ITHACA \u2013 The No. 23 Princeton Women’s Basketball Team used a strong first half to defeat the Brown Bears, 65-51, in the Ivy League Tournament Semifinal at Newman Arena on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
The Tigers started off on fire in the first quarter as it ripped off 21 of the first 24 points of contest and led 23-6 after 10 minutes. Head coach\u00a0Carla Berube<\/a>‘s group went 9-of-15 (60.0 percent) during that stretch.<\/p>\n Princeton began the second stanza with consecutive triples from\u00a0Fadima Tall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Skye Belker<\/a>\u00a0to go up 23, 29-6. The Tigers led by as many as 25 before taking a 36-14 advantage into halftime.<\/p>\n Head coach\u00a0Carla Berube<\/a>‘s unit opened the second half with eight of the first 11 points to take its largest lead of the game, 44-17, at the 6:52 mark.<\/p>\n Brown made a push, ripping off four consecutive triples to get within 15, 47-32, forcing a Princeton timeout. The Tigers kept the Bears at bay and held a 53-36 lead as the fourth quarter began.<\/p>\n The No. 4 seeded Bears made one more run, closing the gap to 10, 58-48, with 1:18 remaining, but Princeton hit seven from the charity stripe down the stretch to close out the contest.<\/p>\n The Tigers had four in double figures led by St. Rose with 18 points. Tall posted a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds while Belker also added 11 points in the win.\u00a0Ashley Chea<\/a>\u00a0(12 points, eight rebounds) and\u00a0Olivia Hutcherson<\/a>\u00a0(eight points, nine rebounds) just missed double-doubles.<\/p>\n With the win, Princeton improves to 25-3 overall while Brown dropped to 16-11. It’s the ninth time in program history that the Tigers reached 25 victories in a season. Berube’s team will take on the winner of Harvard and Columbia in the Ivy League Tournament Championship Saturday at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITHACA \u2013 The No. 23 Princeton Women’s Basketball Team used a strong first half to defeat the Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-538793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}