NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team (5-12, 1-3 Ivy League) hosts Penn Saturday (2:00 p.m.,
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Last Game
Yale pulled away from Cornell in the second half Monday at Newman Arena en route to a
58-43 win. This was the Bulldogs' largest margin of victory since Feb. 22, 2025. Senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), Yale's captain, led the way with a team-best nine rebounds and eight assists.
Going Deep
Nine players saw action in Monday's win at Cornell. That was the second time in the last three games that the Bulldogs used nine players in a game. Before that they had used eight or fewer players in seven straight games.
A Brief Visit Home
Saturday marks Yale's only home game from Jan. 11 through Feb. 12, a span of 33 days. The Bulldogs play five road games in that stretch.
The Foul Line
Yale is 5-5 when committing 18 or fewer personal fouls in a game and 0-7 when committing 19 or more personal fouls in a game.
Sharp Shooting
Yale is shooting a league-best .433 in Ivy League games. No. 20 Princeton is second.
Captain Capstraw Tops Ivy League
Senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), Yale's captain, leads the Ivy League in assists per game (4.6). She has improved her assists per game total each year of her career, from 0.5 to 1.2 to 2.6 to 4.6.
Trending Up
Since Dec. 1, Yale has improved its NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) ranking by 70 spots – from 337 to 267. That is the biggest jump up in that span among Ivy League teams. Penn, which has improved its NET ranking by 64 spots (from 196 to 132) has made the second-biggest jump among Ivy teams. The NET is the contemporary sorting tool used by the NCAA to measure a team's quality and help evaluate team resumes for selection and seeding in the NCAA Tournament. NET ranking is determined by who you played, where you played, how efficiently you played and the result of the game.
Scouting Penn
Penn (11-6, 1-3 Ivy League) snapped a three-game losing skid with a 67-59 win vs. Dartmouth this past Monday. The Quakers are second in the conference and No. 24 nationally in field goal percentage defense (.360). They lead the league and are ranked No. 7 nationally in free throw percentage (.793).
Saturday in the Ivy League
- No. 20 Princeton at Brown, 12:00 p.m.
- Harvard at Cornell, 1:00 p.m.
- Dartmouth at Columbia, 2:00 p.m.
- Penn at Yale, 2:00 p.m.
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