Sam Rubin
Avery Lee (shown here) made her 14th start of the season.
74
Winner Princeton PU 14-5,5-1 Ivy League
38
Yale Yale 2-17,1-5 Ivy League
Winner
Princeton PU
14-5,5-1 Ivy League
74
Final
38
Yale Yale
2-17,1-5 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Princeton PU 15 12 19 28 74
Yale Yale 7 11 14 6 38

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Sam Rubin

Princeton Pulls Away in Fourth to Top Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  –  The Yale women's basketball team played Princeton tough for the majority of the game Friday night at Lee Amphitheater, including a second quarter in which the Bulldogs were outscored just 12-11. But the Tigers ultimately pulled away in the fourth quarter for a decisive 74-38 win to remain within one game of first-place Columbia in the Ivy League standings.
 
Princeton (14-5, 5-1 Ivy League) jumped out to an 8-2 lead in the first 4:20, but the remainder of the first quarter was evenly played and the Bulldogs trailed just 15-7 at the end.
 
Yale (2-17, 1-5 Ivy League) stayed within 12 throughout the second, and a free throw by senior guard/forward Mackenzie Egger in the waning seconds of the quarter sent Yale into halftime trailing just 27-18.
 
Yale fell behind by 14 early in the third but got within nine before a Skye Belker three-pointer at 3:49 pushed the Tigers' lead to 12. That same sequence happened again less than two minutes later, with a Belker trey turning a 39-30 lead into a 42-30 lead. Princeton went into the fourth up 46-32, then put the game well out of reach with a 15-0 scoring run in the final frame. Belker finished with a team-best 15 points, one of four Tigers in double digits.
 
Egger finished with a double-double (16 points, 12 rebounds).
 
STATISTICAL LEADERS  
KEY STAT
  • Princeton outscored Yale 46-18 in the paint. 
 
NOTES
  • This was Egger's seventh double-double of the season. She has four double-doubles in the last seven games.
  • Egger shot .500 (6-for-12).
  • All 12 Bulldogs played in the game, with nine playing six minutes or more.


QUOTING DALILA ESHE, YALE'S JOEL E. SMILOW, CLASS OF 1954 HEAD COACH
  • On remaining within striking distance for the majority of the game: "We played really well for three quarters. Then we had a series of errors, and Princeton capitalized."
  • On Mackenzie Egger's double-double against a tough Princeton defense: "Mack's just continuing on with the form she has shown throughout the season. She's capable of scoring three different ways. That makes her a nightmare matchup, even for a tough defense."
  • On playing Princeton to within one (12-11) in the second quarter: "Our defensive intensity was very good and we executed our offense well. We moved the ball from one side to the other and we didn't get stagnant."
 
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
  • Brown 65, Penn 57
  • Columbia 80, Harvard 71
  • Cornell 60, Dartmouth 48
 
WHAT'S NEXT
  • Yale hosts Penn Saturday at 5:30 p.m. 
 
 
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