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As Monday night’s WNBA Draft came to a close, Ivy League fans had something to cheer about when former Penn forward Jordan Obi’s name was called by the defending champion Las Vegas Aces with the 44th pick.
The Carla Berube era at Princeton is over.
In an announcement Wednesday that reverberated instantly throughout the world of women’s college basketball, Princeton Athletics announced that Tigers coach Carla Berube had accepted the head coaching position at Northwestern.
The Princeton women’s basketball team tips off its Ivy League season against Penn at the Palestra on Saturday afternoon after finishing the nonconference season with a 12-1 record, a No. 25 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, and a gaudy NET ranking of No. 38, tops in the Ivy League.
Here are three Tigers Takeaways as what could be a season of destiny for Princeton transitions to conference play:
It’s beginning to look a lot like the 2019-20 season for the Princeton women’s basketball team.
In that season, Carla Berube’s first at the helm of the Orange and Black, a dominant Princeton team led by superstar Bella Alarie won 11 of its 12 nonconference games, defeating Penn State and Seton Hall, while falling only to a powerful Iowa team on the road in overtime.
On a Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Taylor Charles served up a record-tying seven helpings of stuffing as the Princeton women’s basketball team rolled over the DePaul Blue Demons, 71-41, in a Sunday matinee at Jadwin Gymnasium.
Getting her first start of the season, Charles made the most of her opportunity.
Ivy Hoops Online correspondent George “Toothless Tiger” Clark reports on a 70-57 win for Princeton men’s basketball (3-3) over Northeastern (2-3) at Jadwin Gym Thursday night – and a concerning injury for junior guard Dalen Davis, the Tigers’ leading scorer.
Princeton coaching and Dartmouth playing legend Courtney Banghart spent 45 minutes in conversation with Ivy Hoops Online contributor Steve Silverman.
The most points in a game for a Harvard women’s basketball player .#GoCrimson x #BelieveIt pic.twitter.com/WUjawiCO4b
— Harvard Women’s Basketball (@HarvardWBB) November 15, 2024
Harmoni Turner had a game for the ages on Wednesday night as the Harvard women’s basketball team defeated Boston College, 78-70, at Lavietes Pavilion.
Turner scored 41 points, an all-time program record for points in a game. The senior guard also grabbed 10 rebounds for her first double-double of the season.
The Mansfield, Texas native was scorching hot from the field all night long, shooting 14-for-23, including 7-for-11 from beyond the arc. But it wasn’t until the final second of the game that she broke the program’s single-game scoring record of 39 points, a mark previously set by two players – Allison Feaster in 1997 and Hana Peljto in 2004.
It was supposed to be a tune-up game for the beginning of the Ivy League season.
But the Le Moyne Dolphins of the Northeast Conference gave the Princeton women’s basketball team all it could handle Sunday in a 66-55 win for the Tigers at Ted Grant Court in Syracuse, N.Y.
As we enter the July 4th holiday weekend, we at Ivy Hoops Online wanted to round up some postseason updates: