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Princeton Tops Dartmouth 85-48 As All 15 Players Score
February 06, 2016 | Women's Basketball
Box Score
If the Princeton women's basketball team was a stranger to the NCAA tournament before Courtney Banghart became head coach nine years ago, it doesn't mean the coach herself was.
In fact, Banghart made four NCAA tournament trips - and one WNIT trip - during her time as a player and then assistant coach at Dartmouth College. She's also a member of the Dartmouth Hall of Fame.
Sentimentality, though, has no place in the current Ivy League women's basketball race, and so for Banghart her latest trip back to her alma mater was all business. And her Tigers, looking to make it six NCAAs for Banghart at Princeton, took care of business in a big way, using a late first quarter run to take control and then sprint past Dartmouth 85-48 at the Leede Arena Friday night.
The win improved Princeton to 14-4 overall and 3-1 in the Ivy League, behind Penn, who improved to 4-0 with its win over Harvard and even with Cornell with one loss, though the Big Red has one more win after topping Brown. Princeton plays at Harvard Sunday at noon in a game that will be televised by the American Sports Network.
Princeton had all 15 players score in the game, and nobody scored more than the 11 that Michelle Miller and Alex Wheatley both put up.
GAME NOTES
* Princeton trailed 7-5 before finishing the first quarter on a 15-4 run to make it 20-11 after 10 minutes. The Tigers then built the lead to 17 at the break at 42-25.
* Wheatley now has 984 career points, leaving her 16 shy of becoming the 24th player in program history to reach 1,000. Miller now has 1,161 career points, two away from 16th place.
* Banghart ranks seventh all-time at Dartmouth with 1,423 career points.
* Annie Tarakchian had 12 more rebounds, giving her 650 for her career. She needs 11 to tie Carol Puza for ninth place all-time at Princeton and then 10 more after that to tie Meagan Cowher for eighth. Tarakchian also had eight points and four assists.
* No Princeton player played more than 28 minutes and only two played more than 20.
* Princeton shot just below 50% from both the field (30 for 61) and three-point range (11 for 23). Princeton held Dartmouth to 31% from the field for the night and outrebounded the Big Green 46-25.
* Princeton had 16 assists and 10 turnovers and held Dartmouth to five assists and 14 turnovers.
* Banghart is now 13-4 as a head coach against Dartmouth, including winning 13 straight after losing the first four. Princeton had never been to the NCAA tournament prior to her arrival as head coach but now has been to five, giving her nine NCAAs and two WNITs in her career.
* The list of outlets for the ASN broadcast against Harvard can be found HERE.