Women's Basketball Looks To Continue Win Streak With Trip to Pennsylvania

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 

• The Cornell women’s basketball team opened the 2022-23 season against its longest non-Ivy rival at Colgate on Monday, Nov. 7 where it fell 62-48 to the Raiders at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y.
• The Big Red have a three consecutive home win streak following a 71-48 win over Binghamton.
• Picked sixth in the Ivy League Preseason media poll, the Big Red is coming off a 9-16 season and a sixth-place finish among the Ancient Eight.
• Theresa Grace Mbanefo and Samantha Will were the lone 2022 grads for the Red, opening up new court opportunities for the returners.
• Freshman Emily Pape neared double-double territory in both of her first two collegiate outings (13 pts, 7 rebounds at Colgate; 7 pts, 10 rebounds at FDU). She tallied a remarkable 24-points in the 66-61 win over Mount St. Mary's, the most by an active Cornellian since Shannon Mulroy tallied 27 in her freshman year.
• Cornell returns 11 athletes from last year, while adding four new faces.
• Ania McNicholas is demonstrating true defensive prowess this season currently ranking 10th in the nation in steals (33). 

THE SERIES 
Overall: Duquesne leads, 5-0 
In Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne leads, 2-0
Current Streak: Duquesne won five
Last Meeting: Duquesne won, 72-62, on December 10, 2019
Smith vs. Duquesne: Duquesne leads, 5-0
Series Notes: 

• Duquesne sits at third in the Atlantic 10, only losing to Pitt and Tulsa.
• The Dukes strong start is a polar of the 2021-22 season, where the team tallied just 11 wins across the season.

A WIN OVER DUQUESNE WOULD ... 

• be the first win over the Dukes in Cornell history.
• be the first four-consecutive wins since Nov. 16, 2019 through Nov. 27, 2019, when Cornell tallied four straight wins.
• be the 463rd win in program history (462-749 in seasons, .381).

LAST TIME OUT: Cornell 89, Hartford 38
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY

• The Big Red dominated the Hawks with a 51-point victory, the largest margin of victory for the Big Red since 1987.
• Cornell sophomore Summer Parker-Hall earned her first career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
• Senior captain Ania McNicholas tallied a team-best 19 points in the contest while playing just 20 minutes of game time..
• 13 of the 14 Big Red athletes tallied points in the outing.

Photos by Dave Burbank, Eldon Lindsay, Patrick Shanahan and Darl Zehr