Women's Basketball Continues Ivy Action With Dartmouth Saturday

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PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton Women's Basketball Team welcomes Dartmouth to Jadwin Gym on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

Stats as of Jan. 20, 2022
The Last Game Recap ...
•Julia Cunningham registered a game-high 22 points while Abby Meyers and Ellie Mitchell produced double-doubles as the Princeton Tigers rolled over the Penn Quakers, 70-50, at the Palestra on Monday afternoon.

•Cunningham was 9-of-17 from the floor and hit four three-pointers while adding six rebounds. Mitchell had a game-high 12 caroms with her 10 points. Meyers had 11 points and 10 rebounds in the win.

•Princeton broke open the first quarter with 18 consecutive points and took a 24-9 lead after 10 minutes. The Tigers scored 13 of their 24 points off eight Quakers turnovers. Six straight points to end the second quarter cut the Penn deficit to 12, 37-25, at the intermission.

•Head coach Carla Berube's team kept its distance from Penn in the third stanza behind a 12-point outburst from Cunningham. The Quakers did not get within 10 in the second half as they were held to just seven points in the fourth frame as Princeton wrapped up the victory.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.7 points per game. She's has made 43.8 percent of her shots while knocking down 38.0 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has six 20-point performances.

•Meyers is one of the most prolific scorers in Division I. Her 105 field goals are 40th in the NCAA while her 35 treys are 67th. Her 283 points are 40th. Meyers leads the Ivy League in scoring, field goals, is third in free throws and fourth in three-pointers.

•She was one of 15 players named to the 2022 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Midseason Watch List presented by Her Hoops Stats.

•Cunningham has registered 13 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 14.1 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Grace Stone has contributed 9.1 points and 3.6 rebounds per game which would be career highs.

•Kaitlyn Chen has scored in double figures in four of her seven starts including a season-best 15 points vs. Harvard.

•Mitchell has grabbed 63 offensive rebounds and 163 overall. Her 63 offensive caroms are 13th in the NCAA and 163 total rebounds are 20th.

•She's averaging 10.2 rebounds per game which would be the seventh best in a single-season in program history and is 35th in the NCAA. Mitchell has secured at least seven boards in all but one game.

•Princeton has five players with at least 20 assists. Chen leads the team with 48 helpers followed by Stone (33), Maggie Connolly (30), Cunningham (29), Meyers (24), Mitchell (21).

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers have the second longest conference winning streak in the NCAA (30), trailing only UConn (47).

•Princeton is No. 37 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 Carla Berube's unit is 39th in the country in free throw percentage at 76.2 percent.

•The Tigers are 40th in the nation in rebound margin at +7.1. Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in 14 games.

•Princeton is 55th in scoring margin at +12.1. 10 of the team's 12 wins are by at least 15 points.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 17 in the NCAA in scoring defense (54.1), 34th in field goal percentage defense (35.6) and 37th in three-point field goal percentage defense (26.2).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 22 quarters this season with at least one in nine games. The Tigers had a season-best of three frames allowing 10 points or less against Boston University and Brown. The team's season low for points allowed in a stanza is two against Rhode Island.

Her Hoops Stats Information ...
•Princeton ranks No. 6 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (74.2), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 17 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (28.4), 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 squad is No. 42 in Her Hoops Stats Offensive Rating (102.6), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the defenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 16 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 77.3 and No. 20 in opponents' points per play (0.68).

•Berube's unit is also No. 18 in Simple RPI (62.1) 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 last 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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