IGHSAU Girls Basketball Rankings See Top Teams Remain Same

Girls basketball rankings updated following latest action

Council Bluffs St. Albert's Payton Johnsen drives to the basket against Newell-Fonda's Mareni Brabec during the 1A IGHSAU state basketball championship at Wells Fargo Arena on Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Des Moines. / Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

There was no change at the top in any of the five classifications of girls basketball in Iowa, as the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released new rankings.

After providing a preseason poll, the first official regular season rankings saw little change.

Johnston, the two-time defending Class 5A state champions, remain No. 1 ahead of Waukee Northwest, Dowling Catholic, Cedar Rapids Prairie and Iowa City Liberty. Iowa City West dropped from sixth to eighth, as both Ankeny and Iowa City High passed them.

Dallas Center-Grimes (4A), Maquoketa (3A), Hinton (2A) and Council Bluffs St. Albert (1A) are the other top-ranked teams this week.

Sioux City East joined the Top 15 in 5A, as did Clinton in 4A, Carroll in 3A, Aplington-Parkersburg in 2A and both Turkey Valley and Lake Mills in 1A.

These rankings will be important later in the season when regional pairings are determined on the road to the Iowa girls high school state basketball tournament in Des Moines, Iowa from the Casey’s Center.

Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Girls Basketball Rankings

Class 5A

1. Johnston
2. Waukee Northwest
3. Dowling Catholic
4. Cedar Rapids Prairie
5. Iowa City Liberty
6. Ankeny
7. Iowa City High
8. Iowa City West
9. Bettendorf
10. West Des Moines Valley
11. Waukee
12. Pleasant Valley
13. Cedar Falls
14. Cedar Rapids Washington
15. Sioux City East

Dropped out: Cedar Rapids Kennedy

Class 4A

1. Dallas Center-Grimes
2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan
3. Norwalk
4. Clear Creek-Amana
5. Carlisle
6. Waverly-Shell Rock
7. Cedar Rapids Xavier
8. Central DeWitt
9. Sioux Center
10. North Polk
11. Burlington
12. Solon
13. Marion
14. Pella
15. Clinton

Dropped out: Decorah

Class 3A

1. Maquoketa
2. Williamsburg
3. Cherokee
4. Des Moines Christian
5. Mount Vernon
6. Dubuque Wahlert Catholic
7. Forest City
8. PCM
9. Spirit Lake
10. Davenport Assumption
11. Mediapolis
12. Tipton
13. Mid-Prairie
14. Atlantic
15. Carroll

Dropped out: Kuemper Catholic

Class 2A

1. Hinton
2. Treynor
3. Denver
4. Rock Valley
5. Sioux Central
6. Central Lyon
7. Maquoketa Valley
8. ACGC
9. Emmetsburg
10. Grundy Center
11. Pocahontas Area
12. Iowa City Regina
13. Earlham
14. Riverside
15. Aplington-Parkersburg

Dropped out: Cascade

Class 1A

1. Council Bluffs St. Albert
2. Algona Bishop Garrigan
3. Newell-Fonda
4. Gladbrook-Reinbeck
5. Springville
6. Dunkerton
7. Lynnville-Sully
8. Exira-EHK
9. Martensdale-St. Marys
10. Turkey Valley
11. Lake Mills
12. Kee
13. Montezuma
14. Coon Rapids-Bayard
15. North Linn

Dropped out: Mason City Newman; Harris-Lake Park

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