WAVERLY, Iowa-- The No. 14/15 Wartburg women's basketball team (20-3 overall, 13-1 American Rivers) hosts Buena Vista (7-17, 2-13) Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Knights are in first place in the A-R-C standings, and BV is in eighth. Wartburg has qualified for the conference tournament, but seeds are still yet to be determined.

Wartburg enters on a nine-game winning streak, while Buena Vista has won its last two-straight.

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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 43-36 and have claimed the last six meetings. The Knights won the first meeting of the season, 97-72 on Jan 18 in Storm Lake.

Wartburg
Senior Adrienne Boettger (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 13.1 PPG and junior Emma Gerdes (Cedar Falls) follows at 11.5 PPG. Gerdes has a team-best 5.8 rebounds/game and 106 assists.

Boettger has a team-best .696 field goal percentage, while junior Amanda Brainerd (DeWitt) leads the team from beyond the arc (.417) and from the free throw line (.843).

Single Season Record Watch
Boettger's field goal percentage stands second on the single season leader list. Gerdes' assist total ranks eighth.

Career Record Watch
Gerdes has 233 assists, which ranks 10th on the career leader list.

Buena Vista
Holly Schneider and Erin Gerke lead the team with 10.6 and 10.5 PPG, respectively. Morgan Muhlbauer leads the team on the glass with 6.6 rebounds/game and Schneider is close behind at 6.4.

Against the Conference
Wartburg leads the league in scoring margin (21.9), free throw percentage (.801), assists (20.3) and assist:turnover ratio (1.22).

Boettger is the A-R-C's fifth-leading scorer (13.9 PPG) and leads the conference in field goal percentage (.673), and free throw percentage (.810).. Gerdes is the fifth-leading rebounder (7.1).

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg  ranks in the top 100 of 21 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 3^rd in assists per game (20), 3^rd in assists (460), 4^th in field-goal percentage (47.4), 6^th in free-throw percentage (76.3), 14^th in rebound margin (10.9), 14^th in scoring margin (20), 14^th in three-point field goal defense (24.6), 15^th in personal fouls per game (13.2), 18^th in assist turnover ratio (1.14), 18^th in three-point field goals per game (8.1), 18^th in won-lost percentage (87), 19^th in scoring offense (76.5), 20^th in three-point field goals made (187), 20^th in three-point field-goal percentage (36), 21^st in free throws made (345), 22^nd in fewest fouls (303), 28^th in final points (1,760), 73^rd in three-point field goals attempted (519), 76^th in defensive rebounds per game (29), 87^th in scoring defense (56.6), and 98^th in free throw attempts (452).
 
Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of six statistical categories: Boettger ranks 3^rd in field-goal percentage (69.6); and Gerdes ranks 39^th in assists (108), 45^th in assists per game (4.7), 78^th in steals (61), 85^th in steals per game (2.65), and 91^st in free-throw percentage (81.2).