• NAIA TOP-20: FG% (4^th), Assists/Game (7^th), free throw percentage (12^th), and points per game (13^th).
• Head coach Kristin Rotert has run it back…NWC has started the season 10-0 both seasons under her leadership.
• Northwestern went undefeated under Rotert for the second-straight season, now sitting 17-0 under her.
• Northwestern and Dordt still remain the only two teams unbeaten in the GPAC, as they are the only two teams to average 80+ points per game.
• Four Raiders sit averaging double figures through the first four games of the season: Maddie Jones (15.8), Molly Schany (15.4), Emilee Danner (12.6), and Taylor VanderVelde (10.4).
• Taylor VanderVelde Danner continues to lead the GPAC in blocks (16) and blocks per game (1.6), as she needs just five blocks to record 100+ in her career to become the ninth Red Raider to do so.

• NWC heads to Sioux Center with a 5-0 record in GPAC play.
• It's the best start to conference play since the 2013-14 season under Chris Yaw when they Raiders started 11-0.

Jones Lands First Raider @GPACSports Player of the Week This Season.

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— NWC Red Raiders (@nwcraiders) December 6, 2022

• Maddie Jones is keeping her foot on the gas pedal, entering the week leading the team in scoring (15.8ppg).
• She's led the team in assists in six of the ten games this season from her point guard position, with a career-high eight against Chadron State and averages 4.8 assists per game.
• She leads the team in assists (48) and steals (27).
• She was named the Week 3 GPAC Player of the Week

• Northwestern leads the GPAC with their 216 free throw attempts this season.
• They've made a league-high 164 free throws, the only team in the GPAC to make 150+ so far.
• The team's 75.9% from the charity strike leads in the GPAC and sits 12^th in the NAIA.
• Senior Maddie Jones leads the team in free throw percentage (min. 25 att.) at 81.8% (54-of-66), shooting the most on the team so far this season.

• The Raiders and Defenders are meeting for the 90^th time on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
• Northwestern leads the all-time series 70-19.
• The Raiders have won nine of the last 11 meetings in the series.

• The two teams are meeting for the 80^th time on Saturday.
• Morningside leads the all-time series 44-35, as the Mustangs have won seven of the last eight meetings.
• Northwestern snapped a then five-game skid to the Mustangs with a 78-77 win in Orange City last season in Rotert's first meeting against them.
• The two teams last met in the Semifinals of the GPAC tournament last season, which saw the Mustangs prevail by one-point (73-72).

• Dordt enters with an identical record (10-0, 5-0 GPAC) and are ranked No. 5 in the NAIA under fifth-year head coach Bill Harmsen.
• The Defenders are led by three double-digit scorers in Karly Gustafson (18.9), Bailey Beckman (17.8), and Janie Schoonhoven (11.8).

• Morningside started the season highly ranked, but a slow start has seen them drop to No 25 in the latest NAIA Coaches' Poll.
• The Mustangs enter with a 4-4 overall record and a 2-3 mark in league play under 24^th-year head coach Jamie Sale.
• They average 77.1 points per game led by junior forward Chloe Lofstrom who averages 14.6 points per game in just over 26 minutes per game.
• Lofstrom was also named the Week 2 GPAC Player of the Week.