Women's Basketball

Tigers triumph in final non-conference game

In its first game of the new year and its final non-conference matchup of the regular season, the women’s basketball team took down Drexel on Saturday afternoon with a 66-59 win in Philadelphia. After scoring fewer than 60 points for the first time this season in a 69-57 loss to Virginia on Dec.

Tigers look to extend winning streak to 3

The women’s basketball team will start its winter break off by hosting Delaware on Sunday afternoon.

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Around the Ivies: Women's basketball

The Ivy season starts at the beginning of reading period, but Ancient Eight teams still have plenty of games left before they begin to play each other.

Helmstetter passes 500-point mark in Navy win

The women’s basketball team improved its record to 4-4 with a 16-point victory over Navy on Friday night.

Matchup with Navy could come down to the wire

The women’s basketball team will hope to improve on a 2-3 away record Friday as it takes on Navy in Annapolis, Md.

ATI: Women's Basketball

A few weeks into the season, Ivy League teams are getting a taste of life outside the Ancient Eight.

Still stuck in second place

Watching Blake Dietrick shoot the ball is fun. In the women’s basketball game against Oregon on Sunday, the junior guard hit every single shot she took in the first half — eight buckets on eight shots, accounting for 21 of the Tigers’ 55 points going into halftime.

Mixed results as Tigers take on Pacific Northwest

After suffering a two-game skid before Thanksgiving, the women’s basketball team saw mixed results this weekend in Oregon.

Sports Shorts: Men's and women's basketball

Men’s basketball: Princeton looking to extend winning streakThe men’s basketball team will try to win its third straight game of the season Tuesday night when it takes on George Mason in Jadwin Gymnasium.

Sports Shorts: Women's basketball, swimming, women's hockey

Women’s basketball: Hoyas top Tigers with last-second heroics The Tigers fell to Georgetown 66-64 on a Hoya basket with three seconds left, bringing Princeton to 2-2 on the year despite a second-half comeback.

Helmstetter to lead Tigers against Hoyas

This Saturday, the women's basketball team is on the road again, heading to Georgetown for its second away game in a row.

Princeton rides momentum to win over Rider

On Tuesday night, the women’s basketball team played at Rider and came away with a 75-62 victory, its second-straight win, bringing its record to 2-1 overall. The team played well in its season-opener against Rutgers but couldn’t fill the offensive hole left by last year’s seniors, especially Niveen Rasheed ‘13, and the Tigers dropped the game 79-65.

Offense comes alive in home opener

The women’s basketball team improved over the course of its season-opening loss to Rutgers, and it picked up right where it left off Sunday with an authoritative 81-58 throttling of defending MAAC champion Marist. The story of the preseason for the Tigers (1-1) was the loss of Niveen Rasheed ’13, far and away the team’s leading scorer during her time at Princeton.

Defending MAAC champions visit Jadwin Sunday

This Sunday, the women's basketball team will have its home opener against Marist in its second game of the season.

Around the Ivies: Women's basketball

Now that every team has played its first game, we’ve gotten our first look at how Ivy League women’s basketball will shape up this year.

Princeton drops season-opener

Princeton women’s basketball team started its season on an unconventional note, as a technical foul was called on the Princeton bench before the game even started due to a scorebook error, leaving the Tigers with a 2-0 deficit before the game officially began.

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Who's next? Princeton basketball after Hummer and Rasheed

“The nature of collegiate athletics, not to be cliche, is that you have turnover,” women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart said at her team’s preseason press conference. That makes it sound simple, but her team and the men’s basketball team will see more than their share of turnover as their seasons get underway this weekend.

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