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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Welcome to Ivy Madness VII (and Chag Sameach to those celebrating Purim)
This year, Ivy Hoops Online is coming to you from the heights of the Pizzitola Sports Center on the campus of Brown University.
The Princeton women’s basketball team closed out the regular season on Saturday afternoon with a satisfying 67-53 win over Penn at the Palestra.
Here are three Tiger Takeaways from a triumph that gave Princeton 20 wins for a seventh consecutive season, tying a program record set during the Courtney Banghart era:
With seven conference games in the books for every Ivy League women’s basketball team, the race for the regular season conference title has reached the halfway mark.
The three teams picked in the preseason to contend for an Ivy League title – Princeton, Columbia and Harvard – have lived up to their billing, racking up big wins in the nonconference season and largely dominating the other five Ivy teams in league play.
Here’s where each of the big three stands as we head into the final five weeks of the Ivy League regular season:
Princeton women’s basketball ended 2024 on a high note, vanquishing the Le Moyne Dolphins, 75-43, on New Year’s Eve and finishing its nonconference schedule with a 9-4 record.
With the curtain rising on the Ivy League season in only three days, it’s time to take stock of how the Tigers have fared during the first half of the season and look ahead to the prospects for the six-time-defending Ivy League champions grabbing yet another conference title.
Here are four Tiger Takeaways from the conclusion of the nonconference season:
It’s been an up-and-down season so far for Princeton women’s basketball. With nine games in the books, the six-time-defending Ivy League champions have a mixed record of 5-4.
Highlights of the season include a three-game sweep of Big East opponents DePaul, Villanova, and Seton Hall, a dominant win over in-state rival Rutgers, and a resume-building win over Big 5 foe Temple.
The lowlights include blowout losses at Quinnipiac and Portland, a disappointing finish at Duquesne, and a heartbreaking injury to the Tigers’ superstar team captain, Madison St. Rose.
Carla Berube’s club was picked to finish first again in the Ivy League’s preseason media poll, but the loss of senior leadership, a monumental injury and a brutal, road-heavy slate of opening games has created challenges, opportunities and an intriguing future.
Here are three Tiger Takeaways assessing where the Princeton women’s basketball team stands one-third of the way into the season:
Princeton women’s basketball beat up Rutgers Sunday at Jersey Mike’s Arena, 66-49, before a crowd of 2,281.
The Tigers were tasked with having to take Rutgers senior guard Destiny Adams out of the game. Adams was averaging 21.7 points and 12 rebounds per game, the latter clip good for third in the country.
Princeton coach Carla Berube called Adams “a monster inside” to the Big Ten Plus announcers before the game.
The Tigers tamed the monster.
Princeton Athletics announced Friday that standout junior shooting guard Madison St. Rose will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 basketball season due to an anterior cruciate ligament tear in her left knee.
St. Rose suffered the injury last week in the fourth quarter of a road contest against Quinnipiac, which the Tigers lost, 74-66.
The extent of the injury was not immediately known, and fans of St. Rose have been waiting with a sense of dread for several days for more definitive news on the junior’s status.
St. Rose did not play in Princeton’s stirring win at Seton Hall last night, an ominous hint that her injury might be serious.
Princeton coach Carla Berube released a statement Friday expressing optimism that St. Rose will make a full recovery:
Princeton women’s basketball lost more than a game today against at the M&T Bank Arena in Hamden, Conn.
The 74-66 loss to Quinnipiac might be an afterthought to Carla Berube, as star junior guard Madison St. Rose went down with 6:31 remaining with what appeared to be a painful left knee injury. She was taken off the court by Berube and a trainer and came back on the floor about 10 minutes later on crutches with an ice pack on her knee. Berube was uncertain as to the actual extent of the injury postgame.
After two road games to open the season, the Princeton women’s basketball team opened its home schedule with a solid win over Villanova, 70-61, at Jadwin Gymnasium on Wednesday night.
Princeton (2-1) began the evening in ceremonious fashion by unveiling yet another pair of championship banners for the Tigers’ regular season and Ivy League Tournament championships from the 2023-24 season. Returning players also were presented with championship rings prior to the start of the game.