2018 Iowa Girls High School Basketball Rankings

Compiled by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Class 1A

Dropped Out: Colo-Nesco (15)

Class 2A

Dropped Out: Mediapolis (15)

Class 3A

Dropped Out: Kuemper Catholic (13), West Marshall (14)

Class 4A

Dropped Out: Pella (14)

Class 5A

Dropped Out: None

The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the high school football districts for the 2018-2019 two year cycle on Thursday morning. As expected Atlantic will now be a Class 2A program and will be in District 9 along with Greene County, Kuemper Catholic, OA-BCIG, Red Oak, and Shenandoah.

The Griswold Tigers will make the move to 8-Player and will be in District 7. The Tigers will join many schools from the Corner Conference that they are joining for all other sports. District 7 also includes Bedford, Clarinda Academy, East Mills, Essex, Fremont-Mills, Sidney, and Stanton.

8-Player District 8 will house other area schools: Audubon, Boyer Valley, CAM, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Exira-EHK, Glidden-Ralston, West Harrison, and Woodbine.

Class A will be home for a number of area schools as well. District 9 will include AHSTW, Earlham, Nodaway Valley, Riverside, Southwest Valley, and St. Albert. District 10 will include Lawton-Bronson, Logan-Magnolia, Tri-Center, West Monona, Westwood, and Woodbury Central.

Class 1A District 8 will include AC/GC, Clarinda, Mount Ayr, Panorama, Van Meter, and West Central Valley. Clarinda makes the drop down to Class 1A from 2A.

Class 3A will welcome back Lewis Central as they drop from 4A. The Titans will be in District 9 with ADM, Creston, Glenwood, Harlan, and Winterset.

Class 4A District 7 will be home to Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, Ames, Des Moines North, Urbandale, and West Des Moines Valley.

Check out all of the districts for each class below.

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The AC/GC Chargers announced the hiring of Cody Matthewson as their new Head Football Coach on Tuesday night. Matthewson is a native of Madrid and after starring for the Tigers in high school went on to play Linebacker for Northwest Missouri State from 2009-2014.

Matthewson said he is very excited to get back to small town Iowa and get the area excited about the Chargers football program. He said he hopes he can carry his experience with success at Madrid and Northwest with him to the AC/GC program and get the kids to buy in to a family type mindset.

Matthewson started 14 of 15 games for Northwest Missouri State during their 2013 National Championship season, racking up 46 tackles with 4.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble and fumble recovery.

His Madrid teams went 40-6 during his four seasons and he was an elite all-state first team selection leading the Tigers to an 11-2 record and state semifinal appearance his senior season in 2008. He rushed for 4,508 yards and 51 touchdowns at Madrid.

Matthewson is currently a strength and conditioning teacher at Pioneer Ridge school and a coach at Truman High School in the Kansas City metro. He will be finishing his duties as a baseball coach in the spring and heading back to Iowa to get settled in late spring.

Listen to a full interview with Coach Matthewson below.

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Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Bridget Carleton scored a career-high 39 points _ the most by a Big 12 player this season _ including 13 in the fourth quarter when Iowa State rallied to defeat No. 19 Oklahoma State 78-69. The Cyclones (9-11, 3-6 Big 12) made 13 of 18 free throws in the fourth quarter, 12 of the makes coming in the last 1½ minutes.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Marques Townes scored 17 points, Clayton Custer added 14 with eight assists, and Loyola-Chicago used a big second-half run to beat Drake 80-57 for its sixth straight win. Cameron Krutwig scored 12 points and Lucas Williamson added 10 for the Ramblers (17-4, 7-2 Missouri Valley Conference), who shot 56.7 from the field and trailed 31-29 at halftime.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Isaiah Brown scored 20 points and Bennett Koch scored 11 of his 17 points from the foul line and Northern Iowa beat Illinois State 83-72. Northern Iowa led 15-14 then exploded on a 25-0 run that included six 3-pointers, including three by Brown.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Isaac Copeland scored 23 points and came up with a clutch rebound in the final minute to lead Nebraska to 60-54 victory over Rutgers. James Palmer Jr. added 18 points and Glynn Watson Jr. made two clutch layups in the final 2:30 as the Cornhuskers (15-8, 6-4 Big Ten) won their second road game of the season.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals have signed former Blue Jays infielder Ryan Goins to a minor league contract that includes an invitation to big league spring training. The 29-year-old Goins was non-tendered by the Blue Jays last season.

