Princeton University Athletics
Women's Basketball Heads To New York
February 10, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 10, 2005
PRINCETON, N.J.--The women's basketball team will venture to neighboring New York this weekend as they face Cornell and Columbia in a pair of Ivy contests. Princeton will meet the Big Red on Friday, Feb. 11 and then visits the Lions on Saturday, Feb. 12. Gametimes are both slated for 7 p.m. and can be heard at goprincetontigers.com.
Princeton Game Notes
Reflection Time - Princeton dropped its first three Ivy home contests to Penn, 61-59 in double-overtime, Dartmouth 69-55 and Harvard 67-51. The Tigers are now 1-4 in the conference and 9-9 on the season. Junior Lauren Nestor grabbed 11 rebounds in the Harvard game, while junior Becky Brown recorded her fifth 20-point game of the season against Penn.
Scouting the Big Red- Cornell has yet to win a conference game at 0-6 and is 2-17 overall. The Big Red fell to Brown 64-46 and Yale 68-49 last weekend. Freshman standout Lindsay Krasna leads the team with 12.1 ppg and Amy Lyon has grabbed 5.4 boards a game. Scouting the Lions - Columbia split its past weekend with a win over Yale 68-58, but fell to Brown 68-44. The team is 3-3 in the conference and 10-9 overall entering this weekend. Adia Revell leads Columbia in scoring (11.7 ppg) and rebounding (7.7 rpg) in conference action.
The Sequel- Sophomore Casey Lockwood made her season debut in last Wednesday's game at Lafayette. Lockwood played 11 minutes in the match up and returned to the lineup after recovering from a torn ACL from last season. She scored nine points and grabbed a rebound in her first four minutes of action.
Over Milestone Hill - With a team-high 16 points Becky Brown broke the 1,000-point plateau. As a junior, Brown become the 14th Tiger in program's history to do so.
Highlight Reel - Freshman Meg Cowher scored a season-high 28 points in the Saint Peter's game. Her performance is not only the most scored by any Tiger this season, but it is the most scored by a freshman in a home game at Princeton. Teammate Becky Brown holds the freshman record with 31 points on March 8, 2003 at Columbia. Cowher's 28 points was two better than Claire B. Tomasiewicz's 26 points against Mercy College on March 5, 1976 at Seton Hall.
20 Times - Junior Becky Brown scored 20 points or more in four games during a five-game stretch this season. The games includes Mount St. Mary's (21 pts), Fairleigh Dickinson (20 pts), Army (23 pts) and Lafayette (24 pts). Brown scored 19 in both the Saint Peter's game and the Brown game, two points shy of six straight.
Feeding The Posts - Junior Katy O'Brien is second in the league with 4.22 assists per game. O'Brien recorded eight assists versus both Saint Peter's and Lafayette. Prior to that she averaged 2.9 per contest.
Free-bees - Sophomore Katy Digovich has shot 79% on the season from the charity stripe. With only eight seconds to play in the Brown contest, Digovich stepped to the free throw line and calmly made both attempts to tie the ball game at 62. She currently ranks seventh in the league in free throw percentage.
Lights Out - Junior Katy O'Brien went 4 for 10 from beyond the arc and scored 12 points against Brown She also made three threes in the Penn contest. O'Brien has nailed 38 threes this season and is averaging 2.11 a game, which places her second in the Ivy League.
Crashing the Boards - Princeton was out-rebounded in the Ivy games 135-118 but had the advantage of the boards against Penn 47-40. However, the Tigers were out-scored in second chance points 53-38 in all five games combined.
Gone With The Wind - Junior Katy O'Brien garnered a career-high five steals in the St. Mary's contest. She leads all Tigers with 38 steals on the season and is ranked third in the league with 2.11 steals per game. Sophomore Elyse Umeda has chipped in 24 steals this season and has tallied 10 in the last three contests.
Dominate the Paint - Princeton has dominated the paint during its Ivy play by scoring 114 points in the paint. Conference opponents combined for 76 points underneath the rim in five games.