NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team heads to Maine to take on the Black Bears Saturday (6:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
Maine Black Bears Sports Network,
goblackbears.com audio,
Live Stats,
Tickets). The Bulldogs have won two in a row, and a win on Saturday would give them their first three-game winning streak since winning five in a row Jan. 8 through Jan. 23, 2022.
Last Game
Yale (2-2, 0-0 Ivy League) earned a 71-66 win at Army Wednesday night. The Bulldogs had five players score in double digits, led by junior guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.)'s 15 points. The Bulldogs finished with only 10 turnovers, their lowest total since also having 10 at Drexel Dec. 14, 2021. They committed only 15 fouls, their lowest total since committing 12 fouls against Penn Feb. 18, 2022.
Scoring Depth on Display
The Bulldogs have four players averaging 9.0 or more points per game:
- Junior guard Elles van der Maas (Sydney, Australia) 14.0 ppg
- Junior guard Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 10.8 ppg
- First-year guard Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) 9.5 ppg
- Sophomore guard Nyla McGill (Charlotte, N.C.) 9.3 ppg
The last time that Yale had four players average 9.0 or more points per game for a full season was 2002-03 (
Christina Phillips '04 11.0 ppg,
Bonnie Smith '04 10.6 ppg,
Lindsay Page '05 10.5 ppg,
Tory Mauseth '05 9.6 ppg).
Doubling Up on Double-Doubles
Sophomore guard
Nyla McGill (Charlotte, N.C.) has two double-doubles in the last three games. She and Princeton's Ellie Mitchell are the only Ivy League players with two double-doubles so far this season.
Crime Pays
Yale is tied for the Ivy League lead in steals per game (9.5). Individually, sophomore guard
Nyla McGill (Charlotte, N.C.) is fourth in the league, averaging 2.0 steals per game.
Road Trip Continues
Saturday is the second of five straight games away from Lee Amphitheater for Yale. Next week, the Bulldogs go to Colorado for the University of Denver Classic, where they will play New Mexico State on Nov. 25 and Houston Christian on Nov. 26. They then visit UMass on Nov. 30 before returning home – for the first time in 20 days – on Dec. 4 to play Syracuse. By the end of the road trip they will have traveled more than 4,800 miles.
Buzzer Beaters Highlighted Last Trip to Maine
Yale's last trip to Maine was Jan. 5, 2014 and included buzzer-beaters by the Bulldogs at the end of the first half and the end of the game.
Sarah Halejian '15 hit a half-court heave just before halftime to give Yale a 47-41 lead.
Nyasha Sarju '16 drove in for a game-winning bank shot as time expired in the second half for
an 86-85 win.
Scouting Maine
Maine (1-1, 0-0 America East) has split two road games to open the season. The Black Bears earned a spot in the WNIT last year, going 20-12 and finishing No. 190 in the NCAA Net Rankings.
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