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No. 2/3 Wartburg Travels to Face Luther

WAVERLY, Iowa--  The No. 2/3 Wartburg women's basketball team (21-0 overall, 12-0 IIAC) travels to Luther (15-8, 9-3) Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Knights continue to hold steady atop the IIAC standings, while the Norse are second.

The Orange and Black are one of seven teams in all NCAA divisions that remain undefeated.
-Ashland women
-UConn women
-Mississippi State women
-Amherst women
-Wartburg women
-Wittenberg men
-Whitman men

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The Series
Wartburg holds the all-time series lead at 43-40, which includes three of the last four. The game at Luther was the Knights' only conference loss last season.

Wartburg
Senior Katie Sommer (Cedar Rapids) is the leading scorer for the Knights with 15.0 PPG. She also has a team-high 129 assists, and 46 steals.

Classmate Miranda Murphy (Alleman) follows with 11.7 PPG and leads the team with 5.6 rebounds/game.

In IIAC games, senior Morgan Neuendorf (Plainfield) is the team's second-leading scorer at 11.2 PPG. Classmates Kristie Sommer (Cedar Rapids) has 11.1 PPG and Aryn Jones (Marion) rounds out those in double figures with 10.0.

Career Leader List Watch
Katie is now eighth with 1,284 points, the all-time career leader with 479 assists, seventh with 165 three-point field goals, and third with 411 free throws.

Twin sister Kristie is now the program's career leader in three-point field goals at 222. She is also 13th with 1,011 points.

Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) ranks fourth with 104 blocked shots.

Luther
Three players average in double figures as Claire Marburger leads the team with 17.4 PPG. She adds a team-best 7.3 rebounds/game. Katie Waller follows at 11.1 and Laura Hamilton at 10.2.

Marburger is the reigning Iowa Conference Female Athlete of the Week.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of twenty-four statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 1st in won-lost percentage (100.0), 6th in personal fouls per game (12.5), 7th in three-point field goals made (183), 7th in three-point field goals per game (8.7), 10th in assist turnover ratio (1.25), 11th in field-goal percentage (45.5), 11th in scoring margin (22.6), 12th in assists per game (18.4), 12th in scoring offense (78.6), 13th in assists (387), 14th in fewest fouls (263), 16th in final points (1,650), 17th in three-point field-goal percentage (35.9), 22nd in free throws made (327), 23rd in free-throw percentage (74.3), 24th in defensive rebounds per game (31), 30th in three-point field goals attempted (510), 43rd in rebound margin (7.9), 51st in turnovers per game (14.7), 54th in fewest turnovers (309), 56th in free throw attempts (440), 77th in field-goal percentage defense (34.9), 79th in scoring defense (56), and 89th in turnover margin (3.19)
 
Individually, one Knight ranks in the top 100 of five statistical categories: Katie Sommer ranks 8th in assists (129), 9th in assists per game (6.1), 24th in free throws made (103), 36th in assist turnover ratio (2.05), and 48th in free throw attempts (130).
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