Women's Basketball Starts Five-Game Home Stand vs. Seton Hall Saturday

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton Tigers begin a five-game home stand with a contest vs. the Seton Hall Pirates on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is set for 12 p.m.

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About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.3 points per game. She's has made 47.1 percent of her shots while knocking down 41.5 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has four 20-point performances.

•Cunningham is second on the squad in scoring at 14.3 points per contest. She has scored double-digits in seven of eight games this year including a personal-best 26 at Delaware.

•Grace Stone has snagged a 46.2 shooting percentage. She has contributed 10.8 points and 4.3 rebounds this season, both of which would be career highs. She has scored
double digits in three straight games.

•Mitchell has grabbed 22 offensive rebounds and 69 overall. She's averaging 8.6 caroms and has secured at least seven rebounds in all but one game.

•Princeton ranks No. 33 in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage (36.9). The Tigers have hit at least three three-pointers in seven of eight games this year.

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers have the second longest conference winning streak in the NCAA (26), trailing only UConn (44).

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad has the third longest home winning streak (21). Only Stephen F. Austin (29) and Maryland (29) have more victories at home.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 19 in the NCAA in scoring defense (51.8), No. 13 in three-point field goal percentage defense (22.2) and No. 45 in field goal percentage defense (35.1).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 12 quarters this season with at least one in seven games. The Tigers had a season-best of three frames allowing 10 points or less against Boston University. The team's season low for points allowed in a stanza is two against Rhode Island.

Her Hoops Stats Information ...
•Princeton ranks No. 7 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (73.6), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 12 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (30.4), a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•The Tigers are No. 24 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 75.5.

•Berube's unit is also No. 39 in Simple RPI (59.6) 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 38.9, good for 34th and allowed just .66 points per play (27th) and .86 points per scoring attempt (35th).

2 and 25
•Princeton's 58-55 victory over then No.22 Florida Gulf this month was the program's first top-25 victory in 43 years.

•Princeton's previous top-25 win was vs. No. 18 Rutgers on Jan. 5, 1978 (70-57). Princeton head coach Carla Berube was two years old. It was also the team'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 went on to face 24 more top-25 squads and went 0-25.

•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 before Florida Gulf Coast was No. 17 Kentucky in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament.

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