NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team continues Ivy League play with a game at Cornell Saturday (2:00 p.m.,
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Tickets). The Bulldogs enter the weekend sixth in the Ivy League standings, two games behind Brown for the fourth and final spot in the Ivy League Tournament. Seven games remain in the regular season.
Last Game
Yale (5-15, 2-5 Ivy League)
won 74-68 in overtime at Penn last Saturday. The Bulldogs got a buzzer-beating three from senior guard
Klara Astrom (Menlo Park, Calif.) to tie the game 63-63 at the end of regulation, then outscored the Quakers 11-5 in OT. Senior guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.) led Yale with 25 points – one shy of her career high – and nine assists.
Seniors Lead the Way in Scoring
Here is a breakdown of the scoring by class, with the percentage of the team's total points (1,231):
- Seniors (3 players who have scored) 485 points (39%)
- Juniors (4 players who have scored) 450 points (37%)
- Sophomores (2 players who have scored) 294 points (24%)
- First year (1 player who has scored) 2 points (.002%)
Clark Featured in Hometown Paper
Senior guard
Jenna Clark (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Yale's captain, was recently
featured in her hometown paper. Clark leads the Ivy League in assists – putting her in position to become the first player to lead the Ivy League in assists for three straight years since Harvard's Brogan Berry did so from the 2009-10 season through the 2011-12 season.
Leading Scorers
Including ties, here is the list of how many times each player has led the team in scoring this season:
The Magic Number
Since the current version of the Ivy League Tournament began in 2016-17 (the top four teams in the regular season standings make the tournament), here is a list of how often teams with various league win totals have made the four-team field:
- 14 league wins 2/2 (100%)
- 13 league wins 1/1 (100%)
- 12 league wins 6/6 (100%)
- 11 league wins 1/1 (100%)
- 10 league wins 2/2 (100%)
- 9 league wins 6/6 (100%)
- 8 league wins 3/3 (100%)
- 7 league wins 2/6 (33%)
- 6 league wins 1/5 (20%)
- 5 league wins or fewer 0/16 (0%)
Bulldogs' Best vs. the Big Red
Yale swept the series vs. Cornell last year, winning
68-56 at Lee Amphitheater and
63-42 at Newman Arena. Senior guard
Klara Astrom (Menlo Park, Calif.) averaged a team-best 13.5 points in the two games, followed by junior guard
Christen McCann (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) (12.5 points). The Bulldogs have won six in a row against Cornell.
Ivy League Action this Friday
- 7:00 p.m. Brown at Columbia
Ivy League Action this Saturday
- 2:00 p.m. Harvard at Dartmouth
- 2:00 p.m. No. 24 Princeton at Penn
- 2:00 p.m. Yale at Cornell
Scouting Cornell
Cornell (7-12, 1-6 Ivy League) snapped a six-game losing streak with a 61-47 win vs. Dartmouth last Friday, but followed that up with a 63-52 loss to Harvard on Saturday. The Big Red is seventh in the Ivy League in points per game (55.9). Cornell ranks second in the league in three-point field goal percentage defense, allowing opponents to connect at just a .308 clip.
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