Des Moines — It was a great day of basketball at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Here’s a full look at yesterday’s scoreboard:
1A
2A
KILJ — Two area basketball standouts have been honored on the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association All-State teams.
Mount Pleasant junior Andrea Lopreato and Winfield-Mount Union’s Bradie Buffington were both third-team selections.
Lopreato helped guide the Panthers to a terrific playoff win over Fort Madison, while leading the team in nearly every major statistical category.
The senior-to be finished with 21.3 points and 10 rebounds per game, adding four assists, four steals and over a block per game.
She connected on over 53% of her field goals and was much improved three-point shooter in her junior campaign.
Next year she has an all but certain chance of joining Mount Pleasant’s 1,000 point scorers club, needing just 45 to hit that mark.
Buffington commandeered another terrific season for Mitch Wachs and the Lady Wolves, averaging a team-high 15 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.
Buffington and the Wolves finished their 19-5 falling in the 1A, Region 6 semis to Notre Dame.
Myrtle Beach (SC.) — The Iowa Wesleyan softball team has dropped their first four games of the Myrtle Beach Open.
The Tigers fell 11-3 to Madonna University and 10-0 to Goldey Beacom on Sunday, before two tough losses yesterday to Malone College and Keiser University.
Wesleyan is now 0-6 on the year.
They’ll look to right the ship today with a pair of tilts against Carolina University and Penn State-Beaver.
Iowa City — University of Iowa women’s basketball sophomore Caitlin Clark was named a Nancy Lieberman Finalist, the Basketball Hall of Fame and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced Monday.
The Nancy Lieberman Award, in its 23rd year, recognizes the top point guard in women’s NCAA Division I college basketball.
Clark has registered five triple-doubles this season, guiding the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten tournament championship.
The sizzling sophomore is averaging 27.4 points, eight rebounds and eight assists per game.
Boys’ Prep Basketball: Danville Foiled in Quarters
Danville finished 0-of-17 from three point land and just 8-of-38 field goals, as the Bears were upended by Lake Mills 39-22 in a 1A State Quarterfinal yesterday at Wells Fargo Arena.
The 22 points scored by Danville were tied for the lowest mark in State Tournament history.
The Bears were outscored 28-11 in the second half after knotting the game at 11 at halftime with a 9-4 second quarter run.
Lake Mills advances to the semifinals where they’ll play top-seeded and top-ranked Grand View Christian on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Danville ends their season at 23-3, appearing back at Wells Fargo Arena for the first time since 2016.
The Bears started the game 0-of-9 from the field and got their first basket at the :30 second mark of the first quarter by Sawyer Nelson.
Caiden Gourley paced the Bears with 10 points and five rebounds, hitting just 3-of-16 shots.
Drake Johnson added six, while Cadence Williams had three.
Bennett Berger paced Lake Mills, who improved to 25-1, with a game-high 13 points.
Seth Hermanson had 10 points and five rebounds for the Bulldogs, while Wyatt Helming added six points and 11 boards.
Lake Mills shot 60% from the field in the second half, making a total of ten free throws to ice the game.
Boys’ Prep Basketball: IHSAA State Tournament (Day One)
It was a great day of basketball at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Here’s a full look at yesterday’s scoreboard:
1A
2A
Girls’ Prep Basketball: Lopreato, Buffington Honored by IPSWA
Two area basketball standouts have been honored on the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association All-State teams.
Mount Pleasant junior Andrea Lopreato and Winfield-Mount Union’s Bradie Buffington were both third-team selections.
Lopreato helped guide the Panthers to a terrific playoff win over Fort Madison, while leading the team in nearly every major statistical category.
The senior-to be finished with 21.3 points and 10 rebounds per game, adding four assists, four steals and over a block per game.
She connected on over 53% of her field goals and was much improved three-point shooter in her junior campaign.
Next year she has an all but certain chance of joining Mount Pleasant’s 1,000 point scorers club, needing just 45 to hit that mark.
Buffington commandeered another terrific season for Mitch Wachs and the Lady Wolves, averaging a team-high 15 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.
Buffington and the Wolves finished their 19-5 falling in the 1A, Region 6 semis to Notre Dame.
College Softball: Wesleyan 0-4 in Myrtle Beach
The Iowa Wesleyan softball team has dropped their first four games of the Myrtle Beach Open.
The Tigers fell 11-3 to Madonna University and 10-0 to Goldey Beacom on Sunday, before two tough losses yesterday to Malone College and Keiser University.
Wesleyan is now 0-6 on the year.
They’ll look to right the ship today with a pair of tilts against Carolina University and Penn State-Beaver.
Women’s College Basketball: Clark Named Lieberman Award Finalist
University of Iowa women’s basketball sophomore Caitlin Clark was named a Nancy Lieberman Finalist, the Basketball Hall of Fame and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced Monday.
The Nancy Lieberman Award, in its 23rd year, recognizes the top point guard in women’s NCAA Division I college basketball.
Clark has registered five triple-doubles this season, guiding the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten tournament championship.
The sizzling sophomore is averaging 27.4 points, eight rebound and eight assists per game.
Des Moines — The IHSAA boys’ state basketball tournament begins today at Wells Fargo Arena with action kicking off in Class 1A.
The tournament will begin with Super Conference power and fifth-seed Danville hooking up with Lake Mills, who enters the tournament 24-1.
The Bulldogs cruised through the tournament rail with easy wins over West Bend-Mallard, West Hancock and Dunkerton after being tested by Graettinger-Terrill.
They’re paced by their outstanding senior tandem of Wyatt Helming and Bennett Berger.
Helming scores 18.3 points per game, while Berger adds 14.4.
Both men shoot better than 33% from three and will be a tough cover for Danville’s wings.
The key to Danville has been the play of their senior forward Sawyer Nelson.
The big man is coming off a 20 point, 20 rebound effort in Danville’s three overtime substate final triumph over WACO.
Drake Johnson still leads the team with 13.5 points per game, while Caiden Gourley checks in just underneath that.
Today’s game will tip at 10:30 a.m. from Wells Fargo Arena.
Coverage will begin at 10:10 a.m. on FM 105.5 and kilj.com.
Nathan Bloechl and Kent Bennett will have the call.
Other action today will include:
Des Moines — The girls’ basketball season came to a close on Saturday with three state finals being played.
Algona Garrigan, who defeated Notre Dame in the quarterfinals last week went on to win the 1A State Championship after a 52-49 win over Marcus-Meridan-Cleghorn-Remsen-Union.
Other state finals played Saturday:
Lincoln (Ne.) — Ten Hawkeyes earned automatic berths to the NCAA Championships in Detroit on March 17-19 following this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament.
It marks the first time since 2010 Iowa earned 10 automatic berths to the national tournament.
The Big Ten Conference tournament is one of seven NCAA qualifying tournaments across the country.
The NCAA will announce the NCAA at-large qualifiers Tuesday. NCAA tournament brackets will be released Wednesday.
Among those qualifiers was Alex Marinelli who is now the eighth four-time conference champion in program history and the first since Mark Ironside in 1998.
Drake Ayala, a freshman from Fort Dodge, is just the fourth true freshman to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships.
He’s the first since 2020 and Abe Assad.
