WAVERLY, Iowa – No. 6/6 women's basketball is set to begin American Rivers Conference Tournament play this week as the top-seeded Knights host the No. 4 seed University of Dubuque on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
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The Series
- Wartburg won both regular season matchups this season
- The Knights lead the all-time series 66-24
- In A-R-C Tournament matchups, the series is tied 2-2
A-R-C Tournament
- Wartburg is 25-15 all-time in the tournament
- The Knights' last tournament title came in 2020
- Wartburg has won the tournament six times since 2000
- Second-most in that span behind Simpson (nine times)
Semifinal Matchups (2/22): #1 Wartburg vs #4 Dubuque | #2 Loras vs #3 Coe
Wartburg
- The Knights enter the postseason with an overall record of 23-2 and an unblemished A-R-C mark of 16-0
- Third-time in program history going 16-0 in A-R-C play
- Jaedon Murphy and Sara Faber have been the top scorers for the Knights this season averaging 15 and 11.8 points per game respectively
- Wartburg has the top scoring defense in the A-R-C, allowing an average of 53.9 points per game
- Also the top scoring margin in the A-R-C at +18.2
- The Knights defense ranks first in both field goal percentage allowed (36.4%) and three point percentage allowed (27.6%) among A-R-C teams
- Offensively, Wartburg leads the conference in three pointers made per game with an average of 8.8 per game
- Murphy, Faber and Britney Young have all made 40+ threes this season
- The Knights also rank first in blocked shots per game (4) and assists per game (15.76)
- Murphy is tied for first in the A-R-C in blocks per game (1.4)
- Macy Harris (3.4) and Young (3.5) both rank top 10 in assists per game and top five in assist/turnover ratio among A-R-C players
- Lauren Woeste leads the A-R-C in field goal percentage (66.1%)
- Wartburg ranks second in the A-R-C in rebounding margin at +5.4
- Murphy ranks seventh in rebounding individually with 6.3 RPG
Record Watch
- Murphy is eighth all-time in career points scored with 1,380 (62 away from tying sixth)
- Murphy is fourth all-time in career blocked shots with 111 (Four away from tying third)
- Harris is 11th all-time in career steals with 169 (One away from tying tenth)
- Young is third all-time in career three-pointers with 212 (Five away from tying second)
Dubuque
- UD made it to the semifinal game after defeating Simpson 66-58 in the first round
- 16-10 overall and 9-7 in conference play
- Tabria Thomas is fifth in the A-R-C in scoring averaging 14.4 points per game
- 47.5% FG (11th in the A-R-C)
- 27.6% 3P
- 79.4% FT (Third in the A-R-C)
- Dubuque is third in the A-R-C in scoring defense allowing 57.5 points to opponents
- Opponent shooting percentages: 37.9% FG, 28.6 3P and 68.4% FT
- Morgan Hawkins leads the Spartans with seven rebounds per contest (Fourth in the A-R-C)
- Dubuque averages 5.5 three-pointers per game as a team
- Felicity Figlinski (35) and Megan Teal (30) lead the Spartans in made three-pointers
- Other A-R-C ranks:
- Felicity Figlinski is second in three-point percentage at 43.8%
- Karsen Kershner is tied for first in blocked shots with 1.4 per game
- Tabria Thomas is tied for fourth in steals averaging two per game
