Women's Basketball Travels To No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday

Wednesday, December 1

Fort Myers, Fla.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

#22 Florida Gulf Coast

Kaitlyn Chen

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

Women's Basketball Travels To No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday

November 30, 2021 | Women's Basketball

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton Tigers head on the road to take on the No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles on Wednesday.

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. These two squads have faced off just one other time with Princeton earning a 67-53 victory at Jadwin in November of 2019.

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The Last Game Recap ...
•Maine's Anne Simon hit a pull up jumper to put her squad in front, 4-2, four minutes into the game.

•The Black Bears did not score the rest of the quarter.

•It was that kind of defensive performance for the Princeton Tigers as they rolled to an 82-43 victory over the Maine Black Bears on Sunday afternoon.

•Four players scored in double figures including a game-high 21 from Abby Meyers on 9-of-14 shooting. She also added five rebounds, two assists and a steal. Julia Cunningham (14), Maggie Connolly (11) and Grace Stone (11) were the other Tigers in double figures. Ellie Mitchell tied her personal best with six steals in the win.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.7 points per game. She's has made half her shots while knocking down 41percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has three 20-point performances.

•Cunningham is second on the squad in scoring at 15.3 points per contest. She has scored double-digits in five of six games this year including a personal-best 26 at Delaware. She is shooting 41 percent from deep.

•Grace Stone has snagged a 46.7 shooting percentage (21-of-45). She has contributed 9.8 points and 4.2 rebounds this season.

•Ellie Mitchell has grabbed 18 offensive rebounds and 52 overall. She's averaging 8.7 caroms and has secured at least seven rebounds in each game.

•After scoring five points in her first four games, Paige Morton has added 14 points in the last two contests, making seven of nine shots during that span while adding eight rebounds in the span.

•Princeton ranks No. 31 in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage (38.6). The Tigers have hit at least three three-pointers in all six games.

Among the Best ...
•Princeton had the longest winning streak in the NCAA at 25 games prior to the loss to Rhode Island.

•The Tigers have the second longest conference winning streak in the NCAA (26), trailing only UConn (43).

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad is tied for the third longest home winning streak (21) with BYU. Only Stephen F. Austin (28) and Maryland (28) have more.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 6 in scoring defense (47.2), No. 9 in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage defense (19.2) and No. 26 in field goal percentage defense (33.0).

Her Hoops Stats Information ...
•Princeton ranks No. 2 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (35.9), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 7 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (70.6), a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•Berube's unit is also No. 19 in Simple RPI (60.6) which treats all games equally (25% Team Win %, 50% Average Opponent Win %, 50% Average Opponent's Average Opponent Win %). It is different from the NCAA RPI because the NCAA RPI values home wins as 0.6 wins, home losses as 1.4 losses, away wins as 1.4 wins, and away losses as 0.6 losses.

•The Tigers have held their opponents to an effective field goal percentage of 36.2, good for 18th and allowed just .60 points per play (11th) and .79 points per scoring attempt (13th).

1 for 25 ...
•Princeton has one win vs. a top 25 team which came vs. No. 18 Rutgers on Jan. 5, 1978 (70-57). Princeton head coach Carla Berube was two years old. It was the program's first game vs. a top-25 program.

•The Tigers did not face another top-25 opponent for 24 years until battling No. 7 Stanford on Nov. 29, 2002.

•Princeton has faced 24 top-25 teams since 2002 and are 0-24.

•Some top teams that the Tigers have faced are No. 1 Tennessee (Dec. 20, 2005), No. 2 Rutgers (Nov. 18, 2008) and No. 4 Stanford (Dec. 18, 2011). Princeton's last ranked opponent was No. 17 Kentucky in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament.