No. 24 Women's Basketball Travels To Yale Saturday

Saturday, January 10

New Haven, Conn.

2:00 PM

Princeton University

Yale

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No. 24 Women's Basketball Travels To Yale Saturday

January 09, 2026 | Women's Basketball

PRINCETON – The Princeton Women's Basketball Team heads on the road to take on the Yale Bulldogs at Payne Whitney Gym on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.

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•The Tigers improved to No. 24 in the AP Top 25 poll this week. It's the highest the Tigers have been ranked since the 2023-24 preseason poll (No. 24).

•This is the 17th time that Princeton has been ranked during the Carla Berube era while the program had been ranked just 12 times total before her tenure.

•Princeton is also No. 1 in the College Insider Women's Mid-Major Top 25 poll for the fifth 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 (16.9), Fadima Tall (13.8), Skye Belker (13.4), Olivia Hutcherson (11.9) and Ashley Chea (11.0).

•Princeton is one of three teams in the country to have five players start at least 10 games and register 11 points per contest (Southern Miss, UAB).

•The Tigers' starting five averages 67.0 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 16.9 points, while averaging 5.3 rebounds per game. The senior captain has four 20+ point games along with two double-doubles.

•She recently surpassed 1,000 career points (1,011), becoming the 29th Tiger to join that milestone. The next closest Tiger to that mark is Belker at 805 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 11-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 44.4 percent this season while also shooting 35.0 percent from deep. Belker (47.2 percent overall and 42.4 percent from three), Tall (41.2 percent from three), Hutcherson (52.5 percent overall) and St. Rose (46.3 percent overall) are all shooting career highs.

•Hutcherson was recently named Ivy League Player of the Week this week for the first time in her career.

•She set a new career high with 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting, adding five rebounds, three steals, three assists and two blocks in the 74-68 win over Penn.

•Tall also earned 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).

•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 8th best in the country (.614) according to warrennolan.com.

•Princeton's opponents are 125-73 overall (.614). The only teams with a higher SOS are North Carolina State, USC, Duke, UCLA, Connecticut, Penn State and Iowa.

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