No. 11 Women's Basketball Clashes With No. 3 Indiana In NCAA Second Round

No. 11 Princeton (25-4) vs. No. 3 Indiana (23-8)
NCAA Tournament Second Round
March 21 | 8 p.m. | ESPNU | ESPN+ | Tickets | Live Audio | Game Notes | Second Round Podcast With Carla Berube

For the second time in program history, Princeton will play in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament as the Tigers take on host Indiana at Assembly Hall.

Princeton is coming off a 69-62 win over No. 6 seed Kentucky on Saturday afternoon for the second NCAA tourney win in program history.

About The Tigers ...
•This is the ninth time Princeton has made the NCAA Tournament, the last coming in 2019. The Tigers secured the Ivy League's automatic bid after winning the conference tournament championship game over Columbia, 77-59, on Mar. 12.

•The Tigers defeated No. 5 Kentucky, 69-62, in the First Round Saturday. Abby Meyers led the way with 29 points, and Kaitlin Chen added 17. Ellie Mitchell also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds.

•Meyers' career-high 29 points against the Wildcats was the most by an Ivy League player in the NCAA Tournament since 2000.

•Abby Meyers leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.2 points per game. She's has made 45.6 percent of her shots while knocking down 40.4 percent from beyond the arc.

•The senior captain has scored at least 10 points in every game and has 12 20-point performances. Her 527 points this season are the second-most in Princeton history while her 194 field goals are seventh most and 425 attempts are fifth highest.

•She has at least 10 points in 29 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 18.2 points per game are 59th. Her 6.7 field goals per contest are 57th and her 2.4 three-pointers per game are 26th.

•The unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year and unanimous First-Team All-Ivy selection leads the conference in field goals, three-point field goal percentage, is second in free throw percentage and scoring, is third in three-pointers and fourth in field goal percentage.

•She was named a finalist for the 2022 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award presented by Her Hoops Stats.

•Julia Cunningham has registered 24 double-figure outings this season and is averaging 13.4 points per game, good for ninth in the Ivies. The First-Team All-Ivy selection has set new career highs in scoring, assists (54), steals (44), free-throw percentage (.879, which leads the conference) and three-point field goal percentage (.333)

•Grace Stone was Honorable Mention All-Ivy. She has contributed 9.2 points and 3.7 rebounds per game which would be career highs.

•Kaitlyn Chen was named the Ivy League's Tournament Most Outstanding Player after scoring 30 points vs. Columbia in the championship game.

•Chen earned Ivy weekly honors three straight weeks after securing Rookie of the Week honors on Mar. 7. She is averaging 18.4 points per game in her last seven contests. The sophomore is sixth in the conference in field goal percentage (.445).

•Ellie Mitchell was selected as the Ivy League's Defensive Player of the Year. She has grabbed 109 offensive rebounds and 296 overall, which is second on the Princeton all-time list. Her 109 offensive caroms are 26th in the NCAA and 296 total rebounds are 32nd.

Her Hoops Stats Information ...
•Princeton ranks No. 5 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (75.1), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers sit No. 14 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. 45 in Her Hoops Stats Offensive Rating (103.1), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the defenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 3 in opponents' points allowed per 100 possessions at 74.3, No. 5 in opponents' points per play (0.65), No. 8 in opponent's effective field goal percentage (39.5) and sixth in scoring margin per 100 possessions (+25.6).

•Berube's unit is also No. 16 in Simple RPI (61.6) 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.

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