Women's Basketball Welcomes Rutgers to Jadwin Wednesday

Wednesday, December 10

Princeton, N.J.

7:30 PM

Princeton University

Rutgers

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Women's Basketball Welcomes Rutgers to Jadwin Wednesday

December 09, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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PRINCETON - The Princeton Women's Basketball Team takes on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Jadwin Gym on Wednesday. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m.

•Olivia Hutcherson recorded a second half double-double to help the Princeton Women's Basketball Team defeat the Belmont Bruins, 70-58, at the Cure Event Center on Saturday afternoon.

•Princeton led by as many as 15 but led 53-45 after three quarters.

•Belmont closed the gap to three on two possessions early in the fourth stanza, but Hutcherson had an answer each time with a basket and two free throws.

•Her last make came on an offensive rebound to put the Tigers up 10, 64-54, with 5:33 remaining.

•Belmont never got closer than nine the rest of the way. Princeton allowed just one bucket over the final 6:45 of the game.

•Hutcherson matched her personal best with 19 points and set a new career high with 11 rebounds to pace the Tigers. Madison St. Rose (15) and Fadima Tall (14) each scored in double figures in the victory. Tall recorded a double-double, contributing 11 rebounds.

•Princeton is 9-1 season and is on a seven-game winning streak. The Tigers are No. 1 in the College Insider Women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll. The last time Princeton was No. 1 in the poll was in Nov. of 2023. South Dakota State had been the No.1 team in the previous 15 polls. South Dakota State, James Madison, Troy and Ball State round out the top five.

•St. Rose leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.0 points, while averaging 6.2 rebounds per contest. The senior captain has three 20+ point games along with two double-doubles.

•St. Rose is 56 points shy of 1,000 in her career. She has been named to the Wooden Watch List and Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Watch List.

•The Tigers have four others averaging double figures in scoring in Tall (14.8), Skye Belker (14.4), Ashley Chea (10.9) and Hutcherson (10.5).

•Princeton is shooting 44.1 percent this season while also shooting 34.4 percent from deep. Belker (50.5 percent overall and 41.5 percent from three), Tall (44.0 percent overall and 44.1 percent from three), Hutcherson (50.6 percent overall) and St. Rose (48.0 percent overall) are all shooting career highs.

•Over the last six games, Belker is averaging 16.8 points per game on 58.1 percent shooting (36-62) while shooting 48.3 percent from deep (14-29). She has also hit all 15 free throws during this stretch.

•Chea is averaging 13.2 points while shooting 36.4 percent from the three-point line on 7.3 attempts per game along with 4.1 assists and 3.0 rebounds during the same stretch.

•In the four games before, the junior was only averaging 7.5 points, 2.8 assists and 2.3 rebounds per contest.

•The Tigers have a strength of schedule that is the 11th best in the country (.646) according to warrennolan.com. Princeton's opponents are 57-27 overall (.679). The only teams with a higher SOS are four SWAC schools, UCLA, Duke, Florida Gulf Coast, Washington State, Florida State and NC State.

•Princeton has a net ranking of 31, the highest mark by a non-power four conference team.

•Princeton has a quad 1 victory (at Villanova) and has two quad two wins in Rhode Island and Seton Hall.