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Princeton Travels to UMBC Looking To Bounce Back From First Loss
December 02, 2011 | General, Women's Basketball
By the time its bus rolls past the exit for the University of Delaware, the Princeton women's basketball team will long ago have put Elena Delle Donne and her Blue Hen teammates in its own personal rearview mirror.
Gone from the forefront is Delle Donne and the extraordinary show she put on at Jadwin Gym Thursday night as 24th-ranked Delaware handed Princeton its first loss.
There was no time to dwell on that loss, not with a short turnaround of about 41 hours from the end of the Delaware game until tip-off Saturday afternoon against UMBC at 2.
The Tigers and Retrievers aren't exactly familiar with each other, as the teams have met only once before, and that game came 23 years and one day ago, or before any of the current players were even born.
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Princeton will be playing the first of two straight games in the state of Maryland, with the other to be Friday, Dec. 9, at Navy. It's next home game is Dec. 13, against No. 21/22 DePaul.
As for UMBC, it will be playing its seventh game, of which five will have been against teams from Maryland and the other two will have been against teams from New Jersey (Princeton and Monmouth).
Princeton's first two road trips have been about 50 miles to Lafayette and about six miles to Rider. After the two 150-mile trips to Maryland, Princeton's next road trip will be 3,000 miles to Northern California to take on Stanford and Santa Clara.
So far this season, UMBC has been a better offensive team at home than on the road, averaging 65.5 points at home and 58.3 on the road while shooting 41.8% to 37.2% home vs. away (including a nearly eight percentage point difference in three-point shooting). That differential is more impressive considering that Maryland, ranked sixth in one poll and seventh in another, played at UMBC.
So far in its two games on the road, Princeton has won by 40 (at Lafayette) and 20 (at Rider).
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The loss to Delaware snapped Princeton's school-record 26-game home winning streak. Princeton's 6-0 start had tied the school record for most wins to begin a season.
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Princeton had not trailed by more than four points at any point of its first six games and had not trailed at any point in the second half.
The Delaware game changed both of those, as the Blue Hens scored the first 14 points of the game and had a biggest lead of 23.
In five of Princeton's seven games, the team scoring first has never trailed at any point. There have been no second-half lead changes in any of Princeton's games.
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UMBC is an equal-opportunity team, having won three games and lost three games and having scored 364 points and allowed 364 points (60.7 per game).
The Retrievers are shooting 38.7% as a team while its opponents shoot 39.7%.
One area that UMBC is much better than its opponents is from the foul line, where the Retrievers shoot 81.8% as a team, ninth-best in Division I.
UMBC turns it over 16.7 times per game. Princeton had been forcing an average of 23.5 turnovers per game prior to Delaware and 22.7 per game after the 18 Blue Hen turnovers. Of those 18, though only four came in the first half.
Princeton had held five straight opponents below 40% shooting before Delaware shot 62.3% for the night.
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All five UMBC starters average at least 31.6 minutes per game, and four average at least 33.2.
Princeton only has one player averaging more than 31.6 and that's Lauren Edwards at 31.9 per game.
UMBC has no player averaging between 13.3 and 31.6 minutes per game; Princeton has six. The top four players in the game are from UMBC, No. 5 is from Princeton, No. 6 is from UMBC and then Nos. 7-12 are from Princeton.
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Princeton outrebounds its opponents by an average of 7.2 per game; UMBC has been outrebounded by an average of 6.2 per game.
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Princeton has won 61 of its last 70 games. Prior to that, Princeton won 61 of its previous 132 games.
Courtney Banghart started her career 16-37; she is 61-9 since.
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What Can You Say About ...
Devona Allgood #44
• 2010-11 first-team All-Ivy League
• 2009-10 second-team All-Ivy League
• 2008-09 honorable mention All-Ivy League
• has played in all 93 games of her career, starting 80, including every game the last three seasons
• has 953 career points
• sixth in program history with 685 career rebounds; ahead are Corneille Burt (706), Becky Brown (724) and Jennifer Donnelly (736), before a huge jump to Ellen Devoe (942) and Margaret Meier (1,099)
• had 10 points and nine rebounds against Rider
• had a career-high four assists, along with eight points and seven rebounds, against Delaware
• had 18 points on 8 of 10 shooting and scored the first nine Princeton points of the second half as the Tigers took control against Villanova
• had nine points and six rebounds vs. St. Joe's and six points and six rebounds against Lafayette
• has 18 rebounds in her last two games, including a season-high 10 against Davidson
• scored in double figures in 21 of 29 games last year
• has attempted - and made - one career three-pointer, as the shot clock was expiring against Harvard last year
Megan Bowen #43
• had 12 points in the win over St. Joe's
• had 10 points, four rebounds and three assists against Rider
• returned after missing Villanova and Marist games with a concussion to have six points against Davidson
• had six points and three rebounds against Lafayette
• appeared in the first 24 games of last year before injuring her shoulder against Columbia; missed four games before returning for NCAA tournament
• scored nine points on 3 of 5 shooting and added five rebounds in NCAA tournament game against Georgetown
• had a career-high 15 in win at home against Yale
• led team in scoring for first time in career with 14 points at Dartmouth
Blake Dietrick #11
• shooting 57.1% from the field
• is 4 for 7 on two-point shots and 4 for 7 on three-point shots
• had first career double figure game with 10 points against Rider, shooting 4 for 4 from the field, including 2 for 2 from three-point range
• had four points, two rebounds and an assist in five minutes against Marist, including a big three-pointer early in the second half as Princeton took control of the game
