Princeton University Athletics

Women's Basketball Continues Road Stretch at Towson Monday
December 04, 2022 | Women's Basketball
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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 4-2 this season after taking down the Maine Black Bears, 65-51 on Friday.
•Julia Cunningham and Kaitlyn Chen combined for 23 second half points in the win over Maine.
•Cunningham scored all of her 13 points in the second half while Chen had a game-high 15 points for Princeton.
•The Tigers allowed just three baskets in the third quarter and forced seven turnovers, extending their advantage to double-digits, 45-35, with 10 minutes remaining.
•Cunningham scored the first nine points of the fourth stanza for the Tigers as they pushed its lead to 15, 54-39, with 5:55 to go. Maine made one more run, scoring seven straight in 90 seconds, but Princeton put the game away with 10 of the next 12.
2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Dec. 3.
•After shooting 1-of-13 from deep vs. Temple, Princeton is 28-of-78 from beyond the arc since (35.4 percent). The Tigers have made at least five treys in four of six games.
•Ellie Mitchell is second in the country in rebounds per game (14.0), defensive rebounds per contest (9.5), 11th in total rebounds (84) and 12th in offensive rebounds (4.5).
•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 14 of her last 16 games dating back to last season.
•The junior is seventh in country in steals per game (3.67) and 25th in minutes per contest (36.5). She is 31st in double-doubles (three) and has 11 in his career.
•Cunningham is currently 155 points shy of 1,000 for her career. At her 13.2 points/game pace, she'd reach that milestone on Jan. 16 vs. Penn.
2022-23 Her Hoops Information
Stats Through Dec. 3
•Princeton is ranked No. 26 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (79.0), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.
•The Tigers are No. 43 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (21.0), 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 unit is also No. 49 in Simple RPI (57.5) 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.
Assist Rate - 29.4 percent - 96th percentile
Effective Field Goal Percentage - 56.2 percent - 85th percentile
Steal Rate - 5.3 percent - 99th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.7 - 96th percentile
Defensive Rating - 78.5 - 89th percentile
Win Shares - 1.1 - 85th percentile
Usage Rate - 26.6 percent - 90th percentile
Block Rate - 3.7 percent - 87th percentile
% Points on Free Throws - 29.1 percent - 85th percentile
Effective Field Goal Percentage: Shooting percentage of a player after accounting for the value of 3-point attempts
Assist rate: percentage of teammate field goals where the player records an assist.
Steal rate is percentage of opponent plays where the ball is stolen.
Block rate is percentage of opponent's two-point shots that are blocked.
Win Shares is a statistic that approximates the number of wins a player provides to a team on the defensive side of the court.
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.
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), Kaitlyn Chen (Seton Hall) and Paige Morton (Maine) have each made a half court shot this season. The team did not have a shootaround before the Texas game. Chen's make was the first of her career.

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