Big Green Beat Iona, 65-57 for Best Road Start in 37 Years

Saturday, December 13

New Rochelle, N.Y. / Hynes Athletics Center

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

7-2,0-0Ivy League

Iona

7-3,0-0MAAC

Dartmouth

Iona

Big Green Beat Iona, 65-57 for Best Road Start in 37 Years

12/13/2025 11:48:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Dartmouth improves to 4-1 away from home this season

By: Justin Lafleur

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — The Dartmouth women's basketball team jumped out to a 20-11 lead after one quarter and held on the rest of the way, responding to every Iona comeback attempt in a 65-57 road win on Saturday evening. Four Big Green players scored double-figure points, and Cate MacDonald finished with nine points to just miss becoming the fifth.

The win made it four straight victories for Dartmouth, who improved to 7-2, marking its longest winning streak since the first four games of the 2017-18 season. The Big Green have also won six of their last seven, their best seven-game stretch since the beginning of that year as well.

Dartmouth also improved to 4-1 on the road this season, marking its best start away from home since 1988-89 (37 years). In the process, the Big Green handed Iona its first home loss of the season. The Gaels entered the day 7-2 overall and 4-0 at home.

Zeynep Ozel scored11 first-half points and finished with 14 for the game, knocking down four 3-pointers on just six attempts. Olivia Austin scored seven of her 11 points in the third. Alexandra Eldredge added 11 points while Clare Meyer scored 10.

Mya Zaccagini led Iona with 20 points.

The Big Green only lost one quarter on Saturday, and it was the fourth quarter by only two. Iona pulled as close as four in that quarter, but Dartmouth always had an answer.

Score: Dartmouth 65, Iona 57
Records: Dartmouth (7-2, 0-0 Ivy League), Iona 57 (7-3, 0-0 MAAC)
Location: New Rochelle, N.Y. ( Hynes Athletics Center)
Date: Sunday, December 13, 2025
Attendance: 637

UP NEXT:

Dartmouth returns home on Tuesday to host Franklin Pierce at 11 a.m. in its Education Day game. Admission is free for all.

FIRST QUARTER:

The story of the first quarter for the Big Green was their shooting, as they connected on 4-of-6 from 3-point range. Ozel was 2-of-3, while MacDonald and Eldredge hit their only attempts.
Dartmouth took a 7-2 lead after an Ozel 3-pointer with 8:05 left in the first.
Iona responded to take an 8-7 lead, but the Big Green answered with an 11-0 run. Eldredge began with five straight points, followed by threes from MacDonald and Ozel, to give Dartmouth an 18-8 lead with 1:20 on the clock.
The Big Green led 20-11 after one quarter of play.

SECOND QUARTER:

Ozel began the second quarter with another 3-pointer, just 31 seconds in, giving the Big Green their largest lead at 23-11.
The Gaels gradually clawed back to within six at 29-23.
But Meyer scored the final four points of the half for either side, giving the Big Green a 33-23 halftime advantage.

THIRD QUARTER:

Another Ozel 3-pointer gave Dartmouth an 11-point, 36-25 lead, early in the quarter, but Iona responded with a 10-2 run.
A Yannie Chan layup pulled the Gaels within 38-35 with 3:49 on the clock.
As they did all night, the Big Green answered, this time with a 13-1 run. The run ended with Austin scoring seven points in the span of 57 seconds, giving Dartmouth a 49-36 lead with 1:11 left in the third, on the way to a 51-41 advantage at the end of the stanza.

Olivia Austin with seven straight points, including this 3-point play!

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FOURTH QUARTER:

Dartmouth's lead hovered between seven and nine for the first half of the fourth quarter.
Iona inched to as close as six with 3:50 remaining and four with 1:17 on the clock, but that's as close as it would come.
The Big Green were a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line over the game's final 27 seconds, to seal the victory.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

For the game, Dartmouth shot 46.2% from the floor (24-of-52), a season high percentage against a Division I opponent and best mark vs. a DI opponent since shooting 51.8% last Jan. 20 against Yale.
The Big Green shot an identical 46.2% from 3-point range (6-of-13), also a season best vs. a DI opponent and best mark since shooting 46.7% (7-of-15) last Jan. 11 at Penn.
Iona finished at 36.4% (20-of-55) and 37.5% (9-of-24) from behind the arc.
The Big Green held a 39-25 edge in rebounds.
After reaching 20 points in a quarter for the first time this season against a DI opponent at NJIT Thursday (fourth quarter), the Big Green did it again in the first quarter Saturday (scoring exactly 20).
With a win on Tuesday against Franklin Pierce, Dartmouth would be off to its best start after 10 games since the 1989-90 season.
The combined record entering the games of the two teams the Big Green beat in the last three days was 15-5.
Dartmouth improved to 10-3 over its last 13 nonleague games dating back to last season.
The Big Green's 65 points tied their season high against a Division I opponent.