Dartmouth Women Pound Princeton, 75-46

Saturday, February 10

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Princeton

2/10/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball

By: Dartmouth

Boxscore

Hanover, N.H. - A total team effort and four players in double-figures gave the Dartmouth women's basketball team a 75-46 victory over Ivy rival Princeton tonight. The Big Green improves to 11-10 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy League, good for second place. Princeton falls to 10-11 (4-3 Ivy).

In a game that mirrored Friday night's 70-43 win over Penn, the Big Green shot over 50 percent from the floor (51 percent) and held its opponent to under 32 percent (30.9 percent) for the second-straight game.

Both teams started off sluggish and the Tigers built a modest 14-11 lead at 9:06 after a Casey Lockwood triple. Dartmouth sophomore Koren Schram (Batesville, Ark.) defended her homecourt with an emphatic three of her own just 10 seconds later to tie it up.

The Big Green closed the first half on a 17-5 run that included five points from junior Kristen Craft (Marshalltown, Iowa) and was capped by a Schram triple at the buzzer to go up 31-19 at the break.

Dartmouth senior Ashley Taylor (Cookeville, Tenn.), the Big Green's leading scorer, was held scoreless in the first and played for just 10 minutes after a pair of early fouls.

It took Taylor three and a half minutes to score in the second, but once she hit a free-throw at 16:34, the floodgates were open.

The Tigers hung with the Big Green for the start of the half, though Dartmouth's lead never dipped below 10 points. A Taylor layup put the Big Green up 49-33 at 11:44 and started a 16-5 run that inflated the lead to 65-38 before Shelly Slemp hit a jumper for Princeton.

Dartmouth would not back down and led by as many as 30 points, up 72-42 at 4:05 after a steal and jumper by Darcy Rose (Fort Collins, Colo.).

Every available Dartmouth player saw action in the contest for the second straight game and the Big Green finished strong to take the 75-46 victory. Dartmouth shot a sizzling 62.5 percent in the second half.

Taylor led all scorers with 19 points, all in the second half. Craft had an amazing game on both ends of the court, finishing with a career-high 16 points while classmate Sydney Scott (Houston, Texas) had a double-double on 10 points and 10 rebounds. Schram joined them in double-figures with 10 points and three assists.

Dartmouth's defense was the name of the game again, holding Princeton's Meagan Cowher to just nine points, well below her season average of 19.5, which is to credit to the post defense of Rose and Margaret Smith (Fort Worth, Texas).

The Big Green is in action again next Friday when it hosts Yale at Leede Arena at 7:00 p.m.