Big Green Comeback Falls Short vs. Yale, 70-67

Monday, January 20

Hanover, N.H.

6:00 PM

Dartmouth College

8-9,2-2Ivy League

Yale

2-15,1-3Ivy League

Yale

Dartmouth

Big Green Comeback Falls Short vs. Yale, 70-67

1/20/2025 10:39:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Victoria Page scores a career-high 29 points in the loss

By: Justin Lafleur

HANOVER, N.H. — Yale opened a first-quarter lead and despite multiple Dartmouth comeback attempts, the Big Green couldn't get over the hump in a tough 70-67 defeat on Monday evening inside Leede Arena. Victoria Page led the offense with a career-high 29 points, marking the most points by a Dartmouth player in almost seven years, but it wasn't enough.

The Big Green trimmed an 11-point deficit with 5:25 remaining down to one, but a tough 3-pointer from Page as the clock expired wouldn't fall.

Alexandra Eldredge and Zeynep Ozel each scored 13 points, with Eldredge's coming on 6-of-8 shooting, in scoring her Dartmouth career-high high. Page shot an impressive 12-of-21 from the floor, including 2-of-4 from three.

Grace Thybulle led Yale with a game-high 22 points. The Bulldogs finished with 21 turnovers, compared to just 11 for the Big Green, helping offset Yale's 36-21 edge in rebounds.

Score: Yale 70, Dartmouth 67
Records: Dartmouth (8-9, 2-2 Ivy League), Yale (2-15, 1-3 Ivy League)
Location: Leede Arena (Hanover, N.H.)
Date: Monday, January 20, 2025
Attendance: 584

UP NEXT:

Dartmouth remains home on Saturday to host Brown at 2 p.m.

FIRST QUARTER: 

Dartmouth jumped out to early leads of 7-2 and 9-5, with Austin scoring four points before the game was 90 seconds old.
Yale ended the stanza on a 13-3 run to take an 18-12 lead into the second, as Avery Lee and Thybulle each scored six first-quarter points.

SECOND QUARTER:

The Bulldogs' lead reached as much as 11 midway through the second quarter before the Big Green mounted a surge.
Dartmouth staged a 14-4 run, with all the points coming from Page, Eldredge and Ozel.
An Eldredge layup with 19 seconds on the clock pulled the Big Green within 33-32 before the Bulldogs' Marisa Chapman knocked down layup to give her team a 35-32 halftime lead.

THIRD QUARTER:

The margin remained between two and six through the first six minutes of the third quarter.
Yale used a mini 5-0 surge to double its lead from five to 10, with 2:14 on the clock.
Page hit two free throws with less than one second remaining, but the Bulldogs still took a 55-45 lead into the fourth.

FOURTH QUARTER:

Yale still led 61-50 with 5:25 remaining, but the Big Green wouldn't go away quietly.
A quick 7-0 surge in less than a minute cut the deficit to four. Page began and ended the run, with a Cate MacDonald finish in between.
A few minutes later, an Eldredge reverse layup pulled the Big Green within 64-61 with 2:12 on the clock.
The Big Green got to as close as one with 26 seconds remaining (after a Page layup) and nine seconds on the clock (following a Nina Minicozzi layup). That's as close as they would come, however as Yale walked away with the victory.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

Page's 29 points are the most by a Big Green player since Kate Letkewicz scored 29 against Yale on Feb. 16, 2018.
Page's 29 points are the fifth most points by an Ivy League player this season. Only two other players have scored more than Page's 29; with Harmoni Turner of Harvard eclipsing 30 points on four occasions, along with Grace Arnolie of Brown tallying 35.
Eldredge's 13 points eclipsed her previous Dartmouth high of 12 points against UMass; Monday marked her fourth double-figure scoring game in a Big Green uniform.
Dartmouth shot 51.8% from the floor (29-of-56) and 15.8% from 3-point range (3-of-19). It marked the fourth time this season the Big Green have finished at 50+% from the field.
Yale shot 49.1% from the floor (27-of-255) and 31.3% from behind the arc (5-of-16).
The Big Green were just 6-of-15 from the free throw line, compared to Yale's 11-of-12.
The Bulldogs held a 36-21 edge in rebounds, which included 12 offensive boards.