Women's Basketball Travels to Columbia For ESPNU Game Tomorrow

PRINCETON, N.J. – It's another big contest in the Ivy League as the Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions, the two top teams in the conference, face off on national television tomorrow.

The game is set to air on ESPNU and will tip-off at 5 p.m.

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Stats as of Feb. 20, 2022
The Last Game Recap ...
•Last month, Princeton found itself trailing Yale, 40-36, with 8:44 to go before rallying to a 61-49 victory.

•Saturday was a little different.

•Yale's only lead was 2-0.

•The Tigers ended the first quarter on a 9-2 sprint to hold a 21-11 advantage. The conference leading home squad kept Yale off the scoreboard for the final 4:36 of the first half to take a 38-19 lead into halftime.

•Yale never got within 20 the rest of the way.

•Princeton allowed five baskets in the second half and 17 points total. The Tigers had at least 17 points in every stanza.

•Kaitlyn Chen and Abby Meyers co-led Princeton with 14 points apiece while Grace Stone (12) and Julia Cunningham (11) were also in double figures.

•One night after forcing 31 Brown turnovers, the Tigers made the Bulldogs turn the ball over 25 times.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.0 points per game. She's has made 45.8 percent of her shots while knocking down 41.4 percent from beyond the arc. The
senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has nine 20-point performances.

•Meyers has at least 10 points in 24 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 154 field goals are 65th in the NCAA while her 55 treys are 59th. Her 414 points are 72nd. Meyers leads the Ivy League in scoring, field goals, three-point field goal percentage, is second in 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.

•Cunningham has registered 20 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 14.0 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Stone has contributed 8.8 points and 3.6 rebounds per game which would be career highs.

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

•Ellie Mitchell has grabbed 90 offensive rebounds and 227 overall. Her 90 offensive caroms are 23rd in the NCAA and 227 total rebounds are 42nd.

•She's averaging 9.9 rebounds per game which would be the seventh best in a single-season in program history and is 42nd in the NCAA. Mitchell has secured at least seven
boards in all but two games.

•Princeton has five players with at least 30 assists. Chen leads the team with 75 helpers followed by Stone (58), Maggie Connolly (46), Cunningham (45), Maggie Connolly (38), Meyers (38), Mitchell (34).

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers have the longest conference winning streak in the country at 37. That's also the longest such streak in Ivy history.

•Princeton is 8th in scoring margin at +17.8. 17 of the team's 19 wins are by at least 15 points.

•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is 11th in turnover margin at +6.13.

•The Tigers are 24th in the nation in rebounding margin at +7.7. Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in 20 games. The Tigers are 60th in rebounds per game at 39.7.

•Princeton is No. 26 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 top team in the Ivy League is 27th in three-point field goal percentage at 35.6 percent.

•The Tigers are 44th in fewest turnovers at 325.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 3 in the NCAA in scoring defense (50.0), 14th in three-point field goal percentage defense (25.9), 16th in field goal percentage defense (35.4), 23rd in turnovers forced (20.26) and 27th in steals per game (10.6).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 35 quarters this season with at least one in 16 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 (74.7), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the
offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 13 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (27.9), 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. 1 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 72.3 and No. 3 in opponents' points per play (0.64).

•Berube's unit is also No. 24 in Simple RPI (61.1) 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 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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