DES MOINES — Standing in front of fourth-ranked (Class 1A) St. Edmond here Wednesday inside Wells Fargo Arena will be Woodbine, winners of seven in a row.

The Tigers (23-2 overall) avenged their most recent loss when they eliminated Coon Rapids-Bayard in a substate final, 50-41, reversing a 54-24 setback in early February. Their only other loss came at the hands of Treynor in late January.

Woodbine averages almost 72 points per game and allows just under 41, with 24 of its 25 games having been against 1A opponents. They start two seniors in Carter Gruver and Carson Kelley alongside junior brothers Brody Pryor and Jax Pryor, with sophomore Landon Blum rounding things out.

Gruver leads the way at 17 points per game, shooting almost 50 percent from the 3-point line. Blum adds 15 and seven rebounds with Jax Pryor averaging 11.6 and six.

Blum, a standout football player for Woodbine, stands 6-foot-5 while Jax Pryor checks in at 6-4. Kelley is also 6-4 as many of the key players in the rotation helped the Tigers reach the second round of the eight-player playoffs this past fall.

Brody and Jax are triplets with Katy as older brother Layne Pryor just recently concluded a standout career as a tight end at Northern Iowa and has entered the upcoming NFL Draft.

Woodbine knocked off fellow 1A qualifier Madrid in an epic substate final last year before falling to North Linn in the state quarterfinals. Gruver, Kelley, Pryor, Blum and Pryor were all starters a season ago, as the Tigers have gone 46-4 the last two years.

Of Woodbine’s 25 games, 24 have come against fellow 1A teams, as Treynor is the lone non-1A school they played, losing 51-33.

This marks the fifth appearance all-time at state for the Tigers, who also qualified in 1969 along with back-to-back trips in 1995-96 and again in 2024-25. They have yet to earn a state tournament victory.

CLASS 4A

Monday, March 10

Cedar Falls 71, Dubuque Senior 49

Waukee Northwest 71, Cedar Rapids Kennedy 64

Linn-Mar 69, Waukee 60

Valley 53, Ames 50

Wednesday, March 12

Cedar Falls (22-2) vs. Waukee Northwest (22-3), 5:30 p.m.

Linn-Mar (22-2) vs. Valley (21-3), 7:15 p.m.

Friday, March 14

Cedar Falls/Waukee Northwest winner vs. Linn-Mar/Valley winner, 1 p.m.

CLASS 3A

Monday, March 10

Clear Lake 57, Central DeWitt 34

ADM 59, Storm Lake 53

Tuesday, March 11

Cedar Rapids Xavier 52, Knoxville 37

MOC-Floyd Valley 55, Ballard 51

Thursday, March 13

Clear Lake (25-0) vs. ADM (22-4), 10:30 a.m.

Cedar Rapids Xavier (16-9) vs. MOC-Floyd Valley (20-4), 12:15 p.m.

Friday, March 14

Class 3A championship, 3 p.m.

CLASS 2A

Tuesday, March 11

Class 2A Quarterfinals

Western Christian 69, Jesup 38

Grand View Christian 61, Treynor 46

West Lyon 81, Union 50

Unity Christian (20-4) vs. Grundy Center (22-2), late

Thursday, March 13

Western Christian (23-3) vs. Grand View Christian (24-1), 2 p.m.

West Lyon (22-3) vs. Unity Christian/Grundy Center winner, 3:45 p.m.

Friday, March 14

Class 2A championship, 7 p.m.

CLASS 1A

Wednesday, March 12

Gladbrook-Reinbeck (22-3) vs. North Linn (23-2), 10:30 a.m.

Bellevue Marquette (25-1) vs. Remsen St. Mary’s (21-4), 12:15 p.m.

Madrid (25-0) vs. Boyden-Hull (18-8), 2 p.m.

St. Edmond (22-3) vs. Woodbine (23-2), 3:45 p.m.

Thursday, March 13

Class 1A semifinals

Friday, March 14

Class 1A championship, 7 p.m.