PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Yale women's basketball team got a historical performance from senior guard
Jenna Clark Saturday against Brown at the Pizzitola Center, but ultimately it was not enough to overcome the Bears in the 2023-24 season finale.
Clark scored her 1,000th career point on a three-pointer with 1:25 left in the third quarter; by that point she had already broken her own school record for single-season assists. But the Bears broke open a five-point game with a 9-0 run midway through the fourth and went on to win 76-57.
With the win Brown (16-11, 7-7 Ivy League) forged a tie for fourth in the Ivy League standings with Penn, but the Quakers earned the fourth and final spot in the upcoming Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament by having a tiebreaker advantage on the Bears (a win against third-place Harvard). Yale (8-19, 5-9 Ivy League) finished two games behind the Bears and Quakers.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
- Clark led Yale with 19 points and eight assists. She had entered the day needing 14 points for 1,000 and three assists to tie her own school record of 160, set in 2021-22.
- Sophomore guard Kiley Capstraw added 14 points and seven rebounds.
- Senior forward Brenna McDonald had 15 rebounds, a career high, and nine points. Junior guard/forward Mackenzie Egger added nine rebounds.
KEY STAT
- Brown outscored Yale 25-13 in the fourth quarter to pull away for the win.
NOTES
- Clark finished her career with 1,005 career points, ranking her 24th on Yale's all-time scoring list.
- Prior to Clark, the last Bulldog to reach the 1,000 point mark was Camilla Emsbo '23, who did so Feb. 4, 2022 at Dartmouth.
- Clark's 483 career assists rank second, trailing only Kathleen Offer '96 (546).
- Clark finished with three of the top five single-season assist totals in Yale history: 165 in 2023-24 ranks first, 160 in 2021-22 ranks second and 145 in 2022-23 ranks fifth.
- Columbia and Princeton finished as Ivy League Co-Champions with 13-1 records in league play. They, along with Harvard and Penn, will compete for the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament next weekend in the Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament at Columbia's Levien Gym.
- All three of Yale's healthy seniors started: Clark, McDonald and guard Klara Astrom. They, along with injured forward Haley Sabol, concluded their Yale careers Saturday.
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale heads into the offseason with four seniors set to graduate. Among the Bulldogs' returnees for the 2024-25 season are four players who started at least six games, and three who started 17 or more.
