Women's Basketball Hosts Harvard For Senior Day Friday

PRINCETON - The Women's Basketball Team will host Harvard for Senior Night on Friday at Jadwin Gym. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 19-5 this season after dropping Brown and Yale on the road last weekend.

•The Tigers earned a berth in the Ivy League Tournament on Friday and collected its 11th straight victory with the decision over Yale.

•Princeton can clinch a share of the Ivy League regular season title with a win and Columbia loss to Brown on Saturday.

•In the Brown game, the Tigers allowed only two free throws in the third quarter while shooting 13-of-14 from the floor. It's the second time that the Tigers have not allowed basket in a quarter during the Carla Berube era.

•Princeton shot 55.9 percent (33-of-59) against Brown, their highest percentage since the Tigers shot 58.7 percent vs. Cornell in March of 2019.

•The Tigers also blocked 11 shots at Brown, their most since February of 2020 vs. Harvard.

•Kaitlyn Chen scored 25 points at Yale on Saturday. It's the seventh 20+ point performance of Chen's career and her fifth this season. She shot 21-of-30 (70 percent) for the weekend, contributing 45 points.

•Prior to the game vs. Harvard, the Tigers will honor the Class of 2023 in Julia Cunningham, Maggie Connolly, Grace Stone, Kira Emsbo and Lexi Weger. That group has combined to go 92-21 (.814) overall and 50-4 in the Ivy League (.925).

•This group has the opportunity to win its fourth Ivy League title this year. Only 15 players in Ivy Women's Basketball history have won four Ivy titles.

•Six of the 15 players have been from Princeton (Jacqueline Jackson '78, Maggie Meier '78, Meg Bowen '13, Kate Miller '13, Lauren Polansky '13, Niveen Rasheed '13).

2022-23 Stats And Things ...
Stats through Feb. 22
•Ellie Mitchell is 10th in the country in rebounds per game (10.9), 12th in offensive rebounds per contest (4.0) and 24th in total rebounds (261).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 15 games this season and 12+ in 11 contests.

•Her 10.9 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 742 rebounds are seventh highest in program history and she's seven shy of sixth (Annie Tarakchian '16).

•The junior is 50th in the nation in steals per game (2.38) and 64th in steals (57).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 14.8 points per game and field goal percentage (48.2). She has scored in double figures in every game except for four.

•The junior is 90th in the country in field goal percentage and is tops in the Ivy League. Only 15.8 percent of her shots come from outside the three-point line.

•She sits 89th nationally in assists per game (4.2). Chen is also in the top three in the conference in assist/turnover ratio (1.58, second), total assists (101) and assists per contest (third).

•Madison St. Rose has scored 67.8 percent of her total points for the season in the last 11 games, all of which Princeton has won.

•She's averaged 14.2 points during that stretch and has nine 10+ point performances. She has raised her average point total from 5.7 to 9.6.

•St. Rose has earned three Ivy Rookie of the Week honors and one National Freshman of the Week accolade.

•Julia Cunningham has scored 1,029 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 98 points this season, 65 more than last season. She's averaging 2.5 points more (4.1) 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 (56-23). She and Morton combined to go 8-of-10 shooting vs. Dartmouth earlier this month.

•Chet Nweke has outscored her total from last season (88-72). She is averaging 3.8 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 40.6 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 9.5 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 112 games in her career while Julia Cunningham has seen time in 110 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 109.

•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.

•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 and Yale contests. 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 three. 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 (53.1) - 9th
Turnover Margin (+5.08) - 21st
Scoring Margin (+13.5) - 27th
Fewest Turnovers per game (13.5) - 39th
Field Goal Percentage Defense (37.0) - 42nd
Net Ranking - 42nd
Rebound Margin (+6.2) - 46th
Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.07) - 54th
Turnovers Forced per contest (18.54) - 55th
Three-point field goal percentage defense (28.5) - 58th
Offensive Rebounds per game (13.0) - 74th
Steals per game (8.8) - 92nd
Assists per contest (14.4) - 99th

•The Ivy League is the only non-power five conference (in addition to the Big East) to have at least two teams in the top 45 in Net Rankings (Columbia 36th, Princeton 42nd).

•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.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Feb. 22
•Princeton is ranked No. 10 in the NCAA in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (78.5), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 33 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.4), 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. 42 in Simple RPI (59.2) 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 are only scoring .69 points per play, 16th best in the country and 35th in points per scoring attempt (.90).

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 29.5 percent - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 5.7 - 97th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 3.7 - 95th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 2.0 - 95th percentile
PER - 23.1 - 93rd percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.58 - 92nd percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.5% - 90th percentile
Usage Rate - 25.3 - 87th percentile
Defensive Rating - 84.3 - 87th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 3.6 - 5th overall
Defensive Rating - 68.1- 10th overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 21.4% - 21st overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.7% - 28th overall
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 14.8% - 48th overall
Steal Rate - 4.3 percent - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 4.8 - 94 percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 2.6 - 98th percentile
Defensive Rating - 76.9 - 97th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.5 percent - 96th percentile
Win Shares - 4.9- 95th percentile
Assist Rate - 21.3 percent - 88th percentile
PER - 21.2 - 86th percentile
Block Rate - 3.3 percent - 85th percentile

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot.

Maggie Connolly - 8 - She made both during the Brown and Yale weekend.
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)
Brown - 6.2 (fantastic potatoes, good fruit and bacon, french toast was a disaster
Yale 6.2 - poor, poor eggs, solid sausage and bacon, good pancakes
Towson - 6.5 (basic)
Cornell - 5.3 (runny eggs, not many options)
Maine - 3.5 (there was food).

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