Women's Basketball Gets Back Together With Rutgers For Wednesday Contest

Wednesday, December 13

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

Rutgers

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Madison St. Rose

Women's Basketball Gets Back Together With Rutgers For Wednesday Contest

December 12, 2023 | Women's Basketball

PRINCETON – The Princeton Women's Basketball Team will take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Jadwin Gym on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast on NBC Sports Philadelphia + and SNY.

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LONG STORY SHORT (KAITLYN CHEN AND MADISON ST. ROSE ARE AWESOME)
•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 16.6 points per game after her career night at Villanova.

•Chen had a stretch of 20 straight games with double-digit performances before scoring just seven points vs. Rhode Island.

•The senior captain is shooting 38.5 percent from deep, which would be a career high. She is 56th in the nation in field goal attempts (141), 70th in field goals (62) and 72nd in total points (166).

•She is 32 points shy of 1,000 for her career. Her career mark of 13.8 points per game currently sits ninth all-time.

•Chen is averaging a career-high 4.1 assists per game and has 253 in her career, 42 shy of the top 10 in program history. She is 73rd in Division I in total helpers with 41.

•Madison St. Rose has three straight double-digit scoring games and eight overall this season after putting up 12 last season.

•St. Rose has three 20+ point performances including 24 in the win over No. 20 Oklahoma.

•The 2023 Ivy League Rookie of the Year is 61st in the country in field goal attempts (138) and is just outside the top 100 in field goals and total points.

•St. Rose has almost doubled her point average from the year prior going from 8.8 to 15.9.

THIS IS ME TRYING (TO GRAB THE REBOUND)
•Ellie Mitchell continues to be one of the best rebounders in the country as she is fifth in rebounds per game (11.9) and total caroms (119), 10th in offensive boards per contest (4.4) and 16th in defensive rebounds per game (7.5).

•Mitchell has 44 games with at least 10 rebounds or more. She recorded six as a freshman, 16 as a sophomore, 17 as a junior and five this season.

•She corralled 34 rebounds combined in two contests in Florida vs. No. 20 Oklahoma and No. 19 Indiana.

•According to HerHoopsStats.com, Mitchell is only the sixth Div. I player since 2009-10 to put up 18 rebounds, seven assists and four steals in a game (vs. Oklahoma) and the first to do it against a Power Six team.

•She has the two highest rebounding totals (338 last season and 311 in 2021-22) ever by a Tiger. She is fourth all-time in rebounds (895) and is four boards shy of Ellen DeVoe for third (942).

•Mitchell posted her 13th career double-double with 11 points and 16 rebounds vs. No. 19 Indiana.

22 (THAT'S PARKER HILL'S NUMBER)
•Parker Hill made her first career start at Rhode Island, scoring 11 points, grabbing seven rebounds, blocking four shots and stealing two passes, marking the second straight game for her with four blocks.

•Parker sits 78th in the NCAA in blocks with 13 this season.

•Her four blocks and four steals vs. Seton Hall was just the sixth time a player had done both in a game this season (HerHoopsStats).

•Hill set a new career high 14 points in the victory over Quinnipiac.

THE STORY OF US
•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is No. 12 in Her Hoop Stats' Simple RPI (63.2) 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' opponents' average points per 100 possessions (99.9) is 15th in the NCAA while their opponents' average margin per 100 possessions (+12.4) is 20th.

•Princeton sits No. 32 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (79.9), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 41 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.0) a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

•The Orange and Black are No. 55 in Her Hoops Stats' Offensive Rating (102.6), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

Kaitlyn Chen
Offensive Win Shares - 0.8 - 95th percentile
Win Shares - 0.9 - 90th percentile
Assist Rate - 24.8 percent - 92nd percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.28 - 80th percentile
Usage Rate Percentage - 25.7 - 87th percentile
PER - 20.6 - 79th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Total Rebound % - 21.1 - 30th overall
Defensive Rebounding % - 27.4 - 38th overall
Offensive Rebounding % - 15.2 - 98th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.4 - 93rd percentile
Total Win Shares - 0.7 - 81st percentile
Block % - 3.3 - 84th percentile

