NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's basketball team (5-13, 1-4 Ivy League) plays a pair of Ivy League road games this weekend. The Bulldogs visit Harvard Friday (7:00 p.m.,
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Last Game
Penn broke open a game that was close at halftime, outscoring Yale 36-16 in the second half to take a 64-37 win last Saturday at Lee Amphitheater.
Back to the Back-to-Backs
This weekend marks the first of three times that Yale will play games on back-to-back days this season. So far the Bulldogs have played two games in three days four times, but never two games in back-to-back days. They are 2-2 in the second game of those thee-day stretches.
Road Warriors
Yale is averaging 61.2 points per game and shooting .402 in road games. Both of those numbers are better than what the Bulldogs have done at home (averaging 55.5 points per game and shooting .376).
Developing Scoring Depth
Three Bulldogs are averaging at least 9.5 points per game: sophomore guard
Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) (16.7 ppg), junior forward
Luisa Vydrova (Prague, Czech Republic) (11.3 ppg) and senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) (9.6 ppg). Last year the Bulldogs had just one player average that many points per game.
Capstraw Racking Up the Numbers
Senior forward
Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) enters the weekend with 860 career points. At her current rate of 9.6 points per game this season, she would total 86 points in the final nine regular season games and wind up with 946 career points at the end of the regular season. Capstraw enters the weekend with 237 career assists. At her current rate of 4.3 assists per game this season, she would total 39 assists in the final nine regular season games and wind up with 276 career assists at the end of the regular season. That total would place her 12th on Yale's all-time list.
Iron Women
Yale has three of the Ivy League's top five players in terms of minutes played per game:
- Kiley Capstraw, Yale (36.2 minutes per game)
- Katie Collins, Penn (34.4 minutes per game)
- Ciniya Moore, Yale (34.2 minutes per game)
- Kelsey Langston, Cornell (33.9 minutes per game)
- Luisa Vydrova, Yale (33.8 minutes per game)
Queen of the Blocks
First-year forward
Dorka Kastl (Budapest, Hungary) leads the Ivy League in blocks with 34, three more than Penn's Katie Collins in second place. Kastl is tied for 10th on Yale's single-season blocks list. The school single-season record for blocks is 63, set by
Erica Davis '07 in 2006-07.
Scouting Harvard
Harvard (10-8, 3-2 Ivy League) enters the weekend tied for third with Brown in the Ivy League standings, two games behind first-place No. 19 Princeton and one game behind second-place Columbia. The Crimson has won seven of its last nine games. Since Nov. 24, all four of Harvard's losses have been by three or fewer points.
Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth (9-9, 0-5 Ivy League), which hosts Brown Friday, has not won an Ivy League game since Jan. 11, 2025 – a span of 17 league games. That includes two losses to Yale, including a 70-67 Bulldogs win last year in Hanover in which Yale limited Dartmouth to a 3-for-19 performance on three-pointers.
Friday in the Ivy League
- Cornell at Penn, 6:00 p.m.
- Columbia at No. 19 Princeton, 6:00 p.m.
- Brown at Dartmouth, 6:00 p.m.
- Yale at Harvard, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday in the Ivy League
- Yale at Dartmouth, 5:00 p.m.
- Cornell at No. 19 Princeton, 5:00 p.m.
- Columbia at Penn, 5:00 p.m.
- Brown at Harvard, 7:00 p.m.
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