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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team opens the 2021-22 season Tuesday at Providence (4:00 p.m., FloSports). The Bulldogs and Friars last met in 2019-20, with Yale earning a come-from-behind 82-79 win at Lee Amphitheater. 
 
Winning at a Record Pace
Yale ended its most recent season (2019-20) with 19 wins, tying the school wins record that was set by the 2017-18 team. The 2019-20 Bulldogs' .704 winning percentage ranked third in school history, trailing only the 1976-77 squad (15-5, .750) and the 1975-76 squad (13-5, .722). The Bulldogs had 69 wins in the four seasons from 2016-17 through 2019-20, the most for any four-year span in school history.
 
Road Warriors
With nine wins in road games and one win in a neutral-site game, Yale had 10 wins away from Lee Amphitheater in 2019-20. That was for the second-most such wins in a season in a 26 year span for the Bulldogs, trailing only the 2017-18 team's 11 wins.
 
Captain Nesbitt
Senior guard Roxanne Nesbitt (Chicago, Ill.) has been elected captain by her teammates. Nesbitt has been a steadying presence for the Bulldogs since making the team as a walk-on her first year. She made her Yale debut in the win vs. Saint Peter's Dec. 4, 2018 and has appeared in a total of 10 career games, scoring the first points of her career in the win vs. Sacred Heart Dec. 19, 2019. An economics and mathematics major, Nesbitt is working on a senior essay relating cryptocurrencies to early currencies in the United States. She has been a member of Yale Undergraduate Diversified Investments and has been a math tutor for middle schoolers. She is currently a member of Yale Bulldogs for Change, a student-athlete group focused on social justice and making the student-athlete experience at Yale more inclusive.
 
Emsbo an Ivy League Leader
Junior forward Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) is coming off a 2019-20 season in which she earned second team All-Ivy League honors. She was third in the league in blocks per game (2.3), tied for third in the league in rebounds per game (8.2) and sixth in the league in points per game (15.0). Each of those numbers represented a career high. She finished the season with 62 blocks, one shy of the Yale single-season record. She established single-game career highs in points (29 at Dartmouth Feb. 8), rebounds (17 vs. Fresno State Nov. 29) and blocks (five, three times). She had nine double-doubles.
 
New-Look Roster
Yale's roster features seven players who played in the team's most recent season (2019-20) and eight players who are looking to play their first game for the Bulldogs this year. Two players have 20 or more career starts: junior forward Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) (55 career starts) and senior forward Alex Cade (Shaker Heights, Ohio) (20 career starts).
 
History Lesson
This is Yale's 49th season as a varsity team. The Bulldogs opened the 1973-74 season with an exhibition game on Dec. 4, 1973, beating Amity High School 45-19. Their first regular season win came Mar. 2, 1974: 32-23 vs. Trinity. They won their first Ivy League title in 1979, beating Princeton 63-55 in the Ivy League Tournament championship game Feb. 11, 1979.
 
Scouting Providence
Providence went 7-14 in 2020-21, including a 4-10 mark in the Big East. The Friars advanced to the conference quarterfinals for the third straight season. They have added six freshmen and two transfers since then, and were picked for eighth in the Big East preseason coaches' poll. Second team All-Big East honoree Mary Baskerville returns after leading the team in scoring (12.7 ppg), rebounding (6.5 rpg), blocked shots (1.8 bpg), steals (1.4 spg) and field-goal percentage (.538). She is a Connecticut native (Enfield).
 
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