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BOYS BASKETBALL
Western Valley Conference Tournament
Lawton-Bronson 63, Woodbury Central, Moville 60
River Valley, Correctionville 73, Westwood, Sloan 55
Siouxland Community Christian 56, Kingsley-Pierson 50
Semifinal
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 71, OA-BCIG 38
Ridge View 56, West Monona, Onawa 55
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Orient-Macksburg vs. Diagonal, ppd.
Clarinda vs. Mount Ayr, ppd.
Nishnabotna vs. Fairfax, Mo., ppd.

GIRLS BASKETBALL
Sioux City, West 69, South Sioux City, Neb. 66
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Orient-Macksburg vs. Diagonal, ppd.
Clarinda vs. Mount Ayr, ppd.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Wayne Selden Jr. scored 19 points in a hot-shooting second half to spark No. 8 Kansas past No. 11 Iowa State 89-76 on Monday night. Selden, after missing all three of his shots and scoring only one point in the first half, drilled four of his first five 3-pointers after intermission, often finding himself virtually unguarded on the right wing, as the Jayhawks (19-3, 8-1 Big 12) padded their lead in the Big 12 race to 1½ games.

Georges Niang had 24 points for Iowa State (16-5, 6-3), which dropped out of a second-place tie with West Virginia. Leading 35-28 after a seesaw first half, the Jayhawks reeled off a 14-6 run the first 4 minutes, 45 seconds after intermission, with Selden scoring eight points, including two uncontested 3-pointers. Iowa State called time out and tried to regroup after Selden’s second 3-pointer put Kansas on top 49-34 but never got the lead under nine points.

The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school basketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:
Class 4A
Record Pts Prv
1. Iowa City, West (15) 15-0 150 1
2. Pleasant Valley 15-0 122 2
3. Ankeny Centennial 14-1 118 3
4. Des Moines, Hoover 15-0 115 4
5. North Scott, Eldridge 12-3 68 7
6. Dubuque, Hempstead 13-2 67 6
7. Linn-Mar, Marion 12-3 64 8
8. Waukee 12-4 61 5
9. Urbandale 12-4 22 NR
10. Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 15-2 12 NR

Others receiving votes: Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines 9. Epworth, Western Dubuque 6. Cedar Rapids, Kennedy 5. Valley, West Des Moines 5. Ames 1.

Class 3A
Record Pts Prv
1. Williamsburg (5) 14-1 124 3
2. Le Mars (4) 13-2 120 2
3. Pella (2) 13-2 113 4
4. Spirit Lake (2) 14-2 101 1
5. Waverly-Shell Rock 15-2 96 5
6. MOC-Floyd Valley 14-2 80 6
7. Wahlert, Dubuque (2) 9-6 65 7
(tie) Fort Madison 14-2 65 8
9. Algona 14-2 20 NR
10. Gilbert 14-2 8 NR

Others receiving votes: Carroll 5. Xavier, Cedar Rapids 5. Assumption, Davenport 5. Denison-Schleswig 4. Dallas Center-Grimes 4. Chariton 4. Keokuk 3. Marion 2. Clear Creek-Amana 1.

Class 2A
Record Pts Prv
1. Aplington-Parkersburg (10) 18-0 139 1
2. New Hampton (3) 17-1 130 3
3. Western Christian, Hull (2) 15-2 113 4
4. Monticello 18-2 96 7
5. Regina, Iowa City 16-1 88 5
6. Cascade,Western Dubuque 17-2 79 2
7. IKM-Manning 15-1 77 6
8. Treynor 14-2 37 8
9. Forest City 15-2 34 9
10. Anamosa 12-5 10 10

Others receiving votes: Northeast, Goose Lake 8. West Fork, Sheffield 8. Pella Christian 2. Des Moines Christian 2. Notre Dame, Burlington 1. Central Decatur, Leon 1.

