Washburn women to close out road swing at Central Missouri

Details: Created: 07 February 2026

By RICK PETERSON

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Washburn women's basketball will be back in action Saturday after a week off, wrapping up its three-game road trip at Central Missouri in a 1 p.m. MIAA contest in Warrensburg, Mo.

Senior Yibari Nwidadah leads 15-6 Washburn in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage entering Saturday's game at Central Missouri. [File photo/TSN]

Washburn is 15-6 overall and 8-4 in the MIAA after a 76-65 road win at Nebraska-Kearney last Saturday while Central Missouri posted a fourth straight win with an 81-69 win over No. 5 Fort Hays State on the road, improving to 16-5 overall and 10-2 in the MIAA.

Senior Yibari Nwidadah leads the Ichabods with team-high averages of 12.5 points and 7.7 rebounds while also shooting 56.3 percent from the floor. She has scored in double figures in 13 games with five double-doubles.

With 286 career offensive rebounds Nwidadah is third in program history and she ranks fifth with 777 career rebounds overall. Her career field goal percentage of .577 is the second best in program history. In scoring she ranks 13th among all Ichabods with 1,242 career points and Nwidadah is also 11th in program history with 69 career blocked shots.

Senior Payton Sterk is averaging 11.5 points and has drilled a team-high 33 3-pointers while scoring 14-plus points in nine games this season. Sterk ranks 11th in the MIAA in 3-pointers.

Sterk currently sits 17th in program history with 95 3-pointers made in just 52 career games with Washburn. Sterk's career free throw percentage of 86.3 percent is the best for any Ichabod.

Senior Gabi Giovannetti scores 10.6 points per game on 42.9 percent shooting and is second on the team with 31 3-pointers. She also leads the Ichabods with 1.8 steals per game.

Giovannetti is seventh in program history with 143 career 3-pointers made.

Reese Schaaf is scoring a team-high 19.2 points per game for Central Missouri on a team-high 57.3 percent from the field and 46.8 percent from deep with 29 3-pointers, also a team-high.

She is also averaging a team-best 8.9 rebounds.

Taylor Weishaar averages 15.1 points for the Jennies.

Central Missouri took a 67-56 win over Washburn on Dec. 13 in Lee Arena.

Washburn leads the all-time series between the two teams, 44-31.

Washburn returns to Lee Arena next Thursday to play host to Arkansas-Fort Smith for the first time as a conference foe at 5:30 p.m.

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