Class 3A State Championship

3:00 p.m. – Crestwood (25-0) vs. Sioux Center (26-0)

Class 2A Championship

5:00 p.m. – Grundy Center (24-1) vs. Cascade (24-3)

Class 1A Championship

7:00 p.m. – Springville (23-3) vs. Newell-Fonda (26-0)

w/ Chris Parks

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Bridget Carleton scored 14 of her 24 points in the first half and No. 7 seed Iowa State rolled to a 74-49 victory over 10th-seeded Texas Tech on Friday night in the first round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament.

Iowa State (14-16) will play seventh-ranked and No. 2 seed Texas (24-5) in a Saturday quarterfinal.

Carleton shot just 2 of 12 from the floor but made 9 of 10 free throws in the first half. She finished 5-of-17 shooting, made two 3-pointers and 12 of 13 free throws. Emily Durr added 15 points and Madison Wise had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Cyclones.

Brittany Brewer and Lyndsey Whilby scored 11 points apiece to lead Texas Tech. Haley Bruedigam chipped in 10 points.

Iowa State outscored the Lady Raiders 19-5 in the first quarter, built a 34-19 halftime advantage and cruised from there.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — If this was Trae Young’s last home game for Oklahoma, he went out a winner. Young had 15 points and six assists to help Oklahoma defeat Iowa State 81-60 on Friday night. The freshman who leads the nation in scoring and assists is projected to be a high draft pick if he leaves school. He has said he will sit down with his family after the season to make a decision.

Kameron McGusty scored 18 points and Christian James added 15 for the Sooners (18-12, 8-10 Big 12), who needed the win to strengthen their NCAA Tournament resume after a blowout loss to Baylor earlier in the week. It was the first time Oklahoma won by more than 10 points since Jan. 3.

Lindell Wigginton scored 20 points for Iowa State (13-17, 4-14), which lost its sixth straight. The Cyclones were without injured starters Nick Weiler-Babb and Solomon Young for the fourth straight game, and they continued to struggle. Iowa State shot just 32.3 percent from the field.

Iowa State made just 15 of 27 free throws. Oklahoma made one more free throw than the Cyclones, despite having seven fewer attempts. Prohm, taking blame for Iowa State’s struggles: “We should be better. We are not. I take blame. Put it on me. I haven’t got them to perform on the level they need to. It’s unacceptable. It’s not what this program deserves. Bottom line. I get it. I know it. And it’s frustrating because it deserves better.”

UP NEXT: Iowa State will play in the Big 12 Tournament. Oklahoma will also play in the Big 12 Tournament.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Donte Thomas wrapped up his 13-point, 14-rebound double-double with a putback with 1.2 seconds left to lift Bradley to a 63-61 win over Drake on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

Darrell Brown led the fifth-seeded Braves (20-12) with 24 points. He sank a clutch 3-pointer to tie the game at 61 with 2:49 to play. Both teams had opportunities after that, but the fourth-seeded Bulldogs (16-16) missed their last eight shots after Reed Timmer’s 3-pointer at 6:29 produced a 57-56 lead. Bradley had four misses between its last two baskets.

Bradley faces league champion Loyola Chicago in the semifinals on Saturday.
Drake, which hasn’t played in a MVC semifinal since 2008, closed the first half with a 10-2 run for a 35-27 lead. Bradley scored the first 12 points of the second half to go up 39-35 and the biggest lead after that was six points.

Timmer led the Bulldogs with 18 points. Drake shot 29 percent from the floor in the second half and was outrebounded 25-14 after intermission.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Donte Ingram had 13 points and eight rebounds, Marques Townes had 13 points and the game-clinching free throw with 2.3 seconds remaining and top-seeded Loyola Chicago held off ninth-seeded Northern Iowa 54-50 on Friday in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

Ingram’s layup with 57.7 seconds to go had the Ramblers (26-5), who have their most wins since the 1948-49 team went 26-9, up 51-43. A putback by Klint Carlson at 48.1 seconds and a 3-pointer from the right wing by Wyatt Lohaus after Loyola missed the front end of a one-and-one, made it 51-48 with 30 seconds left.

Loyola again missed a free throw but UNI missed a 3-pointer before freshman Lucas Williamson got his only points of the game with two free throws at 10.8 seconds. Tywhon Pickford scored on a putback for Northern Iowa before Townes iced it.
Loyola, on a season-best eight-game winning streak, faces fifth-seeded Bradley in the semifinals on Saturday.

Bennett Koch scored 20 points for Northern Iowa (16-16).

