PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Yale women's basketball team withstood a 9-0 run by Brown in the second quarter Saturday at the Pizzitola Center, eventually building a six-point lead in the third quarter. But the Bears had a response in the back-and-forth battle, ending the third with a three-pointer that was part of a 7-0 run to re-take the lead at 49-48. Yale momentarily went back ahead on a jumper by senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger at 9:35 of the fourth – part of a 23 point day for her. But the Bears outscored the Bulldogs 11-2 within the next three minutes and went on to finish off a 77-69 win.
Yale (1-14, 0-2 Ivy League) led 16-12 after the first. The Bulldogs trailed by as many as eight in the second quarter but went on a 10-1 run at the end of that quarter to take a 30-29 lead into halftime.
Brown (7-8, 1-1 Ivy League) wound up outscoring Yale 48-39 in the second half to pull out the win. Guard Grace Arnolie led the Bears with 35 points, shooting 10-for-20.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
- Senior guard/forward Mackenzie Egger led Yale with 23 points and 11 rebounds.
- Junior guard Kiley Capstraw led Yale with five assists. She added eight rebounds.
- First-year guard Marisa Chapman drew a team-best seven fouls on Brown.
KEY STAT
- Brown shot a blistering .818 (9-for-11) in the fourth quarter.
NOTES
- The Bulldogs' 69 points represented a season high and the most by the team since a 79-72 win vs. Cornell Mar. 1, 2024.
- Yale had a 32-20 rebounding edge, limiting Brown to two offensive rebounds.
- Yale limited Brown to a season-low 16 three-point attempts.
- First-year guard Ke'iara Odume scored 11 points, reaching double digits for the third game in a row.
- This was Egger's fifth double-double of the year.
- Junior guard Kiley Capstraw had 13 points, her second-highest point total of the season.
QUOTING DALILA ESHE, YALE'S JOEL E. SMILOW, CLASS OF 1954 HEAD COACH OF WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
- On responding to Brown's 9-0 run in the second: "That's an area where we are growing as a team. We've struggled with allowing runs like that. Today we did a fantastic job responding and finding that inner compete."
- On Mackenzie Egger contributing another double-double: "She's the gold standard of work. Down the stretch, you could tell she was frustrated that we were trailing. She's such an active player, she's always going to make something happen."
- On Kiley Capstraw having one of her best games of the year: "She's gotten into such a better space. She has really stepped into the role of leading this team and running the point."
- On Ke'iara Odume, who scored in double digits for the third straight game: "She's lost a little of her first-year timidness, and has figured out that she can score. She's a really good scorer, and she's a good defender. She does a really good job of guarding guards out in space. This was a [close] ballgame because we hit some threes, and she hit three of them. She's figuring it out, and it's exciting for the future."
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
- Columbia 69, Cornell 44
- Dartmouth 61, Penn 49
- Princeton 52, Harvard 50
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale hosts Columbia next Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
