Cambridge, Mass. - The Harvard Women's Basketball team will travel to Princeton, N.J. to face off against the Tigers at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24 for their final regular season road game of the 2022-23 season. The team will hope to go 2-0 over the Tigers for the first time since 2009. The game will stream on ESPN+.
What to Know
• Harvard women's basketball opened the Carrie Moore era this season with 7 nonconference wins and 8 wins through 12 games in conference play. This weekend will present the final road game of the regular season.
• With a 89-56 victory over Cornell on Saturday, Feb. 18, the Crimson clinched a spot in the 2023 Ivy League Madness Tournament.
• Head Coach Carrie Moore is in Year 1 after the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith, who was at the helm of the Crimson program for 40 years. Moore was named The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women's Basketball on April 6, 2022, and arrived in Cambridge after spending the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Michigan, helping the Wolverines to a 25-7 record and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Moore also had assistant-coaching stints at North Carolina, Princeton and Creighton.
• Sophomores Harmoni Turner and Elena Rodriguez have had career seasons, each reporting career highs in multiple metrics and multiple double doubles throughout conference play. Turner has reported career highs in points (31), rebounds (12), steals (7) and assists (12). Rodriguez's career highs consist of points (28), rebounds (14), assists (5) and blocks (3).
• In the most recent contest against Cornell, the Crimson had five players in double digits for the first time since Jan. 2022. McKenzie Forbes led the team in scoring with 20 points. Joining her with 10+ points were Maggie McCarthy (17), Harmoni Turner (16), Elena Rodriguez (12) and Lola Mullaney (10).
• Harvard also posted a season-high in three point baskets with 15 against Cornell. After spending a few weeks out with an injury, Maggie McCarthy made a spectacular return and shot 5-for-5 from three, putting up a third of the Crimson's three pointers and setting a new career high in threes.
• Throughout conference play, Rodriguez leads the league field goal percentage: she has shot 66-for-114 for 57.9% accuracy.
• Harvard has three of the top seven scorers in conference play with Lola Mullaney in second (18.6 ppg), Harmoni Turner in 5th (15.1 ppg) and Elena Rodriguez in 7th (14.1 ppg).
• Lola Mullaney hit the 1000 career points benchmark against Yale, surpassing the mark as she made a shot from three. Mullaney is only the 22nd player in Harvard history to hit this mark and is well on her way to climbing the Harvard record books as she is only in her junior season.
• Harvard will face off against Ivy League rival Princeton in their 92nd matchup in series history, one in which Harvard trails 45-46. The Crimson will have the chance to even the all-time series in Jadwin Gymnasium with a win on Friday.
• Harvard's last contest against Princeton started their 2022-23 Ivy League campaign with a dominant win. On Dec. 31, 2022 the Crimson defeated the Tigers 67-59 to end Princeton's 42-game Ivy League win streak. Harvard will look to go 2-0 against Princeton in a single season for the first time since 2009.
• Harvard's 2022-23 schedule featured 12 non-conference games before Ivy League play began. With a 8-4 Ivy record, Harvard is tied for second in standings with Penn.
Up Next
Harvard will return home to close out the Ivy League regular season with their senior night game against Dartmouth at 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 4. The game will stream on ESPN+.
