NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team (6-17, 2-8 Ivy League) plays at Penn Saturday (2:00 p.m.,
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Tickets). The Bulldogs have been building momentum on offense lately, scoring their second-highest point total of the season their last time out (an 82-54 win vs. Dartmouth).
Last Game
Behind the first career double-double from junior forward
Mary Meng (Grafton, Ohio) and 26 points from sophomore guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.), Yale
cruised past Dartmouth 82-54 last Saturday night at Lee Amphitheater. Meng had a game-high 14 rebounds and 10 points, making her one of four Bulldogs to score in double-digits.
Lineup Consistency
Over the last 17 games Yale has had just one spot in its lineup change; the other four have been intact. Here is a list of Bulldogs by consecutive starts (including games at UTEP last year for junior forward
Luisa Vydrova (Prague, Czech Republic), who transferred to Yale prior to this season):
Shooting Accuracy
Yale shot .478 (22-for-46) against Harvard and .465 (33-for-71) against Dartmouth last weekend. That was the first time the Bulldogs had shot .465 or better in back-to-back games since Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2020 (.596 at Columbia, .510 at Cornell).
Captain Capstraw's Rare Set of Skills
Senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), Yale's captain, ranks third in the Ivy League in assists per game (4.0), seventh in the Ivy League in steals per game (1.8) and ninth in the Ivy League in rebounds per game (6.1). Columbia's Fliss Henderson is the only other player in the league to appear in the top 10 in all three of those categories.
Moore Among Ivy's Top Three Scorers
Sophomore guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) ranks third in the Ivy League in scoring (17.7 ppg). The only other sophomore among the league's top 18 scorers is Penn's Katie Collins (ninth, 13.0 ppg). The last Yale player to rank among the Ivy League's top three in scoring for a season was
Roxy Barahman '20 in 2019-20. Barahman was third in the league (17.1 ppg) that year.
Scouting Penn
Penn (14-9, 4-6 Ivy League) has gone 4-3 since enduring a three-game losing streak to start Ivy League play in January. The Quakers lead the Ivy League in free throw percentage (.779) and are second in defensive rebounds (25.5 per game). They enter the weekend in fifth place in the Ivy League standings, trailing the two teams tied for third (Brown and Harvard, 7-3) by three games. The Quakers would be eliminated from contention for a spot in the Ivy League Tournament with a loss to Yale and wins by Brown and Harvard Saturday.
Saturday in the Ivy League
- Columbia at Dartmouth, 2:00 p.m.
- Yale at Penn, 2:00 p.m.
- Cornell at Harvard, 4:00 p.m.
- Brown at Princeton, 5:30 p.m.
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