NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team (1-7, 0-0 Ivy League) has a pair of games this week, hosting Bryant Wednesday (4:30 p.m.,
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Tickets). Wednesday's home game, in addition to featuring two of the 15 NCAA Division I schools with the nickname "Bulldogs", is part of a doubleheader with the Yale men's basketball team (vs. Brandeis at 7:30 p.m.).
Last Game
Yale
fell 82-64 at Penn State Sunday. The Bulldogs and Nittany Lions were tied 32-32 after a jumper by sophomore guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) with 57 seconds left in the second quarter, but Penn State scored the final seven points of that quarter and Yale got no closer than within seven the rest of the way. Moore finished with 14 points, while junior forward
Luisa Vydrova (Prague, Czech Republic) had a team-best 19.
Stats Galore
Yale's 63-54 win at American Nov. 26 featured some of the team's best performances in years in multiple stat categories:
- 19 assists, tied for the most in a game by the Bulldogs since they had 20 at Pitt Nov. 7, 2023
- Nine blocked shots, tied for the most in a game by the Bulldogs since they blocked 10 vs. Holy Cross Nov. 11, 2011
- Seven three-pointers, tied for the most in a game by the Bulldogs since they made nine at Pitt Nov. 7, 2023
Bulldogs Among Ivy League Leaders
There are Bulldogs among the Ivy League's top 10 in various stat categories:
- Scoring:
- Sophomore guard Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) third (15.75 ppg)
- Rebounding:
- Junior forward Luisa Vydrova (Prague, Czech Republic) seventh (6.50 rpg)
- Senior forward Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) ninth (6.17 rpg)
- Field goal percentage
- Assists
- Senior forward Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) fourth (3.83 apg)
- First-year forward Dorka Kastl (Budapest, Hungary) 10th (3.20 apg)
- Steals
- Senior forward Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) third (2.33 spg)
- Sophomore guard Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) fifth (1.75 spg)
- Three-point field goals made
- Sophomore guard Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) t-10th (1.50 3pg)
- Blocked shots
- First-year forward Dorka Kastl (Budapest, Hungary) first (2.80 bpg)
- Assist/turnover ratio
- First-year forward Dorka Kastl (Budapest, Hungary) third (1.78)
- Senior forward Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) sixth (1.44)
Homecoming for the Captain
Senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), who was recently
featured in The Next, returns to her home state of New Jersey this weekend. Capstraw was a four-year captain at West Orange High School, where she helped the team win its first Essex County Championship in 2019. She was a McDonald's All-American Games nominee in 2022 and was Super Essex Conference Player of the Year in 2021. Yale's game at Rider on Saturday has a special meaning for the family. Capstraw's mother, Chelsea, played for Rider from 1989 through 1992. As a senior she averaged 10.1 points per game and 7.9 rebounds per game, helping the team to a second-place finish in the ECC.
Scouting Bryant
Bryant (7-1, 0-0 America East) just suffered its first loss of the season, falling 62-53 at Providence Sunday. The Bulldogs are fourth in the nation in three-point percentage (.409) and 12th in the nation in field goal percentage (.500). Forward Nia Scott has five double-doubles and ranks 11th nationally in rebounds per game (11.1).
Scouting Rider
Rider (1-5, 0-0 MAAC) has lost five in a row since opening the season with a 65-58 win vs. Lafayette. The Broncs, who play at LIU Tuesday, are in their first season under new head coach Jackie Hartzell. Their roster has no seniors (one graduate student – transfer Kristina Ekofo from NDSU).
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