Women's Basketball Welcomes Brown and Yale To Jadwin This Weekend

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton Tigers welcome the Brown Bears and Yale Bulldogs to Jadwin Gym this weekend.

Princeton takes on Brown on Friday at 7 p.m. The Yale contest is Saturday at 6 p.m. and can be seen on NBC Sports Philadelphia locally.

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Stats as of Feb. 16, 2022
The Last Game Recap ...
•Abby Meyers and Julia Cunningham combined for 35 points as the Princeton Tigers easily took care of the Dartmouth Big Green, 70-48, at Leeds Arena on Feb. 12

•Meyers registered a game-high 19 points while Cunningham added 16 points. The two combined to go 8-of-15 from beyond the arc. Meyers was two rebounds shy of a double-double, adding three steals and two assists in the win.

•Princeton ran off eight of the first 10 points of the contest and took a 19-10 lead into the second quarter. Dartmouth closed the deficit to three, 24-21, with 3:55 left in the first half, but five straight by the Tigers set the score at 29-21 at halftime.

•The Tigers opened the second half with 10 straight points, extending their lead to 18, 39-21. Princeton did not let up, doubling up Dartmouth, 50-25, with 3:46 to go in the third quarter before taking a 26-point advantage, 55-29, into the fourth frame. During the third stanza, the Tigers outscored the Big Green, 26-8, held a 17-4 rebounding margin, and allowed just three baskets.

•Dartmouth did not get within 20 the rest of the way.

About The Tigers ...
•Abby Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.9 points per game. She's has made 44.3 percent of her shots while knocking down 40.5 percent from beyond the arc. The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has eight 20-point performances.

•Meyers has at least 10 points in 22 straight games dating back to the 2019-20 season. That's the best stretch since Bella Alarie registered at least 10 points in 26 consecutive contests between the 2017-18 and 2019-20 campaigns.

•Meyers is one of the most prolific scorers in Division I. Her 137 field goals are 84th in the NCAA while her 51 treys are 66th. Her 375 points are 85th. Meyers leads the Ivy League in scoring, field goals, three-point field goal percentage, free throw percentage and is third 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.

•Julia Cunningham has registered 18 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 14.2 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Grace Stone has contributed 9.1 points and 3.8 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.

•Ellie Mitchell has grabbed 83 offensive rebounds and 209 overall. Her 83 offensive caroms are 27th in the NCAA and 209 total rebounds are 46th.

•She's averaging 10.0 rebounds per game which would be the seventh best in a single-season in program history and is 38th 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 67 helpers followed by Stone (51), Cunningham (41), Maggie Connolly (38), Meyers (33), Mitchell (32).

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers has the longest conference winning streak in the country at 35. That's also the longest such streak in Ivy history.

•Princeton is No. 30 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 37th in the nation in rebounding margin at +6.8. Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in 18 games.

•Princeton is 15th in scoring margin at +15.5. 15 of the team's 17 wins are by at least 15 points.

•The top team in the Ivy League is 55th in three-point field goal percentage at 34.1 percent.

•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is 21st in turnover margin at +5.33.

•The Tigers are 34th in fewest turnovers at 298.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 4 in the NCAA in scoring defense (51.1), 16th in field goal percentage defense (35.3), 24th in three-point field goal percentage defense (26.46), 35th in turnovers forced (19.52) and 43rd in steals per game (10.2).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 32 quarters this season with at least one in 13 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. 4 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (75.2), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the
offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 19 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (26.8), 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 (101.9), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the defenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 2 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 74.2 and No. 5 in opponents' points per play (0.66).

•Berube's unit is also No. 21 in Simple RPI (61.5) 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.

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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