Feb. 28, 2007

GAME INFO:
Penn (10-14, 5-6 Ivy) at Yale (11-15, 4-8 Ivy)
Friday, March 2, 2007-7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater-New Haven, Conn.

TV: None
Radio/Internet: yalebulldogs.com: Jordan Malter and Sam Purdy

GAME INFO:
Princeton (11-14, 5-6 Ivy) at Yale (11-15, 4-8 Ivy)
Saturday, March 3, 2007-7 p.m.
John J. Lee Amphitheater-New Haven, Conn.

TV: None
Radio/Internet: yalebulldogs.com: Jordan Malter and Sam Purdy; goprincetontigers.com: John Sadak

TONIGHT'S GAME
The Bulldogs conclude the 2006-07 season this weekend with a pair of home games against Penn and Princeton. Seniors Erica Davis and Chinenye Okafor will be honored prior to the game on Saturday night. This weekend is also Alumni Weekend, and many former Bulldogs will be in attendance. After falling twice in New York last weekend, Yale is in sixth place with a 4-8 Ivy League record (11-15 overall). Penn (10-14 overall) and Princeton (11-14 overall) are tied for fourth at 5-6. Both teams beat Dartmouth and lost to first-place Harvard last weekend at home.

SERIES HISTORY
Penn's 70-57 victory at the Palestra on Feb. 3 was the Quakers' second straight over Yale and made the all-time series 31-30 in favor of the Bulldogs. Last season at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, Yale came back from 20 points down to beat Penn 53-52 on a last-second shot by Erica Davis.
This is the 65th all-time meeting between Yale and Princeton, making the Tigers Yale's most common opponent, breaking a tie with Brown. Princeton has won five straight and leads the series 38-26. Yale's last win over the Tigers was a 59-56 overtime decision at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Feb. 20, 2004.

LAST TIME OUT
Yale lost a heartbreaker at Columbia, 66-64 last Saturday night. After Brittany Carfora drained a three-pointer to give the Lions a 65-64 lead with 35 seconds left, the Bulldogs saw a three-pointer of their own fall short. Yale got the rebound and took timeout, but missed a jumper. In the struggle for the rebound, what looked like a jump ball was instead whistled a Yale foul. Columbia's Becky Hogue made one of two free throws with three seconds left, and the Bulldogs couldn't get a shot off on the ensuing possession. It was Columbia's sixth straight win over Yale. On Friday night at Cornell, clutch free throw shooting propelled the Big Red to a 59-55 victory. After going just 10-for-17 from the line in the first 37 minutes of the contest, Cornell went 8-for-10 over the final three minutes to put the game away. The Big Red scored 10 of the game's final 12 points. The contest featured 12 ties and 13 lead changes.

Senior Erica Davis

BULLDOG BYTES
After a January to remember (where the team won five of six), the Bulldogs would love to forget February. Yale went just 1-7 during the month to fall to 4-8 in the Ivy League. Seniors Erica Davis and Chinenye Okafor are playing their final games for the Bulldogs this weekend. Davis, who played in her 100th career game at Columbia, leads the Ivy League in rebounding (9.2), blocks (2.4) and field goal percentage (.530). She also ranks third in the League with 15.8 points per game. Okafor, who missed last week's games, has been playing with a broken toe for the last month. She is third on the team in scoring (8.9) and ranks fourth in the Ivy League in rebounding (8.0). Melissa Colborne is the top scoring freshman in the Ivy League (11.1), and Stephanie Marciano leads the team in assists (4.1 apg).

QUAKER QUIPS
The Quakers feature an excellent one-two punch of senior forward Monica Naltner and senior guard Joey Rhoads, who rank fourth and fifth in the Ivy League in scoring (15.8 and 15.3 ppg). Naltner is also seventh in the conference with 6.6 rebounds per game. Rhoads scored 23 points against Yale in Philadelphia, and was named Ivy League Player of the Week for that effort. She drains 1.7 three-pointers per game. Senior guard Lauren Pears is second in the League in assists (4.3 apg), and has the best assist-turnover ratio in the conference (1.42). Naltner, Rhoads, Pears and sophomore guard Anca Popovici have started all 24 games for the Quakers, and sophomore forward Maggie Burgess has made 22 starts.

TIGER TRACKS
The preseason Ivy League favorites, Princeton has struggled of late, dropping five of its last six. Junior forward Meagan Cowher, an Ivy Player of the Year candidate, leads the Ivy League with 17.9 points per game. Cowher also leads the Tigers in rebounding (7.6 rpg). Senior forward Casey Lockwood, the only other Tiger to start all 25 games, is second on the team in scoring (10.8) and rebounding (5.4). Sophomore guard Jessica Berry dishes out 3.2 assists per game.

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