Class 1A
Record Pts Prv
1. Gladbrook-Reinbeck (9) 18-0 141 1
2. Danville (6) 16-0 138 2
3. Colo-Nesco 17-0 105 5
4. Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 17-1 88 6
5. Central Lyon 14-3 83 3
6. Boyden-Hull 14-3 65 8
7. Gehlen Catholic, Le Mars 15-1 61 4
8. Ar-We-Va, Westside 17-0 43 9
9. Earlham 15-2 25 7
9. Meskwaki Settlement School 15-1 24 10

Others receiving votes: Janesville 20. West Hancock, Britt 13. Belle Plaine 6. South O’Brien 6. Jesup 3. Grand View Christian 3. Fremont Mills, Tabor 2.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A group of athletes from Dakota Wesleyan University is challenging all the other male athletes in the Great Plains Athletic Conference to take a public stand against domestic violence. The Sioux City Journal reports the pledge idea began with a small group of students and a social justice class Luke Bamberg took.

Bamberg and four classmates decided to ask Dakota Wesleyan athletes to take the pledge. But the idea took off once Great Plains Athletic Conference Commissioner Corey Westra heard about it. So now the group is challenging the more than 2,500 male athletes at the conference’s 11 universities in South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa.

Bamberg acknowledges that signing a pledge may not make a huge difference, but he says it’s better than doing nothing.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Brionna Jones scored 17 of her 19 points in the second half and had 15 rebounds to help No. 5 Maryland extend its winning streak to 13 games with a 93-88 victory over No. 20 Iowa on Sunday. The Terrapins (19-2, 10-0) moved two games ahead of the second-place Hawkeyes in the Big Ten standings. Jones has five double-doubles in her past six games.

Lexie Brown led Maryland with 26 points, and Laurin Mincy added 15. Ally Disterhoft scored 22 points for Iowa (17-4, 8-2), and Melissa Dixon had 18 points.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Seth Tuttle scored a career-high 29 points and 18th-ranked Northern Iowa trounced Number 12 Wichita State 70-54 on Saturday, snapping the Shockers’ 27-game regular season winning streak in the Missouri Valley Conference. Wes Washpun had 16 points for the Panthers (20-2, 9-1 MVC). They pulled into a tie with the Shockers for first in the league after a surprisingly dominant performance.

Northern Iowa seized control with a 21-3 run late in the first half and pushed its lead to as much as 49-30 early in the second half. Fred VanVleet had 18 points to lead Wichita State (19-3, 9-1), which shot just 5 of 24 from 3-point range. Star Ron Baker was held to 12 points on 4 of 12 shooting.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Reed Timmer scored 18 points, Gary Ricks Junior added 14 and Drake beat Evansville 70-65 on Saturday in a contest that never saw more than a single-digit lead. The final 5 minutes included three lead changes, but seven-straight points put the Bulldogs up 60-53 with 1:33 to go. After Timmer split a pair of free throws for a six-point lead with 51 seconds left, the Purple Aces rebounded and Adam Wing missed a 3-point attempt. Evansville grabbed three offensive boards but missed all three shot attempts. Drake (6-16, 3-7 Missouri Valley) made 7 of 8 free throws in the final 25 seconds.

Timmer shot 50 percent from the floor and 7 of 10 from the line, leading Drake to its first consecutive wins of the season. D.J. Balentine finished with 17 points — including back-to-back 3’s in the final 5 seconds — and Wing added 15 for Evansville (16-6, 6-4).

BOYS BASKETBALL
Earlham 58, Nodaway Valley 51
Treynor 59, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 51
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
West Harrison, Mondamin vs. Paton-Churdan, ppd. to Feb 10.
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll vs. St. Edmond, Fort Dodge, ppd.
IKM-Manning vs. OA-BCIG, ppd.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Nodaway Valley 58, Earlham 40
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 57, Treynor 47
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
West Harrison, Mondamin vs. Paton-Churdan, ppd. to Feb 10.
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll vs. St. Edmond, Fort Dodge, ppd.