No. 18/21 Wartburg Hosts Loras in Battle for First Place

WAVERLY, Iowa-- The No. 18/21 Wartburg women's basketball team (15-3 overall, 8-1 American Rivers) hosts Loras (15-3, 8-1) Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Knights and Duhawks are tied for first place in the A-R-C standings.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 52-26, which includes the last seven-straight. The Orange and Black won the first meeting of the season 76-64 in Dubuque.

Wartburg
Senior Adrienne Boettger (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 12.8 PPG. Juniors Emma Gerdes (Cedar Falls) and Amanda Brainerd (DeWitt) rounds out those in double figures with 12.3 and 10.1 PPG, respectively.

Boettger has a team-best .695 field goal percentage, while Brainerd leads the team from beyond the arc (.476) and from the free throw line (.841).

Brainerd leads the team on the glass with 5.7 rebounds/game and Gerdes is second with 5.6 and leads the team with 86 assists.

Loras
The Duhawks enter the night on an 11-game winning streak. Loras has not lost since it fell to the Knights on Dec. 8.

Riley Eckhart leads her team with 13.8 PPG. Marissa Schroeder has 13.4 PPG, Kari Fitzpatrick has 12.5, and Macenzie Kraemer rounds out those in double digits with 12.3. Fitzpatrick has a team-best 7.3 rebounds/game.

Against the Conference
Wartburg is tied for the conference lead with Loras in scoring (80.3 PPG). The Knights lead the conference in scoring margin (18.8), and free throw percentage (.782).

Boettger is the seventh-leading scorer (13.7 PPG) and leads the league in field goal percentage (.657). Gerdes is the fifth-leading rebounder (7.4), and leads the conference in assists (5.1). Brainerd is first in free throw percentage (.875).

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg women's basketball team (15-3 overall) ranks in the top 100 of 21 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.

The Knights rank 1^st in assists per game (20.4), 2^nd in assists (368), 5^th in field-goal percentage (47.6), 12^th in final points (1,372), 17^th in three-point field goals made (146), 17^th in assist turnover ratio (1.14), 19^th in personal fouls per game (13.7), 23^rd in scoring offense (76.2), 23^rd in three-point field goals per game (8.1), 24^th in three-point field-goal percentage (36.5), 25^th in rebound margin (10.1), 26^th in free throws made (260), 27^th in free-throw percentage (74.3), 27^th in scoring margin (17.8), 31^st in won-lost percentage (83.3), 48^th in three-point field goal defense (25.5), 53^rd in three-point field goals attempted (400), 68^th in free throw attempts (350), 69^th in fewest fouls (246), 78^th in rebounds (727), and 86^th in defensive rebounds per game (29).

Individually, four Knights rank in the top 100 of six statistical categories: Boettger ranks 2^nd in field-goal percentage (69.5); Gerdes ranks 25^th in assists (88), 37^th in assists per game (4.9), 50^th in steals (50), and 75^th in steals per game (2.78); sophomore Ally Conrad (Cedar Falls) ranks 82^nd in assist turnover ratio (1.63); and sophomore Tori Hazard (Janesville) ranks 85^th in assists (68).

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