No. 20 Women Basketball Travels To Brown Saturday

PRINCETON – The No. 20 Princeton Women's Basketball Team travels to Providence to take on the Brown Bears Saturday. Tip-off is set for 12 p.m.

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•The Princeton Women's Basketball Team climbed in both national polls, rising to No. 20 in the Associated Press and the WBCA Coaches' Poll.

•The Tigers are 16-1 overall and currently on a 14-game winning streak. It's the highest ranking in the AP poll for the program since the end of the 2014-15 season. It's also the second week that the Tigers were in the WBCA poll.

•Princeton has a Net Ranking of 39 highlighted by a quad 1 victory and three more quad two decisions along with a non-conference strength of schedule of 18.

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad is also No. 1 in the College Insider Women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll for the seventh 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 (13.7), Skye Belker (13.0), Ashley Chea (12.1) and Olivia Hutcherson (11.6). All but St. Rose have won Ivy Player of the Week.

•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 67.5 points per game, sixth best in the nation behind Murray St., South Carolina, Oklahoma, UCLA and Notre Dame.

•St. Rose leads the Tigers in scoring at 17.1 points, while averaging 4.9 rebounds per game. The senior captain has four 20+ point games along with two double-doubles. She has scored in double figures in all but one game this season.

•She recently surpassed 1,000 career points (1,048), becoming the 29th Tiger to join that milestone. The next closest Tiger to that mark is Belker at 839 points.

•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 14-game winning streak, the fifth time its recorded a 10+ game winning streak under Berube. Berube has corralled 14 such streaks in her coaching career.

•Princeton is shooting 44.3 percent this season while also shooting 34.6 percent from deep. Belker (45.7 percent overall and 41.8 percent from three), Tall (39.3 percent from three), Hutcherson (52.9 percent overall) and St. Rose (46.5 percent overall) are all shooting career highs.

•Four Tigers have earned Ivy Player of the Week in Chea (Jan. 20), Hutcherson (Jan. 5), Tall (Dec. 15, Nov. 17) and Belker (Nov. 27). Tall also nabbed Ann Meyers Drysdale USBWA National Player of the Week twice (Dec. 16, Nov. 11).

•The Tigers have an overall strength of schedule that is the 27th best in the country (.584) according to warrennolan.com. Princeton's opponents are 175-119 overall (.595).

•If the NCAA still considered RPI, the Tigers would be fifth in the nation behind just Connecticut, UCLA, Iowa and Texas.

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