Girls’ High School Basketball Rankings: Business as Usual

Prep Basketball- The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has updated the rankings for another of girls’ basketball and only 3 teams dropped out of the top 15 for all 5 classes combined. Moreover, the top three teams in each class remained unchanged.

Class 1A is still ruled by Algona Bishop Garrigan followed by Newell-Fonda and North Linn. Amazingly, it is another stable week for Class 1A with each team keeping their position from the week before. Winfield-Mt. Union still holds the 10th position with an undefeated record of 16-0, as they are fresh off a dominating victory over WACO, and Burlington Notre Dame is ranked 11^th at 12-4 after crushing Central Lee 72-42 in their last matchup.

Class 2A also had minimal movement with one team falling down the rankings. Pocahontas Area is now ranked 11^th after being ranked 8^th a week ago, as they fell to Sioux Central 52-41. Otherwise, Dike-New Hartford is still the top team at 13-0 with Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont ranked 4^th at 14-0. No teams dropped out of the rankings.

Estherville Lincoln Central, Unity Christian, and Solon are the top three teams of Class 3A, respectively. Osage takes over the 7^th spot after Center Point-Urbana fell three spots to 10^th as the Stormin Pointers dropped games to 4^th ranked Benton and Class 4A ranked 7^th Clear Creek Amana. Cherokee also dropped in the rankings from 8^th to 12^th after their 31-point loss to Spencer, 67-36. Sioux Center jumped up the rankings to 11^th from 14^th. Atlantic dropped out of the rankings with 9-4 Harlan taking the 15^th spot of the rankings.

The first 12 spots were unchanged from last week’s Class 4A rankings with Dallas Center-Grimes still holding the top spot. Marion went from 13^th to 15^th after dropping games to Mount Vernon and Iowa City West. Lewis Central swapped the 15^th position to be ranked 13^th after dismantling their last two opponents. Spencer knocks Glenwood out of the top 15 to be ranked 14^th.

Class 5A had the most movement and the highest ranked team fell from their spot last week. Johnston is still the number one team at 16-0 followed by also undefeated Pleasant Valley at 14-0. Valley tumbled from 4^th to 7^th as they fell to originally ranked 6^th now ranked 4^th Dowling Catholic 50-32 and now ranked 6^th Ankeny Centennial by seven. Cedar Falls had the biggest jump in the rankings going from 14^th to 9^th after defeating previously 9^th ranked Iowa City West 38-29. The Trojans fell one spot to be ranked 10^th. Iowa City Liberty struck down Linn-Marr 63-57 resulting in the Lightning moving up to 12^th from 15^th and the Lions falling from 10^th to 13^th. Des Moines North was the lone team to fall from the rankings as Waukee took the 14^th spot, despite a 6-8 record.