DES MOINES – Still in her jersey, Naomi Phillips took a long walk from one end of the bowels of Wells Fargo Arena to the other. For the Waverly-Shell Rock senior, the trip probably felt like trekking from one side of Iowa to the other.Just ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — They’re 23-0, defending state champs and have won 48 games in a row. They are mashing opponents by an average of 26 points.And the Iowa City West Trojans are a No. 2 seed next week at the boys’ state basketball tournament.“Yeah, that’s ...

DES MOINES -- The Davenport Assumption students knew at 10-0.Mike Sconsa had a feeling earlier than that.Top-ranked Assumption solved the vaunted zone defense of No. 4 Cascade, drilling 10 3-pointers in a 63-26 Class 3A semifinal rout at the girls' state basketball tournament Thursday afternoon ...

DES MOINES -- Lawton-Bronson changed its defense.And with it, the complexion of the game.The second-ranked Eagles gave No. 14 Maquoketa Valley all sorts of fits with an extended zone and sidelined the Wildcats, 59-44, in a Class 2A semifinal at the girls' state basketball tournament Thursday ...

DES MOINES - With 44.9 seconds left in her career, Bellevue Marquette senior Sarah Lampe left the court at Wells Fargo Arena to chants of “We Are…Mohawks!”She was already red-faced from physical exertion, anguish, getting hit upside the head, or a combination of the three.After ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — It had to absorb the barbs of “Overrated!” and “This is 4A!” from the opposing team’s student section. As if absorbing the way its season ended wasn’t bad enough.This wasn’t the Western Dubuque boys’ basketball team you saw all winter, a disappearance ...

DES MOINES -- Iowa City West's championship reign ended in an avalanche of 3-pointers.Third-ranked Mason City set a state-tournament record with 14 triples, and the Mohawks downed No. 10 West, 72-53, in a Class 5A quarterfinal Wednesday night at Wells Fargo Arena."I knew we were ...

DES MOINES -- The Ankeny Hawkettes take good shots, make good shots.Second-ranked Ankeny played from ahead virtually the whole way, converting 56 percent of its shots in a 66-58 victory over Cedar Rapids Washington in a Class 5A quarterfinal at the girls' state basketball tournament ...

DES MOINES -- Sarah Dickes wasn't being pushy. She was being a leader.A winner.So she called for the ball."I'm confident in my free throw shooting," Dickes said. "So in the huddle, we knew they were going to foul. I told them I wanted the ball."Dickes ...

DES MOINES -- The same phrase passed Madison Weekly's lips three times in a brief postgame interview."We couldn't get into a flow."Credit the eighth-ranked Harlan Cyclones, who slowed both of the top two scorers for No. 3 Benton Community, and sidelined the Bobcats, 52-42, in ...