Women's Basketball

Senior guard Niveen Rasheed of the women’s basketball team has accumulated many honors throughout her four years as a Tiger and has become one of the most decorated players in Ivy League women’s basketball history. She hopes to extend that impressive career beyond NCAA competition in the weeks to come as she looks forward to the WNBA draft and anticipates the opportunity to play professionally in some capacity.

It would be surprising if the women’s basketball team did anything but gain ground this weekend as it hosts Cornell and Columbia, the sixth and seventh teams in the Ivy League, respectively. Halfway through Ivy play, the Tigers have had few problems in dealing with their conference.

There shouldn’t be much drama in the standings down the stretch of the Ivy League women’s basketball season. With a two-game lead on the pack and a 31-game win streak in conference play, the Tigers’ fourth straight Ivy title seems imminent, even with its three toughest road games still to come. But there will be one race of interest to Princeton fans — senior guard Niveen Rasheed’s chase for the program’s career scoring record.

The women’s basketball team (16-5 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) came away with a pair of wins after a doubleheader Ivy League weekend, hosting Dartmouth (6-15, 4-2) and Harvard (13-8, 4-3) at Jadwin Gymnasium.

The Princeton women’s basketball team will face its most formidable league opponents this weekend when it welcomes Dartmouth and Harvard to Jadwin Gymnasium. The Big Green and Crimson are currently tied for second place behind the Tigers in the league’s standings with a conference record of 4-1. However, they have been nowhere near as dominant as Princeton (14-5 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) which is playing its best basketball as of late, having just dropped a program-high 99 points in its last game against Yale. Unlike most of the Tigers’ previous opponents, however, Dartmouth and Harvard have had winning programs in the past and should not be counted out.