Women's Basketball Makes Trips To Rutgers and Temple

PRINCETON – The Princeton Women's Basketball continues the local circuit with trips to Rutgers on Sunday (2 p.m.) and Temple on Tuesday (5 p.m.).

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Game Notes

Tyler Phillips - Last Game Information
•The Princeton Women's Basketball Team shot 62 percent from the floor en route to a 78-75 victory over the Seton Hall Pirates at Walsh Gym on Thursday evening.

•In front by five, 66-61, with 4:41 to go, Cristina Parrella knocked down two corner treys on consecutive possessions to extend the lead to 11, 72-61. Seton Hall made one more push, cutting the deficit to five, 74-69, with 2:16 left, but Princeton hit four free throws down the stretch to clinch the game.

•Skye Belker matched her career high with 21 points while adding a personal-best six assists. Tabitha Amanze also had a new career mark with 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting.

•Neither team led by more than five points in the first quarter before Toby Nweke's put back at the buzzer got the Tigers within one, 20-19.

•Princeton ran out with a 10-2 sprint in the second stanza to go up nine, 35-26, as the clock read 3:37 and eventually took a 39-31 advantage into halftime. The Tigers went 7-of-10 during that stretch, hitting five three-pointers.

•The Tigers expanded their lead to 16 in the third frame, but Seton Hall made a frantic push, ending the quarter on a 14-2 run to make it a 58-54 contest after 30 minutes.

•Ashley Chea and Fadima Tall also scored in double figures for Princeton with 10 points each. Parker Hill (+16) and Olivia Hutcherson (+15) led the team in plus/minus in the victory.

•Head coach Carla Berube's team went 12-of-19 from deep, finishing at 63.2 percent. The game was the first time Princeton had shot over 60 percent since February 27, 2016 at Cornell (94-57 win, 67.3 percent).

Kid Gleason - Analytical Info. for 2024-25
•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is currently No. 13 in the Her Hoop Stats' Simple RPI (60.8) 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 have an assisted shot rate of 68.9 percent which is the percentage of field goals assisted by the team. That ranks No. 7 in the country.

•Princeton is 43rd in Her Hoops Stats' Offensive Rating (105.0), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•Head coach Carla Berube's team has an effective field goal percentage (52.6), good for 48th in the NCAA.

Skye Belker
Offensive Win Shares - 0.5 - 95th percentile
Assist to Turnover Ratio - 2.1 - 92nd percentile
Assist Percentage - 25.0 - 90th percentile

Ashley Chea
Percentage of Points from Three - 70.9 - 93rd percentile
Three Point Rate Percentage - 65.3 - 92nd percentile
Percentage of Points from Two - 21.8 - 90th percentile
Offensive Win Shares - 0.3 - 86th percentile

Alex Ferguson- Interesting Nuggets
•Ellie Mitchell, Julia Cunningham, Maggie Connolly, Lexi Weger, Kira Emsbo, and Grace Stone have each won their fourth Ivy regular season titles during the past two years.

•Only 22 players in Ivy history have won four Ivy crowns. More than half have come from Princeton (Jackie Jackson '78, Maggie Meier '78, Meg Bowen '13, Kate Miller '13, Lauren Polansky '13, Niveen Rasheed '13 are the others.)

•Princeton has a 20-game home winning streak, which is the seventh longest in the NCAA.

•Princeton's 15-point comeback at Rutgers in 2022-23 was the largest of the Carla Berube era.

•After winning 20 games just three times prior to the 2009-10 season, the Tigers have won at least 20 games in all but one campaign since.

•Stone's buzzer beater over Rhode Island on Dec. 28, 2022 was the first buzzer beater for the Tigers 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 finishes each shootaround on the day of a game with a half-court shot. Taylor Charles hit the first one at Duquesne while Skye Belker hit the one at DePaul and at Quinnipiac. Amelia Osgood hit the one before Villanova. Last season, Margo Mattes led all Tigers with five, followed by Ellie Mitchell with four.

Rawly Eastwick - #PrincetonPros
•Abby Meyers' 22 signed with the London Lions of the Women's British Basketball League in the summer of 2023. She averaged 14.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.2 steals leading to her being named Eurobasket.com All-British WBBL Sixth Player of the Year.

•Meyers is currently with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod in Israel.

•Meyers got some playing time in the WNBA with the Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings.

•She was drafted in the first round of the 2023 WNBA Draft by the Wings.

•Meyers was the fifth Ivy League player to be selected in the WNBA Draft, the third Princeton Tiger (Bella Alarie, Leslie Robinson) and the third Ivy athlete to be picked in the first round (Alarie and Allison Feaster '98 Harvard).

•Bella Alarie '20, one of the greatest players in program history, is a graduate assistant at Georgetown.

•She was selected in the first round of the 2020 WNBA Draft by the Wings. She played in two seasons, totaling 53 games along with 2.6 points and 3.1 rebounds per game before retiring.

•Alarie was first in program history in Ivy Player of the Week awards (20), blocks (249), double-doubles (40) and points (1,703).

•She was also in the top 10 in rebounds, field goal attempts, rebounding average, field goals, scoring average, free throws, free-throw attempts and free throw percentage.

•Grace Stone '23 is playing for Tapiolan Honka in Finland. Last season she played with the Anagennisi Germasogeias of Cyprus and also saw action in Australia.

•Stone graduated from Princeton third all-time in games played (118) and fifth in free throw percentage (.802).

•She recorded 807 points, 405 rebounds, 138 steals and 55 blocks during her time with the Tigers.

•Carlie Littlefield '21 is playing for the Hapoel Rishon Le-Zion of Israel now. She has appeared in leagues in Slovakia and Belgium.

•Littlefield recorded 1,021 points in 87 games for the Tigers, adding 358 rebounds, 255 assists and 135 steals.

•Littlefield '21 and Blake Dietrick '15 led the U.S. 3x3 team to a series victory in Pristina, Kosovo in July of 2023. The tournament win is the third-ever in the Women's Series for the United States (2022 - Quebec City, 2021 - Klaipeda).

•Dietrick helped the United States 3x3 women's team earn gold at the 2023 Pan American Games in October of 2023. The United States dropped Colombia, 21-14, in the gold medal game to secure its second straight gold at the Pan American Games.

•The United States dropped Colombia, 21-14, in the gold medal game to secure its second straight gold at the Pan American Games. The former Tiger led the U.S. to a 21-6 win over Venezuela in the quarterfinals and a 21-14 victory over Chile in Semifinals.

•During her senior campaign, Dietrick helped the Tigers to one of the greatest seasons in Ivy League history. The Tigers had an unblemished 30-0 regular season, won its fifth Ivy League title in six years, and won the program's first ever NCAA Tournament game in 2015.

•Princeton plays at Rutgers which is located in New Jersey on Sunday and Temple, which is located in Philadelphia on Tuesday. This writer's favorite team is the Philadelphia Phillies, so each bullet point is named after a baseball player who was born in New Jersey and played for the Philadelphia Phillies.

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