Prep Boys’ Basketball- The Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) released the Class 3A and Class 4A Substate brackets as the chase for a title will officially begin on Monday, February 23rd, for everybody with tip-off at 7 pm. Here’s our local matchups.
Class 3A
Substate 4
#5 Mt. Pleasant’s late surge, which involved winning 9 of their last 13 contests, was not enough to get the Panthers a home matchup for the opening round. Instead, Mt. Pleasant will look to make a 90-minute trip to the Quad Cities to face off against #4 Davenport Assumption. KILJ 105.5 FM, kilj.com, will be on the call with the pregame show at 6:45 pm.
The two met back in the 2020 Substate semifinals, where the Knights exited the game with a 64-54 victory after outscoring the Panthers 25-14 in the 4th quarter. The Knights knocked down 71.4% of their shots that night.
The winner will take on either #1 Solon or #8 South Tama County. #2 Central DeWitt will host #7 West Liberty, and #3 Marion will face off against #6 Western Dubuque at home.
Substate 5
#8 Fairfield will travel to #1 Pella. Two Southeast Conference matchups will ensue in the opening round with #4 Burlington hosting #5 Washington and #6 Fort Madison hitting the road to play #3 Keokuk. Lastly, #2 Center Point-Urbana will tangle with #7 Grinnell.