Women's Basketball Ends Regular Season At Penn Friday

PRINCETON – The Women's Basketball Team makes the trip to the Palestra to take on the Penn Quakers on Friday evening to finish the regular season.

TIp-off is set for 7 p.m. The game can be seen locally on television on NBC Sports Philadelphia +.

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How Did We Get Here?
•Princeton is 20-5 this season after defeating Harvard at home on Senior Night last week.

•Kaitlyn Chen scored the game-winning basket with 19 seconds to go as the Tigers rallied from 12 down to earn the victory.

• The road team led 46-39 with 7:19 remaining, but Chen scored six points over the next seven minutes including the game-tying and game-winning baskets while the Tigers' defense allowed just one point the rest of the way.

•The home unit outscored Harvard 31-17 in the second half.

•Princeton can clinch a share of the Ivy League regular season crown with a win over Penn. It would be the program's fifth straight conference title. The Tigers can win the title outright with a Columbia loss to Cornell on Saturday.

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad honored the Class of 2023 in Cunningham, Stone, Maggie Connolly, Lexi Weger and Kira Emsbo before the Harvard game. Those five also started together vs. Harvard. The group has won over 80 percent of its games (93-21, .816) and has gone 51-4 (.928) in the Ivy League during its four playing years.

•That 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. 28.
•Ellie Mitchell is 10th in the country in offensive rebounds per game (4.0), 11th in rebounds per contest (10.9) and 33rd in total rebounds (273).

•She has registered at least nine rebounds in 16 games this season and 12+ in 12 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 754 rebounds are sixth highest in program history.

•The junior is 50th in the nation in steals per game (2.36) and 76th in steals (59).

•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 15.0 points per game and field goal percentage (48.4). She has scored in double figures in every game except for four.

•The junior is 93rd in the country in field goal percentage. Only 15.2 percent of her shots come from outside the three-point line.

•She sits 98th nationally in assists per game (4.1). Chen is also in the top three in the conference in total assists (103) and assists per contest (third).

•Madison St. Rose has scored 68.5 percent of her total points for the season in the last 12 games, all of which Princeton has won.

•She's averaged 13.4 points during that stretch and has nine 10+ point performances. She has raised her average point total from 5.7 to 9.4.

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

•Julia Cunningham has scored 1,033 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.

•Grace Stone has made at least one three in every game except for three and is shooting 40.4 percent from deep to pace the Tigers.

•The senior is averaging a career-high 9.6 points per game. She 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 113 games in her career while
Julia Cunningham has seen time in 111 and Maggie Connolly has seen action in 110.

•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 in 21 games.

•The Tigers have at least 10 assists in each game this season in 21 contests. 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 12 games since.

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

Scoring Defense (52.7) - 9th
Turnover Margin (+5.12) - 23rd
Scoring Margin (+13.2) - 28th
Turnovers forced per contest (18.72) - 41st
Net Ranking - 46th
Field Goal Percentage Defense (37.2) - 47th
Fewest Turnovers per game (13.6) - 50th
Rebound Margin (+5.7) - 50th
Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.05) - 64th
Rebound Margin (+6.2) - 46th
Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.05) - 64th
Three-point field goal percentage defense (28.9) - 72nd
Offensive Rebounds per game (12.8) - 78th
Steals per game (8.9) - 87th

•The Tigers have had over 1,000 fans at Jadwin for seven straight Ivy League games for the first time since 2014-15 and eight of the last nine 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 in Ivy Madness …
•Princeton has been in the Ivy League Tournament each year of its existence starting 2016-17.

•The Tigers have reached the championship game each year (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022), winning three times while losing in 2017 to Penn.

•Bella Alarie, twice, and Kaitlyn Chen have won the last three Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards.

•Princeton has had 11 All-Tournament selections in Alarie (three), Abby Meyers (twice) Leslie Robinson (twice), Gabrielle Rush, Carlie Littlefield, Julia Cunningham and Chen.

2022-23 Her Hoops Information ...
Stats Through Feb. 28
•Princeton is ranked No. 10 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 (22.8), 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. 38 in Simple RPI (59.5) 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, 13th best in the country and 34th in points per scoring attempt (.91).

Kaitlyn Chen
Assist Rate - 29.2 percent - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 5.9 - 96th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 2.1 - 95th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 3.8 - 94th percentile
PER - 23.0 - 90th percentile
Assist/TOV - 1.49 - 90th percentile
Personal Foul Percentage - 2.6% - 88th percentile
Usage Rate - 25.5 - 88th percentile
Defensive Rating - 84.0 - 88th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Defensive Win Shares - 3.8 - 6th overall
Defensive Rating - 68.1 - 9th overall
Total Rebounding Percentage - 21.5% - 19th overall
Defensive Rebound Percentage - 27.9% - 25th overall
Offensive Rebound Percentage - 15.7% - 43rd overall
Steal Rate - 4.2 percent - 53rd overall
Win Shares - 5.0 - 94th percentile

Julia Cunningham
Defensive Win Shares - 2.8 - 98th percentile
Defensive Rating - 76.5 - 98th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.5 percent - 96th percentile
Win Shares - 4.9- 93rd percentile
Assist Rate - 21.4 percent - 88th percentile
Block Rate - 3.4 percent - 86th percentile

Shoot Around Fun ...
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Maggie Connolly - 8
Paige Morton, Amelia Osgood, Lexi Weger, Grace Stone and Julia Cunningham - 2
Ellie Mitchell, Kaitlyn Chen, Katie Thiers, 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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