• scored her first seven points and had her first career three-pointer and assist in win over Lafayette
• made first collegiate appearance in game against St. Joe's
• led her high school team to an 84-9 record
• scored 1,440 career high school points, the most ever by a boy or girl at the school
• 2011 Massachusetts Player of the Year
Lauren Edwards #30
• first-team All-Ivy League each of the last two years
• started every game since the start of her sophomore year
• became the 19th 1,000-point scorer in Princeton women's basketball history against Lafayette
• is one of 10 players in school history with at least 100 career three-pointers
• has 1,056 career points, two away from Allison Cahill for 17th all-time at Princeton; ahead are Maureen Lane (1,098), Laura Leacy (1,106), Jackie Jackson (1,113) and Tina Smith (1,116)
• has 111 career three-pointers; needs 50 to tie Kim Allen for eighth
• had season-high 23 points, on 9 for 14 shooting, against Delaware; shot 4 for 8 from three-point range in the game
• had a team-high 14 points against Rider
• was in double figures in points in both of the first two games before having five points, but also six rebounds and four steals, against Villanova
• had 13 points and 10 rebounds in opener against St. Joe's
• had three blocked shots against Davidson after having three in the first four games combined; six blocked shots leads team
• scored in double figures in 20 of 29 games a year ago
• had a career-high six rebounds against Villanova
• had five points and two rebounds in 12 minutes against Lafayette
• had six points and four rebounds against Rider
• had four points and three rebounds against Davidson
• had a steal and rebound in four minutes against St. Joe's
• played in 16 games freshman year
• high game was 16 points against Penn
• scored six points in 19 minutes against Georgetown in the NCAA tournament game
Nicole Hung #10
• tied season-high with 11 points against Delaware
• had 11 points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal in 16 minutes against Lafayette
• the 11 points are her second-highest total ever, behind career high of 12 against Brown last year, and gave her a third double figure game for her career
• had five points and career-high five rebounds against Villanova
• tied career-high in rebounds two games later with five against Davidson
• tied her career high with four assists against Marist
• had seven points and four rebounds against Rider
• had five points and two rebounds in 19 minutes against St. Joe's
• had a key three-point play during 10-0 run that broke game open early in second half against St. Joe's
• played in 22 games as a freshman
• led team with four assists and two steals in NCAA game against Georgetown
Laura Johnson #22
• scored 13 points, all in the second half, against Marist
• made three crucial second half three-pointers against Marist
• had six points, three assists, three rebounds and two steals in 18 minutes against Lafayette; made both of her three-pointers in the game
• had two blocks against Villanova
• played in every game last year, starting four
• led team with 16 points at Harvard last year
Kate Miller #20
• had a team-high and career-high 18 points against St. Joe's
• had eight points and five rebounds against Rider
• had four points, three rebounds and three steals against Davidson
• led team in scoring in a game for the first time in her career
• moved into starting lineup last year after Niveen Rasheed's knee injury
• played in all 29 games, starting 14, as a sophomore
• has played in every game of her career
• has had five career double figure games
• improved three-point shooting to 11 of 20 a year ago after shooting 2 for 19 freshman year; was 1 for 4 against St. Joe's
• had eight steals against Davidson, the second-highest single-game total in school history, behind only C.B. Tomasiewicz, who had 10 against Yale in 1976
• had three assists and five steals against Delaware
• had a career-high 12 points - along with six rebounds, three assists, two steals and a blocked shot - in the win against Marist
• had six rebounds and five assists against Villanova
• had four assists, four rebounds and four steals in the opener against St. Joe's
• did not score against Rider, but did have five assists and four steals
• 2011 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year
• has started 55 games her career
• missed one game last year due to injury
• has 117 career steals; needs 42 to move into school's all-time top 10
• has 174 assists and 100 turnovers for her career
Niveen Rasheed #24
• leads team in scoring and rebounding and is second in assists
• averaging 18.0 points per game
• has 770 career points
• the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week after wins over Lafayette and Villanova
• had 20 points and five rebounds against Delaware
• had 24 points and nine rebounds against Davidson
• had 18 points and 11 rebounds against Marist, along with three steals and her first two made three-pointers of the year
• had 19 points and 12 rebounds against Villanova, of which 15 of her points came in the second half
• had team-bests with 22 points, seven rebounds, four steals, three blocks and three assists - in 23 minutes - against Lafayette
• had 17 points, six rebounds and three assists against St. Joe's
• shooting exactly 50% from the field (49 for 98)
• returned this season after suffering a torn ACL against Davidson, in the 12th game of last season
• was averaging team-best 16.4 points and 7.3 rebounds per game at the time of the injury
• finished with the fourth-highest number of points on the team last year (197) despite playing only 12 games
• was the 2010 Ivy League Rookie of the Year (and a nine-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week) and a first-team All-Ivy League selection
Alex Rodgers #5
• had a career-high 10 points against Lafayette
• shot 3 for 4 against the Leopards, including 2 for 3 from three-point range; also had three rebounds, an assist and a steal
• played in 18 games as a freshman
Jess Shivers #23
• made her first career appearance in win over Davidson
• high school team went 80-8 in her four years, including 45-0 her sophomore and junior years
• shot 63 percent from the floor as a senior
• averaged 11.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.9 blocks, 1.7 steals and 1.5 assists per game her senior season
Mariah Smith #25
• had first career point and first two career rebounds in the game against Lafayette
• scored 1,897 career points in high school
• earned five all-state recognitions as a senior
• late father Mark Smith scored 1,653 points at Illinois and was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks