With minimal changes in classification (it appears Storm Lake will replace Oskaloosa as the 48th school), here is a preseason rankings list for Class 4A girls’ basketball in 2010-11. These are based somewhat on mathematics, somewhat on hunch.
1. Des Moines East (25-1)
2. Ankeny (21-3)
3. Linn-Mar (26-0)
4. Pleasant Valley (20-4)
5. Iowa City High (14-9)
6. Mason City (13-8)
7. Cedar Rapids Washington (14-9)
8. Waterloo West (14-10)
9. Waukee (24-2)
10. Iowa City West (16-7)
11. Lewis Central (18-5)
12. Ames (17-8)
13. Sioux City North (15-7)
14. Bettendorf (17-5)
15. Ottumwa (10-12)
16. West Des Moines Valley (12-11)
17. Sioux City East …

After adjusting for changes in classification, here is a preseason rankings list for Class 3A girls’ basketball in 2010-11. These are based somewhat on mathematics, somewhat on hunch.
1. Ballard (23-2)
2. DeWitt Central (19-4)
3. Mount Vernon (25-3)
4. MOC-Floyd Valley (21-2)
5. Davenport Assumption (22-3)
6. Pella (15-5)
7. Carroll (16-5)
8. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (18-5)
9. Harlan (21-3)
10. Dallas Center-Grimes (19-3)
11. Union (16-7)
12. Keokuk (14-9)
13. Glenwood (14-9)
14. Williamsburg (16-7)
15. Winterset (12-10)
16. Grinnell (12-10)
17. Charles City (16-7)
18. Sioux City Heelan (26-1)
19. Dubuque Wahlert (10-13)
20. Denison-Schleswig (13-9)

Updated after adjusting for enrollment changes, here is a preseason rankings list for Class 2A girls’ basketball in 2010-11. These are based somewhat on mathematics, somewhat on hunch.
1. Roland-Story (25-2)
2. Ida Grove OA-BCIG (21-4)
3. Mount Ayr (26-2)
4. West Central Valley (18-4)
5. Logan-Magnolia (21-3)
6. Hinton (21-2)
7. Maquoketa Valley (17-5)
8. Bondurant-Farrar (13-8)
9. Carroll Kuemper (22-3)
10. Estherville-Lincoln Central (17-6)
11. Ackley AGWSR (19-4)
12. IKM-Manning (19-5)
13. Wapsie Valley (21-2)
14. Panorama (21-3)
15. Des Moines Christian (18-5)
16. Lawton-Bronson (18-8)
17. North Linn (16-7)
18. South Winneshiek (12-8)
19. West Branch (16-6)
20. Highland (18-7)

With an update to next year’s enrollment changes, here is a preseason rankings list for Class 1A girls’ basketball in 2010-11. These are based somewhat on mathematics, somewhat on hunch.
1. Martensdale-St. Marys (26-2)
2. Stanton (22-1)
3. Ar-We-Va (16-4)
4. Tripoli (18-4)
5. North Mahaska (24-1)
6. Sidney (17-8)
7. Lynnville-Sully (18-7)
8. Clinton Prince of Peace (17-8)
9. Bedford (14-5)
10. Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira (12-9/26-0)
11. Lamoni (15-8)
12. Lone Tree (16-8)
13. Essex (17-5)
14. Moulton-Udell (16-5)
15. Northeast Hamilton (20-3)
16. North Sentral Kossuth (22-3)
17. West Hancock (16-7)
18. Akron-Westfield (14-7)
19. George-Little Rock (15-7) 
20. Harris-Lake Park (14-7)

Miss Iowa Basketball — Carli Tritz, Sioux City Heelan.
CLASS 4A
First Team
Kiah Stokes, 6-3, jr., Linn-Mar; Jade Rogers, 5-11, sr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Virginia Johnson, 6-1, jr., Iowa City High; Amber Harrington, 5-10, sr., Davenport North; Riley Norman, 6-1, sr., Des Moines Roosevelt; Brittni Donaldson, 5-7, jr., Sioux City North; Markisha Wright, 6-2, jr., Des Moines East; Laura Johnson, 6-0, sr., Cedar Falls.
Second Team
Kionna Kellogg, 6-2, sr., Ames; Jadyn Spencer, 5-11, jr., Waterloo West; Kiersten Orton, 5-11, sr., Waukee; Kyley Simmons, 5-7, jr., Lewis Central; Shronda Butts, 5-7, jr., Des Moines …

DES MOINES — It can be argued that the Metro has never been stocked with so many big fish at one time.
Kiah Stokes, Morgan Paige and Jade Rogers and high-level Division-I players, one and all.
First-team all-staters, too.
Sportswriters selected the trio — and four others from the area — to the top team in their respective classes during Iowa Newspaper Association girls’ basketball all-state voting Saturday.
Stokes, a junior at Linn-Mar with a state championship and college offers galore, was named to the Class 4A first team. So was Rogers, a Cedar …

Gazette columnist Mike Hlas was at Tipton for the Class 4A regional final girls’ basketball game between Linn-Mar and Bettendorf on Tuesday.
He was there to see college coaches, including Pat Summitt of Tennessee and Sherri Coale of Oklahoma, on hand to watch Linn-Mar’s Kiah Stokes in action.
Here’s his column for Thursday’s paper:
http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/the-hlog/2010/02/24/linn-mars-kiah-stokes-causes-summitt-meeting-of-college-coaches

CEDAR RAPIDS — This was a tale of two halves.
To be more specific, the start of two halves.
Fifth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy opened the game with a 10-0 run, started the second half with a 10-1 surge, and rolled past No. 9 Cedar Rapids Washington, 62-43, in a Class 4A girls’ basketball regional final Tuesday night at Prairie High School.
State semifinalists a year ago, the Cougars (20-2) return to Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines at 11:30 a.m. next Wednesday, when they face No. 4 Ankeny (21-2).
Returning isn’t enough.
“We definitely want …

Here’s a link to the IGHSAU scorelist for Tuesday’s Class 3A and 4A girls basketball regional finals.

A number of big-time coaches will be in attendance to see Kiah Stokes and Linn-Mar face Bettendorf in a Class 4A girls’ basketball regional game at Tipton Middle School.
Those who figure to attend:
* Pat Summitt, Tennessee head coach
* Shea Ralph, Connecticut assistant coach
* Sharon Versyp, Purdue head coach
* LaKale Malone, Texas assistant coach
* Sherri Coale, Oklahoma head coach