WAVERLY, Iowa-- The No. 23/24 Wartburg women's basketball team (10-2 overall, 3-0 American Rivers) travels to face Central (5-7, 2-2) Saturday at 2 p.m. The Knights are tied for first in the conference standings while the Dutch are seventh.

Central enters the game on a three-game winning streak, while the Orange and Black have won their last four-straight.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 57-24. The Knights have claimed the last 12 meetings, which dates back to the 2012-13 season.

Wartburg
Junior Emma Gerdes (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 12.9 PPG. Senior Adrienne Boettger (Cedar Falls) and junior Amanda Brainerd (DeWitt) and join her in double figures with 11.2 and 10.7 PPG, respectively.

Brainerd leads the team on the glass with 5.7 rebounds/game and Gerdes has a team-best 59 assists.

Central
The Dutch have three players in double digits as Jenna Clark leads the way with 13.0 PPG. Kendall Brown and Kristin Hubert follow with 12.0 and 10.8, respectively.

Brown nearly averages a double-double with a team-best 8.0 rebounds/game.

Against the Conference
Brainerd is the 11th-leading scorer (12.7 PPG) and is perfect from the free throw line to lead the league (12-12).

Gerdes is the second-leading rebounder (9.3/game) and assists leader (6.3/game).

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 17 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank fourth in assists (233), sixth in assists/game (19.4) and field goal percentage (47.7), 33rd in rebounding margin (9.6) and scoring margin (16.8), 34th in points (878), 35th in three-point field goal defense (24.3) and won-loss percentage (83.3), 40th in assist turnover ratio (1.05), 50th in scoring offense (73.2), 51st in three-point field goals made (85), 54th in three-point field goal percentage (34.7), 61st in free throws made (163), 77th in three-point field goals per game (7.1), 79th in free throw percentage (71.5), 80th in scoring defense (56.4), and 97th in rebounds (480).

Individually, one Knight ranks in the top 100 of four statistical categories: Gerdes ranks 20th in assists (61), 39th in steals (35), 41st in assists/game (5.1), and 68th in steals/game (2.92).