DES MOINES -- The lead was gone. Iowa City West's championship dream was slipping away, swirling the drain.Then Tatum Klein provided a long-range plug.Klein hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 20 seconds left in regulation, then second-ranked West ruled overtime to defeat No. 4 Ankeny, 61-56, ...

 DES MOINES -- The law of averages kicked in.Second-ranked Iowa City West followed a clumsy first half with a display of pure brilliance and ran away from No. 6 Waukee, 64-50, in a Class 4A semifinal at the girls state basketball tournament Friday afternoon at Wells ...

 DES MOINES -- They met in a low-key scrimmage over the holiday break.The stakes are a little higher Friday, when second-ranked Iowa City West faces No. 6 Waukee in a Class 4A semifinal at the girls' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.OK, a lot ...

 DES MOINES -- Tatum Klein is the third-leading scorer for the Iowa City West women's basketball team.She comes off the bench, and she's cool with it."I've gotten used to it," Klein said Wednesday after West gutted out a 55-52 win over Iowa City High in ...

 DES MOINES -- The comment was this: "It's classic David-vs.-Goliath."The comment was this: Classic Bill McTaggart.For the first time, Iowa City High and Iowa City West are simultaneous girls' state basketball qualifiers. And, wouldn't you know it, they'll square off in a Class 4A quarterfinal ...

 CEDAR RAPIDS -- The Washington Warriors played well enough to beat just about any girls' basketball team in the state Tuesday night.But Iowa City West isn't just anybody.Class 4A top-ranked West controlled the fourth quarter and pulled away for a 78-64 victory in a battle ...

 CEDAR RAPIDS -- For a large portion of the game, Cedar Rapids Xavier was Iowa City West's equal. At least.But the Class 4A top-ranked Women of Troy book-ended the contest with two big surges and earned a 56-37 Mississippi Valley Conference girls' basketball victory Friday ...

 IOWA CITY -- Last year, the buzz was that the Iowa City West girls' basketball team was a year away.They weren't.West advanced its first state tournament, then made it all the way to the Class 4A final before bowing to Des Moines East.All five starters ...

B.J. Mayer has awakened the sleeping giant."I talked to (former coach) Mark McDermott six or eight years ago, and I thought there were definitely some possibilities here," Mayer said.Mayer eventually succeeded McDermott, and possibilities have turned into results.Iowa City West has become a girls' basketball ...

DES MOINES -- The trail is freshly blazed.Class 4A runners-up one year. Champions the next.Des Moines East did it Saturday. Iowa City West will try to repeat the feat in 2012."We're going to come back and get it next year," West's Jessica Shull said after ...