WAVERLY, Iowa—The Wartburg women’s basketball team finished the season with an overall record of 16-10 and placed second in the Iowa Conference standings with a 9-5 record.

The Knights qualified for the Conference tournament and received the No. 2 seed.

Senior Baileigh O’Brien (Fort Dodge) led the team with 10.2 PPG and was the team’s leading rebounder (7.5 rebounds per game) and assists leader (82).

She also had a team-high 39 blocks which stands as fifth-best on the single season record list.

Junior Carly Jacobs (Greene) and freshman Kailey Kladivo (Traer) nearly joined O’Brien in double digits with 9.8 and 9.7 PPG, respectively.

The Orange and Black’s schedule featured strong opponents. After Wartburg lost on a buzzer beater in overtime to Grinnell, it went on a five-game winning streak that was halted by defending National Champions, Illinois Wesleyan, in the championship game of its own annual holiday tournament.

As a team, the Knights led the conference in scoring defense (58.4 PPG), field goal percentage defense (.351) and three-point field goal percentage defense (.262).

The Orange and Black ranked second in scoring margin (+3.5), rebounding margin (+2.9), assists (191), three-point field goals per game (6.43) and field goal percentage (.414)

Wartburg was third in three-point field goal percentage (.330) blocked shots (48) and rebounds per game (37.9).

Jacobs was the seventh-leading scorer (11.6 PPG) against conference opponents.

Kladivo was 11^th (9.4), O’Brien was 16^th (9.1) and senior Abi Weidemann was 18^th (8.7).

O’Brien was the league’s sixth-leading rebounder (6.4) and Kladivo was eighth (6.0).

Kladivo led the conference in field goal percentage (.545)

O’Brien was fourth in assists (42), Cathy Reiter was seventh (34) and Weidemann was 11^th (27).

Reiter was also ninth in steals (24) and Bobbi Burrows was fourth in three-point field goal percentage (.441).

O’Brien was also third in blocked shots (23) and Allison Emrich was ninth with ten.

In the final national statistical rankings, Wartburg was 55thin three-point field goals per game (6.2), 63^rd in field goal percentage (.406), 66^th in field goal percentage defense (.345) and 69^th in assists/game (14.7).