basketball
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H.S. Girls Basketball FIFTH/Holiday Break Rankings: Top 5 in all classes remains the same
Iowa Prep Illustrated released this morning its FIFTH (Holiday Break) Iowa Girls High School Basketball Rankings for the 2025-2026 season. The IGHSAU released their last rankings on Wednesday Dec. 17/ is their present ranking by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Records reflected through Jan. 23 games.* 2025 Reigning State Champion Class 1A Current Continue reading
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Cherokee snaps six loss streak to Spirit Lake boys, defeats Indians 64-55
JEFF B | Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports SPIRIT LAKE — Basketball teams usually break losing streaks at home, but chalk it to to Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports Class 2A seventh ranked Cherokee boy’s for ending a personal six game losing streak to Spirit Lake. The Braves were coming off Continue reading
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Nuisance Spirit Lake does it once more, knocks Cherokee girls from ranks of unbeaten
JEFF B | Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports SPIRIT LAKE — The Cherokee Braves girls basketball team has been one that has marched to the beat of a different drummer to earn high praise for its talents on the basketball court. But one team, Spirit Lake has had no part of that. They’ve Continue reading
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Drake’s Jaehshon Thomas scores 18 to help Bulldogs slip past Evansville 66-65
Drake men’s basketball team earned its first Missouri Valley Conference win of the season on Sunday afternoon. EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Jaehshon Thomas had 18 points to help Drake hold on for a 66-65 victory over Evansville on Sunday. Thomas went 7 of 12 from the field (4 for 6 from 3-point range) for the Bulldogs (7-6, 1-1 Missouri Valley Conference). Continue reading
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Hare beats buzzer with a winning 3 and Crooks scores 41 to lift No. 10 Iowa State over Kansas 79-76
Iowa State Cyclones’ guard Kenzie Hare (12) celebrates with teammates after her game-winning shot against Kansas in the Big-12 conference home opener on Dec. 21, 2025, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. (Photo/Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune ZANDER WHITE | Associated Press AMES, Iowa (AP) — Kenzie Hare hit a winning 3-pointer as time expired, Audi Crooks Continue reading
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Folgueiras’ 17 points sparks Iowa outburst in 55-point win over Bucknell
Iowa’s Alvaro Folgueiras drives to the basket against Bucknell’s Grgur Brcic during a game at Casey’s Center on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 in Des Moines. (Photo/Lily Smith/The Register) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Reserve Alvaro Folgueiras scored 15 of his 17 points before halftime and Iowa overwhelmed Bucknell 94-39 on Saturday. Tavion Banks scored 16 Continue reading
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Fudd and Strong power No. 1 UConn past No. 11 Iowa in Women’s Champions Classic
Iowa’s Layla Hayes (12) shoots over UConn’s Azzi Fudd and Blanca Quinonez (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) DOUG FEINBERG | Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Azzi Fudd scored 27 points and Sarah Strong added 23 to Continue reading
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Cherokee boys surrender 87 points in loss to Storm Lake; No. 3 Braves girls breakaway from Tornadoes
JEFF B | Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports STORM LAKE — A message of proceed with caution should have been issued to the Cherokee boys basketball team Tuesday as it was warming up for its Lakes Conference matchup against Storm Lake. Tornado Fieldhouse was the setting for the battle of uneaten and ranked Continue reading
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Royals gals drop third consecutive game with 42-41 heartbreaker at G-LR; MMCRU boys ‘smack’ Mustangs
JEFF B | Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports GEORGE — Reasons are out there why the MMCRU girls basketball team continues to struggle. Tuesday the Royals dropped their third consecutive game and fourth straight to Iowa Prep Illustrated / Iowa Grandstand Sports Class 1A No. 15-ranked George-Little Rock. In their previous four losses, Continue reading
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Emely Rodriguez “suspended indefinitely” for violation of Iowa team rules
Kyle Huesmann | Hawkeye Report The murky situation surrounding the status of Iowa women’s basketball forward Emely Rodriguez finally has a bit of clarity to it. On3’s Talia Goodman reported on Thursday afternoon that the former UCF transfer is “suspended indefinitely” for a violation of team rules and will not travel with the team to New York Continue reading
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