2021-22 Iowa High School Girls Basketball Rankings

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The second Iowa high school girls basketball poll features 11 teams from the Cedar Valley and Northeast Iowa. Five are rated among the top five in their respective classes.

Waterloo West and Cedar Falls are among the strongest teams in Class 5A. The Wahawks are ranked No. 2 and the Tigers are ranked No. 3, behind No. 1 Johnston.

Defending state champion Dike-New Hartford (No. 1), Grundy Center (No. 2) and Denver (No. 3) lead the the Class 2A poll. Other area teams ranked in the survey are Jesup at No. 10 and Aplington-Parkersburg at No. 14.

Other teams ranked from the area are East Buchanan (No. 11 in Class 1A), Central Elkader (No. 14 in Class 1A) and Vinton-Shellsburg (No. 11 in Class 3A).

The new survey was released Thursday afternoon by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU), which also compiled and released a pre-season poll prior to Thanksgiving.

	School	Record	LW
1	Newell-Fonda	2-0	1
2	Bishop Garrigan	1-1	2
3	Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton	1-0	3
4	Springville	3-0	4
5	North Linn	2-1	5
6	MMCRU	1-0	6
7	Burlington Notre Dame	3-0	7
8	North Mahaska	1-1	8
9	Storm Lake St. Mary's	0-0	9
10	Montezuma	2-0	13
11	East Buchanan	2-0	NR
12	Stanton	1-0	12
13	Central Elkader	3-0	NR
14	CAM	1-0	NR
15	Westwood	1-1	9

Dropped Out: St. Ansgar (11), Maquoketa Valley (12), Kingsley-Pierson (14)

	School	Record	LW
1	Dike-New Hartford	2-0	1
2	Grundy Center	1-0	3
3	Denver	4-0	5
4	Central Lyon	1-1	4
5	Panorama	1-0	6
6	Cascade	2-0	7
7	Nodaway Valley	1-1	2
8	Sibley-Ocheyedan	1-1	8
9	West Hancock	1-0	9
10	Jesup	2-0	11
11	South Central Calhoun	2-0	13
12	Treynor	1-1	10
13	North Union	1-0	15
14	Aplington-Parkersburg	2-0	NR
15	Wilton	2-0	NR

Dropped Out: West Fork (12), Underwood (14)

	School	Record	LW
1	Unity Christian	2-1	1
2	West Lyon	2-0	3
3	Ballard	2-1	2
4	Estherville-Lincoln Central	3-0	6
5	Center Point-Urbana	3-0	7
6	Cherokee	2-1	4
7	Sergeant Bluff-Luton	1-0	8
8	Clear Lake	0-1	5
9	West Liberty	2-0	9
10	West Marshall	3-0	10
11	Vinton-Shellsburg	3-0	14
12	Roland-Story	0-1	11
13	Harlan	2-0	NR
14	Okoboji	2-0	NR
15	Davenport Assumption	0-2	13

Dropped Out: Des Moines Christian (12), Nevada (15)

	School	Record	LW
1	Glenwood	1-0	1
2	Indianola	2-0	2
3	Central DeWitt	1-0	3
4	Cedar Rapids Xavier	3-0	4
5	Bishop Heelan	3-0	6
6	North Scott	2-0	7
7	North Polk	2-1	14
8	Dallas Center-Grimes	2-1	5
9	Winterset	1-0	9
10	Grinnell	2-0	10
11	Solon	1-2	8
12	Mason City	1-1	11
13	Spencer	1-1	12
14	Gilbert	2-0	NR
15	Benton Community	2-1	13

Dropped Out: Waverly-Shell Rock (15)

	School	Record	LW
1	Johnston	2-0	1
2	Waterloo West	0-0	2
3	Cedar Falls	1-0	3
4	Iowa City High	0-0	4
5	Des Moines Roosevelt	1-1	6
6	West Des Moines Valley	2-0	7
7	Iowa City West	1-0	8
8	Ankeny Centennial	3-0	9
9	Southeast Polk	1-1	5
10	Cedar Rapids Washington	2-0	10
11	Dowling Catholic	4-0	11
12	Waukee Northwest	2-1	12
13	Sioux City East	1-0	13
14	Pleasant Valley	1-0	14
15	Linn-Mar	2-0	NR

Dropped Out: Bettendorf (15)

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