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Not much change in this week’s IHSAA boys basketball rankings
The numbers one in each class remaing the same
Jan. 19, 2026 2:17 pm
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CEDAR RAPIDS - It’s the same four top-ranked teams in this week’s Iowa High School Athletic Association boys basketball poll.
The same 10 teams in a couple of the classes, just in a bit different order.
Your number ones remain Cedar Falls in Class 4A, Huxley Ballard in 3A, Orange City Unity Christian in 2A and Fort Dodge St. Edmond in 1A. They have a combined record of 46-2.
CF and Ballard are each 12-0. Unity Christian’s loss was out of state to Sioux Falls Christian in South Dakota, while St. Edmond lost to Clear Lake, which is ranked second in Class 3A.
Waukee Northwest (10-1), West Des Moines Dowling (11-1) and Waukee (10-2) remain second, third and fourth in 4A this week. Northwest beat Dowling last week, 72-52.
Linn-Mar (7-3) lost last week for the second time this season to Cedar Falls but moved up a spot from 10th to ninth. Dubuque Senior inched from sixth to fifth.
The top six remained the same in 3A, with Solon (12-0) sixth. Dubuque Wahlert and Cedar Rapids Xavier flip-flopped spots at seventh and eighth.
They play each other Tuesday night at Xavier.
Monticello (9-2) joins Aplington-Parkersburg (10-2) in this week’s 2A rankings, replacing Cascade and Denver. Iowa City Regina (10-1) is second behind Unity Christian, with Union Community (12-1) going from ninth to eighth.
In 1A, the entire rankings are exactly the same as last week, with MMCRU (12-0), Burlington Notre Dame (14-0), Algona Garrigan (12-1) and Boyden-Hull (8-4) following St. Edmond. Bellevue Marquette (12-1) and Bellevue (11-2) remain seventh and eighth.
Below are this week’s entire rankings.
Class 4A
- 1. Cedar Falls 12-0 (1)
- 2. Waukee Northwest 10-1 (2)
- 3. West Des Moines Dowling 11-1 (3)
- 4. Waukee 10-2 (4)
- 5. Dubuque Senior 10-1 (6)
- 6. Ames 11-2 (5)
- 7. Bettendorf 10-1 (7)
- 8. Urbandale 6-4 (9)
- 9. Linn-Mar 7-3 (10)
- 10. Council Bluffs Lincoln 9-1 (NR)
- Dropped out: Muscatine (8)
Class 3A
- 1. Huxley Ballard 12-0 (1)
- 2. Clear Lake 7-0 (2)
- 3. Storm Lake 9-1 (3)
- 4. Adel-DeSoto-Minburn 11-1 (4)
- 5. Pella 10-2 (5)
- 6. Solon 12-0 (6)
- 7. Dubuque Wahlert 8-3 (8)
- 8. Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-4 (7)
- 9. Carroll 8-3 (10)
- 10. Oskaloosa 8-3 (9)
Class 2A
- 1. Orange City Unity Christian 12-1 (1)
- 2. Iowa City Regina 10-1 (2)
- 3. Carroll Kuemper 10-3 (4)
- 4. Tri-Center 12-0 (5)
- 5. Treynor 12-1 (6)
- 6. Grundy Center 11-0 (7)
- 7. Western Christian 9-3 (3)
- 8. LaPorte City Union Community 12-1 (9)
- 9. Aplington-Parkersburg 10-2 (NR)
- 10. Monticello 9-2 (NR)
- Dropped out: Denver (8), Cascade (10).
Class 1A
- 1. Fort Dodge St. Edmond 10-1 (1)
- 2. Marcus MMCRU 12-0 (2)
- 3. Burlington Notre Dame 14-0 (3)
- 4. Algona Garrigan 12-1 (4)
- 5. Boyden-Hull 8-4 (5)
- 6. Coon Rapids-Bayard 12-1 (6)
- 7. Bellevue Marquette 12-1 (7)
- 8. Bellevue 11-2 (8)
- 9. Lynnville-Sully 12-0 (9)
- 10. Council Bluffs St. Albert 11-3 (10)
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