NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team plays its final game before winter break Monday at Quinnipiac (6:00 p.m.,
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Last Week
Yale (1-10, 0-0 Ivy League) dropped two games last week, falling to Fordham on Wednesday and at FIU Saturday. First-year guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) led the team in scoring for the week, averaging 14.5 points per game. Senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) led the team in rebounding, averaging 7.0 per game.
Moore Scoring
First-year guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) has scored 49 points – including a career-best 21 points this past Saturday at FIU – in her last five games after not scoring any in her first five games. Only senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) has scored more points in that five-game span (81). Moore has started the last three games.
Capstraw On a Roll at Free Throw Line
Junior guard
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) has made six straight free throws and seven of her last nine after starting the season 3-for-9 from the charity stripe.
Break Ahead
After Monday's game the Bulldogs do not play again until Sunday Dec. 29, when they host BU. That is 19 days without a game.
Scouting Quinnipiac
Quinnipiac (6-1, 0-0 MAAC) has already beaten three Ivy League teams, all at M&T Bank Arena: Harvard (76-53), Princeton (74-66) and Cornell (56-47). The Bobcats were ranked No. 10 nationally in the Dec. 3 CollegeInsider.com Women's Mid-Major Top 25.
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