Van Buren County enters rankings

Van Buren County and the state's leading scorer - Isabelle Manning - joined the rankings for the first time this season.

The ninth rankings of the 2020-21 basketball season were released Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union but it doesn't seem it spent too much time on the rankings.

Van Buren County was 15th in Class 2A. Fellow Southeast Iowa Super Conference schools Winfield-Mt. Union and its unblemished record stayed at 10th in Class 1A, Notre Dame 11th with little change in the top 15. Collins-Maxwell is also unbeaten and stayed seventh but MMCRU dropped from fifth to sixth with two losses, Woodbury Central was replaced at No. 15 with Paton-Churdan, Westwood went from 12 to 14 as Lenox (13 to 12) and North Mahaska (14 to 13) moved up one.

North Mahaska's fellow South Iowa Cedar League team Montezuma stayed at eighth.

Classes 5A and 3A flipped a couple teams but none more than three spots and two new teams entered the rankings in 2A and 4A. However neither of the 4A teams were Fort Madison of the Southeast Conference, which has a 13-1 record. No one in 4A has more wins.

Class 3A West Burlington, of the SEISC South Division, has one additional victory with a 14-1 ledger, and it stayed at No. 8 in 3A.

River Valley Conference schools West Branch (No. 3 in 2A) Bellevue (No. 6 in 2A) and West Liberty (No. 7 in 3A) are in the same spots as the previous week, but Cascade moved up from 15 to 13 in 2A.

Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union

Basketball Rankings

Class 1A

School Record LW

1. Bishop Garrigan 15-0 1

2. Newell-Fonda 14-1 2

3. Kingsley-Pierson 17-0 3

4. St. Ansgar 13-1 4

5. Exira-EHK 15-0 6

6. MMCRU 12-2 5

7. Collins-Maxwell 15-0 7

8. Montezuma 16-1 8

9. Springville 15-2 9

10. Winfield-Mount Union 14-0 10

11. Notre Dame 13-1 11

12. Lenox 12-2 13

13. North Mahaska 10-2 14

14. Westwood 13-3 12

15. Paton-Churdan 11-3 NR

Dropped Out: Woodbury Central (15)

Class 2A

1. Maquoketa Valley 16-0 1

2. Dike-New Hartford 14-0 2

3. West Branch 9-1 3

4. Nodaway Valley 14-0 5

5. North Linn 12-2 4

6. Bellevue 14-1 6

7. Grundy Center 11-2 7

8. Central Lyon 14-2 8

9. West Hancock 15-2 9

10. Treynor 14-2 10

11. Underwood 14-1 11

12. Denver 10-4 13

13. Cascade 13-4 15

14. Sibley-Ocheyedan 12-3 NR

15. Van Buren County 11-3 NR

Dropped Out: Sioux Central (12), Jesup (14)

Class 3A

1. Cherokee 15-0 1

2. Des Moines Christian 13-2 3

3. Clear Lake 13-1 4

4. Unity Christian 13-2 2

5. Osage 15-1 5

6. West Lyon 14-1 6

7. West Liberty 8-3 7

8. West Burlington 14-1 8

9. Roland-Story 9-3 9

10. Estherville-Lincoln Central 14-3 10

11. Solon 12-4 11

12. Vinton-Shellsburg 13-2 12

13. Center Point-Urbana 11-4 13

14. Panorama 11-3 14

15. Waukon 12-3 15

Dropped Out: None

Class 4A

1. Glenwood 12-2 1

2. Ballard 13-0 2

3. Dallas Center-Grimes 12-2 4

4. Gilbert 12-2 3

5. Central DeWitt 11-1 5

6. North Scott 9-1 6

7. Waverly-Shell Rock 12-2 7

8. Bondurant-Farrar 9-4 8

9. Creston 11-4 9

10. Denison-Schleswig 11-2 10

11. Harlan 10-4 11

12. Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-5 12

13. North Polk 7-6 NR

14. Spencer 10-4 NR

15. Boone 6-5 13

Dropped Out: Lewis Central (14), Marion (15)

Class 5A

1. Johnston 9-0 1

2. Waukee 3-1 2

3. Waterloo West 12-1 3

4. Southeast Polk 9-2 4

5. Ankeny Centennial 9-1 5

6. Iowa City West 7-3 6

7. Cedar Rapids Washington 10-1 9

8. Cedar Falls 11-3 7

9. West Des Moines Dowling 7-3 10

10. West Des Moines Valley 5-4 12

11. Des Moines Roosevelt 3-1 11

12. Iowa City High 7-4 8

13. Ankeny 7-2 13

14. Davenport North 3-1 15

15. Indianola 13-3 14

Dropped Out: None