GAME 24
Dartmouth (2-21, 0-9) vs. Princeton (16-5, 7-2)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 11 | 1 p.m.
Location: Princeton, N.J. | Jadwin Gym
All-Time Series: 44-42
Last Meeting: Jan. 21, 2023 (L, 79-59)
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON HOOPS
Dartmouth visits preseason Ivy League favorite Princeton on Saturday afternoon for its penultimate road game of the season. The Tigers are currently in a three-way tie, having won eight straight, and recently earned a marquee win at Columbia.
LAST WEEKEND
Dartmouth erupted for 25 points in the first quarter against Brown on Friday night and it looked like a first Ivy League win may have been in the Big Green's future, but the Bears outlasted them in a high-scoring 82-76 final. Dartmouth's 76 points were a season-high. A halftime lead against Yale was squandered on Saturday as the Bulldogs made a 15-1 run to start the third quarter, sending Dartmouth home with a 14th straight loss.
MITCHELL'S CAREER-HIGH
Karina Mitchell scored a career-high 10 points against Brown on Friday and was a perfect 5-of-5 from the field. She is one of four players in the Ivy League this season with a perfect shooting percentage in a game with five or more attempts. Two of the others? Princeton's Parker Hill and Paige Morton in the previous meeting of these two teams.
PAGE'S 23-POINT OUTING
Leading scorer
Victoria Page had more than 20 points in back-to-back games in mid-December, but hadn't reached 20 again until Friday at Brown. 23 was two shy of tying her career-high, which she set in the Big Green's most recent win (Dec. 10 at Monmouth). Her performance was also the catalyst behind Dartmouth season-high 51 bench points.
DOUBLE-DIGIT BOARDS BY KOCH
Emma Koch grabbed 12 boards against Yale for her sixth double-digit rebounding effort of the season. Four players in the Ivy League have more 10-rebound games with Princeton's Ellie Mitchell being one of them.
TIGERS WINNING WITH DEFENSE
The Tigers dropped their first two Ivy League games, but haven't lost since. Princeton's defense is statistically the best in the conference (and top-20 in the nation), averaging 54.7 points allowed per game. Led by Ellie Mitchell, who averages nearly three steals a game, the unit has held opponents under 50 points four times during the current winning streak.
LAST MEETING
Dartmouth was 5-of-7 from deep in the first half against Princeton and trailed by one at halftime, but hot shooting was unsustainable as the Tigers outscored the Big Green by 19 in the second half. Princeton shot a season-high 54.8 percent from the field.
Mekkena Boyd led Dartmouth with a career-high 15 points and it marked her third straight game in double figures.
ALL-TIME VERSUS PRINCETON
Dartmouth is 44-42 all-time against Princeton, but winless in its last nine matchups with the Tigers. Princeton has won 24 of the last 25 meetings with Dartmouth's lone victory in that stretch coming on March 4, 2017. Prior to that, the Big Green won four straight with sweeps in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
ROAD STRETCH ENDS
Dartmouth is back home for the first time since Jan. 21 when it welcomes Cornell on Friday, Feb. 17 as the program hosts its Play4Kay game.