WAVERLY, Iowa – Women's basketball is back on the road this weekend for a nonconference matchup against Carroll University on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. in Waukesha, Wis.
Saturday, Nov. 21 | Waukesha, Wis. | Van Male Fieldhouse
Wartburg (3-1) vs Carroll University (2-2) | 7 PM CT |
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All-Time Series vs Carroll
- Saturday will mark the second meeting all-time between these programs
- Wartburg won the first matchup 96-49 during the 2018-19 season on a neutral court in Mount Vernon, Iowa
In the Polls
- The Knights are the top team receiving votes in the latest Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) top 25 poll
- Also is receiving votes in the D3hoops.com preseason poll
Wartburg
- The Knights enter the weekend with a 1-3 record overall after competing at the Paul F. Knueppel Classic hosted by Wisconsin Lutheran College last week
- Fell to both DePauw University and Wisconsin Lutheran
- Wartburg has played three NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago
- Johns Hopkins University (No. 7/8), DePauw (RV) and Wisconsin Lutheran (RV)
- As a team, Wartburg is shooting:
- 37.1% FG, 30.7% 3P and 70.3% FT
- Hennessy leads the team in blocked shots with 11 out of the team's 18 recorded
- Wartburg is averaging 7.8 made three pointers per game while allowing just 4.3 makes per game from opponents
- Katie Boulanger, Grace Hennessy and Lauren Golinghorst are each averaging over 10 points per game through four games
- Boulanger: 13.8 PPG
- Hennessy: 13.3 PPG
- Golinghorst: 10.8 PPG
- The Knights have forced opponents into 18.8 turnovers per game over four games
- Wartburg is averaging 15.5 points per game off turnovers
- Boulanger (10), Emma Townsley (eight), Reagan Pagniano (six) and Laynee Hogan (five) all have recorded five or more steals this season
- The Knights are being outrebounded by an average of 10.3 rebounds per game
- 13 different Knights have scored this season and seven different Knights have made a three
Carroll
- The Pioneers enter the week with an overall record of 2-2 after falling to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 73-62 in their last contest
- Both losses have come to nationally ranked teams (No. 3/4 UW-OshKosh and No. 8/RV UW-Whitewater)
- As a team, Carroll is shooting:
- 43.9% FG, 31.0% 3P and 66.7% FT
- Carroll has three scorers averaging over 10 points per game through four games
- Natalie Gricius (19.8 PPG)
- Emilie Wizner (12.3 PPG)
- Julia Lokker (11.3 PPG)
- The Pioneers have a -1.3 rebounding margin so far this season
- Wizner leads the team in three pointers made with 13 (41.9% 3P)
- Carroll averages 12.3 steals per game and 1.3 blocks per game
- Has an average turnover margin of +6.5
- Katie Barger leads the pioneers in both total assists (17) and steals (11) so far this season
