Women's Hoops Hosts Yale in Saturday Matinee

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 

• Cornell women's basketball is back in action this weekend with a Saturday matinee vs. Yale.
• The Big Red will face off against the Bulldogs on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 2 p.m.
• Cornell was selected seventh in the Ivy League preseason media poll. Cornell finished 10-17 in the 2022-23 season, ending at seventh in the Ancient Eight. The Big Red tallied a road win over Brown and a sweep over Dartmouth in conference play.
• After its victory over Dartmouth, Cornell is now in sole possession of seventh place in the conference.
• Freshman Azareya Kilgoe has the hot hand for the Big Red, shooting .440 from the field and .500 from beyond the three-point arc. In her past two outings, she notched 14 points each. Only two of the 28 points came at the free-throw line.
• The 5'4'' point guard has grabbed 11 rebounds over the same stretch.
• Freshman Rachel Kaus has followed, shooting .500 from the field and 1.000 from three, tallying 10 and nine points in the last two outings.
• Senior captain Kaya Ingram has also tallied double-digits in the past two outings. She grabbed 12 on a 6-of-12 performance against Dartmouth, and 11 against Harvard, with a 7-of-8 shooting performance from the charity stripe.

THE SERIES 
First Meeting: Yale, 31-23, Dec. 8, 1974 (in Princeton, N.J.)
Overall: Yale leads, 59-29
In Overtime: Four times (Tied 2-2)
Current Streak: Yale won 6
Last Time: Yale, 63-42, Feb 25, 2023 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Smith vs. Yale: 16-24 (14-10 in Ithaca, N.Y.)
Series vs. Yale: 
- Saturday's game will be the 87th all-time meeting between Cornell and Yale.
- Yale has had Cornell's number over the past three seasons, taking all six matchups. The Big Red's last win over Yale came in a 66-56 victory in Newman Arena on March 1, 2019.
- Cornell has failed to score 60 points or more in its last five battles against its Ivy League foe. 
- The last ten between the two teams in Ithaca have been split down the middle, as each team has five victories, but Yale has taken the last three of four. 

A WIN OVER YALE WOULD ... 

• Push the Big Red's record to 8-12 and be the team's second conference win of the season.
• Snap a six-game losing streak to the Bulldogs. 
• Be the 473rd win in program history (472-773 in 53 seasons, .379).

LAST TIME OUT: Harvard 63, Cornell 52
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY

• The Big Red's defense held the Crimson second-fewest points in Ivy play, but Harvard took home the 63-52 victory on Saturday afternoon.
• Azareya Kilgoe and Kaya Ingram each added a double-digit point performance to the season, tallying 14 and 11, respectively.
• Kilgoe added seven rebounds and Ingram tallied a team-high four assists. Emily Pape led the Big Red at the boards with nine rebounds, while also grabbing two steals.
• Summer Parker-Hall matched her season-high blocks with two.
• Katie Krupa led the Crimson with 24 points as half of her double-double. The sophomore forward also grabbed a career-high 10 boards.
• Harvard had one other double-digit scorer in Lola Mullaney.