Women's Basketball Continues Homestand vs. Cornell

PRINCETON - The Princeton Women's Basketball Team continues its homestand vs. Cornell Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

PROFESSOR HINKLE

•Madison St. Rose leads the team in scoring at 16.0 points per contest.
•The New Jersey native has 14 double digit scoring contests this season, surpassing her total from last year (12).
•She has six 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 16.0 as a sophomore along with her shooting percentage (.361-.449), three-point percentage (.255-.370), and free throw percentage (.778-.829).
•She has already tied her total field goals from last season (106), surpassed her three-point total (31-27) and has more assists (25-20) and steals (33-28) than her freshman campaign.
•Kaitlyn Chen is second on the squad in scoring at 15.1 points per contest.
•The senior captain recorded her 1,000th career point in the win over Vermont becoming the 28th Tiger to reach that milestone.
•She has 1,058 career points and is 4 points shy of 25th on the all-time scoring list.
•Chen scored 15 points, dished out seven assists and had a career-high five steals at Cornell. She was the 17th player 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 is shooting 47.1 percent from the floor which is a personal best as is her 32.4 percent from deep.
•Her career mark of 13.7 points per game currently sits ninth all-time.
•Chen is averaging a career-high 4.2 assists per game and has 283 in her career, 12 shy of the top 10 in program 00history.
•Skye Belker is third on the unit in scoring at 10.1 points per game. She set a new personal best with 21 points vs. Columbia.
•It was the second time she's registered at least 20 points and the eighth time she's had at least 10 points.

KAREN

•Ellie Mitchell continues to be one of the best rebounders in the country as she is ninth in rebounds per game (11.1), eighth in offensive caroms per contest (4.3) and 22nd in total boards (189).
•Mitchell has 48 games with at least 10 rebounds or more. She recorded six as a freshman, 16 as a sophomore, 17 as a junior and nine this season.
•The senior captain added her 15th career double-double with 14 points and 15 rebounds vs. Columbia. It led to her being named Ivy Co-Player of the Week for the first time in her career. It's the second Ivy weekly honor during her time at Princeton.
•Mitchell posted her 13th career double-double with 11 points and 16 rebounds vs. No. 19 Indiana along with her 14th double-double with 10 points and 14 caroms at Harvard.
•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 1,008, 91 shy of Margaret Meier (1974-78) for first (1,099).

TICKET MAN

•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.
•Princeton sits No. 25 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (80.5), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.
•Princeton is 28th in the country in offensive rebounding rate (37.7).
•The Tigers are No. 37 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (23.8) a rating of teams that controls for pace, adjusts for opponent quality, and incorporates margin of victory in addition to wins and losses.

Kaitlyn Chen
Offensive Win Shares - 1.4 - 95th percentile
Win Shares - 1.9 - 93rd percentile
Assist Percentage - 25.3 percent - 93rd percentile
PER - 21.7 - 86th percentile
Usage Rate - 24.9 percent - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Total Rebound % - 20.8 - 25th overall
Defensive Rebounding % - 27.0 - 36th overall
Offensive Rebounding % - 15.2 - 98th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.9 - 96th percentile
Defensive Rating - 78.4 - 95th percentile
Total Win Shares - 1.5 - 91st percentile

Madison St. Rose
Offensive Win Shares - 1.6- 96th percentile
Win Shares - 2.1 - 96th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.2 - 92nd percentile
PER - 25.0 - 92nd percentile
Usage Rate - 26.5 percent - 90th percentile
Points Per Play - 0.97 - 89th percentile
Offensive Rating - 110.9 - 88th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.6 - 88th percentile

Skye Belker
Offensive Rating - 112.7 - 91st percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 1.1 - 90th percentile
Win Shares - 1.4 - 86th percentile

THE GREENHOUSE
•Princeton finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Margo Mattes leads all Tigers with five, followed by Ellie Mitchell and Skye Belker with three. Kaitlyn Chen, Paige Morton, Parker Hill Chet Nweke have done it once.

THE TOWNSPEOPLE

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

Fort Myers, Harvard - 9.4 - These are the best rankings over the last two seasons.
Vermont - 8.7
San Diego - 8.3
Le Moyne, Dartmouth - 8.0
UCLA - 7.0, Rhode Island - 6.6, Middle Tennessee St. - 5.5, Ithaca - 5.4

SANTA'S SLEIGH

•Since OAC contact Warren Croxton had his first child, Teresa, in March of 2022, the Tigers are 39-10 (.795 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 .824 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.

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