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Carlie Wagner and Kenisha Bell combined for 53 points and Minnesota defeated Iowa 90-89 on Friday despite a school and Big Ten Tournament record 48 points by the Hawkeyes’ Megan Gustafson.

Wagner had 27 points and Bell 26, but the fourth-seeded Golden Gophers (23-7) were not assured a semifinal date with top-seeded and 13th-ranked Ohio State on Saturday until Amanda Ollinger’s 3-pointer missed as time ran out.

Gustafson was 19 of 26 from the field and 10 of 12 from the foul line to surpass the 43 points Ohio State’s Kelsey Mitchell scored in 2016. Gustafson’s last points, a 3-point play, put the fifth-seeded Hawkeyes up 87-85 with 1:23 to play and broke the school record of 46 points set by Chrystal Smith on Nov. 11, 2005.

Destiny Pitts, who had 14 points, quickly answered with a 3-pointer for Minnesota and Gadiva Hubbard, who scored 15, made a steal and then two free throws at 52 seconds for a 90-87 lead.

Kathleen Doyle got a quick layup for Iowa (24-7) at 35 seconds and Ollinger got a steal with 10 seconds left but couldn’t connect after a timeout.

Iowa was 33 of 61 from the field but Minnesota put up 19 more shots because of fewer turnovers (7 to 19) and more offensive rebounds (13 to 6).

The Exira-EHK Spartans started strong against two-time defending champion Springville on Friday but couldn’t sustain the momentum through the rest of the game and fell 57-41 in the Class 1A Semifinal match-up.

The Spartans jumped out to an early 8-2 lead but the Orioles sank 3 three point shots to take their first lead by the end of the first quarter 13-11. The Orioles then pushed that advantage to 29-18 by half and then really put the game out of reach by outscoring the Spartans 19-11 in the third quarter.

Springville’s defense was a big factor as they packed in the lane with a 2-3 zone to keep the ball away from Sophia Peppers and Kealey Nelson. The Orioles forced 20 Spartan turnovers and led the points off turnovers category 26-3.

Star post player Michaela Nachazel finished with 15 points and 4 rebounds to lead Springville back to the 1A State Title game for the fourth straight season. Fellow seniors Madi Wagaman (13) and Rylee Menster (12) also finished in double figures.  The Orioles will try for their third straight State Title on Saturday night at 7:00pm against the Newell-Fonda/Central Decatur winner.

The Spartans were led by 13 points from Sophia Peppers and 8 each from Ellie Schultes and Kamryn Waymire. Peppers and fellow senior Kealey Nelson end an illustrious career for Exira-EHK with a career record of 96-6 and 72-1 in the Rolling Valley Conference.

Exira-EHK Head Coach said after the game that he is just so proud of what they have been able to accomplish.

(From Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union)

No seniors in the starting lineup? No problem. At least it’s not for Grundy Center.

The eighth-ranked Spartans bottled up No. 2 Treynor with sticky defense and Hailey Wallis made some key plays down the stretch in a 42-39 victory that sends Grundy Center to the Class 2A championship game.

With an all-junior starting lineup, Grundy Center will try to win its second title at 5 p.m. Saturday. The Spartans won their first championship in 2005, taking the 2A crown in the last year the tournament was played at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.

Wallis led Grundy Center with 18 points, including the go-ahead basket with 37 seconds left. She also grabbed six rebounds and her lone assist was a big one.

Sarah Lindeman added seven points for the Spartans, Kylie Willis scored six and Brooke Flater pulled down nine rebounds to go with five points.

Grundy Center kept Treynor from getting the ball inside to Madelyn Deitchler and the Cardinals didn’t make enough perimeter shots to force the Spartans to change their defense. Deitchler managed only three points on 1-for-5 shooting and fouled out. She had been averaging 18 a game.

Konnor Sudmann led Treynor with 16 points and Kayla Chapman scored 14.

Treynor trailed by as many as nine points before Chapman scored seven points in an 11-0 third quarter run that got the Cardinals back in it and the game stayed close the rest of the way.

Treynor was leading 33-32 when Wallis got the ball in the lane and passed it out to Lindeman at the top of the key. Lindeman drilled a 3-pointer and Wallis followed with two free throws after being fouled on a drive, putting Grundy up 37-33.

The Cardinals weren’t finished, though and tied it at 39 on Sudmann’s long 3 with 50 seconds left. Wallis quickly broke the tie with a runner in the lane and Flater sank a free throw for the final point after rebounding a Treynor miss. Sudmann’s contested 3 fell short just before the buzzer.

Grundy Center, which has lost only to state tournament qualifier AGWSR, takes a 24-1 record to the finals. Treynor, last year’s state runner-up, finishes 23-2.