Women's Hoops Hosts Princeton for Second Dual Ivy Weekend

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 

• The Cornell women’s basketball team opened the 2022-23 conference play by hosting Dartmouth on Sunday, Jan. 1 where it won 61-48.
• The Big Red's five-game home win-streak was snapped by Columbia when the Lions took down Cornell 91-64 on MLK Jr. Day.
• 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.
• Cornell swept Ivy League weekly awards on January 3rd for the first time since the 2019-20 season when Shannon Mulroy won both Rookie and Player of the Week. This time around, Emily Pape won Rookie of the Week and Ania McNicholas took home the Player of the Week honor. Pape is one of the best shooters in the league, ranking fourth in the Ivy in shooting percentage at a .522 clip form the field.
• 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. Pape earned her first career double-double at Penn with 14 points and 13 rebounds, and second against Brown with 27 points o
• Ania McNicholas is demonstrating true defensive prowess this season currently ranking 13th in the nation in steals (63), and 11th nationally in steals per game at 3.15 as of January 24, 2023. She earned the first triple-double for the Big Red since 1988 in the outing against Clarion (13 pts, 13 rbs, 10 stls).

THE SERIES 
Overall: Princeton leads, 63-21
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Princeton leads, 20-10 (records do not indicate site prior to the 1980-81 season)
Current Streak: Princeton has won the last 10
Last Meeting: 48-70 loss on Jan. 7, 2023
Smith vs. Princeton: Princeton leads, 32-8
Series Notes:

• Cornell's last win over the Tigers dates back to the 2017 season when the Big Red pulled off the upset in the New Jersey.
• Cornell only has had one win since the 2007-08 season, when it earned the W twice in one season.
• Princeton is the second-most eldest Ivy opponent for Cornell. They teams first faced in the 1974-75 season where the Tigers won 51-33.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ... 

• be the first win over the Tigers in five years.
• break the Princeton's 10 game winning streak.
• be the 466th win in program history (465-755 in seasons, .381).
   

LAST TIME OUT: Cornell 66, Brown 61
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY

• Cornell beat the Brown Bears 66-61 on January 28th in Providence, R.I.
• Emily Pape's 27 points led the Cornell scoring charge for the fifth time out of the past six contests.
• Brown shot 40.0% from the field, and 22.2% from behind the arc.
• Both Emily Pape and Anna Hovis secured double-doubles, the first time two Cornell players have done that in the same game since November 2021.
• Pape had 27 poiunts and 11 rebounds and Hovis had 10 points and 10 rebounds. 
• Anna Hovis secured her first game of her career with at least 10 points.
   

Photos by Eldon Lindsay and Patrick Shanahan.