NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team hosts Dartmouth Saturday (2:00 p.m.,
ESPN+,
International Stream,
Live Stats,
Tickets). The Big Green is currently in seventh in the Ivy League standings at 2-8, one game ahead of the Bulldogs.
Last Weekend
Yale (2-21, 1-9 Ivy League) lost at Penn and at Princeton last weekend. Senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) totaled a team-best 29 points and 14 rebounds in the two games. Senior forward
Grace Thybulle (Irvington, N.Y.) added 11 rebounds. Junior guard
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) led the team with seven assists.
Egger Among Ivy Leaders
Senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) is among the Ivy League's top eight in these four stat categories:
- 1st in rebounding (9.3 rpg)
- 4th in scoring (15.7 ppg)
- 4th in steals (1.8 spg)
- 8th in blocked shots (0.7 bpg)
Egger, an economics major, was an operations intern for BNY Mellon last summer and participated in the Business for Good Intern Case Competition. Her team's idea, CreditHer, focused on supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by providing microloans to women-owned small businesses. Her team advanced to the top five and earned the chance to travel to New York City to present their idea to a panel of executives from BNY as well as David Ohana, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at the United Nations. They also had the privilege of taking a private tour of the UN headquarters.
More from Ciniya
Last Saturday at Princeton, first-year guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) scored 11 points – her second-best point total of the season (she scored 21 at FIU Dec. 21). Moore had 13 shot attempts, her most in a game since Jan. 4 vs. Harvard. For the season Moore is fourth on the team in scoring (5.5 points per game).
Moore was named Defensive Player of the Year on the IMG National Team in 2023. She has volunteered for Special Olympics and various food drives.
Impressive Start Numbers for First-Year Class
With four games remaining in the regular season, Yale has already gotten a total of 31 starts from its first-year class. That is tied for the most starts by a first-year class since 2014-15. Here is a look at the number of starts by first years for each season in that span:
| Season |
First-Year Players |
First-Year Starts |
| 2014-15 |
4 |
41 |
| 2015-16 |
2 |
0 |
| 2016-17 |
5 |
22 |
| 2017-18 |
4 |
31 |
| 2018-19 |
4 |
30 |
| 2019-20 |
3 |
1 |
| 2020-21 |
n/a |
n/a |
| 2021-22 |
5 |
30 |
| 2022-23 |
3 |
15 |
| 2023-24 |
1 |
0 |
| 2024-25 |
5 |
31 |
Earlier This Year in Hanover
Yale
beat Dartmouth 70-67 when these two teams met Jan. 20, 2025 in Hanover. Senior forward
Grace Thybulle (Irvington, N.Y.) led Yale with 22 points. Senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) had a team-best nine rebounds. Junior guard
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) led Yale with six assists.
Seeing Green
Yale has won nine in a row and 25 of the last 29 in the series against Dartmouth. Seven of those last nine wins have been by 10 or more points, with the largest margin being 36 in a
78-42 win last season in Hanover.
Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth (8-15, 2-8 Ivy League) has already surpassed its overall and Ivy League win totals from last season; the team is looking to reach double digits in overall wins for the first time since 2019-20. The Big Green is in its second season under head coach Linda Cimino. Senior guard Victoria Page leads the team in scoring (14.5 points per game, sixth in the Ivy League). All but one of the nine other players averaging more than one point per game are in the first-year or sophomore class.
Ivy League Games this Saturday
- 2:00 p.m. Dartmouth at Yale
- 2:00 p.m. Harvard at Brown
- 2:30 p.m. Cornell at Penn
- 5:30 p.m. Columbia at Princeton
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