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Princeton University Athletics
Friday, November 25
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Photo by: Kobus Reyneke
Princeton Host Rutgers In A Post-Thanksgiving Tilt Friday
November 23, 2016 | Women's Basketball
| Week 3 Game Notes: Rutgers | |
| Gametimes | Fri, Nov. 25 - 2 p.m. l Jadwin Gym |
| Game Coverage | Live Stats - Ivy League Digital Network |
| @PUTigers l @RUAthletics | |
| All-Time Series | Rutgers leads all-time series, 16-4 |
| Last Meeting | Dec. 20, 2015 - Rutgers 79, Princeton 65Â (Recap) |
| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @PrincetonWBB |
| Rutgers | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @RutgersWBB |
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The Week That Was
- Junior Leslie Robinson had a sparkling performance with a career-high 19 points, 12 rebounds and five steals, but it was not enough as the Delaware Blue Hens walked away with a 66-62 victory at the Bob Carpenter Center on Tuesday evening.
- Robinson also added four assists, matching her personal best. Making her first start of the season, senior Vanessa Smith secured a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman Bella Alarie blocked three shots in the loss.
- Back-to-back three-pointers from Delaware stretched its lead to seven as the final quarter opened up. Trailing by as many as nine, Princeton crawled back as Robinson grabbed an offensive board and laid it in to set the score at 60-58 with 1:49 remaining.
- Delaware answered on the other end with a basket by Erika Brown, but on the next possession, junior Kenya Holland dropped in a three from the left wing to get Princeton within one as the clock stood at 1:09. Delaware was perfect from the charity stripe, sinking all four attempts in the final minute to wrap up the victory.
- Freshman Bella Alarie registered her first career double-double, but the Princeton Tigers were edged by the Dayton Flyers, 62-56, in overtime on Saturday afternoon at Jadwin Gymnasium.
- Alarie scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. For the second straight game, junior Leslie Robinson set a new personal benchmark with 12 boards, just missing a double-double (eight points). Sophomore Sydney Jordan contributed a career-high 10 points and six rebounds. Dayton's Lauren Cannatelli finished with a game-high 13 points off the bench while Alex Harris provided a double-double (11 points and 14 rebounds) in the win.
- Trailing by double digits as the third quarter waned on, Dayton made three-pointers on consecutive possessions to cut its deficit to five (37-32) at the 4:57 point of the stanza. The Flyers continued to accelerate their offense as they recorded a 9-2 spurt over the next four minutes to retake the lead, 41-39. Harris' layup gave Dayton a two-point jump (43-41) as the teams headed into the fourth quarter.
- Squared at 45-all, a five-point swing by Kelley Austria put the Flyers in front with 3:14 to go. After a basket in the paint from Robinson, sophomore Jordan Muhammad launched a long distance trey to tie the game for a 10th time (50-50). Neither team could find the game-winner over the final minute, sending the non-conference tilt into overtime.
- In the extra session, sophomore Caroline Davis dropped in a three-pointer, setting the score at 55-51 Tigers with 2:52 to go. The Flyers countered, going on an 8-1 run, to take a three-point advantage (59-56), leading to a Princeton timeout as the clock sat at 30 seconds. The Tigers missed two three-pointers over the last 24 seconds while Dayton made three free-throws to secure the victory.
- The Princeton Tigers were selected as the No. 2 team (110 voting points) in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll. The defending Ivy League Champion, Penn Quakers, were picked as the top squad with all 17 first place votes and 136 voting points.
- Harvard (104) was named the No. 3 team in the preseason poll followed by Cornell (76). Dartmouth (66), Yale (56), Brown (40) and Columbia (24).
- For the first time ever, the Ivy League will feature a four-team tournament for the 2016-17 season. The tournament will both be held over the same two competition days, March 11 and 12, at The Palestra in Philadelphia.
- The format for each tournament will be two semifinal games on the first day (Saturday) with the No. 1 seed playing the No. 4 seed and the No. 2 seed playing the No. 3 seed, followed by the championship game played the next day (Sunday). The tournaments' winners will receive the League's automatic bids to the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.
- The Ivy League has announced the game times for the inaugural Ivy League Tournament as well as its additional TV package with ESPN, ONE World Sports and the American Sports Network.
- With three games on ONE World Sports and Ivy League Digital Network games simulcasted on ESPN3, the men's basketball team will have a total of 13 games available on platforms beyond the ILDN, and with one ONE World Sports game and five ESPN3 simulcasts, the women's team will have five such games.
