WAVERLY, Iowa – No. 6/6 women's basketball has advanced to the American Rivers Conference Tournament championship game where the Knights will host No. 17/20 Loras College at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24 inside Levick Arena.
 
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The Series

• The Knights lead the all-time series 63-29
• Wartburg is 36-15 at home in the series
• Saturday will mark the 13th A-R-C Tournament matchup
  • Wartburg leads series 7-5 (2-1 in championship games)
• The Knights won both regular season meetings earlier this season

A-R-C Tournament History
 

• Wartburg is 26-15 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 46 vs #4 Dubuque 42 | #2 Loras 61 vs #3 Coe 60
Final (2/24): #1 Wartburg vs #2 Loras - Waverly, Iowa

Wartburg

• Jaedon Murphy and Sara Faber have been the top scorers for the Knights this season averaging 14.8 and 11.5 points per game respectively
• Wartburg has the top scoring defense in the A-R-C, allowing an average of 53.5 points per game
  • Also the top scoring margin in the A-R-C at +17.7
• The Knights defense ranks first in both field goal percentage allowed (36.1%) 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 8.7 per game
  • Murphy, Faber and Britney Young have all made 40+ threes this season

• The Knights also rank first in blocked shots per game (3.96) and assists per game (15.62)
  • Murphy is tied for first in the A-R-C in blocks per game (1.4)
  • Macy Harris (3.4) and Young (3.3) 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 (67.2%)
• Wartburg ranks fourth in the A-R-C in rebounding margin at +5.0
  • Murphy ranks seventh in rebounding individually with 6.3 RPG

 
 
Record Watch

• Murphy is eighth all-time in career points scored with 1,390 (52 away from tying sixth)
• Murphy is fourth all-time in career blocked shots with 113 (Two away from tying third)
• Harris is T-10th all-time in career steals with 170 (One away from tying eighth)
• Young is third all-time in career three-pointers with 214 (Three away from tying second)

 
Loras

• The Duhawks enter the Championship game winners of seven straight games and 23-3 overall
  • Loras defeated Coe 61-60 in the conference semifinal game
• Loras is second in the A-R-C in scoring offense and defense, averaging 72.8 PPG while allowing 55.8 PPG to opponents
  • Opponent shooting percentages: 37.5% FG, 29.9% 3P and 71.3% FT
• Madison Haslow (44) and Madison Fleckenstein (34) lead the team in made three-point field goals
  • Loras is second in the A-R-C in made three-pointers per game with 8.3 three-pointers per contest
• Loras allows 31.5 rebounds per game to opponents while averaging 37 rebounds per game as a team
  • Sami Martin leads the Duhawks with 6.9 (Fifth in A-R-C) and Madison Haslow averages 6.5 (Sixth in A-R-C)
• Sami Martin is third in the A-R-C in scoring averaging 15 points per game
  • 52.2% FG (Fourth in A-R-C) and 75.5% FT (Fifth in A-R-C)
• Daniella Jarrell is third in the A-R-C in assists averaging 3.9 per game
  • Leads the conference in assist/turnover ratio at 1.9
• Loras averages 3.38 blocked shots per game good for third in the conference
  • Daniella Jarrell and Madison Haslow lead the team each averaging one blocked shot