Xavier inched up two spots to No.6 in the Class 4A basketball poll released Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Xavier has been ranked as high as No.4 during the season, but slipped to eighth in last week's poll.  The Saints moved up after beating Kennedy and Dubuque Wahlert last week.

Washington held onto its No.8 ranking in Class 5A.

Ankeny replaced Mason City atop the Class 5A poll. The Mohawks dropped to second.

The other four classes remained the same at the top with Sioux City Heelan in 4A, Davenport Assumption in 3A, Western Christian in 2A and Bedford in 1A.

IGHSAU BASKETBALL RANKINGS
(Records through Jan. 16)

CLASS 5A
1. Ankeny (10-3), 2. Mason City (13-2), 3. DM East (13-1), 4. WDM Dowling (12-1), 5. Iowa City High (13-2), 6. SE Polk (8-4), 7. Muscatine (12-2), 8. CR Washington (10-3), 9. Waukee (8-3), 10. Waterloo West (10-4)

CLASS 4A
1. SC Heelan (9-3), 2. Benton (13-1), 3. Waverly-Shell Rock (13-1), 4. Dallas Center-Grimes (11-3), 5. Indianola (10-4), 6. CR Xavier (8-6), 7. Perry (11-2), 8. Western Dubuque (11-2), 9. Lewis Central (10-1), 10. Harlan (12-1), 11. Winterset (12-2), 12. North Scott (7-6), 13. Oskaloosa (12-2), 14. Washington (10-4), 15. Ballard (9-5)

CLASS 3A
1. Davenport Assumption (11-1), 2. MOC-Floyd Valley (14-1), 3. Estherville-Lincooln Central (13-2), 4. North Polk (13-2), 5. Mid-Prairie (10-3), 6. Cascade (13-2), 7. Bondurant-Farrar (7-4), 8. Spirit Lake (8-5), 9. Mediapolis (13-1), 10. Central Lee (12-3), 11. Nevada (13-2), 12. Center Point-Urbana (11-4), 13. Waukon (11-3), 14. Monticello (12-3), 15. Unity Christian (12-4)

CLASS 2A
1. Western Christian (14-0), 2. IKM-Manning (15-0), 3. North Linn (16-0), 4. Lawton-Bronson (14-1), 5. Aplington-Parkersburg (13-1), 6. Panorama (14-1), 7. North Butler (11-1), 8. North Mahaska (14-0), 9. Manson-NW Webster (12-2), 10. Hinton (11-1), 11. Hudson (13-1), 12. DM Christian (12-2), 13. Woodward-Granger (13-1), 14. Maquoketa Valley (12-4), 15. West Marshall (13-3)

CLASS 1A
1. Bedford (14-0), 2. Burlington Notre Dame (14-1), 3. Newell-Fonda (13-1), 4. Central Lyon (12-2), 5. Ar-We-Va (11-2), 6. Adair-Casey (13-0), 7. Grundy Center (11-3), 8. Meskwaki (14-1), 9. Colo-Nesco (15-2), 10. West Sioux (10-4), 11. Moravia (12-0), 12. Preston (11-2), 13. North Iowa (12-2), 14. LeMars Gehlen (10-3), 15. Bellevue Marquette (8-4)