No. 23 Women's Basketball Drops Yale on Senior Day; Wins Outright Ivy Title

Saturday, March 7

Princeton, N.J.

2:00 PM

Princeton University

24-3,12-2Ivy League

Yale

7-20,3-11Ivy League

Yale

Princeton

Princeton Women's Basketball celebrates an Ivy title.

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No. 23 Women's Basketball Drops Yale on Senior Day; Wins Outright Ivy Title

March 07, 2026 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

PRINCETON – For the 19th time in program history, the No. 23 Princeton Women's Basketball Team won the Ivy League regular season title with a 78-55 takedown of the Yale Bulldogs on Saturday.

With the Tigers' victory and Harvard's win over Columbia, Princeton won the Ivy title OUTRIGHT for the first time since 2021-22 and for the seventh time overall in the last eight years. That also clinched the No. 1 seed in the Ivy Tournament where the Tigers will take on No. 4 seed Brown next Friday (Mar. 13) at 4:30 p.m.

Yale started off quickly with the first seven points and 14 of the first 16. Trailing by 14, the Tigers cut the deficit in half to end the first frame with a 11-4 sprint to trail, 22-15, after 10 minutes.

After a Taylor Charles block on one end, Ashley Chea sank a bucket to put the Tigers in front, 30-28, with 3:46 to go in the first half. The Tigers ripped off 12 of the last 16 points in the second frame to go up, 40-32, at the break. During that time, Princeton shot 11-of-15 (73.3 percent).

Princeton 34, Yale 32 | 2:13 2nd block by @taylorrcharless?? @ashleyycheaa

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— Princeton WBB (@PrincetonWBB) March 7, 2026

Yale remained within striking distance, closing the gap to four, 42-38, halfway through the third quarter, but the seniors Madison St. Rose and Charles ended the stanza with their own 6-0 run to make it a 52-42 contest.

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— Princeton WBB (@PrincetonWBB) March 7, 2026

A 10-2 burst from Princeton including five straight from Grace O'Sullivan stretched the its advantage to 16, 65-49. Yale never threatened again.

Princeton 65, Yale 49 | 4:59 4th Bucket maker from deep, @OSullivanGrace_!

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— Princeton WBB (@PrincetonWBB) March 7, 2026

The Tigers missed one shot in the fourth quarter, going 8-of-9 (88.9 percent) and sank all seven free throws.

Fadima Tall led the Tigers with 22 points on 8-of-10 (80 percent) from the floor. St. Rose added 17 on an efficient 7-of-11 (63.6 percent) shooting.

Prior to the game, the Tigers honored their Class of 2026 in Charles, who blocked three shots and grabbed four rebounds today, and St. Rose. That duo has won 94 games, has gone 49-7 in Ivy play and has won three Ivy League crowns.

Princeton improves to 24-3 overall and 12-2 in the Ivy League while Yale fell to 7-20 this season and 3-11 in conference action.

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— Princeton WBB (@PrincetonWBB) March 7, 2026