Women's Basketball Heads To Dartmouth Saturday

PRINCETON – The Women's Basketball Team looks to continue its winning streak as it travels to Dartmouth on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

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How Did We Get Here?
All Stats are through Jan. 18.
•Princeton is 12-5 this season after dropping the Penn Quakers, 55-40, at Jadwin on Monday.

•The Quakers made their first four shots in the first 2:04 of game action to take an 8-2 lead.

•They would go onto make 10 baskets in the final 37:56 of the contest and shot 22.7 percent the rest of the way (10-of-44).

•The Quakers closed the gap to two, 17-15, early in the second stanza, before the Tigers countered with a 14-2 run to close the first half, extending its lead to 14, 31-17.

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad led by as many as 20 in the second half and was never threatened the rest of the contest.

•Penn's 29.2 percent shooting overall was its second lowest total of the season. Princeton scored 18 points off 20 turnovers. The Tigers held Penn's Kayla Padilla, who came into the game fourth in the conference in scoring, to 15 points on 17 shots including just two points in the second half.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Jan. 18.
•Ellie Mitchell is ninth in the country in total rebounds (191), 10th in rebounds per game (11.2), 12th in offensive rebounds per contest (4.1) and 24th in defensive rebounds per game (7.2).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 12 of 17 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 27 games dating back to last season. Her 622 rebounds are 10th in program history.

•The junior is 21st int he nation in steals (48) and 22nd in steals per game (2.82).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 14.1 points per game and field goal percentage (44.0). She has scored in double figures in every game except for four.

•Chen sits 70th in assists (74) and 71st in assists per game (4.4).

•Julia Cunningham is currently 44 points shy of 1,000 for her career. At her 11.2 points/game pace, she'd reach that milestone on Feb. 3 at Cornell.

•Madison St. Rose has scored 42.6 percent of her points (55 points) in the last four games.

•St. Rose was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday, marking the first time she had been honored with an Ivy weekly award.

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for one and is shooting 42.9 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 10.8 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 105 games in her career while Cunningham has seen time in 103 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 102.

•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.

•Paige Morton is averaging 3.9 points per game, 2.3 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 nine games since.

•Princeton's scoring defense is 27th in the country (56.0).

•Princeton's Net Rating is 54, the second highest in the Ivy League behind Columbia at No. 32.

•The Tigers are 50th in tunover margin (+4.06), and 52nd in fewest turnovers per game (14.1).

•Berube's squad is 76th in rebound margin (+4.9)

•The 2022 Ivy League Tournament Champions are 89th in assist/turnover ratio (+1.0).

•Princeton is 92nd in steals per game (9.0).

• The Tigers are 91st in scoring margin (+8.3).

• Berube's unit is 88th in offensive rebounds per game (13.0).

•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. The Tigers also had 1,322 fans at their game vs. Brown and 1,018 fans vs. Penn, giving them four consecutive Ivy contests with 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. 18.
•Princeton is ranked No. 13 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (77.4), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 35 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.8), 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. 37 in Simple RPI (60.6) 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 - 30.6 percent - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 3.3- 94th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 2.3 - 93rd percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.68 - 92nd percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.3% - 90th percentile
Usage Rate - 24.7 - 84th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 2.4 - 7th overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.4% - 23rd overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.4% - 27th overall
Steal Rate - 4.6 percent - 37th overall
Defensive Rating - 72.0 - 48th overall
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.3% - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 2.9 - 91st percentile

•Ellie Mitchell is the only player in the NCAA to have a steal rate and defensive rate among the top 40 players with at least 300 minutes played.

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 1.4 - 96th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.4 percent - 93th percentile
Win Shares - 2.9 - 91st percentile
Defensive Rating - 81.1 - 91st percentile
Assist Rate - 22.0 percent - 88th percentile

Grace Stone
Defensive Win Shares - 1.1 - 91st percentile
Percentage of Points From 3PT - 54.1 percent - 85th percentile

Madison St. Rose
Usage Rate - 24.8 - 85th percentile

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, Brown), Julia Cunningham (Columbia) and Madison St. Rose (Penn) 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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