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Women's Basketball to Resume Ivy Schedule at Dartmouth and Harvard
January 31, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Princeton at Dartmouth
Fri., Feb. 1 at 7 p.m.
Leede Arena (Dartmouth)
Princeton at Harvard
Sat, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m.
Lavietes Pavilion (Harvard)
Records: Princeton 4-13, 1-0 Ivy; Dartmouth 4-12, 1-1 Ivy; Harvard 8-8, 1-1 Ivy
All-Time Series: Dartmouth leads Princeton 39-19, Harvard leads Princeton 33-27
Princeton head coach: Courtney Banghart (1st season/Dartmouth '00)
Dartmouth head coach: Chris Wielgus (23rd season/Springfield '74)
Harvard head coach: Kathy Delaney-Smith (26th season/Bridgewater State '71)
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Tough trip: Princeton will have this weekend what has become its most difficult trip of the Ivy League schedule, to Dartmouth and Harvard. Since the Ivy League began deciding its champion via a round robin instead of a tournament in 1983, the Tigers have swept the Dartmouth-Harvard trip only once, two seasons ago. Princeton has been swept on the trip 14 times and did not won a game on the trip from 2000-2005.
Homecoming: Princeton head coach Courtney Banghart will return to her alma mater Friday night after spending eight years in Hanover between two four-year stints as a player (1996-2000) and assistant coach (2003-07). Banghart is also a Granite State native from Amherst, N.H., a town of more than 10,000 in the southern portion of the state.
Banghart against the Crimson: As a player and assistant coach, Courtney Banghart had an 8-9 record against Harvard. She was 3-5 in four years as a player and 5-4 as an assistant coach including a win in a 2005 Ivy playoff that sent the Big Green to the NCAA Tournament.
Do the splits: Thanks to Princeton's finals schedule, the Tigers and Penn are the only two league schools not to have faced their “travel partner” twice. Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell and Columbia have all split while Yale has swept Brown. Six league schools have already suffered at least one loss and this weekend is only the first full weekend of Ivy play with all eight teams going. No Ivy champion has ever lost more than three league games in a season.
Princeton after the finals break: The Tigers have won their first game after the finals break three straight seasons, including a sweep of the first post-finals weekend last season at home against Yale and Brown.
Stop! Thief!: Whitney Downs is the only Tiger to record at least five steals in a game this season. She had five in Princeton's last outing against Penn and had six against Duquesne. Downs leads the team with 28 steals, 11 more than the next-closest Tiger.
Berry's back: Princeton junior point guard Jessica Berry returned from fall semester abroad in England and played her first game Jan. 2 at Monmouth. Her start against Penn was her first since Feb. 10, 2007 and her 12 points against the Quakers were her most since Feb. 16, 2007 when she had 15 against Cornell.
Streak of threes: Senior forward Ali Prichard canned two more three-pointers against Penn and extended her streak of games with a three-pointer to 11.
100 percent: Princeton's five starters had every Tiger point in the win over Penn. With two seniors, two juniors and a freshman starting, that snapped Princeton's streak of having someone from every class score at least a point in all 16 previous games this season.
Model of consistency: Meagan Cowher has scored a point in 74 straight games and in 93 of 94 games played in her career. The only time Cowher didn't score? Her first trip to Leede Arena on Mar. 5, 2005. Cowher was 0 for 2 from the field in her first meeting against the Big Green. Cowher has had a rebound in every game of her career.
More streak: While Meagan Cowher's scoing streak reached 74 games, the second-longest active streak was extended to 11 against Penn. That belongs to fellow senior Ali Prichard.
I'm honored: Addie Micir claimed the Ivy League Rookie of the Week title following her 22-point performance in Princeton's win over Penn. It was the second Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor for Micir, who also won Dec. 17. The only other Tiger weekly award winner was Meagan Cowher Nov. 26. Micir's award sweep was the first in the Ivy League in four years.
Princeton in the Ivy rankings: The Tigers lead the Ivy League in one statistical category the conference keeps: turnover margin. Princeton is averaging a league-low 16.6 points per game, 1.12 turnovers per contest more than its opponent and good enough to lead a league in which no team has averaged fewer giveaways than its foes.
More Princeton in the Ivy rankings: Meagan Cowher has a healthy lead in the Ivy League overall scoring race with 17.8 points per game. Yale's Melissa Colborne is next at 15.3. Cowher is close to leading the league in rebounding as well, averaging 7.7 per contest and just behind Cornell's Jeomi Maduka at 8.1.
Princeton in the NCAA rankings: Meagan Cowher is Princeton's only individual in the NCAA rankings with her 17.8 points per game ranking 37th in Division I. Princeton's highest statistical ranking as a team is 68th with 6.1 three-pointers per game.
Tigers for threeeee: Princeton hit 8 of 15 three-pointers in the win over Penn, making the .533 shooting percentage its highest in a game this season. Princeton also has a streak of 18 games in which it has taken a double-digit number of threes.
Double-digit streak: Meagan Cowher reached double-digits in scoring against Penn for the 20th straight game. That tops the longest such streak of her former teammate and one of the three players in program history to reach 1,600 points, Becky Brown, who reached double digits in the last 19 games of her career.
Welcome freshmen: Addie Micir has started nine games this season, the most for a Princeton freshman since Jessica Berry started 27 games as a rookie in 2005-06.
On Dartmouth and Harvard: The Big Green are on a three-game skid after starting the Ivy League with a five-point win over Harvard. Junior Koren Schram is the team's leading scorer with 11.3 points per game and freshman Brittney Smith is the leading rebounder at 7.3 per game. Harvard snapped its own three-game skid in the second Dartmouth game. Two Crimson are averaging 10 points per game and two more are above 9.5 with senior Lindsay Hallion leading the team at 10.6 ppg. Senior Adrian Budischak is the team's top rebounder at 5.9 per game.
Watch the game, listen to the game: Princeton women's basketball is scheduled to broadcast all 30 games free of charge at www.GoPrincetonTigers.com. Video of home games and select away games, including the Dartmouth and Harvard games, is also available for a subscription. Derek Jones will once again be courtside for both of this weekend's games.