PRINCETON, N.J. – Princeton's defense put the clamps on Yale Saturday night at Jadwin Gym, limiting the Bulldogs to their fourth-lowest point total of the season. That was enough to deliver a 71-42 Tigers win.
Princeton (17-5, 8-1 Ivy League) jumped out to an 8-0 lead, prompting an early Yale timeout. The Tigers would extend their lead to 12-0 before first-year guard
Ciniya Moore got Yale on the board with an and-one at 4:42. Yale trailed 22-9 after the first.
The second quarter was more evenly played, with Princeton outscoring the Bulldogs 11-7. Yale held Princeton to .267 shooting (4-for-15) in that frame.
Princeton grew its lead to as many as 19 points in the third, but the Bulldogs kept battling and were within 14 heading into the fourth thanks to a late jumper by first-year guard
Marisa Chapman. The Tigers closed out the game by outscoring Yale (2-21, 1-9 Ivy League) 18-13 in the fourth.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
- First-year guard Ciniya Moore led Yale with 11 points.
- Four different Bulldogs had a team-best three rebounds.
- Three different Bulldogs had a team-best two assists.
KEY STAT
- Princeton limited Yale to .327 shooting.
NOTES
- Moore's 11 points represented her second-most in a game this season, trailing only the 21 she scored at FIU Dec. 7.
- It was Senior Day for Princeton. Dalila Eshe, Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball, was an assistant at Princeton when the members of this senior class were first years.
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
- Penn 73, Brown 61
- Cornell 56, Dartmouth 43
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale hosts Dartmouth next Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
