Women's Basketball Travels To Dartmouth Saturday

PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton Tigers head to Hanover, N.H., for a battle against the Dartmouth Big Green on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

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Stats as of Feb. 10, 2022
The Last Game Recap ...
•The best in the Ivy League squared off at Jadwin Gym on Saturday afternoon with the Princeton Tigers securing a wire-to-wire 57-39 victory over the Columbia Lions.

•Columbia came into the game with the second-best scoring offense in the conference but failed to score more than 10 points in two quarters. The Lions' Kaitlyn Davis is the two-time reigning Ivy Player of the Week and was held to four points in 20 minutes of action. Abbey Hsu was the conference's second leading scorer at 16.9 points per game, but only registered three points on 1-of-8 shooting in the loss.

•The Tigers scored the first eight points of the game and ran off with 14-4 advantage after 10 minutes highlighted by a defense that allowed just one Columbia basket. Head coach Carla Berube's squad used a 10-2 spurt over the last three minutes of the first half to expand its lead to 19, 35-16, at halftime.

•Columbia closed the gap to 12, 41-29, but an eight-point flurry to end the quarter by the Tigers pushed their lead back to 20, 49-29, and that put the game out of reach.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.8 points per game. She's has made 43.9 percent of her shots while knocking down 39.5 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has eight 20-point performances.

•Meyers is one of the most prolific scorers in Division I. Her 130 field goals are 74th in the NCAA while her 47 treys are 70th. Her 356 points are 68th. Meyers leads the Ivy League in scoring, field goals, three-point field goal percentage, free throw percentage and is fourth and 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 17 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 14.2 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Grace Stone has contributed 9.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game which would be career highs.

•Kaitlyn Chen has scored in double figures in five starts including a season-best 15 points vs. Harvard.

•Mitchell has grabbed 79 offensive rebounds and 201 overall. Her 79 offensive caroms are 22nd in the NCAA and 201 total rebounds are 37th.

•She's averaging 10.1 rebounds per game which would be the seventh best in a single-season in program history and is 37th in the NCAA. Mitchell has secured at least seven boards in all but one game.

•Princeton has five players with at least 30 assists. Chen leads the team with 61 helpers followed by Stone (47), Cunningham (38), Maggie Connolly (36), Meyers (31), Mitchell (31).

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers has the longest conference winning streak in the country at 34. That's also the longest such streak in Ivy history.

•Princeton is No. 29 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 are 43rd in the nation in rebounding margin at +6.5.

•Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in 18 games.

•Princeton is 19th in scoring margin at +15.2. 13 of the team's 16 wins are by at least 15 points.

•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is 26th in turnover margin at +5.25.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 4 in the NCAA in scoring defense (51.2), 11th in field goal percentage defense (35.0), 26th in three-point field goal percentage defense (26.4), 39th in turnovers forced (19.55) and 45th in steals per game (9.9).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 30 quarters this season with at least one in 12 games. The Tigers had a season-best of three frames allowing 10 points or less against Boston University, Brown and Dartmouth. The team's season low for points allowed in a stanza is two against Rhode Island.

Her Hoops Stats Information ...
•Princeton ranks No. 3 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (74.3), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 15 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (28.0), 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 squad is No. 44 in Her Hoops Stats Offensive Rating (102.3), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the defenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 5 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 74.0 and No. 5 in opponents' points per play (0.65).

•Berube's unit is also No. 18 in Simple RPI (62.2) 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 in December 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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