No. 23 Women's Basketball Ready For NCAA Tournament

Saturday, March 21

Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion)

7:30 PM

Princeton University

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No. 23 Women's Basketball Ready For NCAA Tournament

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•The No. 23 Princeton Women's Basketball Team will be the No. 9 seed in the UCLA quad and take on the No. 8 seeded Oklahoma State Cowgirls in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2.

•The winner of Oklahoma State/Princeton will take on the winner of No. 1 seed UCLA and No. 16 Cal Baptist on Monday.

•This is the Tigers' 13th trip to the NCAA Tournament and seventh consecutive appearance overall dating back to 2018. All of the program's NCAA bids have been from 2010 on.

•Princeton earned the Ivy League's automatic bid after winning the Ivy Tournament Championship over Harvard, 63-53. The Crimson did not score a basket over the final 4:01 game action as Princeton ended the game with a 12-2 run.

•Fadima Tall was honored as the Ivy League Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, the third Tiger (Bella Alarie twice, Kaitlyn Chen three) to earn that.

Tall posted a double-double against Brown in the semifinal (11 points and 10 rebounds) and 20 points and seven rebounds vs. Harvard in the final. Ashley Chea was selected to the All-Tournament Team as well.

•Last season the Tigers fell to Iowa State in one of the NCAA First Four contests while the Ivy League earned three bids in the NCAA Tournament. Princeton was a No. 10 seed as one of the last four teams in.

•Columbia was selected as a No. 11 seed while Harvard earned the automatic qualifier and a No. 10 seed.

•Columbia defeated Washington in one of the First Four games.

•In 2024, the Tigers fell to No. 8 seeded West Virginia, 63-53, in the first round.

•The Tigers reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year in 2023 after defeating NC State 64-63 on a game-winning three by Grace Stone with 4.7 seconds to go.

•Princeton fell in the second round to No. 8 nationally ranked Utah, 63-56, finishing 24-6 overall.

•During the 2021-22 season, Carla Berube's unit defeated No. 6 seeded Kentucky, the SEC Champion, 69-62, in the first round, the program's second-ever NCAA victory. Princeton would then take No. 3 Indiana to the limit in the second round, falling to the hosts at Assembly Hall, 56-55.

•Before the 2021-22 campaign, the Tigers last appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2019, dropping an 82-77 decision to No. 17 Kentucky.

•The Tigers' first NCAA Tournament win was an 80-70 decision over No. 9 seeded Green Bay in 2015. It was the second Ivy League victory (Harvard in 1998 over Stanford) in the NCAA Tournament. Princeton finished that season at 31-1 overall.

•The program has been seeded as low as No. 12 and as high as No. 8. The Tigers' No. 8 seed in 2015 is the highest seed ever by an Ivy school in the NCAAs.

•Despite finishing second in the conference, Princeton became the first Ivy school to earn an NCAA at-large bid in 2016. The Tigers lost a 74-65 contest to No. 6 seed West Virginia. Columbia became the second Ivy squad in 2024.

•Princeton has gone 21-5 in the month of March during the Carla Berube era. Four of the team's five losses have been in the NCAA Tournament.