Madison St. Rose
Offensive Win Shares - 0.8 - 95th percentile
Win Shares - 1.0 - 91st percentile
Usage Rate - 25.8 percent - 87th percentile
Steal Percentage - 2.7 - 81st percentile
PER - 22.3 - 84th percentile
Points Per Play - 0.94 - 80th percentile
Offensive Rating - 108.1 - 80th percentile

Skye Belker
Offensive Win Shares - 0.6 - 87th percentile
Win Shares - 0.6 - 78th percentile
Offensive Rating - 105.9 - 77th percentile

IVY (CHAMPIONS FOREVER)
•Abby Meyers' 22 signed with the London Lions of the Women's British Basketball League in the summer.

•Meyers got some playing time in the WNBA with the Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings. She was drafted in the first round of the 2023 WNBA Draft by the Wings.

•Meyers was the fifth Ivy League player to be selected in the WNBA Draft, the third Princeton Tiger (Bella Alarie, Leslie Robinson) and the third Ivy athlete to be picked in the first round (Alarie and Allison Feaster '98 Harvard).

•Bella Alarie '20, one of the greatest players in program history, is a graduate assistant at Georgetown.

•During her time with Princeton, Alarie was first in program history in Ivy Player of the Week awards (20), blocks (249), double-doubles (40) and points (1,703).

•She was also in the top 10 in rebounds, field goal attempts, rebounding average, field goals, scoring averaging, free throws, free-throw attempts and free throw percentage.

•She was selected in the first round of the 2020 WNBA Draft by the Dallas Wings.

•Grace Stone '23 signed with Anagennisi Germasogeias of Cyprus. Stone graduated from Princeton third all-time in games played (118) and fifth in free throw percentage (.802). She recorded 807 points, 405 rebounds, 138 steals and 55 blocks during her time with the Tigers.

•Carlie Littlefield '21 is playing for the Young Angels in Slovakia after spending time with the Liege Panthers in Belgium last season.

•Littlefield '21 and Blake Dietrick '15 led the U.S. 3x3 team to a series victory in Pristina, Kosovo in July.

•The tournament win is the third-ever in the Women's Series for the United States (2022 - Quebec City, 2021 - Klaipeda).

•Dietrick helped the United States 3x3 women's team earn gold at the 2023 Pan American Games in October.

•The United States dropped Columbia, 21-14, in the Gold Medal game to secure its second straight gold at the Pan American Games. The former Tiger led the U.S. to a 21-6 win over Venezuela in the quarterfinals and a 21-14 victory over Chile in Semifinals.

SOON YOU'LL GET BETTER (AT SHOOTING FROM HALF COURT)
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Margo Mattes (Duquesne, Seton Hall), Kaitlyn Chen (Middle Tenn.) Ellie Mitchell (UCLA, Villanova) and Skye Belker (San Diego, Oklahoma, Quinnipiac) have done it this season.

LONG LIVE (BREAKFAST)
Katie Thiers ranks each road trip's breakfast last year, taking over Maggie Connolly. Here are her rankings for this season ...

Fort Myers - 9.4 - The best ranking over the past two years - Fruit is fresh and fantastic, Wide variety of bread
products, Smoothies at breakfast were good, Sausage is A+, Apple juice is crisp.

San Diego - 8.3
UCLA - 7.0
Rhode Island - 6.6
Middle Tennessee St. - 5.5

MASTERMIND (OF THESE NOTES)
•Since Athletic Communications contact Warren Croxton had his first child, Teresa, in March of 2022, the Tigers are 32-10 (.761 winning percentage) with two NCAA Tournament victories. The program produced only a .571 winning percentage and only one NCAA victory prior to the birth of Teresa.

•Princeton has a .700 winning percentage since his second child, Michael, was born (Oct. 13, 2023). The program had only a .580 winning percentage in the previous 1,328 games.