The No. 24 Princeton women’s basketball team steamrolled to its 12th consecutive win on Saturday afternoon, collaring the Yale Bulldogs, 76-50, at John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven.
Unlike the majority of Princeton games during the 2025-26 campaign, this contest was never close, with the Tigers winning in wire-to-wire fashion for just the third time this season.
Here are three Tiger Takeaways from Princeton’s twelfth straight win over Yale dating back to the 2018-19 season.
1. Madison St. Rose’s consistency continues to pace Princeton
For the sixth time this season, the Tigers (14-1, 2-0 Ivy) were led by their superstar senior, Madison St. Rose, who tallied a game-high 18 points on 6-for-12 shooting.
St. Rose sparked the Tigers right out of the gate by taking the ball to the tin on Princeton’s first possession and then finishing an old-fashioned three-point play to give the Tigers an early 7-2 lead.
But it was St. Rose’s five dimes on the day that most satisfied Princeton’s co-captain.
“I was trying to create for my teammates,” St. Rose told ESPN+ after the game. “I didn’t know I had five assists. But I attract a lot [of attention], so I feel like it’s easier to make passes and give my teammates wide open shots.”
St. Rose, who surpassed the 1,000-point plateau last weekend in Princeton’s 74-68 win over Penn, has now scored in double-figures in 14 of 15 games this season, and leads the Tigers in scoring, averaging 17 points per game, fourth best in the Ivy League.
A year after suffering a season-ending ACL injury, St. Rose has established herself as a prime candidate for Ivy League Player of the Year honors.
2. Without Tall, a short Tigers bench played their best game of the year
Shortly before the game tipped at Yale (4-11, 0-2), Tigers fans learned that Fadima Tall, Princeton’s leading rebounder and second leading scorer, would not suit up against the Bulldogs. The news pressed senior co-captain Taylor Charles into service in only her second start of the season.
Tall has been hampered for the past several weeks with what appears to be an upper-body injury. As a result, Tall’s scoring production has dipped since the junior forward scored a career-high 28 points in Princeton’s rout of Rutgers on Dec. 10.
In Princeton’s last three contests, Tall has averaged only 6.5 points per game, although her rebounding prowess has remained potent.
With Tall sidelined, coach Carla Berube had only ten players available for the fifteenth time this season. And one of those, sophomore Cristina Parrella, made her season debut on Saturday after missing Princeton’s first fourteen games rehabbing a knee injury.
Wearing a heavy knee brace, Parrella didn’t enter the game until the fourth quarter. And in only five minutes of action, the sophomore guard managed only to get her feet wet, going 0-for-1 from the field and turning the ball over once.
But the rest of Princeton’s bench rallied to score 20 points, tying a season high for Carla Berube’s corps of substitutes.
The breakthrough performance of the game came from reserve forward Emily Eadie.
With Tall unavailable to patrol the paint, Eadie knew she would need to help fill the gap, and the 6-foot-1 forward responded by turning in her best performance in a Princeton uniform.
Eadie scored eight points, grabbed seven rebounds, dished three assists, and stole the ball twice in 24 minutes of playing time, all career highs.
Even Princeton’s seldom-used freshmen players contributed today.
Sarah Lessig, playing in only her fourth collegiate game, tallied Princeton’s final bucket after another freshman, Grace O’Sullivan, rebounded a late Eadie miss.
Toby Nweke also turned in another strong performance off the bench, chipping in eight points, a rebound, and two steals in 22 minutes of court time. The sophomore guard has averaged nearly nine points per game in her last six contests.
Overall, the emergence of Princeton’s bench in recent games augurs well for a squad that relied disproportionately on its starting five during the nonconference season.
3. Over the next four weeks, the Tigers will enjoy a rare stretch of home cooking
After playing only five of its first 15 contests at home, the Tigers can finally look ahead to an extended period of home cooking.
Five of Princeton’s next six games will tip in the friendly confines of Jadwin Gymnasium, starting with a tilt against Dartmouth next Saturday.
Two days later, the Tigers will host Harvard, looking for revenge after the Crimson prevented Princeton from winning its sixth consecutive Ivy League Tournament last year.
After a road trip to Dartmouth on Jan. 24, the Tigers will host Columbia and Cornell on Jan. 30 and 31 in a key, back-to-back weekend of contests.
The Princeton homestand will conclude with a return matchup versus Penn on February 6.
Princeton is undefeated at home so far this season and has dropped only two Ivy contests at Jadwin during the entire Berube era, both to Columbia.
Though the Tigers will surely try to avoid looking ahead, there can be little doubt that Berube’s crew has circled Jan. 30 on their calendars, the date that the Lions will invade Jadwin.
Although Princeton so far has outperformed its Ivy peers, the matchup with Columbia will give the Tigers an opportunity to make a clear statement they have regained their stature as the dominant program in the Ancient Eight.