Ivy League Women's Volleyball Tournament 
John J. Lee Amphitheater | New Haven, CT

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Friday, November 17, 2023
Semifinal #2 – 7 p.m.
No. 1. YALE vs. No. 4 Harvard
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Semifinal #1 – 4 p.m.
No. 3 Brown vs. No. 2 Princeton
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 – 7 p.m.
Championship match
Semifinal # 1 winner vs. Semifinal #2 winner
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Bulldogs have won 15 straight entering the weekend and host the Ivy League tournament for the second straight season beginning on Friday at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.  Yale won the Ivy League regular season title outright, finished 14-0 in conference play and earned the tournament's No.1 seed.  The winner of the tournament will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.  

Yale notes:

• The Bulldogs (19-3, 14-0 Ivy) closed out the regular season with victories over Columbia and Cornell last weekend.  Yale is 10-0 at home this year.  
• Yale became the only Ivy League school to finish the regular season 14-0 for a second time.  The Bulldogs' 2012 squad also accomplished the feat, along with only one other team since the conference expanded to 14 matches in 2001.   
• Head coach Erin Appleman led the Bulldogs to an Ivy League regular season title for the 12th time -- the most of any volleyball coach in conference history.  The Bulldogs have 13 titles in program history. 
• Entering the weekend, the Bulldogs rank in the top-30 nationally in the following categories: aces per set (11th), winning percentage (13th), kills per set (15th), hitting percentage (24th) and assists per set (30th).
• Carly Diehl led the Ivy League in assists per set in conference matches, ranked fifth in service aces per set and averaged 2.15 digs per set. 
• Team captain Maile Somera last weekend moved to second place all-time in service aces in Yale program history.  She enters the weekend with 133 service aces in her career. She also led the conference with a 0.57 average per set this season. 
• Audrey Leak led the Ivy League in kills per set (3.84) in conference play.  She also ranks seventh in hitting percentage (.355).
• Mila Yarich ranks among the top seven in the Ivy League in:  points (6th), kills per set (6th) and digs (7th).
• Gigi Barr ranked second in Ivy League play with a .384 hitting percentage.
• Yale has received notable contributions from first-years.  Betsy Goodenow ranks second on the team in kills (203), while Laurece Abraham ranks seventh in the conference in hitting percentage (.346) in Ivy matches. Aryan Jue ranks fourth on the team in digs per set (1.96).

Scouting Harvard
The Crimson (15-8, 8-6 Ivy) are the tournament's fourth seed.  Harvard won three of five down the stretch, including a 3-0 victory over Brown on Nov. 3. The Crimson led the conference in blocking, including Ryleigh Patterson and Ariana White who finished one and two respectively in blocks per set in conference matches.