By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Washburn University women's basketball will wrap up a four-game homestand at 6 p.m. Tuesday against Truman State in Lee Arena.
Washburn will close out its four-game homestand with a Tuesday non-conference game against Truman State. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn is 6-3 on the season after a 67-56 MIAA loss to Central Missouri on Saturday while Truman State moved to 4-5 after defeating Southwest Baptist 90-55 last time out.
Senior Yibari Nwidadah is averaging 12.9 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Ichabods while also shooting 55.7 percent from the floor. She swats away a team-high 1.1 blocks per game and has scored in double figures in six games.
With 253 career offensive rebounds Nwidadah is fourth in program history and she is 10th with 684 career total boards. Her career field goal percentage of .578 is the second best in program history. In scoring she ranks 15th among all Ichabods with 1,108 career points and is tied for 11th in program history with 68 career blocked shots.
Senior Payton Sterk is also averaging 12.9 points while drilling 16 3-pointers and leads the Ichabods with 1.9 steals per game.
Senior Gabi Giovannetti averages 12.6 points for the Ichabods and has hit a team-high 18 3-pointers.
Giovannetti is eighth in program history with 130 career 3-pointers made. She is tied for 19th among all Ichabods with 54 blocked shots.
Junior Madelyn Amekporfor led Washburn with 16 points in Saturday's loss to Central Missouri on 5 of 11 shooting and grabbed a team-high five rebounds.
Sterk added 10 points against the Jennies while Giovannetti added nine.
Former Washburn player Emajin McCallop leads the Bulldogs with a 12.3 scoring average on 45.3 percent shooting in six games off the bench.
Morgan Miller is averaging 11.7 points and Mariann Blass is 11.2 points with 13 3-pointers.
Washburn leads the all-time series between the two teams, 44-9.
The Ichabods are 26-2 against their former conference foe in of Lee Arena.
Washburn will play its final tournament of the regular season and wrap up non-conference play in Lawton, Okla. at the Fairfield Inn and Suites Holiday Classic taking on Western Colorado and Cameron University beginning Friday.
