WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg men's basketball tea (9-4 overall, 2-0 IIAC) hosts Central (8-5, 1-1) tonight at 8 p.m.



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The Series
The Knights own the series lead at 61-40 and have won three of the last four meetings. The teams won on each other's court last year.
 
A Look at the Teams
Wartburg
 Sophomore Jordan Cannon (Bolingbrook, Ill.) paces the team with 15.0 points per game. Senior Clay Cook (West Branch) and sophomore Nick Webber (Peosta) also average double figures with 13.2 and 12.3 points, respectively.
 
Cook is the team's leading rebounder with 8.8 boards per game, and Webber has a team-best 32 assists.
 
Head coach Dick Peth enters tonight's game one win shy of 500 for his career.
 
Central
Colby Taylor, the reigning Iowa Conference men's basketball player of the week, leads his team with 18.9 points per game. Nile Eckermann, Aaron Rosenstiel, and Kyle Newendorp join him in double digits with 14.5, 12.8, and 10.5 points per game, respectively.
 
Taylor averages a double-double with 10.3 rebounds per game.