NEW HAVEN, Conn. – With four games left in the regular season, the Yale women's basketball team remains in contention for one of the four spots in the Ivy League Tournament. The Bulldogs play at Dartmouth Saturday (1:00 p.m.,
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Last Game
Yale (6-17, 3-7 Ivy League) lost to then-No. 24 Princeton 70-45 last Saturday. Senior guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) led the Bulldogs with eight points and four assists.
Clark Nears Mark
Senior guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) enters the weekend with 930 career points. She is averaging a team-best 13.6 points per game, which would put her on pace to score a total of 54 points in Yale's final four regular season games. If she totals 70 points (17.5 points per game) over those four games, she will become the 24th player in school history to score 1,000 career points.
McGill Among Ivy Leaders
Junior guard
Nyla McGill (Charlotte, N.C.), last year's Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the year, is tied for fifth in the league in steals per game (1.8) and is fifth in the league in rebounds per game (6.7). Last year she was second in the league in steals per game (2.6) and second in rebounds per game (8.9).
Seniors Lead the Way in Scoring
Here is a breakdown of the scoring by class, with the percentage of the team's total points (1,374):
- Seniors (3 players who have scored) 566 points (41%)
- Juniors (4 players who have scored) 496 points (36%)
- Sophomores (2 players who have scored) 310 points (23%)
- First year (1 player who has scored) 2 points (.002%)
Go Low
In games where the winning team's score is 74 or lower, Yale is 6-8. In games where the winning team's score is 75 or more, Yale is 0-9.
Three's Company
Yale enters the weekend in sixth place in the
Ivy League standings, one game behind fifth-place Penn and two games behind fourth-place Brown. Four games remain in the regular season. The top four teams make the Ivy League Tournament, held at Columbia's Levien Gym Mar. 15-16.
Brown, Penn and Yale all have much in common. They are:
- A combined 7-0 against Cornell and Dartmouth, the two teams tied for seventh.
- A combined 0-13 against first-place Princeton, second-place Columbia and third-place Harvard.
- Brown and Penn split their season series 1-1. Penn and Yale split their season series 1-1. Brown beat Yale when the two teams met Jan. 13 in New Haven, and they meet again in the regular season finale Mar. 9 in Providence.
Ivy League Tournament Tiebreakers
Tiebreakers may be needed to determine which teams make the Ivy League Tournament, and to determine tournament seeding. In general, ties are broken by head-to-head records first, then record against the highest seeded team outside of the tie, then by NCAA NET Rankings. A full list of tiebreakers is on the
Ivy League website. NCAA NET Rankings are available on the
NCAA website.
Ivy League Action this Saturday
- 1:00 p.m. Yale at Dartmouth
- 2:00 p.m. Brown at Harvard
- 2:00 p.m. No. 23 Princeton at Columbia
- 2:00 p.m. Penn at Cornell
Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth (7-15, 1-9 Ivy League) is coming off its first Ivy League win since Feb. 18, 2022, having beaten Cornell 48-44 last Saturday at Leede Arena. The Big Green fell behind 25-15 at halftime after being outscored 17-0 in the second quarter, but outscored Cornell 33-19 in the second half for the win. Yale
beat Dartmouth 48-46 when these two teams met Jan. 20 in New Haven. The Bulldogs have won seven in a row in the series.
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