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No. 2/3 Wartburg Travels to Face Buena Vista

WAVERLY, Iowa--  The No. 2/3 Wartburg women's basketball team (19-0 overall, 10-0 IIAC) travels to face Buena Vista (10-10, 5-6) Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Knights continue to hold steady atop the IIAC standings, while the BV is fifth

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 41-36, which includes the last four meetings. The Knights were victorious, 98-62, in the first meeting earlier this month on Jan. 15.

Wartburg
Senior Katie Sommer (Cedar Rapids) is the leading scorer for the Knights with 14.4 PPG. She also has a team-high 114 assists, and 36 steals. She has moved into the fifth leading scorer in the IIAC at 17.4 PPG and leads the conference with 6.0 assists/game.

Classmate Miranda Murphy (Alleman) follows with 11.4 PPG and is second with 5.3 rebounds/game. Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) leads the team with 5.4 rebounds/game and has a team-best 27 blocks.

In IIAC games, senior Kristie Sommer (Cedar Rapids) is the 16th leading scorer with 11.6 PPG. Senior Morgan Neuendorf (Plainfield) and Jones average double digits at 11.2 and 10.1 PPG, respectively.

Career Leader List Watch
Katie is 10th with 1,243 points, the all-time career leader with 464 assists, seventh with 161 three-point field goals, and third with 396 free throws.

Twin sister Kristie is now the program's career leader in three-point field goals at 218.

Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) ranks fourth with 103 blocked shots.

Buena Vista
Four players average in double digits for BV as Jasmine Demers paces the team with 16.8 PPG. Morgan Muhlbauer follows at 14.0, Claudia Larson at 13.5, Holly Schneider at 11.3. Larson nearly averages a double-double with her 9.2 rebounds/game.

Demers is the conference's second-leading scorer at 19.5 PPG.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of twenty-three statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 1st in won-lost percentage (100.0), 4th in personal fouls per game (12.4), 6th in three-point field goals made (168), 6th in three-point field goals per game (8.8), 10th in scoring margin (23.4), 10th in assist turnover ratio (1.24), 11th in assists (351), 11th in assists per game (18.5), 12th in defensive rebounds per game (31), 12th in field-goal percentage (45.5), 13th in scoring offense (78.7), 14th in final points (1,496), 16th in fewest fouls (235), 17th in free-throw percentage (74.7), 20th in three-point field-goal percentage (36.1), 31st in three-point field goals attempted (466), 33rd in free throws made (286), 41st in rebound margin (8.1), 49th in field-goal percentage defense (34.1), 52nd in turnovers per game (14.9), 64th in fewest turnovers (284), 71st in scoring defense (55.4), and 89th in free throw attempts.
 
Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of seven statistical categories: Katie Sommer ranks 9th in assists (114), 10th in assists per game (6), 32nd in free throws made (88), 41st in assist turnover ratio (1.93), 68th in free throw attempts (109), and 98th in free-throw percentage (80.7), and Jones ranks 97th in blocked shots per game (1.69).
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