Sunday night’s Capital City League championship looked like it was over in the first five minutes.
 
Oh how wrong that proved to be.
 
Granite Transformation looked ready to collapse following its 95-86 win against Capital City Orthopaedics in the semifinal game just 15 minutes before the championship. Five and a half minutes into the game, MOHA already [...]

Granite Tranformation beat Capital City Orthopaedics 95-86 for a spot in the Cap City League championship game.
One thing I have to say about Granite Transformation is that it is two different teams based on whether Josh Young is playing. The Drake guard missed a couple games around the Fourth of July, and Granite really struggled [...]

Medical Oncology and Hematology associates (aka Jamie Vanderbeken, Nick Grant, Aaron Hawley, Sean Jones, Bubu Palo) advanced to the Capital City League championsihp with a 105-98 win against Coca-Cola bottling company.
MOHA will play the winner of Granite Transformations vs. Capital City Orthopaedics, which is being played now.
Statistical highlights:
MOHA: Palo (ISU) 28 points, 3 rebounds, 8 [...]

Since there are six teams in the Capital City League, it is difficult to make a cliché association with the NCAA tournament. As if that’s the only difference between the biggest event in college sports and what happens in West Des Moines every summer.
 
Friday’s quarterfinals, to be honest, were a little surprising. Having watched the [...]

I spent most of Wednesday night’s games catching up on some interviews for the next couple weeks, so not much in terms of notes on how the night went. Here are a few things worth mention, though, then the statistical highlights:
 
-Iowa State’s Bubu Palo, who turns 18 today (July 9), had a terrific game, scoring [...]