Here is a look at this week’s High School on SI Top 10 Iowa high school girls basketball rankings by class for the week of Jan. 13: 1. Johnston (11-0) Previous rank: 1 Convincing wins over Waukee and Southeast Polk keep the Dragons moving right along.

Even in many places where girls’ basketball survives, it is struggling. Don Bosco is playing varsity basketball with an eight-player roster. Six of the eight are either freshmen or sophomores so there is no freshmen or JV team. Clarksville has a nine-player roster with three seniors. At most, there will only be six returning players’ next season.

If there were immediate standouts from Tuesday’s matchup, Waukee’s Emilie Sorensen and Ankeny’s Savannah Gage were those players. And despite playing for opposing programs, the two athletes share one attribute: Sorensen and Gage are the only seniors in their teams' starting lineups.

Here is a look at this week’s High School on SI Top 15 Iowa high school girls basketball power rankings for the week of Jan. 6. To be eligible, you must be ranked in the Top 5 of the class rankings: 1.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union will release girls’ basketball postseason pairings later this month. In the meantime, here is the first draft of The Gazette’s mock pairings. Teams were seeded primarily by the most recent IGHSAU rankings, with a couple of minor tweaks, and BC Moore computer ratings.

The Iowa high school basketball season is well underway and there are plenty of games to keep an eye on, both boys and girls, happening around the state Tuesday night. Check out scores from many of the games across the state below.

The Maroons enjoyed a running clock in the fourth quarter and defeated Urbandale, 60-27, in Dowling’s first home game after the winter break. Ava Zediker led the way with 20 points, while every Maroons player made it into the game and the Dowling defense held the J-Hawks' top scorer, Ava Wattier, to seven points.

Junior forward led the Zebras with 47 points and 14 rebounds as they split two games in Skiatook's tournament last week. Brooklyn Miles, Pawhuska: Freshman guard had 32 points and 17 rebounds in two wins at the Morrison tournament last week.

The Iowa high school basketball season is well underway and there are plenty of games to keep an eye on, both boys and girls, happening around the state Friday night. Check out scores from many of the games across the state below.