Women's Basketball Starting 2022 With Home Contest vs. Harvard

The Princeton Tigers open up Ivy League play vs. the Harvard Crimson on Sunday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

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Stats as of Dec. 28, 2021
The Last Game Recap ...
•The No. 12 Texas Longhorns weathered a second half push by the Princeton Tigers to secure a 70-53 victory over Jadwin Gym on Dec. 22.

•The Tigers went on a 13-7 run to start the second half, cutting their deficit to five, 39-34, with 3:50 remaining. Texas countered with a 11-5 sprint of its own to take a 11-point advantage (50-39) into the final 10 minutes of action.

•Princeton remained within striking distance, down 53-44, with 6:37 left in the game, but a 16-5 run by Texas put the game out of reach.

About The Tigers ...
•Abby Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.7 points per game. She's has made 44.3 percent of her shots while knocking down 38.8 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has five 20-point performances. Her 74 field goals are 45th among all Division I players while 26 her threes are 73rd.

•Julia Cunningham has registered six double-figure outings in the last seven games and is averaging 14.1 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Grace Stone has snagged a .430 shooting percentage. She has contributed 10.2 points and 4.5 rebounds this season, both of which would be career highs. She has scored double digits in four of the last six games.

•Mitchell has grabbed 44 offensive rebounds and 111 overall. Her 44 offensive caroms are 17th in the NCAA and 111 are 26th.

•She's averaging 10.1 caroms which would be the seventh best in a single-season in program history and is 34th in the NCAA. Mitchell has secured at least seven rebounds in all but one game.

•Princeton has five players with at least 15 assists. Kaitlyn Chen leads the team with 27 helpers followed by Stone (24), Cunningham (23), Maggie Connolly (23), Mitchell (18) and Meyers (15).

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

•Princeton is No. 42 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.

•Coach Berube's unit is 52nd in the country in free throw percentage at 75.5 percent. The Tigers are shooting 83.1 from the charity stripe in the last six games.

•The Tigers are 55th in the nation in rebound margin at +6.5. Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in four straight games.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 68 in the NCAA in scoring defense (57.4) and No. 62 in three-point field goal percentage defense (26.4).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 13 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. 12 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (75.8), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 25 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (26.1), 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. 56 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 81.5.

•Berube's unit is also No. 34 in Simple RPI (59.9) 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 26
•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.

•Princeton has hosted eight ranked opponents, going 1-7. Its only win was vs. No. 18 Rutgers on Jan. 5, 1978.

vs. No. 18 Rutgers – Jan. 5, 1978
vs. No. 6/7 Rutgers – Dec. 11, 2005
vs. No. 11/12 California – Dec. 8, 2007
vs. No. 6 vs. Rutgers – Dec., 12, 2007
vs. No. 24 Delaware – Dec. 2, 2011
vs. No. 21/23 DePaul – Dec. 13, 2011
vs. No. 24 Villanova - Nov. 29, 2017
vs. No. 12 Texas - Dec. 22, 2021

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