Women's Basketball Takes On Buffalo Tuesday At Jadwin

Tuesday, December 14

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

Buffalo

Tickets

Parker Hill

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Women's Basketball Takes On Buffalo Tuesday At Jadwin

December 13, 2021 | Women's Basketball

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton Tigers continue their homestand with a non-conference tilt vs. the Buffalo Bulls on Tuesday evening. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

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Stats as of Dec. 12, 2021
The Last Game Recap ...
•The Seton Hall Pirates defeated the Princeton Tigers, 70-60, at Jadwin Gym on Saturday afternoon.

•The Tigers had three players in double figures highlighted by Abby Meyers' 16 points. Julia Cunningham had 14 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals while Ellie Mitchell registered her third career double-double with 10 points and a career-best 19 rebounds in the loss.

•Mitchell's 19 rebounds are the most in a game by a Princeton player since Bella Alarie's 19 caroms in December of 2018 and are tied for the fifth-most in a single-game in program history.

•In front by two, Seton Hall ran off 10 straight points, setting the score at 52-40 as the clock read 3:44. Princeton trailed by nine, 54-45, as the fourth quarter got underway and could not get closer than eight the rest of the way.

•It's Princeton first multi-game losing streak since a seven-game streak from Nov. 11-28, 2018, when Bella Alarie was hurt.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.0 points per game. She's has made 45.6 percent of her shots while knocking down 40.0 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has four 20-point performances. Her 62 field goals are 40th most among all players in the NCAA.

•Cunningham is second on the squad in scoring at 14.2 points per contest. She has scored double-digits in eight of nine games this year including a personal-best 26 at Delaware.

•Grace Stone has snagged a 44.4 shooting percentage. She has contributed 10.0 points and 4.4 rebounds this season, both of which would be career highs. She has scored double digits in three of the last four games.

•Mitchell has grabbed 30 offensive rebounds and 88 overall. She's averaging 9.8 caroms which would be the seventh most in a single-season in program history and is 37th among all Division-I players. Mitchell has secured at least seven rebounds in all but one game.

•Princeton has five players with at least 12 assists. Maggie Connolly paces the team with 21, followed by Stone (18), Kaitlyn Chen (18), Cunningham (15), Mitchell (14) and Meyers (12).

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 had the third longest home winning streak (21) prior to the loss to Seton Hall. The team's last home loss before Seton Hall was to Yale on Feb. 8, 2019.

•Princeton is No. 39 in the NCAA NET Rankings. Net Rankings is the new formula that the NCAA committee uses in its process to determine the NCAA Tournament teams.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 34 in the NCAA in scoring defense (53.8) and No. 38 in three-point field goal percentage defense (24.2).

•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. 10 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (75.2), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 21 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (27.1), 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. 36 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 77.9.

•Berube's unit is also No. 58 in Simple RPI (57.6) 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.

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.