WAVERLY, Iowa--  The Wartburg men's basketball team (12-5 overall, 5-3 IIAC) travels to face Loras (14-4, 7-2) Wednesday at 6 p.m. This will begin the second half of the Iowa Conference schedule for the Knights. The Duhawks are one of three teams tied for first and the Orange and Black are the next team on the conference standings.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 50-38, which includes the last three meetings. The Knights won 98-87, in the first meeting this season on Dec. 6, 2017.

Wartburg
Three Knights average in double digits as junior Jaran Sabus (Urbandale) leads the team at 15.0 PPG. Seniors Sawyer Herman (Monticello) and Nate Woeste (Atkins) follow at 12.2 and 11.6, respectively.

Sabus also has a team-high 6.0 rebounds/game. He is the conference's seventh-leading scorer at 16.6 PPG, and the leader in three-point field goal percentage (.625).

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Woeste ranks 26th with his 1,104 points, 10th with 116 three-point field goals, seventh with 109 steals, and fourth with 336 free throws. He recently surpassed current assistant coach Jason Steege's 105 career steals.

Loras
The Duhawks enter the evening on a four-game winning streak.

Josh Ruggles leads the trio in double figures with 22.2 PPG. Ryan DiCanio and Rowen McGowen follow at 16.3 and 11.1, respectively.

In IIAC games, Ruggles is the second-leading scorer at 24.0 PPG, second in three-point field goal percentage (.532), and is the leader in free throw percentage (.964).

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of six statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 19^th in personal fouls per game (14.9), 36^th in fewest fouls (254), 44^th in three-point field goal defense (30.9), 74^th in field-goal percentage defense (41.4), 80^th in scoring defense (70.3), and 82^nd in won-lost percentage (70.6).
 
Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of two statistical categories:Woeste ranks 86^th in free-throw percentage (84.6), and Sabus ranks 94^th in field-goal percentage (55.2).