No. 25 Women's Basketball To Take On Penn Saturday On Senior Day

PRINCETON – The No. 25 Princeton Women's Basketball Team welcomes the Penn Quakers to Jadwin Gym on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS

•Princeton Women's Basketball is back in the WBCA Coaches' Poll at No. 25 after a one-week absence.
•The Tigers are only one of 13 teams to have a perfect home record (10-0).
•Princeton is No. 31 in the NCAA Net Rankings, the third-best mark among non-Power Five and Big East schools. (Gonzaga, UNLV).
•Princeton ranks in the NCAA's Top 100 in ...

Scoring defense (56.0, 20th), Turnover margin (+4.85, 23rd), Turnovers per game (12.8, 24th), Field goal percentage (45.7, 29th), Scoring margin (+13.8, 32nd), Rebound margin (+6.3, 34th), Offensive rebounds per game (13.4), Assist/Turnover ratio (1.07, 58th), Three-point field goal percentage (33.3, 84th) and scoring offense (69.8, 97th).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

•Kaitlyn Chen was named to the USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List and the Intersport Women's College All-Star Game Player Watch List two weeks ago.
•The week prior, she was one of the USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale National Players of the Week.
•The senior captain leads the Tigers in scoring at 15.6 points per game. She has nine double-digit performances in the last 10 games and 22 overall this season. She also has six 20+ point outings.
•She has 1,205 career points and is 14th on the program's all-time list behind Blake Dietrick '15 (1,233).
•Chen recorded her 1,000th career point in the win over Vermont becoming the 28th Tiger to reach that milestone.
•The captain is shooting 48.3 percent from the floor which is a personal best and is 94th in the NCAA. Her 33.3percent from deep is also a career high.
•Her career mark of 14.1 points per game currently sits ninth all-time. She also has a new personal best with 125 assists this season and 337 in her career. Her 337 dimes are seventh most in Princeton history, three behind Ellen Tomasiewicz '82 for sixth). She is 25 shy of Leah Spraragen '92 for second (362).
•Madison St. Rose is second on the squad in scoring at 13.9 points per game. St. Rose has raised her scoring output from 8.8 as a freshman to 14.1 as a sophomore along with her shooting percentage (.361-.421) and three-point percentage (.255-.339).
•The sophomore has scored in double figures 20 times this season.
•She has already surpassed her total field goals (143), three-point total (40-27), assists (34-20) and steals (43-28) than her freshman campaign.
•Skye Belker is third on the unit in scoring at 9.0 points per game. She set a new personal best with 21 points vs. Columbia at home.
•It was the second time she's registered at least 20 points in a game. She also has 10 double-digit performances.
•Since moving into the starting lineup vs. Columbia, Chet Nweke has posted 11.3 points while shooting 67.2 percent from the floor along with 6.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game.
•Ellie Mitchell continues to be one of the best rebounders in the country as she is 17th in offensive rebounds per contest (4.0), 29th in rebounds per game (10.0) and 49th in total rebounds (261).
•Mitchell has 51 games with at least 10 rebounds or more. She recorded six as a freshman, 16 as a sophomore, 17 as a junior and 12 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 is the second Ivy weekly honor during her time at Princeton.
•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.
•Mitchell is the only player in the NCAA to record at least 18 rebounds, five assists and three steals in two games this season (vs. Oklahoma and at Columbia).
•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 1,080, 19 shy of Margaret Meier (1974-78) for first (1,099). Meier and Mitchell have the two highest rebounding career totals in Princeton Basketball history.

PHILADELPHIA UNION

•Head coach Carla Berube's unit is No. 24 in Her Hoop Stats' Simple RPI (61.2) 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. 21 in Her Hoops Stats Defensive Rating (81.8), a statistic that controls for pace and adjusts defensive rating for the strength of the offenses teams have faced.
•Princeton is 12th in the country in offensive rebounding rate (39.3).
•The Tigers are No. 30 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 - 2.9 - 98th percentile
Win Shares - 3.8 - 98th percentile
Assist Percentage - 28.2 percent - 96th percentile
PER - 25.4 - 94th percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.81 - 95th percentile
Offensive Rating - 113.3 - 93rd percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 0.9 - 90th percentile
Points Per Play - 0.93 - 85th percentile

Ellie Mitchell
Total Rebound % - 20.6 - 25th overall
Defensive Rebounding % - 25.7 - 39th overall
Offensive Rebounding % - 15.9 - 45th overall
Defensive Win Shares - 1.5 - 98th percentile
Defensive Rating - 78.3 - 98th percentile
Offensive Rating - 114.2 - 94th percentile
Total Win Shares - 2.8 - 93rd percentile
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 1.56 - 91st percentile
Steal Percentage - 2.7 - 87th percentile

Madison St. Rose
Offensive Win Shares - 1.7 - 91st percentile
Win Shares - 2.7 - 92nd percentile
Steal Percentage - 2.9 - 90th percentile
Defensive Win Shares - 1.0 - 91st percentile
Usage Rate - 25.7 percent - 88th percentile
PER - 20.9 - 85th percentile

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