Women's Basketball Begins Stretch of Home Games With Hartford Thursday

PRINCETON – The Tigers begin a stretch of three home games in five days with the Hartford Hawks tomorrow. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 9-5 this season after splitting the Ivy League weekend at Jadwin Gym. The Tigers fell in overtime to Columbia, 58-55, before rebounding with a 70-48 decision over Cornell last weekend.

•The Tigers' Monday opponent, Penn, is at the top of the Ivy League at 3-0 while each team has at least one loss. Columbia lost to the Quakers while Harvard lost to Yale.

•The Tigers trailed by nine, 50-41, with 3:42 remaining in the game vs. Columbia, but used an 8-2 push to climb within a possession with 52 seconds left. Princeton forced a shot clock violation before setting up a three-pointer by Grace Stone to tie the game and send it into overtime.

•In the extra session, Columbia's Kaitlyn Davis split a pair of free throws, putting the road squad in front, 58-55, with 14 seconds to go. Princeton had two chances for the tie but couldn't convert.

•Kaitlyn Chen registered her third straight 20-point performance (20), adding four rebounds and three assists. Ellie Mitchell grabbed 22 rebounds, her second 20+ rebound performance of the season.

•Princeton began the second half against Cornell with a 17-4 push that put it up 22, 54-32, with a minute to go in the third quarter and was never threatened the rest of the way.

•Madison St. Rose tied the game high with 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting with four rebounds and two steals. Julia Cunningham added 13 points and six helpers while Kaitlyn Chen also reached double figures (13) in the win for Princeton. The home team had 10 different scorers.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Jan. 10
•Ellie Mitchell is third in the country in rebounds per game (12.4), fifth in offensive rebounds (4.6), seventh in total rebounds (173) and ninth in in defensive rebounds per contest (7.8).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in every game this season except for No. 16 Texas and Cornell (because she only played 18 minutes) .

•Against Seton Hall, she became only the third person since 2009-10 to have at least 23 rebounds and six steals in a game (Javonna Layfield (Dayton), 12/31/17), Kylie Kuhns (Sacramento St., 12/1/10).

•Mitchell became the first player in the NCAA to record at least 12 rebounds and eight steals in a game this season at Maine.

•She is also only the 10th player since 2009-10 to have at least seven points, 12 rebounds, three assists and eight steals in a contest and the first since February of 2018.

•She has snagged at least 10 rebounds in 18 of her last 24 games dating back to last season.

•The junior is 30th in country in steals per game (2.71) and 35th in total steals (38).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 15.8 points per game and field goal percentage (44.2). She has scored in double figures in every game except for one.

•Chen sits 38th in minutes per game (35.47) and 87th in helpers per contest (4.3).

•Julia Cunningham is currently 66 points shy of 1,000 for her career. At her 12.0 points/game pace, she'd reach that milestone on Jan. 28 vs. Yale.

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for one and is shooting 40.9 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 11.0 points per game. The senior has gone from 4.2 points as a freshman, 5.8 points as a sophomore and 9.3 points as a junior to her current mark.

•Stone has appeared in 102 games in her career while Cunningham has seen time in 100 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 99.

•If Princeton plays in the same number of games as last year, barring injury, Stone would finish with 118 games, good for third all-time while Cunningham would finish with 116, fourth most and Connolly would end with 115 games, tied for fifth.

•Chet Nweke is averaging 3.8 points per game which is 1.4 points higher than last season.

•After shooting 1-of-13 from deep vs. Temple, Princeton has made at least three treys in each game since except for the Rhode Island contest.

•The Tigers have at least 10 assists in each game this season except for one.

•After having nine steals in the first two games combined, the Tigers have produced 10 steals in seven games since.

•Princeton's Net Rating is 57, the second highest in the Ivy League behind Columbia at No. 36.

•The Tigers have the 16th toughest schedule in the nation, according to the NCAA website which is the best in the Ivy League.

•The Tigers are 58th in the NCAA in fewest turnovers per game (14.2) and 63rd in turnover margin (+3.50).

•Princeton's scoring defense is 67th in the country (58.6).

•The Tigers had over 1,000 fans at Jadwin for the game vs. Columbia (1,113) and vs. Cornell (1,017). It was the first time since the 2015-16 season that Princeton had two consecutive home games with over 1,000 fans.

•Princeton's 15-point comeback at Rutgers is the largest of the Carla Berube era, topping the 12-point rally at Yale in February of 2020.

•Grace Stone's buzzer beater vs. Rhode Island was the team's first buzzer beater since Eileen Powers' putback with one-second remaining in overtime lifted the Tigers past Southwest Texas State, 82-81, at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas on Nov. 23, 2002.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Jan. 10.
•Princeton is ranked No. 14 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (77.3), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•Berube's unit is also No. 30 in Simple RPI (61.3) 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.

•The Tigers are No. 37 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.7), a
rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•Princeton's opponent's average margin per 100 possessions is 9.9, good for eighth in the nation while the Tigers' opponents average points per 100 possessions (97.3) is 13th.

•The Tigers have the 64th best steal rate in the nation (11.1).

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 30.6 percent - 98th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 2.0 - 93rd percentile
Win Shares - 2.7 - 92nd percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.3% - 91st percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.62 - 90th percentile
Usage Rate - 25.9 - 89th percentile
PER - 22.0 - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.7% - 21st overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.7% - 21st overall
Defensive Win Shares - 1.8 - 22nd overall
Steal Rate - 4.2 percent - 98th percentile
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.6% - 97th percentile
Defensive Rating - 75.9 - 96th percentile
Win Shares - 2.2 - 87th percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 1.0 - 90th percentile
Steal Percentage - 2.9 percent - 87th percentile

Alumnae Update ...
•McKenna Haire '21 is currently doing a graduate season at the University of Hawaii. She played in 15 games, making five starts for the Rainbow Warriors last year and this season, Haire has seen time in five contests.

Princeton Pros ...
•Carlie Littlefield '21 is playing for the Liege Panthers in Belgium. In 10 games, Littlefield is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists. After scoring seven points in a loss on Nov. 12, Littlefield has averaged 23.2 points in four games since.

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Ellie Mitchell (Temple), Maggie Connolly (Villanova, Fordham, Rutgers, Rhode Island, Cornell), Kaitlyn Chen (Seton Hall), Paige Morton (Maine, Harvard), Amelia Osgood (Towson and Delaware) and Lexi Weger (UConn) and Julia Cunningham (Columbia) have each made a half-court shot this season.

Breakfast is King ...
For every road trip, the team gets breakfast at the
hotel. The team led by captain Maggie Connolly and Katie Thiers have ranked each trip's breakfast. Harvard, 9.0
(omelette bar, lots of variety, Texas - 8.5 (Great variety, mini waffles a hit), UConn - 8.5 (less variety by high quality), Towson - 6.5 (basic), Maine - 3.5 (there was food).

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