NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team continues a stretch of six straight road games with visits to BU (Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
Live Stats) and Fairfield (Sunday, 4:30 p.m.,
ESPN3,
Live Stats) this week. The Bulldogs started the season 3-0 for the fifth time in school history but have dropped two in a row since.
Last Game
Yale (3-2, 0-0 Ivy League) had its best shooting percentage of the season (.439) Sunday at St. John's, but the Red Storm shot even better (.478). The end result was an 86-68 win for SJU. The Bulldogs finished with a season-high 15 assists and had four scorers in double digits, led by sophomore guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (15 points). She hit six of her 12 shots and added nine assists and eight rebounds. Junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) registered her fifth double-double of the year, scoring 14 points and adding 13 rebounds.
Win Streaks End
With wins in its last two games of the most recent season (2019-20) and three wins to start this season, Yale had won five games in a row prior to last Friday's 47-44 loss to Maine. The Bulldogs' last loss before then had been Feb. 29, 2020 (64-49 at Princeton). That loss to Maine also snapped a streak of seven straight wins in non-league games, dating back to a Dec. 6, 2019 loss to St. John's.
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Sunday's game at St. John's saw three Yale players score the first points of their careers: first-year guard
Avery Lee (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), first-year guard
Nyla McGill (Charlotte, N.C.) and sophomore guard
Elles van der Maas (Sydney, Australia).
Emsbo Leads Nation in Double-Doubles
Junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) has double-doubles in each of the season's first five games -- making her the only player in the nation with that many double-doubles. She also ranks third nationally in rebounds with 59 and 10th nationally in blocked shots with 13. She is averaging 15.4 points per game (fifth in the Ivy League) and an Ivy League-best 11.8 rebounds per game. She had nine double-doubles in her most recent season, 2019-20.
Scouting BU
BU (2-2, 0-0 Patriot League) fell to one of Yale's Ivy rivals, Princeton, 69-40 earlier this month. The Terriers are in their first season under Melissa (D'Amico) Graves as head coach. She was an assistant at Yale for three years, helping the Bulldogs win the 2018 WBI Championship.
Scouting Fairfield
Fairfield (2-2, 0-0 MAAC), which plays at Navy Tuesday, has held three of its first four opponents to 52 or fewer points. The Stags are in their final season under head coach Joe Frager, who has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2021-22 campaign. In his 15th season, he has led the team to 242 wins.
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