MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran women's basketball team (18-2 overall, 11-1 UMAC) continues its three-game road trip at Northwestern (14-8, 10-3) Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. The Vikings are in first in the conference standings and the Eagles are in third. BLC enters the week on a school-record 13-game winning streak.

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The Series
UNW leads the series at 24-8, which includes the first meeting of the season, 59-52 on Dec. 11. This marks the lone conference loss for the Vikings this season.

Bethany Lutheran
Junior Hanna Geistfeld (Truman, Minn.) leads the team with 21.6 PPG and 9.8 rebounds/game. Classmate Abby Olson (Montevideo, Minn.) follows with 20.0 PPG, and has 64 assists and 37 steals.

Career Record Watch
Olson ranks second in three-point field goals (153), third in assists (241), fourth in points (1,219), tied for fifth in steals (144), and fifth in field goals (393) and free throws (275). Geistfeld is third in field goals (455), fifth in points (1,177), and eighth in rebounds (540). Pytleski is sixth in blocks (58). Senior Emily Skrien (Nicollet, Minn.) is ninth in three-point field goals (76).

Season Record Watch
Geistfeld is fourth in field goals (165) and 10th in points (422). Olson is fourth in three-point field goals (51).

National Stat Rankings
Bethany Lutheran ranks in the top 100 of ss national stat categories, the NCAA released today.

The Vikings are: fifth in free throws (359), 12th in win-loss percentage (90.9), 16th in scoring margin (77.8), 19th in points (1,556), 27th in assist/game (16.6), 32nd in assists (331), 34th in rebound margin (9.1), 43rd in rebounds/game (44.85), 52nd in scoring margin (13.9), 54th in assist turnover ratio (0.97), 55th in rebounds (897), 61st in field goal percentage (41.8), 63rd in free throw percentage (72.5), 75th in three-point goals made (143), and 76th in three-point field goals/game (7.2).

Individually, Geistfeld is seventh in field goal percentage (62.5), eighth in field goals (165), points/game (21.6), and points (432), 17th in double doubles (12), 22nd in free throws (99), 70th in rebounds (195), and 77th in rebounds/game (9.8).

Olson is 20th in free throws (100), 21st in points (399), 25th in points/game (20.0), 49th in field goals (51), 59th in three-point field goals/game (2.55), 67th in three-point field goal percentage (38.3), 89th in field goals (124), and 93rd in free throw percentage (80.6).

Against the Conference
BLC leads the league in offense (78.5 PPG), scoring margin (16.5), and field goal percentage (.438).

Geistfeld is first in scoring (21.1), field goal percentage (.667), and third in rebounding (9.3). Olson is fifth in scoring (18.0).

Northwestern
The Eagles have three in double digits as Kelsea Lund has 17.0 PPG, Brooklyn DeKam has 12.4, and Megan Roberts has 10.0.

Rio Landers leads the team on the boards with 8.5/game.