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Princeton Back on Top of Ivy Standings with 57-35 Win Over Columbia
February 12, 2011 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/11/11) - A 57-35 win over Columbia, coupled with a Harvard loss at Yale, puts the Princeton women's basketball team back into first place in the Ivy League standings.
Princeton and Harvard are now both 5-1 in league play.
Princeton and Columbia both struggled offensively in the game, particularly in the first half. The Tigers shot 7 for 28 while the Lions were just 4 of 32 from the field. Princeton did hold Columbia's leading scorer Kathleen Barry to just one point as she shot 0 for 6 in the first half.
For the game the Tigers got 29 points from their bench, while Columbia only got seven. Princeton had 30 points in the paint and 15 points came via turnovers.
Junior Devona Allgood had a game-high 13 points, seven rebounds and a block and a steal. Senior Krystal Hill added a season-high 12 points and two steals. Freshman Kristen Helmstetter recorded a career-high eight points, while pulling down five boards and earning an assist, block and steal. Senior Addie Micir led the Tigers on the glass with nine rebounds, matching her season-best, and would chip in five points. Sophomore Lauren Polansky matched her career-best of six steals and added five points.
Columbia would score the first two baskets of the game, but Princeton would score the next six. The Lions would tie the game at 6-6 with 11:57 to play.
The Tigers would go on a 14-1 run over the next 6:27 to take a 20-7 lead with 4:24 to play. Briana Orlich would go 2 for 2 from the charity stripe and Lauren Dwyer hit a jumper to cut Princeton's lead to nine with 2:41.
Neither team would score in the half's final 2:41, with Columbia shooting 0 for 6 and Princeton going 0 for 3, as the Tigers took a 20-11 lead into the locker room.
The teams each had four points to start the second half before Polansky drained a three and Hill slipped in a layup to make it a 14-point game, 29-15 3:37 into the second half.
Columbia would only get as close as 11, 33-22, at 14:26 as Princeton continued to expand on its lead going up by as much as 25, 53-28 on a three by Hill at 4:08.
Barry and Dwyer would each finish the game with 12 points. Dwyer had a team-high nine rebounds, while Courtney Bradford had eight. Columbia finished the night shooting 23 percent (14-61), shot 6 for 10 from the line and was 1 of 17 from long range. The team falls to 5-16 overall and 4-3 in league play, as Princeton ends its three-game winning streak.
Princeton shot 38.9 percent on the night, with a clip of 53.8 percent in the second half. The Tigers were 10 of 13 from the stripe and shot 5 of 12 from behind the arc. Princeton improves to 16-4 overall with its 17th consecutive home win.
Princeton hosts Cornell tomorrow, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. The Big Red were defeated 51-33 at The Palestra this evening.