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No. 7 Princeton to Host Cornell, Colgate This Weekend
January 20, 2026 | Women's Ice Hockey
It's another big weekend for the ECAC Hockey-leading and No. 7-ranked Princeton women's hockey team as the Tigers welcome Cornell and Colgate to Baker Rink.
vs. No. 12/11 Cornell, Friday, 6 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Tickets | Program
vs. RV/No. 15 Colgate, Saturday, 3 p.m. |Â ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Tickets | Program
In the rankings: Princeton stands No. 7 in both the latest USCHO and the latest USA Hockey/The Rink Live national rankings. ECAC Hockey has six teams ranked in at least one of the two 15-team polls, in No. 6/6 Quinnipiac, No. 7/7 Princeton, No. 10/10 Yale, No. 11/12 Clarkson, No. 12/11 Cornell, and RV/No. 15 Colgate.
Princeton in the polls: The No. 7 ranking is Princeton's highest since the end of the 2019-20 season, when the team was ranked No. 6 in both polls. Princeton has been in the top 10 each week since Dec. 8-9.Â
ECAC Standings: With 34 standings points, Princeton already has more points in the ECAC standings than it has had in a full season since 2020, when it had 35 and the year that it had its most recent high finish of second, along with 2019 and 2006. The league has been playing a 22-game season consistently since 2006-07 (other than the 2020-21 pandemic year), and in that time, 35 is the most ECAC standings points Princeton has had. Princeton has never won the ECAC regular-season title, but it does have an ECAC tournament title to its credit, won in 2020.
Against Cornell and Colgate: Princeton leads the all-time series with Cornell 51-44-7, and the 3-2 win in December in Ithaca snapped a three-game win streak for the Big Red in the series. In Princeton, Cornell has won three straight and is unbeaten in six straight, with Princeton not having beaten the Big Red at Baker since 2018. Issy Wunder had two of the three goals in the December game with Riley Sorokan getting one and Uma Corniea making 29 stops. Against Colgate, Princeton leads the series 33-20-5, and the 6-1 Tiger win broke a three-game Colgate win streak in the series. Princeton won the last visit from Colgate to Baker in Nov. 2024. In Princeton's December visit to Hamilton, Mackenzie Alexander had a hat trick with Emerson O'Leary, Jane Kuehl and Sawyer Fleming each had a goal, and Corniea had 35 stops in the win.
Win streak: Princeton's 13-game winning streak is its longest in program history after surpassing the 12-game run from the 2015-16 season last weekend. The only longer unbeaten streak in program history was a 20-gamer during the 2018-19 season, a run during which Princeton went 15-0-5. The winning streak is the longest active winning streak in the nation with Yale next at nine straight wins, and the conference winning streak of nine is also the nation's longest, ahead of Yale's seven-game streak.
Stat Rankings: Entering the week, Princeton ranked third in the nation in scoring defense (1.43) and team GAA (1.419), fifth in shutouts (six), winning percentage (.810) and scoring margin (+2.19), sixth in scoring offense (3.62), ninth in total goals (76) and on the penalty kill (86.2% success rate), 10th in assists (121) and 11th on the power play (23.1% success rate) and in team points (197), and 15th at the dot (51.7% win rate). Individually, Issy Wunder was tied for first in the nation with six game-winning goals, was fourth in goals per game (0.95), and ninth in points per game (1.57). Mackenzie Alexander was fifth in goals per game (0.86), sixth in power-play goals (five), and eighth in points per game (1.67).Â
Between the pipes: Entering the week, Uma Corniea ranked ninth in the nation in winning percentage (.714), GAA (1.649) and shutouts (three) and 10th in save percentage (.940). Corniea has played 837 of the team's 1,268 minutes, with Taylor Hyland playing 302 and Lia Nevo 120.Â
Milestone ahead: Senior Emerson O'Leary enters the weekend sitting on 98 career points. With two more, she'll join classmate Issy Wunder as the only active Tigers with 100 (Wunder enters the weekend at 136). The next-closest Tiger is Mackenzie Alexander, who's got 81 career points and is only in her sophomore season. Over the past decade, just five Tigers have reached 100 points, including Sarah Fillier '24 (194), Carly Bullock '20 (159), Maggie Connors '23 (145), Wunder, and Karlie Lund '19 (131).
Team records in sight: At 17 wins, Princeton has the chance to climb its all-time wins list. There have been seven 20-win seasons in program history, and there's been one season with more than 22 wins, when the Tigers won 26 in 2019-20. The team has allowed just 30 goals this season, and while the program record is 39, set in 1979-80, the team's low goals allowed going back to 2000 has been 57 in 2019-20 and 2005-06. The team already has six shutouts, and the record is eight, set in 2002-03.Â
Wunder climbs the list: WIth 63 career goals, Issy Wunder is 16th on Princeton's career list. Immediately ahead of her are Mandy Pfeiffer '97 and Alison Coughlin '99 at 69 goals. Among those to play for the Tigers since 2000, Wunder has the fifth-highest total, behind Carly Bullock '20 (95), Sarah Fillier '24 (93), Gretchen Anderson '04 (87) and Maggie Connors '23 (78). There have been only 16 25-goal seasons in program history and only seven of those have come since 2000, with Wunder already having one of those, with last year's 26-goal season. Wunder has 20 goals this season, and only three players in program history have two 25-goal seasons, with none of those players having played since 2000. Kelly O'Dell '84, Karen Chernisky '95, and Mollie Marcoux '91 are the three players with at least two 25-goal seasons. Wunder's 73 career assists have her 11th on Princeton's career list with just four of those in front of her having played since 2000 in Fillier (101), Andrea Kilbourne '03 (94), Kim Pearce '07 (77) and Karlie Lund '19 (76). Immediately in front of her are teammate Emerson O'Leary and Karen Chernisky '97, each at 75 helpers. Right in front of O'Leary is Lund's 76, Pearce's 77 and Laura Halldorson '85 at 83.
Picard at U-18 Worlds: Princeton assistant coach Shelly Picard was on the Team USA staff at the U-18 World Championships in Nova Scotia that wrapped up last Sunday with Team USA winning gold. The team went 3-0 in group play, defeating Slovakia, Czechia and Finland by a combined 36-1. The quarterfinals saw Team USA rout Hungary 9-0, followed by a 9-1 win over Sweden in the semis. setting up the gold-medal game against Canada, which Team USA won 2-0. Picard was an assistant coach with Team USA at the event in 2024 and 2025, helping the U.S. to gold in '24 and silver in '25. As a player, Picard helped Team USA to gold in 2011 as team captain and silver in 2010. While the U.S. and Canada have combined to win 33 of the 36 gold and silver medals since the event began in 2008, the three other occasions have been in recent years, when Sweden won silver in 2018 and 2023, and Czechia won silver in 2024.
What's next: Princeton will head back on the road next weekend, going to St. Lawrence and Clarkson.Â
