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No. 23 Women's Basketball Hosts Penn Friday
February 05, 2026 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON - The No. 23/24 Princeton Women's Basketball Team hosts the Penn Quakers at Jadwin Gym Friday. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.Â
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•The Princeton Women's Basketball Team is ranked for the sixth consecutive week in the AP Top 25, coming at No. 23.
•The Tigers also came in at No. 24 in the WBCA Coaches' Poll for the fourth straight week.
•Princeton has a Net Ranking of 44 highlighted by a quad 1 victory at Villanova and three more quad two decisions along with a non-conference strength of schedule of 24.
•Head coach Carla 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), Skye Belker (13.4), Fadima Tall (12.8), Olivia Hutcherson (12.2) and Ashley Chea (11.3). All but St. Rose have won Ivy Player of the Week.
•Hutcherson was honored as Ivy Player of the Week along with Metro Basketball Writers' Association Player of the Week. She averaged 18.5 points over the weekend on 63.0 percent shooting (17-of-27), adding 8.5 rebounds and 4.0 steals per game.
•Princeton and Southern Miss are the only two teams 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 66.3 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 Vanderbilt (65.8) and Iowa State (65.6).
•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 (1,071), becoming the 29th Tiger to join that milestone. She is 26th on the program's all-time scoring list, two points shy of Julia Cunningham '23 (1,073). The next closest Tiger to 1,000 career points is Belker at 886 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 has won 16 of its last 17 games. The Tigers have nabbed five 10+ game winning streaks with Berube as coach. Berube has corralled 14 such streaks in her coaching career.
•Belker (46.6 percent overall and 42.2 percent from three), Tall (37.5 percent from three), Hutcherson (55.0 percent overall) and St. Rose (47.1 percent overall) are all shooting career highs.
•Four Tigers have earned Ivy Player of the Week in Chea (Jan. 20), Hutcherson (Jan. 5, Feb. 2), 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 41st best in the country (.569) according to warrennolan.com. Princeton's opponents are 229-167 (.578).
