NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team enters the home stretch of the regular season with a pair of Ivy League games that will go a long way towards determining spots in Ivy Madness. The Bulldogs, tied for third, visit fifth-place Penn Friday (6:00 p.m.,
NBC Sports Philadelphia,
ESPN+,
Live Stats) and first-place Princeton Saturday (6:00 p.m.,
NBC Sports Philadelphia,
ESPN+,
Live Stats).
Last Game
Yale (13-9, 6-4 Ivy League) had a three-point lead on Columbia with 5:12 left in the third last Saturday at Lee Amphitheater, and a victory would have pulled the Bulldogs even with the Lions in the league win column. But Columbia ended the quarter with a 14-4 run and kept Yale at bay in the fourth to earn a hard-fought 65-57 win. Senior forward
Alex Cade (Shaker Heights, Ohio) scored a career-high 20 points and junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) had a career-high 19 rebounds.
Ivy Outlook
Yale enters the weekend tied with Harvard for third place in the Ivy League with a 6-4 record, two and a half games behind second-place Columbia (8-1). Harvard plays at Columbia Friday night. Princeton (8-0) leads the league. Fifth-place Penn is 1.5 games behind Harvard and Yale, currently on the outside looking in in terms of the four Ivy League Tournament spots. Three weekends remain in the regular season, with the Ivy League Tournament set for Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion Mar. 11 and 12.
Ivy Wins Record Within Reach
With four games left in the regular season and six wins in Ivy League play so far, Yale remains within striking distance of the school record for Ivy wins (10, set by the 1988-89 team and equaled by the 2010-11 team). The Bulldogs have won nine Ivy games in a season twice (1986-87 and 2019-20).
Among the Ivy's Best Defensively
Yale is second in the Ivy League in scoring defense (56.6 points allowed per game), trailing only Princeton (51.1). No other Ivy teams are holding their opponents to fewer than 60.0 points per game.
Top Rebounders Play Here
Yale is the only school with two players among the top six in the Ivy League in rebounds: junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) is first (10.3 rebounds per game) and senior forward
Alex Cade (Shaker Heights, Ohio) is sixth (7.5 rebounds per game). Emsbo's 19 rebounds vs. Columbia Feb. 12 are tied for the most in a game by any Ivy player this season.
1,000 and Counting: Emsbo on Yale's Career Lists
On Feb. 4 at Dartmouth, junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) became the 23rd Yale women's basketball player to join the 1,000 career point club. Her and-one at the 8:02 mark of the fourth quarter gave her 1,002 career points. She now is at 1,025 points, 22nd on Yale's career list and 13 away from
Sue Melone '81 for 21st. She is ninth on Yale's career rebounding list (665), five away from eighth-place
Erica Davis '07. She is second on Yale's career blocks list (162), 20 away from Davis' school record. Emsbo has three of the five best single-season block totals in Yale history. Her identical twin sister, Kira, plays for Princeton.
Clark Nears an Important Mark
Sophomore guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) enters the weekend within sight of Yale's single-season assist record. Clark's 137 assists rank sixth all-time and have her within 19 of the school record set by
Kathleen Offer '96 in 1994-95 (156). Clark has had 10 or more assists in a game three times this season, with a high of 11 (Jan. 15 at Cornell).
Bulldogs Among NCAA Leaders
Two Bulldogs rank among the national top 25 in various statistical categories:
- Sophomore guard Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- 10th in assists per game (6.2)
- 15th in assists (137)
- 23rd in minutes played per game (36.74)
- Junior forward Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.)
- 22nd in blocked shots per game (2.29)
Kalich to be Honored by Ivy League
Alum
Mary Kalich '95 has been selected as part of the 16 member 2022 class of Legends of Ivy League Basketball, announced by the league on Wednesday. These Legends embody the unrivaled experience afforded Ivy League student-athletes and have left a lasting impact on their respective basketball programs, universities and chosen professions. Kalich, Yale's all-time leader in scoring, was a four time All-Ivy League selection and three-time team MVP. Each legend will be formally honored at the 2022 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments Mar. 11-13 at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass.
Scouting Penn
Penn (9-12, 4-5 Ivy League) has won two in a row since enduring a five-game losing streak that included a
63-53 loss at Yale Jan. 22. The Quakers have limited their opponents to the second-lowest shooting percentage in the Ivy League (.360) and lead the league in blocked shots per game (4.33).
Scouting Princeton
Princeton (17-4, 9-0 Ivy League) brings a 35 game Ivy League winning streak into the game Friday vs. Brown. That is the longest conference winning streak in the country and the longest such streak in Ivy League history. The Tigers' last loss in Ivy play was to Yale at Jadwin Gym,
96-86 in overtime on Feb. 8, 2019. The Tigers are 15th in the nation in scoring margin at +15.5.
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