- The listing of the team's TV/ESPN3 games are below:
- Nov. 25 vs. Rutgers, 2 p.m., ILDN/ESPN3
- Nov. 30 vs. Seton Hall, 7 p.m., ILDN/ESPN3
- Jan. 7, vs. Penn, 2 p.m., ILDN/ESPN3
- Jan. 14 vs. Yale, 5:30 p.m., ILDN/ONE World Sports
- Feb. 17 at Yale, Time TBD, ILDN/ESPN3
- Mar. 4 at Dartmouth, Time TBD, ILDN/ESPN3
- The team named seniors Vanessa Smith and Taylor Brown captains for the 2016-17 season.
- Smith is the lone starter returning from last year's squad that went 23-6. The senior started in 28 games, averaging 8.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 1.4 assists and just under a steal per game. Coming off the bench her first two seasons, Smith has gradually improved each year in points, rebounds per contest, free throw percentage and steals.
- Brown saw time in 24 games in last season off the bench and set career bests in points (3.3), rebounds (1.7) and assists (0.95) per game, three-pointers (12) and field goal percentage (.375). The Woodstock, Ga., native has also improved year-by-year in scoring, rebounding and assists.
- After traveling to France and Africa in 2011, the Princeton women's basketball team flew to Australia this summer.
- The team departed on August 22nd and spent the first four days of the trip in Sydney and the final four days in Cairns, Queensland before leaving to come home on September 1st.
- In Sydney, Banghart's squad explored the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney Opera House and did the Sydney Bridge Climb. On the court, Princeton battled the Norths Bears and the Waratah League All-Stars. While in Cairns, the Tigers checked out the Rainforest Wildlife Park, went to the Aboriginal Cultural and Education Experience before conducting a youth clinch at the Yarrabah PCYC.
- The team also took on the Cairn Dolphins of the Queensland Basketball League. On the last day of the trip, the Tigers enjoyed the Great Barrier Reef and have the opportunity to snorkel and take in the spectacular coral and sea life.
- The Tigers finished with 23 wins, the seventh straight year that the program won at least 20 games.
- Princeton became the first Ivy League team to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament since the conference became an automatic qualifier.
- The Class of 2016 became the fourth senior group in program history to win at least 20 games all four years.
- The Tigers have swept 40 of the last 43 Ivy League weekends.
- Head coach Courtney Banghart's team ranked in the top 10 nationally in rebounding margin (third), defensive rebounds per game (fourth), rebounds per game (seventh) and scoring margin (seventh).
- Four players had at least 60 assists this year with Amanda Berntsen '16 leading the way (101).
- Alex Wheatley's '16 57.7 field goal percentage and Michelle Miller's '16 42.6 percent from deep led the Ivy League.
- Princeton claimed 9 Ivy POTW awards last season.
- Dating back to 2014-15, a Princeton player has claimed the Ivy League POTW award in 22 of the last 29 weeks in which the team has played a game and been eligible.
- Rutgers leads the all-time series 16-4.
- These two teams last meet in Princeton's 2013-14 season opener.
- The Tigers' last scored a victory over Rutgers on Nov. 29, 2012 at Jadwin.
- The new-look Tigers fell 79-65 to Rutgers at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Nov. 20, 2013 in a game that left Banghart eager for what comes next for her team. Blake Dietrick had a career-high 20 points in the loss.
- Princeton shot 22 for 58 (38%), including 4 for 20 from three-point range. Dietrick had three of the four made three-pointers on the way to her first 20-point game, beating her career-high of 19 set last season at Harvard.
- The Tigers trailed 28-25 at the half and 34-32 three minutes into the second half but were done in by a 19-5 run as Rutgers built a 16-point lead.
- The Scarlet Knights are 0-4 on the season, having lost to Chattanooga, Elon, Wake Forest and Virginia.
- Rutgers' 16-person roster features just three seniors, two of which will not play this season. Junior Shrita Parker leads the Scarlet Knights in scoring (11.0 pts/game). Rutgers will miss Tyler Scaife, 2016 second team All-Big-Ten, because of an ACL injury.
- Head coach C. Vivian Stringer is the fourth winningest active coach in women's basketball and one of five current active coaches among all divisions with over 900 career victories. She is fourth all-time in career wins among women's basketball coaches.
- Stringer is the first coach to lead three different programs to the Final Four in Cheney (1982), Iowa (1993) and Rutgers (2000, 2007).
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