An exhibit showcasing the history of 6-on-6 girls basketball in Iowa is in the midst of a six-city tour across the state will be in Conrad before the end of the year. . It was 25 years ago this year that Iowa’s final 6-on-6 state tournament was held.

Each teamin the 6-on-6 game had three guards on one side of the court and three forwards on the other. Shelly Lucas was a guard for the New London Tigerettes in the early 1980s.

She is now a professor at Boise State University, earned a PhD at the University of Iowa in 2001. Her dissertation examined the controversy over switching Iowa high school girls’ basketball from a six-player to a five-player game. The traveling exhibit, currently in Guthrie Center, will make three more tour stops between August and the end of the year in Jefferson, Ames, as well as Conrad.