No. 19 Women's Basketball Hosts Columbia and Cornell This Weekend

PRINCETON – The No. 19 Princeton Women's Basketball Team welcomes the Columbia Lions and Cornell Big Red to Jadwin Gym this weekend.

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•The Princeton Women's Basketball Team improved to No. 19 in the Associated Press and the WBCA Coaches' Poll.

•The Tigers are 17-1 overall and currently on a 15-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 third week that the Tigers are in the WBCA poll.

•Princeton has a Net Ranking of 40 highlighted by a quad 1 victory at Villanova and three more quad two decisions along with a non-conference strength of schedule of 20.

•Head coach Carla Berube's squad is also No. 1 in the College Insider Women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll for the eighth consecutive week.

•Berube was named to the 2026 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award Midseason Watch List this week.

•The Tigers have five players that average at least 11.0 points per game in Madison St. Rose (16.5), Fadima Tall (13.6), Skye Belker (12.9), Ashley Chea (11.7) and Olivia Hutcherson (11.4). All but St. Rose have won Ivy Player of the Week.

•Princeton is the only team in the country to have five players start at least 12 games and average at least 11.0 points per contest.

•The Tigers' starting five averages 66.1 points per game, sixth best in the nation behind Murray St., South Carolina, Oklahoma, UCLA and Notre Dame.

•The two teams directly behind Princeton are Iowa State (65.5) and Vanderbilt (65.2).

•St. Rose leads the Tigers in scoring at 16.5 points, while averaging 5.1 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 two games this season.

•She recently surpassed 1,000 career points (1,054), becoming the 29th Tiger to join that milestone. She is 27th on the program's all-time scoring list, four points shy of Allison Cahill '03 (1,058). The next closest Tiger to 1,000 career points is Belker at 850 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 15-game winning streak, the fourth time its recorded a 15+ game winning streak under Berube. The Tigers have nabbed five 10+ game winning streaks with Berube as coach. Berube has corralled 14 such streaks in her coaching career.

•Belker (45.6 percent overall and 41.4 percent from three), Tall (39.3 percent from three), Hutcherson (53.5 percent overall) and St. Rose (46.2 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 29th best in the country (.581) according to warrennolan.com. Princeton's opponents are 192-133 overall (.591).

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