No. 24/No.25 Women's Basketball Heads To Philadelphia To Take On Penn Saturday

PRINCETON – The No. 24/25 Princeton Women's Basketball Team heads to Philadelphia to take on the Penn Quakers Saturday at 2 p.m.

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SONNY'S
•Princeton is currently No. 24 in the WBCA Coaches' Poll and No. 25 in the AP Top-25 Poll. It's the second straight week head coach Carla Berube's team is ranked in both polls.

•The Tigers' 12-game winning streak is tied for the fifth longest in the NCAA.

•The Tigers are only one of 24 teams to have a perfect home record (8-0).

•Princeton is No. 32 in the NCAA Net Rankings, the second best mark among non-Power Five and Big East schools. (Gonzaga)

GENO'S
•Kaitlyn Chen earned Ivy League and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Player of the Week this week.

•The senior captain averaged 22.0 points (57.1%), 5.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.5 steals as the Tigers collected two Ivy wins over the weekend. She ripped off 27 points, five dimes and four rebounds vs. Yale and added 17 points, six caroms and four helpers in the win over Brown.

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

•She has 1,114 career points and is 21st on the program's all-time list behind Christina Smith '94 (1,116).

•Chen is shooting 48.6 percent from the floor which is a personal best as is her 35.4 percent from deep.

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

•Chen is averaging a career-high 4.5 assists per game (73rd in the NCAA) and has 302 in her career, good for ninth all-time in Tigers' history. Her 90 helpers are 96th in the NCAA.

•The senior 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.

•Madison St. Rose is second on the squad in scoring at 15.5 points per game.

St. Rose has raised her scoring output from 8.8 as a freshman to 15.5 as a sophomore along with her shooting percentage (.361-.438), three-point percentage (.255-.358), and free throw percentage (.778-.846).

•She has already surpassed her total field goals from last season (121), her three-point total (34-27) and has more assists (27-20) and steals (37-28) than her freshman campaign.

•The sophomore has scored in double figures in all but four of the team's games.

•Skye Belker is third on the unit in scoring at 9.9 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 in a game. She also has nine double-digit performances.

JIM'S
•Ellie Mitchell continues to be one of the best rebounders in the country as she is 14th in rebounds per game (10.8), 10th in offensive caroms per contest (4.4) and 26th in total boards (215).

•Mitchell has 50 games with at least 10 rebounds or more. She recorded six as a freshman, 16 as a sophomore, 17 as a junior and 11 this season. This includes a current stretch of three of her last four games.

•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 1,034, 65 shy of Margaret Meier (1974-78) for first (1,099). Meier and Mitchell have the two highest rebounding career totals in Princeton Basketball history.

PAT'S
•The Tigers rank in the NCAA's Top 100 in ... Field Goal Percentage (45.6, 34th), Rebound Margin (+6.7, 37th), Scoring Defense (57.8, 43rd), Turnover Margin (+3.95, 44th), Scoring Margin (+12.8, 45th), Offensive Rebounds Per Game (13.8, 47th), Assist/Turnover Ratio (1.05, 64th), Blocks Per Game (3.9, 78th) and Three-Point Field Goal Percentage (33.6, 80th).

GENO'S
•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is No. 19 in Her Hoop Stats' Simple RPI (61.8) 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.

•Princeton sits No. 26 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (81.4), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.

•Princeton is 9th in the country in offensive rebounding rate (39.8).

•The Tigers are No. 37 in Her Hoops Stats Rating (24.4) 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 - 2.0 - 97th percentile
Win Shares - 2.6 - 96th percentile
Assist Percentage - 26.5 percent - 95th percentile
PER - 24.0 - 91st percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.5 - 90th percentile
Offensive Rating - 110.1 - 88th percentile
Usage Rate - 25.0 percent - 86th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Total Rebound % - 21.3 - 16th overall
Offensive Rebounding % - 16.7 - 31st overall
Defensive Rebounding % - 26.8 - 42nd overall
Defensive Win Shares - 1.1 - 98th percentile
Defensive Rating - 79.8 - 95th percentile
Total Win Shares - 2.1 - 93rd percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.69 - 93rd percentile
Block Percentage - 3.4 - 86th percentile

Madison St. Rose
Offensive Win Shares - 1.8 - 96th percentile
Win Shares - 2.4 - 95th percentile
Steal Percentage - 3.2 - 92nd percentile
PER - 24.1 - 92nd percentile
Usage Rate - 26.6 percent - 91st percentile
Offensive Rating - 110.6 - 89th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.7 - 88th percentile
Points Per Play - 0.94 - 86th percentile

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