Women's Basketball Set For Big Weekend At Jadwin

PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton Tigers welcome the Cornell Big Red and Columbia Lions to Jadwin Gym this weekend.

Princeton takes on Cornell on Friday at 7 p.m. before wrapping up the weekend with Columbia at 5 p.m.

Game Notes | Tickets - Cornell | Tickets - Columbia | Watch - Cornell | Watch - Columbia | Game Program | Live Stats

Promos for the weekend:
2.4 Women's Basketball vs Cornell | Pride Night
· First 100 fans will receive a free Pride flag
· Special Anthem performance by the New Jersey Gay Man's choir

2.5 Women's Basketball vs Columbia | National Girls & Women in Sports Day/Kids Club Day
· All Princeton Kids Club Members can receive four free tickets
o Not a member? Register here: goprincetontigers.com/kidsclub
· First 200 kids will receive a free colored pencil set
· First 100 fans will receive a free copy of "I Can Do Anything - Stories From the First 50 Years of Women's Athletics at Princeton"

Stats as of Feb. 2, 2022
The Last Game Recap ...
•Abby Meyers and Julia Cunningham combined for 41 points as the Princeton Tigers rallied for a 61-49 victory over the Yale Bulldogs at the Lee Amphitheater on Friday evening.

•Meyers dropped in 22 points, adding six rebounds and three steals. Cunningham secured her second career double-double with 19 points and a career-high 11 caroms. Ellie Mitchell added 10 boards, four steals and three helpers in in the win.

•The Tigers found themselves trailing, 40-36, with 8:44 remaining in the game. Following a Cunningham layup, a trey by Meyers put Princeton back in front. Now ahead by three, Grace Stone knocked down a mid-range bucket before an impressive Meyers' long-distance basket put the Tigers ahead, 50-42.

•Yale hit a three-pointer on the next possession, but the Tigers scored on their next two trips down the floor to seal their 32nd consecutive Ivy League victory.

About The Tigers ...
•Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.2 points per game. She's has made 44.3 percent of her shots while knocking down 39.4 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 121 field goals are 55th in the NCAA while her 43 treys are 65th. Her 328 points are 59th. Meyers leads the Ivy League in scoring, field goals, 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 15 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 14.1 points per game which would be her personal-best.

•Grace Stone has contributed 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds per game which would be career highs.

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

•Mitchell has grabbed 70 offensive rebounds and 180 overall. Her 70 offensive caroms are 23rd in the NCAA and 180 total rebounds are 38th.

•She's averaging 10.0 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 one game.

•Princeton has five players with at least 20 assists. Chen leads the team with 53 helpers followed by Stone (40), Cunningham (35), Maggie Connolly (34), Meyers (29), Mitchell (25).

Among the Best ...
•The Tigers have the second longest conference winning streak in the NCAA (32), trailing only UConn (51) (Big East).

•Princeton is No. 33 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 41st in the nation in rebounding margin at +6.7. Princeton has recorded at least 30 rebounds in all but one contest and snagged at least 10 offensive caroms in 16 games.

•Princeton is 36th in scoring margin at +13.8. 11 of the team's 14 wins are by at least 15 points.

•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is 33rd in turnover margin at +4.72.

The Tigers' Calling Card ...
•The Tigers rank No. 9 in the NCAA in scoring defense (52.7), 20th in field goal percentage defense (35.2), 44th in three-point field goal percentage defense (27.3), 51st in turnovers forced (19.28) and 62nd in steals per game (9.7).

•Princeton has given up 10 points or less in 26 quarters this season with at least one in 10 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. 22 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (27.4), 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. 45 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 75.4 and No. 13 in opponents' points per play (0.67).

•Berube's unit is also No. 24 in Simple RPI (61.0) 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

Princeton History vs. Cornell and Columbia
•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Cornell, 61-21. The Tigers are 33-8 at home vs. the Big Red, having won the last three at Jadwin. The Big Red's last win was in February of 2017 at Princeton.

•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Columbia, 56-16. The Tigers are 29-7 at home against the Lions. Princeton has won 24 straight games against Columbia. The Lions' last win over the Tigers was in New York on March 7, 2008 (74-57).

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