Women's Basketball: Undefeated conference mark in sight

After sweeping Yale and Brown on the road last weekend, the women’s basketball team will go for a perfect 14-0 conference season this afternoon when it hosts Penn at Jadwin Gymnasium. The Tigers (23-4 overall, 13-0 Ivy League) extended their win streak to 16 games in their final road trip of the regular season, beating Yale 71-53 before downing Brown 77-60.

Senior center Devona Allgood was named the Ivy League co-Player of the Week with Penn guard Alyssa Baron after scoring 34 points in 44 minutes of playing time between the two games. Allgood, who broke the 1,000-point scoring mark earlier this season, shot 71 percent from the floor as she dropped 21 points on the Bears, helping the Tigers dispatch the team which gave them their closest game of conference play.

The Bears (16-12, 7-7) hung even with Princeton for about five minutes, but a quick 10-2 run put the visitors in the familiar leading position. Allgood, coming off of the bench in a departure from her usual routine, made two baskets shortly after entering the game, the second of which extended Princeton’s advantage to double digits.

After a 15-2 run late in the half — sparked by junior forward Niveen Rasheed, who scored 18 in the game — the Tigers led 46-27 at the break. Unlike most of Princeton’s opponents, Brown never let the score get out of hand in the second half, but it also never closed within single digits as the visitors cruised to victory.

The previous day, Rasheed put up a double-double with 20 points and 14 rebounds as the Tigers dropped Yale (16-12, 8-6), which lost to Penn the following day to finish third in the conference. The Bulldogs led as late as eight minutes, 13 seconds into the first half, but Princeton ended the half on a 22-7 run that decided the contest.

Just as they had at Jadwin last month, the Tigers struggled with the Bulldogs’ pressure, committing 19 turnovers in the game. But they collected more than half of their own missed shots, 21 of 37, and shot 46 percent from the field to still win handily.

If Princeton takes care of business against the Quakers tonight, it will become only the fifth team in Ivy League history to go 14-0, joining the perfect 2009-10 squad.