The Atlantic School Board spent more than an hour discussing the direction they would take with regard to the District’s Athletic Facilities. It included possibly buying land to relocate the baseball and softball fields, and, leaving things where they are, but making them ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant. They also talked about a possible bond referendum. There were a lot of stops and starts during the meeting, but the general consensus appeared to be, that the Trojan Bowl will remain where it is.

Board President Ali Bruckner said “As a Board, we feel very comfortable leaving the athletic facilities where they are currently, today, and working toward a plan to make them safe, playable and ADA compliant.” She said, however, “That will take time, and we will do our Due Diligence. And at our next Board meeting we will have a vote on if that’s the way we’re going to go, or not. And then after that, there’ll several steps.”

One of those steps includes meeting with bonding agent Travis Squires with Piper-Jaffray, because, according to Bruckner, “Our capital dollars will not stand for this type of improvement project. You have to keep capital dollars at hand for things that come up, [such as] roof leaking, or things that need to be fixed.”

Superintendent Steve Barber said “We are in the process of developing a timeline and doing it an expedient manner.” Board member Kristy Pellett, added the District currently has no debt service, which is a positive aspect when going after a bond. The high school was the last debt service, she said.

Another note to come out of the January 24th Board of Control meeting for the state athletic organizations was class assignments for golf and tennis.

Spring golf will include Classes 3A, 2A, and 1A. Golf Classifications_2018_Spring

Tennis will have Classes 2A and 1A. Tennis Classificaitons 2018 Spring

Both sports will be able to begin practice on March 12.

Regional dual team wrestling sites for all classes were approved and released on Wednesday by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Assignments were also announced for Class 3A schools.

In Class 2A the closest site potential for Atlantic/CAM are Sergeant Bluff-Luton and Ballard.

In Class 3A Glenwood will wrestle at Southeast Polk and face off against Indianola in the opening round. The winner of that match will face Southeast Polk in the final.

Take a look at the sites and 3A assignments below.

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The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union announced after their Board of Control Meeting on Wednesday that this year’s State Bowling Tournament will be held at Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo. The meet will remain a co-ed event and still be held on February 19-21. This site change was necessary after the devastating fire that destroyed Plaza Lanes in Des Moines on December 18th of last year. They hope to move the event back to Plaza Lanes once it is rebuilt as the owners have said they intend to do.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association Board of Control decided on Wednesday to keep the Iowa High School Football playoffs at 16 teams in each class in 2018. The announcement comes after it was previously announced that changes will be made to the size of each class. As previously noted the top 42 schools by BEDS numbers will be in Class 4A, the next 54 schools in 3A, the next 54 in 2A, the next 54 in 1A, and the remainder of 11-player schools in Class A.

The district format will also be changing to 9 six-team districts in classes 3A/2A/1A. That would provide for 5 district games and 4 non-district games each year. In Class A there will be 8 districts of 6 teams and 2 districts of 7 teams. 8-Player will have 7 districts of 8 teams and 1 district of 9 teams. Class 4A will have 7 districts of 6 teams. Districts are expected to be released by the state on Thursday.

Qualification for the playoffs will also change with the implementation of an RPI. District champions and those that tie for a district title will be automatic qualifiers for the playoffs. The RPI will then decide qualifiers, rankings, or both. The official statement on RPI use can be seen here: 1.24-RPI-Football-FAQs

The Board of Control also approved cross-state games for non-district games. So teams can now schedule opponents from Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Illinois if they would like.

We’ll have more on these changes as the district assignments are released.