NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team heads to New England for a pair of Ivy League games this weekend. The Bulldogs visit Dartmouth Friday (6:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
Live Stats) and Harvard Saturday (5:00 p.m.,
NESN,
ESPN+,
Live Stats).
Last Game
Yale (12-7, 5-2 Ivy League) had a five-game winning streak snapped by Princeton last Friday. The Bulldogs led 40-36 in the fourth quarter, looking to snap the Tigers' 31 game Ivy League winning streak. But Princeton outscored Yale 25-9 in the game's final seven minutes to pull out a 61-49 victory. Sophomore guards
Klara Astrom (Menlo Park, Calif.) and
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) led the Bulldogs in scoring with 13 points each. The five-game win streak was Yale's longest since winning eight in a row from Dec. 19, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020.
Ivy Outlook
Yale enters the weekend in third place in the Ivy League with a 5-2 record, a game ahead of fourth-place Harvard (4-3). Columbia and Princeton sit at 6-0 and are tied for first. The Lions and Tigers face each other this Saturday at 5:00 p.m. at Jadwin Gym.
Winning
Yale's current .632 winning percentage is the team's second-highest in a season since posting a .654 winning percentage in 1979-80. The 2019-20 squad had a .704 winning percentage.
Big Four on the Boards
Four players on Yale's roster are currently averaging more than 10 rebounds per 40 minutes, led by first-year forward
Grace Thybulle (Irvington, N.Y.) (12.8 rebounds per 40 minutes). Junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) (12.2 rebounds per 40 minutes) is next, followed by sophomore forward
Brenna McDonald (Natick, Mass.) (11.9 rebounds per 40 minutes) and senior forward
Alex Cade (Shaker Heights, Ohio) (10.5 rebounds per 40 minutes).
Twenty Something
Three different Yale players have scored at least 20 points in a game this season, led by a pair of 26 point efforts from junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.). Emsbo has three 20 point games. Sophomore guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) scored 20 vs. Army West Point Dec. 28 and sophomore guard
Elles van der Maas (Sydney, Australia) scored 22 vs. Harvard Jan. 8, hitting a season-high six three pointers.
Halftime Adjustments Paying Off
Yale has outscored its opponents by more than 100 points – 319-218 – in the third quarter this season. That is the largest difference of any quarter. The Bulldogs have outscored their opponents 289-287 in the first quarter and have been outscored 289-269 in the second quarter and 277-256 in the fourth quarter.
Block Party
Junior forward
Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.) continues re-writing the blocks section of Yale's record book. With 42 blocks entering the weekend, she has three of the top seven single-season block totals in school history. Her 62 blocks in 2019-20 ranks second, her 52 blocks in 2018-19 ranks fourth and her 42 blocks this season ranks seventh. She is second on Yale's career blocks list with 156 – 26 away from the all-time leader (
Erica Davis '07, 182).
Bulldogs Among NCAA Leaders
Two Bulldogs rank among the national top 25 in various statistical categories:
- Sophomore guard Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- 7th in assists per game (6.3)
- 12th in assists (120)
- 23rd in minutes played per game (36.54)
- Junior forward Camilla Emsbo (Lakewood, Colo.)
- 18th in blocked shots per game (2.33)
- 19th in blocked shots (42)
- 23rd in double doubles (10)
Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth (1-17, 0-6 Ivy League) has lost seven in a row, including a 57-43 defeat at Yale Jan. 23. Yale is 19-4 in its last 23 games against the Big Green, including a 10-1 mark at Leede Arena.
Scouting Harvard
Harvard (10-9, 4-3 Ivy League), which hosts Brown Friday night, has won three in a row and averaged 85 points per game in that span. This is the 40th and final season for Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who announced in November that she will retire at the end of the season. Yale beat Harvard 80-73 earlier this season.
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