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Princeton University Athletics
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Women's Basketball Begins Ivy Action At Penn Saturday
January 02, 2026 | Women's Basketball
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PRINCETON – The Princeton Women's Basketball Team begins its Ivy League journey against the Penn Quakers Saturday at the Palestra. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
•The Princeton Women's Basketball Team sits at No. 25 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll.
•This is the 15th time that Princeton has been ranked during the Carla Berube era while the program had been ranked just 18th times total before her tenure.
•Princeton is also No. 1 in the College Insider Women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll for the fourth consecutive week. When the Tigers got into the top spot, it marked the first time the program had been No. 1 since Nov. of 2023. South Dakota State had been the top squad for the previous 15 polls.
•The Tigers have five players that average at least 11.0 points per game in Madison St. Rose (17.1), Fadima Tall (14.4), Skye Belker (13.6), Olivia Hutcherson (11.3) and Ashley Chea (11.2).
•Princeton is one of two teams in the country to have five players start at least 10 games and register 11 points per contest (Southern Miss).
•The Tigers' starting five averages 67.6 points per game, seventh best in the nation behind South Carolina, Oklahoma, Murray State, Notre Dame, UCLA and TCU.
•St. Rose leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.1 points, while averaging 5.4 rebounds per game. The senior captain has four 20+ point games along with two double-doubles.
•She is 4 points shy of 1,000 in her career. The senior will look to become the 29th Tiger to join the 1,000-point milestone, last reached by Kaitlyn Chen '24 in December of 2023.
•If St. Rose keeps up her current pace, she will finish with over 1,200 points. The Old Bridge, N.J. native has also been named to the Wooden Watch List and Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Watch List.
•Princeton is on a 10-game winning streak, the fifth time its reached that mark under Berube. Berube has corralled 14 10+ game winning streaks in her coaching career.
•Princeton is shooting 44.6 percent this season while also shooting 34.7 percent from deep. Belker (47.8 percent overall and 40.8 percent from three), Tall (44.7 percent from three), Hutcherson (51.8 percent overall) and St. Rose (46.9 percent overall) are all shooting career highs.
•Over the last nine games, Belker is averaging 14.9 points per game on 51.6 percent shooting (48-93) while shooting 47.2 percent from deep (20-42). She has also hit all 18 of 19 free throws.
•Chea is averaging 12.9 points while shooting 39.2 percent from the three-point line on 6.4 attempts per game along with 4.1 assists and 3.0 rebounds during the same timeframe.
•In the four games before, the junior was only averaging 7.5 points, 2.8 assists and 2.3 rebounds per contest.
•Princeton has a net ranking of 38, the highest mark by a non-power four conference or Big East team.
•The Tigers have a quad one victory at Villanova and three quad two wins (Rhode Island, Seton Hall and George Mason).
•The Tigers have a strength of schedule that is the 17th best in the country (.631) according to warrennolan.com.
•Princeton's opponents are 98-59 overall (.642). The only teams with a higher SOS are Southern, FGCU, Alcorn State, Duke, NC State, Washington State, Alabama State, UConn, USC, UCLA, Texas Southern, Iowa, Oregon State, Florida State and Villanova.
•Tall has been selected as the Ivy League Player of the Week twice (Dec. 15, Nov. 17) and an Ann Meyers Drysdale USBWA National Player of the Week twice (Dec. 16, Nov. 11). Belker also has an Ivy Player of the Week selection (Nov. 27).
