The Siouxland Conference is a ten team high school athletic conference in the Northwest Corner of Iowa, consisting of schools ranging from the smallest class (1A) to the second largest class (2A), and known for its prominence in small school basketball.
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The Siouxland Conference was a stable 8 team league until the early 1990s when it added Sibley-Ocheydan from the Lakes Conference, and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn and Okoboji High School from the recently disbanded Sioux Valley Conference. Also, Floyd Valley merged with Maurice-Orange City to become MOC-Floyd Valley. Following this flurry of change, the conference remained the same for 17 years until Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn left for the War Eagle Conference in 2009 and longtime Sibley-Ocheydan rival Sheldon moved in from the Lakes Conference.
Men's basketball has a strong history in Northwest Iowa among small schools. Much of the recent history is because of the Siouxland Conference. Sioux Center won the big school state title in 1959 and the small school state title in 1967. Maurice-Orange City claimed the 2A state championship in 1987-88 and again in 1988-89, and won the 3A title in 2004-05 as MOC-Floyd Valley. Rock Valley has won the championship in 1996, 1998, 2009, and 2010. In 2003, Boyden-Hull was class 1A state champ, while Sioux Center won the 2A title. George-Little Rock won the title in 2006. Along with the state titles among the schools are numerous runners-up and other state tournament appearances, especially in recent years. The conference was rated as the sixth toughest in the state in 2009-10 season, quite a feat for a conference that has only one 3A school and was won by one of the 1A schools, Rock Valley.
The schools hold many other state titles as well, including football, which is no longer a sanctioned conference sport since the state took control of the entire system in the mid-90s and created a two year rotating district system. Nevertheless, Sioux Center and Sibley each hold a title, while Central Lyon holds two on their own and one more in sharing with George-Little Rock. West Lyon also won a pair of titles in the late 90s and after finishing as class 1A runnerup in 2009, they are the preseason favorites to win another title in 2010.