PRINCETON, N.J. – The Yale women's basketball team took on a Princeton team that was flying high heading into Friday night's game at Jadwin Gym, riding a 10 game winning streak and having just been ranked in top 25 in both national polls. Princeton was all alone atop the Ivy League standings at 5-0. The Bulldogs managed to slow the Tigers down for much of the game, but Princeton eventually had the firepower to pull away for a 79-59 win. Four Bulldogs scored in double digits, with sophomore
Kiley Capstraw (16 points) leading the way.
Yale (4-15, 1-4 Ivy League) took an early 11-10 lead and hung with the Tigers throughout the first half, falling behind by no more than six. When the Tigers went up 29-23 with 5:11 to play in the second quarter, Yale scored the next five points coming out of a timeout – a jumper by Capstraw, a layup by junior forward
Nyla McGill and a free throw by McGill – to get within one. Princeton eventually went into halftime with a 35-30 lead.
A 12-6 run by Princeton (16-3, 6-0 Ivy League) to start the third quarter prompted a Yale timeout. That slowed the Tigers down, but they still built their lead steadily through the rest of the quarter, getting it to as many as 21 before a layup by senior forward
Brenna McDonald and a free throw by senior guard
Jenna Clark in the final minute pulled Yale within 64-46.
Princeton outscored Yale 15-13 in the fourth quarter to finish off the win.
Notes
- The Bulldogs' 59 points are the second-most an Ivy League team has scored against Princeton this year.
- Yale shot .500 for the first half, hitting 12 of 24 shots.
- McDonald led Yale in rebounds with five, while Clark and McGill tied for the lead in assists with four each.
- Dalila Eshe, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Women's Basketball, and assistant coach Helen Tau are both former Princeton staff members.
Elsewhere in the Ivy League
- Columbia 82, Harvard 70
- Cornell 61, Dartmouth 47
- Penn 77, Brown 56
Up Next
- Yale plays at Penn Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
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