Women's Basketball Begins Ivy Action At Harvard Saturday On ESPNEWS

PRINCETON - The Princeton Women's Basketball Team begins Ivy League play at the Harvard Crimson on Saturday afternoon at Lavietes Pavilion.

Tip-off is set for 12 p.m. and can be seen nationally on ESPNEWS.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 8-3 this season after Grace Stone hit a buzzer beater to defeat the Rhode Island Rams, 56-54, on Wednesday.

•It's the first buzzer beater for Princeton since Eileen Powers' putback with one-second remaining in overtime lifted the Tigers past Southwest Texas State, 82-81, at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas on Nov. 23, 2002.

•Trailing by five with 2:35 to go, Princeton scored on consecutive possessions to get the game within one, 51-50, as the clock ticked under two minutes. Julia Cunningham's bucket with 69 seconds remaining put the home unit ahead, but a three-point play by Rhode Island's Madison Hattix-Covington put the road team back in front, 54-53, with 25 seconds left. A free throw by Kaitlyn Chen tied the game before Stone took care of the rest.

•Chen led all scorers with 21 points. It's the third 20-point game of her career. Parker Hill set a new career high with 12 points, adding four rebounds, two steals and two blocks. The Tigers caused 20 turnovers, the most for Rhode Island this season.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Dec. 29.
•Ellie Mitchell is fourth in the country in rebounds per game (12.2), 10th in offensive rebounds (4.2), 10th in defensive rebounds (8.0) and 10th in total rebounds (134).

•Her lowest rebound total in a game this season is seven against No. 16 Texas.

•Against Seton Hall, she became only the third person since 2009-10 to have at least 23 rebounds and six steals in a game (Javonna Layfield (Dayton), 12/31/17), Kylie Kuhns (Sacramento St., 12/1/10).

•Mitchell became the first player in the NCAA to record at least 12 rebounds and eight steals in a game this season at Maine.

•She is also only the 10th player since 2009-10 to have at least seven points, 12 rebounds, three assists and eight steals in a contest and the first since February of 2018.

•She has snagged at least 10 rebounds in 16 of her last 21 games dating back to last season.

•The junior is 22nd in country in steals per game (2.91) and 30th in total steals (32). She's sits 47th in minutes per game (35.19).

•Chen leads the team in scoring at 15.4 points per game and field goal percentage (44.7). She has scored in double figures in every game except for one.

•Chen is 52nd in the nation in minutes per game (35.04) and 64th in helpers per contest (4.5).

•Cunningham is currently 91 points shy of 1,000 for her career. At her 13.0 points/game pace, she'd reach that milestone on Jan. 21 at Dartmouth.

•Stone has made at least one three in every game except for one and is shooting 42.6 percent from deep to pace the Tigers. That mark is 59th in the country. She is averaging a career-high 11.7 points per game. The senior has gone from 4.2 points as a freshman, 5.8 points as a sophomore and 9.3 points as a junior to her current mark.

•Chet Nweke is averaging 4.3 points per game which is 1.5 points higher than last season.

•After shooting 1-of-13 from deep vs. Temple, Princeton has made at least three treys in each game since except for the Rhode Island contest.

•The Tigers have at least 10 assists in each game this season except for one.

•After having nine steals in the first two games combined, the Tigers have produced 94 swipes in the last nine.

•Princeton's Net Rating is 53, the second highest in the Ivy League behind Columbia at No. 33.

•The Tigers are 36th in the NCAA in fewest turnovers per game (13.6) and 46th in turnover margin (+4.55).

•Princeton's scoring defense is 81st in the country (58.9).

•The Tigers are 96th in steals per contest (9.4).

•Princeton's 15-point comeback at Rutgers is the largest of the Carla Berube era, topping the 12-point rally at Yale in February of 2020.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Dec. 29.
•Princeton is ranked No. 14 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (77.0), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•Berube's unit is also No. 17 in Simple RPI (62.3) 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 are No. 32 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (24.6), a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•Princeton is 27th in opponent's average points per 100 possessions (96.7) and 30th in opponent's average margin per 100 possessions (9.4).

•The Tigers have the 35th best steal rate in the country (12.2).

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 32.3 percent - 98th percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.72 - 91st percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 1.5 - 91st percentile
Win Shares - 2.0 - 89th percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.6% - 86th percentile
Usage Rate - 25.3 - 86th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 28.3% - 99th percentile
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.0% - 99th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 1.3 - 99th percentile
Steal Rate - 4.3 percent - 97th percentile
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 12.8% - 94th percentile
Defensive Rating - 77.5 - 93rd percentile
Win Shares - 1.6 - 85th percentile

Julia Cunningham
Steal Percentage - 3.4 percent - 92nd percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.8 - 89th percentile
Win Shares - 1.7 - 87th percentile

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers have the longest conference winning streak in the country, both men or women, at 42. That's also the longest such streak in Ivy history. The Tigers' last Ivy loss was to Yale on Feb. 8, 2019.

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Ellie Mitchell (Temple), Maggie Connolly (Villanova, Fordham, Rutgers, Rhode Island), Kaitlyn Chen (Seton Hall), Paige Morton (Maine), Amelia Osgood (Towson and Delaware) and Lexi Weger (UConn) have each made a half-court shot this season.

Breakfast is King ...
For every road trip, the team gets breakfast at the hotel. The team led by captain Maggie Connolly have ranked each trip's breakfast. Texas - 8.5 (Great variety, mini waffles a hit), UConn - 8.5 (less variety by high quality), Towson - 6.5 (basic), Maine - 3.5 (there was food).

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