Dartmouth Looking to Make it Two in a Row on Tuesday

GAME 21
Dartmouth (2-18, 1-7) at Brown (5-15, 0-8)
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 8 – 7 PM
Location: Providence, R.I. – Pizzitola Sports Center
Series: Dartmouth leads, 61-29
Last Time: Feb. 5, 2022 (W, 58-54)
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DARTMOUTH VS. BROWN 2.0
Having just met in Hanover three days prior, the Big Green and the Bears will play for a second time on Tuesday – this time in Providence – in a game reschedule from Jan. 8. This is Dartmouth's first road game since Jan. 23, having been at home for three in a row.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth picked up its first Ivy League win of the season on Saturday when it defeated Brown, 54-58, in a back-and-forth battle at Leede Arena.
·      This is the Green's first conference win since downing Brown on March 7, 2020.
·      Doreen Ariik led the way with the team's first double-double of the year, scoring a career-high 11 points while also pulling down 10 caroms.
·      Jimena Abejon had a season-high 10 points, hitting a 3-pointer for the second time in her career.
·      The team went 9-12 (.750) in free throws and won the rebounding game, 43-29, including an outstanding 20 offensive boards.
·      "This first Ivy League win was special for many reasons," Adrienne Shibles, the Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82 and Family Head Coach of Women's Basketball said after her first conference victory. "I am most proud of the way that each and every player contributed to the effort. The squad has improved so much over the course of the season, and this outcome was evidence of their hard work, faith and togetherness."
·      Dartmouth led by one point after the first quarter (17-16), but it was Brown that had the edge after both the second (29-28) and the third quarters (39-36). There were five lead changes and one tie in the fourth before Dartmouth pulled ahead and stayed ahead halfway through. Brown fouls mixed with a good free throw percentage for the Green put catching up out of reach for the Bears.

SCOUTING THE BEARS
Well, not much has changed for either team since Saturday's game. Brown may be 0-8 in Ivy action, but that isn't really indicative of how they have been playing this season. Only three of those eight games have been decided by more than five points and they're the usual culprits: Penn (66-37), Harvard (89-58) and Princeton (72-39).

On Saturday, the Bears went 19-46 (4.13) in field goals, 7-22 in 3-pointers (.318) and almost perfect in free throws (9-10, .900). They had 13 bench points (compared to the Green's 29) and shot 41.3 percent from the line to Dartmouth's 33.3.

The teams split games in 2019-20, with Brown winning the first meeting in Hanover on Feb. 7 (81-73) and Dartmouth taking the season finale on the road (72-58).

LEADING THE WAY
Even though she didn't play over the weekend, Mia Curtis is still leading the team with 136 points, but Carrington Washburn and Mekkena Boyd are starting to close in with 116 and 111 points, respectively.

Washburn, Rosie Jennings and Allie Harland have played all 20 games, while Boyd has started all 19 of the contests she has appeared in. The sophomore from Williston, Vermont, also leads with 34 assists and 25 steals. Ariik leads with 103 total rebounds and is creeping her way into the Ivy League top 10.

FOLLOW ALONG
Game information can be found on DartmouthSports.com. To keep up to date on all of the Big Green's basketball news, follow the team on Twitter and Instagram at @dartmouthwbb.

WHAT'S NEXT?
Can you believe that there are just five games remaining on the schedule? Next up is the Big Green's penultimate home tilt of the year. They will face the Tigers at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12. After that, Dartmouth is on the road for three straight.

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