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Women's Basketball Season Finale at Penn Tuesday Night
March 10, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Princeton at Penn
Tuesday, Mar. 11, 7 p.m. at The Palestra (Penn)
Princeton Head Coach: Courtney Banghart (Dartmouth '00)
Banghart's Career Record: 7-22 (same at Princeton, 1st season)
Penn Head Coach: Pat Knapp (Widener '75)
Knapp's Career Record: 331-374 (38-71 at Penn, 4th season)
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 41-22
At The Palestra: Princeton leads 17-12
Streaks: Overall: Princeton, 5/Away: Princeton, 2
Largest Princeton MOV: 34 (1977, W 82-48)
Largest Penn MOV: 49 (1980, L 49-98)
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Scoring champ?: Meagan Cowher needs nine points to capture her second straight Ivy League scoring title, which is based only on Ivy games. The current leader, Yale's Melissa Colborne, scored 20 points over the weekend while Cowher blitzed Columbia and Cornell for 51 to trail just 225-217 in total points with Yale done for the season. It would be Princeton's third straight Ivy League scoring champ after Becky Brown in 2006 and Cowher last season.
500 achieved: With 26 points at Cornell Saturday, Meagan Cowher became the first Princeton woman to score 500 points in a season. Her 501 points tops her own record of 496 set last season. Five Princeton men have done so, but none since 1972.
Career points record: Meagan Cowher moved past former teammate Becky Brown '06 and Claire Tomasiewicz '79 to go from fourth to second place over the course of the weekend. With 1,640 points, she trails only Sandi Bittler '90 with 1,683. For Cowher to break the record with 44 points, it would require her to top her single-game scoring best of 35 as well as the program single-game record of 38.
109 games: Ali Prichard will tie the Princeton career record for games played when she takes the floor against Penn. Andrea Razi '96 was the only Tiger to play that many games. Prichard has missed only four games in her Princeton career.
More games played records: Other than seven players on the 1995-96 Princeton team that played 31 games, no Tigers have played 30 games in a season. Five Tigers (Meagan Cowher, Caitlin O'Neill, Whitney Downs, Ali Prichard and Jillian Schurle) have a chance to play 30 games this year by taking the floor against Penn.
Enjoying the trend: Eleven of the 13 players on the Princeton roster have never lost to Penn. Princeton's five-game winning streak against the Quakers equals the five-game win streak against Brown for Princeton's longest active string against an Ivy foe.
Career field goals record: Meagan Cowher's 23 field goals last weekend puts her at 651 for her career. That's good for third on the Princeton list behind Becky Brown '06 (659) and Claire Tomasiewicz '79 (663). Cowher is also third on the career field goals attempted list with 1,331, though Tomasiewicz has that record at 1,506 and Jennifer Donnelly '88 is second at 1,344.
Season field goals record: In addition to her single-season scoring record, Meagan Cowher also clinched the single-season field goals record at Cornell. She has 206 buckets this year, passing Ellen Tomasiewicz '80 with 202. Her 446 field goals attempted is also a new record, passing the 425 also set by Ellen Tomasiewicz in 1980.
Micir returns: Princeton rookie Addie Micir missed 10 straight games due to a leg injury but returned for the Columbia-Cornell weekend. She played a total of 31 minutes off the bench. The Philadelphia-area native will look to make her debut at The Palestra on the campus where her father, Sylvester, was a letterwinner on the Penn football team in 1971.
Free throws record: Meagan Cowher has canned 329 free throws in her career, short of only Jennifer Donnelly '88, who had 349. Cowher has attempted 502, just the second Tiger other than Donnelly (544) to shoot 500 times from the line.
Ivy playoff: The Ivy League will hold its fifth playoff this season since gaining an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in 1994. Dartmouth has been involved in all of them, including this year's three-team affair. The Ivy has had two-team playoffs in 1994, 1999 and 2005 and has now had a three-team playoff in two of the last three years. Princeton, Brown and Dartmouth were involved in the last one in 2006.
Big year for the Big Red?: At this weekend's Ivy playoff, Cornell will seek to become the first school to send both its men's and women's team to the NCAA Tournament in the same year. Penn or Princeton had secured every NCAA men's bid from 1994-2007, but Penn in 2001 and 2004 was the only “P” to advance to the NCAAs. The Princeton men went both those seasons.
Turnovers: Though the Tigers committed fewer than 20 turnovers for the 20th straight game, Princeton lost the turnover battle both times last weekend. That broke an eight-game streak in which Princeton had fewer turnovers than its opponent.
Rebound list: Meagan Cowher has 201 rebounds this year, just short of her personal record of 205. She has 665 boards for her career, putting her in sixth place on the all-time school list.
Learning to share: A win would finish Princeton in sixth place in the Ivy League, but a loss would allow Penn to share sixth place. If the Tigers win, it would be the first time since 2002 that Princeton has not shared its Ivy placement with another team.
Big game for Stevens: Cheryl Stevens set multiple career and season highs against Cornell. Her four points matched a career high, while her three rebounds were a season-best. Her five blocks is a new career high, and she made two field goals for the second time this season, all in a career-high 16 minutes.
Block party: Princeton blocked a season-high six shots against Cornell, the most since nine Tiger blocks against Dartmouth last season.
Scoring streak: Meagan Cowher has scored a point in 86 straight games. Whitney Downs saw her next-best active streak end at 16 games, giving Addie Micir the current next-best streak at nine games, bridging her 10-game absence.
Last time against Penn: Princeton led nearly wire-to-wire in a 69-57 victory over Penn two months ago. The Tigers went on a 22-4 run between the two halves to turn a 23-23 tie into a 45-27 lead less than four minutes after the break. Princeton led by as much as 21 as Addie Micir led all scorers with 22 points. Micir went on to win the Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week awards for her performance.
From the line: Princeton saw its streak of games with at least 10 free throws come to an end at nine at Columbia when the Tigers went 8 of 15 from the stripe. Princeton responded with 10 free throws the next night at Cornell.