Women's Basketball Heads To Harvard/Dartmouth This Weekend

Saturday, January 13

Cambridge, Mass.

2:00 PM

Princeton University

Harvard

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Women's Basketball Heads To Harvard/Dartmouth This Weekend

January 12, 2024 | Women's Basketball

PRINCETON - The Princeton Women's Basketball Team takes on the Harvard Crimson (Jan. 13, 2 p.m.) and Dartmouth Big Green (Jan. 15, 6 p.m.) this weekend on the road.

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Game Notes

POKER FACE
•Kaitlyn Chen leads the team in scoring at 16.2 points per game which is tied for her career best. She also registered that mark last season.

•The senior captain recorded her 1,000th career point in the win over Vermont becoming the 28th Tiger to reach that milestone.

•Chen scored 15 points, dished out seven assists and had a career-high five steals at Cornell. She is one of only 17 players in the NCAA to reach those benchmarks in a game according to HerHoopStats.

•She was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Dec. 19 for the fourth time in her career.

•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 35.3 percent from deep, which would be a career high.

•Her career mark of 13.9 points per game currently sits ninth all-time.

•Chen is averaging a career-high 4.4 assists per game (95th in the NCAA) and has 273 in her career, 22 shy of the top 10 in program history.

•Madison St. Rose is second on the team in scoring at 15.8 points per contest. She has scored in double figures in 11 games this season after doing it just 12 times in 2022-23.

•She has five 20+ point performances including 24 in the win over No. 20 Oklahoma.

•The sophomore has raised her scoring output from 8.8 as a freshman to 15.8 as a sophomore along with her shooting percentage (.361-.441), three-point percentage (.255-.408), and free throw percentage (.778-.839).

JUST DANCE
•Ellie Mitchell continues to be one of the best rebounders in the country as she is 10th in rebounds per game (11.0), offensive caroms per contest (4.1), 15th in total rebounds (154) and 30th in defensive rebounds per game (6.9).

•Mitchell has 46 games with at least 10 rebounds or more. She recorded six as a freshman, 16 as a sophomore, 17 as a junior and seven 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 second all-time in rebounds with 973, 126 shy of Margaret Meier (1974-78) for first (1,099).

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

I GOT A FEELING
•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.

•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.

LOVE STORY
•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is No. 20 in Her Hoop Stats' Simple RPI (62.1) 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 (95.8) is 43rd in the NCAA while their opponents' average margin per 100 possessions (+6.3) is 40th.

•Princeton sits No. 28 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (80.4), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•The Tigers are No. 40 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.3) 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 (103.7), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts offensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•Princeton is 39th in the country in offensive rebounding rate (37.6).

Kaitlyn Chen
Offensive Win Shares - 1.4 - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 1.7 - 95th percentile
Assist Percentage - 26.4 percent - 94th percentile
PER - 23.1 - 88th percentile
Usage Rate Percentage - 25.3- 86th percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.39 - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Total Rebound % - 21.0 - 23rd overall
Defensive Rebounding % - 26.7 - 31st overall
Offensive Rebounding % - 15.5 - 98th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.7 - 97th percentile
Defensive Rating - 80.4 - 91st percentile
Block % - 3.8 - 89th percentile
Total Win Shares - 1.2 - 88th percentile

Madison St. Rose
Offensive Win Shares - 1.3- 96th percentile
Win Shares - 1.6 - 94th percentile
PER - 24.2- 90th percentile
Usage Rate - 26.3 percent - 89th percentile
Points Per Play - 0.98 - 89th percentile
Offensive Rating - 112.2 - 89th percentile

Skye Belker
Offensive Win Shares - 0.7 - 85th percentile
Win Shares - 0.9 - 80th percentile
Offensive Rating - 106.3 - 80th percentile

RIGHT ROUND
•Princeton is 51-42 all-time against Harvard including 19-26 on the road. The Tigers have won 18 of the last 20 meetings vs. the Crimson dating back to Jan. of 2014.

The Tigers are 44-44 in their history vs. Dartmouth including 18-25 on the road. Princeton has lost once to Dartmouth since 2009.

LOVEGAME
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Margo Mattes (Duquesne, Seton Hall, Le Moyne, Cornell), Kaitlyn Chen (Middle Tenn.) Ellie Mitchell (UCLA, Villanova, Vermont), Skye Belker (San Diego, Oklahoma, Quinnipiac), Chet Nweke (Rutgers) have done it this season.

MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU
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.
Vermont - 8.7
San Diego - 8.3
Le Moyne - 8.0
UCLA - 7.0, Rhode Island - 6.6, Middle Tennessee St. - 5.5, Ithaca - 5.4

PAPARAZZI
•Since OAC contact Warren Croxton had his first child, Teresa, in March of 2022, the Tigers are 36-10 (.782 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 .785 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.