Women's Basketball Makes Trip To Brown/Yale This Weekend

PRINCETON – Women's Basketball heads back on the road for the final Ivy League doubleheader weekend of the season at Brown and Yale.

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Game Notes

The game at Yale is on ESPN3. You do not need an ESPN+ subscription, you need a cable subscription with ESPN to be able to watch.

How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 17-5 this season after beating the Dartmouth Big Green last Saturday for its ninth straight victory.

•With the win, the Tigers are at the top of the Ivy League standings with Columbia at 8-2.

•Princeton can clinch a spot in the Ivy League Tournament with a win and Yale loss on Friday. Two wins during the weekend also puts the Tigers into the tournament.

•The Tigers opened the Dartmouth contest on a 12-2 run and eventually took a 20-10 lead after 10 minutes. Princeton shot 9-of-15 (60.0 percent) from the floor with six different players scoring in the frame.

•The home unit led by as many as 13 in the second quarter and led 31-23 at halftime. Head coach Carla Berube's team shot well, going 14-of-28 (50 percent), in the first 20 minutes.

•Dartmouth scored the first basket of the second half before Princeton exploded with a 23-8 push to end the third quarter and put the game out of reach. Dartmouth never got closer than 17 in the fourth stanza.

•Kaitlyn Chen had 16 points and was 7-of-10 shooting (70.0 percent) along with four helpers and three rebounds. Madison St. Rose had another double figure scoring outing with 13 points. Paige Morton and Parker Hill went 8-of-10 from the floor, adding a combined 16 points in the win.

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Feb. 15
•Ellie Mitchell is 11th in the country in rebounds per game (10.9), 12th in offensive rebounds per contest (3.9) and 18th in total rebounds (239).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 14 games this season and 12+ in 10 contests.

•Her 11.1 rebounds per game would be the fifth best in program history and would be the highest mark since 1978.

•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.

•Her 714 career rebounds are 9th in program history.

•The junior is 32nd in the nation in steals per game (2.59) and 43rd in steals (57).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 14.1 points per game and field goal percentage (45.8). She has scored in double figures in every game except for four.

•She sits 67th nationally in assists per game (4.4).

•Madison St. Rose has scored 64.0 percent of her total points for the season in the last nine games, all of which Princeton has won.

•She's averaged 14.7 points during that stretch and has eight 10+ point performances. She has raised her average point total from 5.7 to 9.4.

•Julia Cunningham has scored 1,012 points in her career. She scored her 1,000th career point at Columbia becoming the 27th Princeton Tiger to reach that milestone. Carlie Littlefield was the last Tiger prior to Cunningham to score 1,000 points.

•Paige Morton has scored 96 points this season, 65 more than last season. She's averaging 2.8 points more (4.4) than the 2021-22 campaign. Morton and Parker Hill combined to go 10-of-10 from the floor at Dartmouth.

•Parker Hill has more than doubled her point total from last year (49-23). She and Morton combined to go 8-of-10 shooting vs. Dartmouth on Saturday.

•Chet Nweke has outscored her total from last season (81-72). She is averaging 3.9 points after registering 2.4 per contest last year.

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for three and is shooting 40.2 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 9.8 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 110 games in her career while Julia Cunningham has seen time in 108 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 107.

•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.

•The Tigers had five players score in double figures at Dartmouth, marking the first time they have done that since playing Buffalo in December of 2021.

•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 two. 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 11 games since.

•The Tigers ranked in the top 100 nationally in the following ...

Scoring Defense (54.4) - 11th
Turnover Margin (+4.77) - 24th
Fewest Turnovers per game (13.8) - 38th
Scoring Margin (+11.6) - 44th
Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.09) - 47th
Net Ranking - 50th
Rebound Margin (+5.6) - 53rd
Turnovers Forced per contest (18.23) - 70th
Steals per game (9.1) - 74th
Field Goal Percentage Defense (37.8) - 67th
Assists per contest (14.7) - 86th
Offensive Rebounds per game (12.9) - 89th

•The Tigers have had over 1,000 fans at Jadwin for six consecutive Ivy League games and seven of the last eight contests overall.

•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.

Princeton vs. Brown/Yale
•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Brown, 55-31. The Tigers have won 31 of the last 34 meetings and have not lost two straight to the Bears since 2005.

•Princeton leads the all-time series vs. Yale, 65-32. The Tigers have won 25 of the last 27 against the Bulldogs.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Feb. 15
•Princeton is ranked No. 12 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (78.7), 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 (23.2), 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. 41 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.

•The Tigers' opponents are only scoring .71 points per play, 20th best in the country.

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 29.8 percent - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 4.6- 95th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 3.0 - 92nd percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.62 - 92nd percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.5% - 88th percentile
Usage Rate - 24.7 - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 3.2 - 7th overall
Defensive Rating - 69.5- 15th overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.8% - 21st overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 20.9% - 29th overall
Steal Rate - 4.8 percent - 35th overall
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.6% - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 4.1 - 92nd percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 2.1 - 97th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.6 percent - 96th percentile
Defensive Rating - 79.2 - 95th percentile
Win Shares - 4.1- 92nd percentile
Assist Rate - 22.4 percent - 90th percentile

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot.
Maggie Connolly - 6
Paige Morton, Amelia Osgood, Lexi Weger, Grace Stone anf Julia Cunningham - 2
Ellie Mitchell, Kaitlyn Chen, and Madison St. Rose - 1.

Breakfast is King ...
The team led by captain Maggie Connolly and Katie Thiers have ranked each road 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)
Columbia - 7.8 (great bacon and eggs, but the room was freezing),
Dartmouth - 7.5 (good pancakes and sausage, but eggs and bacon were meh)
Towson - 6.5 (basic)
Cornell - 5.3 (runny eggs, not many options)
Maine - 3.5 (there was food).

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