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Tigers Travel To Dartmouth, Harvard This Weekend
February 03, 2016 | Women's Basketball
| Dartmouth/Harvard Game Notes |
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| Gametimes | Princeton at Dartmouth l Friday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. l Berry Sports Center |
| Princeton vs. Harvard l Sunday, Feb. 7, 12 p.m. l Lavietes Pavilion | |
| Game Coverage | Dartmouth: Live Stats/Video |
| Harvard: Live Stats/Video/TV: NESN+, American Sports Network | |
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@PUTigers l @PUTigers_live l @DartmouthSports l @HarvardCrimson |
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| All-Time Series |
Dartmouth leads Princeton, 43-31 l Harvard leads Princeton, 40-36 |
| Last Meeting | Feb. 20, 2015 - Princeton 70, Dartmouth 31 |
| Feb. 21, 2015 - Princeton 78, Harvard 57 | |
| Princeton | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @PrincetonWBB |
| Dartmouth |
Roster l Schedule l Stats l @DarthmouthWBB |
| Harvard | Roster l Schedule l Stats l @HarvardHoops |
| Related Links | Princeton Game Notes (PDF) |
The Week That Was
• Princeton got back over .500 in the Ivy League with a 72-53 victory over Brown on Friday and 65-50 win over Yale on Saturday at the Jadwin Gym.
• Against Brown, the Tigers scored the first 13 points of the game and held a double-digit lead for the final 32 minutes.
• Senior Michelle Miller scored a game-high 21 points while senior Annie Tarakchian matched her career high with 17 rebounds.
• Tarakchian has four 17-rebound games. Every other Princeton women's basketball player combined in the last 17 years has four games with at least 17 rebounds.
• After Yale got within three in the third quarter, senior Alex Wheatley scored 10 straight points for the Tigers to push their lead back to 11.
• Four different players scored in double figures for the Tigers in the win over Yale.
• The game vs. Yale was the Tigers' Play4Kay contest.
• Princeton's two wins gives them 35 sweeps in the last 38 Ivy League weekends.
Ivy Notes
• Last season, the Tigers captured their 12th conference title en route to a fifth NCAA Tournament appearance.
• Princeton was won 12 straight contests vs. Dartmouth with the Big Green's last win coming in 2009.
• The Tigers have won three consecutive games over Harvard with the Crimson last winning in 2014.
• Under Banghart, the Tigers have posted a 94-18 (.839) record against Ivy League opponents.
• Princeton is averaging 72.9 points per game, highest among Ivy League foes, Darmouth is eighth (54.1) while Harvard is fifth (63.4).
• The Tigers place second in the Ivy in scoring defense at 56.8 per contest. Banghart's squad mantains the top scoring margin in the Ivy at +16.1. That scoring margin is the 14th highest in all of Division I.
• In its three Ivy matchups, Princeton has held opponents to a .297 field goal percentage and .237 three-point field goal percentage.
• The Orange and Black hold a +15.3 rebounding edge in Ivy League play this season.
• Michelle Miller is averaging 13.3 points in the Tigers' three conference games, good for 10th among Ivy players.
• Annie Tarakchian leads all players in Ivy action at 14.0 boards per contest.
Climbing the Charts
• Michelle Miller currently stands at 1,150 career points, she is 13 shy of 16th place on the all-time list.
• One of the program's most prolific shooters, Miller's 40.9 career three-point percentage is currently the third highest mark in school history.
• Miller's 188 made threes rank sixth.
• Annie Tarakchian is tenth in program history with 638 rebounds.
• Tarakchian's 6.4 career rebounds per game is just shy of the top ten.
• Taylor Williams is currently on pace to finish with a program-record 56.6 career shooting percentage.
Closing In
• Alex Wheatley is currently on pace to become the 24th member of the Tigers' 1,000-point club.
• With 20 combined points against Brown and Yale, Wheatley upped her career total to 973.
• Wheatley is currently averaging a career-high 12.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.
• Wheatley is also shooting a career-high 70.7 (41-58) percent from the free throw line.
• Wheatley's 54.9 career shooting percentage is currently the third-highest in program history.
National Stage
• Princeton is ranked sixth in the CollegeInsider.com Mid Major Top-25.
• The Tigers currently trail Gonzaga (753) and Green Bay (747), Florida Gulf Coast (683), San Diego (653) and Saint Mary's (637).
• Princeton is the highest Ivy League team in the poll while Penn is 11th.
• The Tigers are 33rd in the Jeff Sagarin/CBN Women's College Basketball Ratings and 48th in the NCAA RPI.
• Princeton received a vote in the USA Today Coaches Top-25 poll.
In The Rankings
• Princeton ranks second in the country in defensive rebounds per game (32), third in rebounding margin (+15.3) and fourth in rebounds per game (47.06).
• Nationally, the Tigers rank inside the top 50 in fewest fouls (24th), three-point defense (40th), fewest turnovers (42nd), scoring defense (42nd), free throw percentage (45th, scoring offense (48th) field goal percentage (49th).
News and Notes
• Annie Tarakchian was invited to the USA Basketball Junior National Team Trials last May and won gold at the 2015 Pan Armenian Summer Games.
• A Princeton Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence award winner and third-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree last season, Michelle Miller is a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
• One of five just five Princeton juniors to be accepted into the University's Scholar's in the Nation's Service Initiative, Alex Wheatley spent the summer interning at the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C.
• Sophomore Leslie Robinson is the daughter of Princeton alumnus Craig Robinson, who is one of only two men's players in program history to twice be named Ivy League Player of the Year. Her aunt Michelle Robinson (Michelle Obama) graduated from Princeton in 1985 and is currently the First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Barack Obama.
• Freshman Qalea Ismail is the daughter of Qadry “The Missle” Ismail, who played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with her uncle Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, who played for nine seasons.
• Jordan Muhammad's father, Muhsin, played 14 seasons in the NFL, for the Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears.