Senior forward Jack McCaffery lost his No. 22 Iowa City West home jersey, so he’s been wearing No. 52 for games at the school. It’s worked well, as he has had scoring games of 40, 38 and Thursday night 29 in a win over Cedar Rapids Washington.
Photos from the varsity CR Washington vs. IC West boys’ basketball game at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City, Iowa on Thursday, January 2, 2025.
Girls’ basketball: A midseason reset, touring the area conference races. Four area teams (Iowa City Regina, Maquoketa, Maquoketa Valley and Mid-Prairie) are unbeaten heading into January.
Here are boys’ basketball standings from schools and conferences from The Gazette area.
Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: Maquoketa Valley makes the jump of the week after ending North Linn’s 32-game win streak Friday.
Xavier Saints visited Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors in a boy’s basketball game
The Saints defeated the Warriors in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ basketball team lost for the first time this season when Waterloo West beat it in overtime Tuesday night. There was no hangover from that loss Friday night, as the Saints beat up Cedar Rapids Washington.
Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ basketball coach Tom Lilly has worn a Grinch tie for games just prior to the Christmas break for the last decade or so. Grinch, make that Lilly, picked up his 630th career victory Friday night when his Class 4A ninth-ranked Saints beat up Cedar Rapids Washington, 61-36.
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Pairings were set Thursday for the 14-team, 7-game crossover event, which will be held January 4th at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse. Matchups include Cedar Falls and West Des Moines Valley, Dubuque Senior and Waukee Northwest, and Cedar Rapids Kennedy versus Johnston.
Girls’ basketball: Maquoketa Valley-North Linn highlights a weekend full of goodies. Tri-Rivers West Division showdown also is a battle of unbeatens.
The Cedar Falls boys’ basketball team already has posted three significant wins in the very early portion of the season. Probably its best came Tuesday night when the Tigers knocked off Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 79-73, ending Kennedy’s regular-season win streak at 46.
An agreement between the parties allows the IHSSN to livesteam and telecast boys’ state tournaments through this school year, with the Iowa High School Athletic Association then gaining all rights. A dispute arose in 2023 over IHSSN’s decision to livestream events on a pay-per-view basis.
Six-foot-9 senior forward Davis Kern is a returning first-team all-state boys’ basketball player who has signed to play collegiately at South Dakota State. It was his Linn-Mar teammates, especially Payson Nietert and Trey Wright, who drove the offensive bus Friday night in a 69-59 win at Cedar Rapids Prairie.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Libby Fandel registers 20 points and 15 rebounds, and does a more-than-adequate job defending the post in the Saints’ 50-33 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
Here is The Gazette’s first 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
The Battle of Waterloo didn’t disappoint and Alburnett left with a runner-up finish to Class 3A power southeast Polk. Iowa State competed at the Collegiate Duals. Cornell, Luther impressed at the Gator Boots Duals in Tennessee and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
We’ve all seen and experienced it — kids playing more than one sport in a single season. The practice is controversial, to say the least.
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