trailed in beating No. 9 seed Evansville 60-50 in the opening round of the 2018 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on Thursday night. Klint Carlson scored nine points with 10 ...
DES MOINES — There are times in sports where the final score doesn’t fully represent what happened in the game. Wednesday’s 1A quarterfinal matchup between No. 8 AGWSR and No. 7 Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton in the Iowa Girls’ High School State Basketball Tournament was one of those ...
GRUNDY CENTER — The idea of moving back home was met with some trepidation, but the basic premise was to eventually get more involved with the community they grew up in and the high school they both graduated from. Danielle (Zimmerman), her husband Dana Schmidt and their two sons relocated ...
NEW YORK — The first Big Ten tournament game at Madison Square Garden featured a couple of teams that were a combined 1,665 miles — give or take — away from home, no players from New York City, and a kid from Iowa having a blast on the big stage. The Big Ten opened a five-day run at the ...
NORFOLK, Neb. — The season came to a close on Wednesday night for the Marshalltown Community College women’s basketball team in a 57-39 loss to Northeast Community College during the opening round of the NJCAA Region XI Division I tournament. This was the second-straight loss to the ...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Drake University senior Reed Timmer has been named to the all-Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball first team, the conference announced Tuesday. Timmer’s honor marks the first all-MVC first-team selection for the Bulldogs since Josh Young during the 2009-10 ...
IRVING, Texas — Iowa State women’s basketball junior guard Bridget Carleton was yet again honored for her success on the court after being tabbed one of just six unanimous selections to the all-Big 12 first team. She joins Texas’ Brooke McCarty and Baylor’s Kalani Brown as the only ...
DES MOINES — The nightcap of day two of the Iowa Girls’ High School State Basketball Tournament featured a 2A matchup between No. 7 Iowa City Regina and No. 8 Grundy Center, with the Spartans making their first trip to the state tournament since winning the whole thing 13 years ago. That ...
DES MOINES — The South Tama County girls’ basketball team turned a supposed rebuilding year into a surprising trip to the Iowa Girls’ High School State Tournament. As decided underdogs, the Trojans tried to treat their Class 3A state quarterfinal as just another game. Turns out it ...
ACKLEY — For the first time in nine years, the AGWSR girls basketball team is heading back down to Des Moines to compete in the Iowa High School Girls’ State Basketball Tournament. Most of the girls on the team weren’t even 9 years old back when the Cougars won it all in 2009, but many ...
AMES — After years of getting owned by Iowa State, Oklahoma State exacted some payback in 2018. Jeffrey Carroll scored 21 points, Cameron McGriff had 19 and Oklahoma State cruised past Iowa State 80-71 on Tuesday, sweeping the season series with the Cyclones after losing the previous 10 ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Emily Durr poured in a career-high 27 points and Bridget Carleton became Iowa State’s all-time single-season conference scoring leader as the Cyclone women’s basketball team bounced Kansas 65-56 in Tuesday’s Big 12 clash. Carleton finished with 17 points, seven ...
GRUNDY CENTER — The idea that Grundy Center is just a volleyball town is fading fast. The Spartan girls’ basketball team hasn’t taken offense to the moniker, but a number of girls who play both sports would be happy to show you their nice, new state basketball qualifier banner. Another ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — For the first 32 minutes of the Class 3A Substate 3 final between the South Tama County boys basketball team and No. 1 Cedar Rapids Xavier on Monday night, it seemed there was an upset brewing in the U.S. Cellular Center. The Trojans had played exactly how they needed in ...
A late wrinkle from the regular-season finale gave the Northeast Community College men’s basketball team hope for revenge. Fully prepared to counteract the Hawks’ change in strategy, Marshalltown CC simply failed to execute the gameplan. Three days later and 244 miles due east, ...