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IHSAA boys’ basketball rankings: Some jockeying of positions in all classes
Though the top 40 pretty much remain, with two schools in Class 1A dropping out and two coming in
Feb. 10, 2025 11:48 am, Updated: Feb. 10, 2025 12:54 pm
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CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s a week where the 40 ranked teams remain the same as last week for the most part, with just a little shuffling around here and there.
Cedar Falls, Clear Lake, Western Christian and Bellevue Marquette stay atop their respective classes in the Iowa High School Athletic Association boys’ basketball poll, released Monday.
Cedar Falls is 15-2, as is No. 2 West Des Moines Valley in Class 4A. Linn-Mar (16-3) moved up from fourth to third after a huge week that saw them beat two ranked teams in Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Cedar Rapids Prairie.
Kennedy (14-4) also lost this past Saturday to No. 4 Waukee Northwest by 29 points, dropping from third to sixth. Dubuque Senior (14-2) of the Mississippi Valley Conference inched up to fifth.
Linn-Mar and Senior play Friday night at Dubuque. Senior also hosts Class 1A top-ranked Bellevue Marquette on Monday night.
Speaking of 1A, Madrid (19-0) and Marcus/Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union (18-2) stay at second and third, respectively. North Linn (18-3) moves from 10 th to eighth.
Coon Rapids-Bayard (seventh) and Burlington Notre Dame (10 th ) move into the poll, with Remsen St. Mary’s and Algona Garrigan dropping out. They are the only four teams in all the classes to go in and out.
Clear Lake (18-0), Decorah (17-1), Knoxville (17-0) and Huxley Ballard (15-1) remain the top four teams, in that order, in Class 3A. Cedar Rapids Xavier (13-6) stays at No. 10.
In 2A, Western Christian (17-3) lost this past Saturday to Waukee but stays a solid No. 1. Cascade (17-3) creeped down from seventh to eighth after a Saturday loss to 3A No. 6 Waverly-Shell Rock.
Here is this week’s entire poll, with team record for and last week’s ranking in parentheses:
Class 4A
- 1. Cedar Falls 15-2 (1)
- 2. West Des Moines Valley 15-2 (2)
- 3. Linn-Mar 15-2 (4)
- 4. Waukee Northwest 16-3 (5)
- 5. Dubuque Senior 14-2 (6)
- 6. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 14-4 (3)
- 7. Ames 17-2 (9)
- 8. Waukee 13-5 (8)
- 9. Council Bluffs Lincoln 17-1 (7)
- 10. Cedar Rapids Prairie 13-4 (10)
- Dropped out: None.
Class 3A
- 1. Clear Lake 18-0 (1)
- 2. Decorah 17-1 (2)
- 3. Knoxville 17-0 (3)
- 4. Huxley Ballard 15-1 (4)
- 5. Storm Lake 15-1 (6)
- 6. Waverly-Shell Rock 14-5 (8)
- 7. MOC/Floyd Valley 15-4 (5)
- 8. Adel-DeSoto-Minburn 14-4 (7)
- 9. Pella 13-5 (9)
- 10. Cedar Rapids Xavier 13-6 (10)
- Dropped out: None.
Class 2A
- 1. Western Christian 17-3 (1)
- 2. Carroll Kuemper 19-1 (2)
- 3. West Lyon 16-3 (4)
- 4. Orange City Unity Christian 15-4 (3)
- 5. Grundy Center 18-0 (5)
- 6. Grand View Christian 18-1 (6)
- 7. Treynor 16-3 (8)
- 8. Cascade 17-3 (7)
- 9. Aplington-Parkersburg 18-1 (9)
- 10. West Burlington 18-2 (10)
- Dropped out: None.
Class 1A
- 1. Bellevue Marquette 20-0 (1)
- 2. Madrid 19-0 (2)
- 3. Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union 18-2 (3)
- 4. Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center 18-1 (5)
- 5. Fort Dodge St. Edmond 17-3 (7)
- 6. Gladbrook-Reinbeck 16-3 (8)
- 7. Coon Rapids-Bayard 18-2 (NR)
- 8. North Linn 18-3 (10)
- 9. Woodbine 17-2 (4)
- 10. Burlington Notre Dame 16-4 (NR)
- Dropped out: Remsen St. Mary’s (6), Algona Garrigan (9).
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