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Princeton Women's Basketball Opens Season Friday at St. Joseph's
November 15, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 15, 2005
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Climbing the charts: Princeton's Becky Brown stands 10th on the school's all-time list in scoring with 1,161 points. With five points against St. Joseph's, she can pass Margaret Meier (1974-78) and move into ninth place. With 14 points, she can move past Kathryn Thirolf (1996-2000) into eighth place.
Starting the season: Head Coach Richard Barron begins his fifth season on Old Nassau against the Hawks. Barron is 2-2 in openers while at Princeton, winning his first game in 2001-02 over Lehigh and the first game last year over Monmouth.
On the way up: Princeton's 13 wins last year were the most since the 1998-99 season when the team finished 16-11.
So close, but yet, so far: Princeton and St. Joseph's have not met since since the 1982-83 season, the last of six meetings between the two schools with all six won by the Hawks.
Philly Phirst: Barron's teams are 1-3 in Philadelphia with all four games coming against Penn. A win tonight would be Barron's first in Philadelphia since the Penn game in 2001-02.
Back for more: Meagan Cowher became Princeton's first Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season.
How we left things: The Tigers enter the St. Joseph's game looking to stop a three-game losing skid at the end of last season. It started with the home finale against Cornell and continued as Princeton dropped both games of an Ivy-ending road trip at Harvard and Dartmouth. A first for everyone: St. Joseph's is also playing its first game of the year against the Tigers. It's the start of a two-game homestand for the Hawks, who face North Carolina State on Sunday.
Barron against the Atlantic 10: The Tigers have only played one game against an Atlantic 10 team in the four years Richard Barron has been at the helm. In the fifth game of the 2002-03 season, the Tigers fell to Temple, 70-40, in Stanford, Calif. The Hawks are the only A-10 team Princeton faces in the 2005-06 regular season.
Road woes: The Tigers try to reverse a trend tonight that saw Princeton drop nine of 14 games away from Jadwin Gym last season, including the last three.
They're coming from all over: While Princeton features players on its roster from 10 different states all across the country, St. Joseph's has two players from outside the United States. Junior Whitney Ffrench is from Nova Scotia, Canada, and junior Zoya Pavlovskaya is from Russia.
Rookies: Princeton brings in five freshmen this season from five different states, all five of whom were nominated for or received all-state honors during their careers.
They're back: Princeton returns all but one letterwinner from last season, the graduated Kristin Lynch. The returnees represent 88.3 percent of the scoring from last year.
All-Ivy: Princeton had four All-Ivy League honorees last season and all four return this year. Becky Brown was a second-team All-Ivy player while Katy O'Brien was an All-Ivy honorable mention. Meagan Cowher, also the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, made the all-league rookie team along with Ariel Rogers.
Just call her "trey": Katy O'Brien stands ninth on the all-time three-pointer list with 24. She needs 14 more threes to tie Andrea Razi (1992-96) for eighth at 338.
A race against Razi: While O'Brien and Andrea Razi (1992-96) were both proficient from beyond the arc, O'Brien seeks to match Razi's skill with assists. O'Brien is ninth on the assists list with 223 while Razi leads Princeton's tote with 447.