Women's Basketball Wraps Up Home Stand With Brown and Penn This Weekend

PRINCETON – Women's Basketball hits the Ivy League stretch of its three home games in five days with Brown (2 p.m.) Saturday and Penn (2 p.m.) Monday this weekend. Both games can be seen on NBC Sports Philadelphia and SNY.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 10-5 this season after defeating the Hartford Hawks, 84-37, at Jadwin Gym on Thursday.

•Madison St. Rose broke her season best for the second straight game with 19 points on 9-of-14 shooting. Maggie Connolly contributed 11 points and four assists. Amelia Osgood set career highs in points (eight) and rebounds (six) while Katie Thiers had a new personal best with eight points in the victory.

•Princeton scored 11 of the first 14 points and eventually held a 26-10 advantage after 10 minutes. St. Rose outscored Hartford in that stretch with 11 points while the home unit was 11-of-17 shooting (64.7 percent). The Tigers allowed just three baskets in the second quarter and led 49-16 at halftime. Head coach Carla Berube's squad outscored Hartford by 14 in the second half to finish off the contest.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Jan. 12.
•Ellie Mitchell is seventh in the country in total rebounds (178), offensive rebounds per game (4.3), rebounds per game (11.9) and 15th in defensive rebounds per contest (7.5).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 12 of 15 games this season.

•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 25 games dating back to last season.

•The junior is 24th in country in steals per game (2.8) and 30th in total steals (42).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 15.0 points per game and field goal percentage (44.3). She has scored in double figures in every game except for two.

•Chen sits 69th in assists per game (4.4), 78th in minutes per game (34.5) and 88th in assists (66).

•Julia Cunningham is currently 61 points shy of 1,000 for her career. At her 11.5 points/game pace, she'd reach that milestone on Feb. 3 at Cornell.

•Madison St. Rose has scored 31.4 percent of her points (34 points) in the last two games. She has set personal best in back-to-back contests.

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for one and is shooting 42.0 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 10.7 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 103 games in her career while Cunningham has seen time in 101 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 100.

•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 3.9 points per game which is 1.5 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 knocked down a season-best 12 threes vs. Hartford.

•The Tigers have at least 10 assists in each game this season except for one. Princeton's 28 helpers vs. Hartford were two shy of the program record.

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

•Princeton's Net Rating is 56, the second highest in the Ivy League behind Columbia at No. 36.

•The Tigers are 44th in the NCAA in fewest turnovers per game (13.8) and 50th in turnover margin (+4.1).

•Princeton's scoring defense is 41st in the country (57.2).

•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. 12.
•Princeton is ranked No. 17 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (78.0), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 38 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.3), 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 unit is also No. 46 in Simple RPI (59.6) 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.

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 31.0 percent - 98th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 2.2 - 94th percentile
Win Shares - 3.0- 94th percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.2% - 92nd percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.78 - 93rd percentile
Usage Rate - 25.1 - 87th percentile
PER - 22.0 - 86th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 2.0 - 15th overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.5% - 26th overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.6% - 27th overall
Steal Rate - 4.4 percent - 98th percentile
Defensive Rating - 73.9 - 98th percentile
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.3% - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 2.6 - 90th percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 1.1 - 92nd percentile
Win Shares - 2.4 - 88th percentile
Steal Percentage - 2.9 percent - 87th percentile
Assist Rate - 20.8 percent - 86th percentile

Princeton vs. Brown/Penn ...
•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Brown, 54-31. The Tigers have won 29 of the last 31 games vs. the Bears including nine consecutive battles.

•Brown's last win over Princeton was at Jadwin on Jan. 13, 2017, a 98-88 decision. The Bears have not won two straight against the Tigers since the 2004-05 season.

•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Penn., 63-30. The Tigers have won nine of the last 10 games vs. the Quakers.

•Penn's last win over Princeton was on Jan. 15, 2019, a 66-60 decision. The Quakers' last winning streak vs. the Tigers was five straight from Jan. 2016-Mar. 2017.

•The last team to win the Ivy League that was not Princeton or Penn was Dartmouth in 2008-09. The Tigers have won nine Ivy titles during that stretch, Penn was won four. Those numbersinclude a share in 2018-19.

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 nine contests.

Princeton Pros ...
•Carlie Littlefield '21 is playing for the Liege Panthers in Belgium. In 11 games, Littlefield is averaging 20.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists.

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