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Women's Basketball Takes on Cornell on Saturday
2/10/2023 1:32:00 PM | Women's Basketball
The game is the second game against Cornell in the last four games for the Bears. Brown and Cornell met in Providence on Jan. 28 with Cornell coming away with a 66-61 win. The Bears fell behind 8-0 but managed to take a lead early in the fourth quarter. Isabella Mauricio led Brown with 21 points and Gianna Aiello scored a career-high 12 .Â
ABOUT BROWN (9-12, 2-7 Ivy)
- Brown went 1-2 on a three-game homestand over the last two weekends, picking up a win over Dartmouth in between losses to Cornell and Harvard. The Bears now play their second-to-last road game of the season, traveling to Cornell on Saturday.
- The last two games for Brown have featured big games by the backcourt of the Bears. The trio of Grace Arnolie (20 ppg), Isabella Mauricio (19.5 ppg) and Kyla Jones (15 ppg) averaged 54.5 of Brown's 71.5 points last weekend.
- Arnolie and Mauricio each hit eight threes in the last two games and Mauricio also went 9-for-10 from the three throw line. Arnolie led the Bears with eight assists.
- Jones shot 54 percent from the floor last weekend and was second on the team with 16 rebounds in the two games. Jones also had five assists and four steals in the games against Dartmouth and Harvard.
- Brown has found its range from deep in its last two games. The Bears finished with 10 threes against Dartmouth and 11 threes against Harvard. It was the fourth and fifth time this season that Brown has had double-figure threes and the first time this season doing it in back-to-back games. Brown only had two games with 10+ threes made last season and have not had back-to-back games with 10+ made threes since hitting 12 threes in back-to-back games against FIU (Dec. 29) and USF (Dec. 30) back in 2019. If the Bears hit 10+ threes against Cornell, it will be the first time since Dec. 8-31, 2018 that Brown had three-straight games with double-digit threes.
- Brown is on a stretch of eight-straight games with more than 10 assists, eclipsing the seven-game streak that was last season's high. The Bears had an eight-game streak of 10+ assists in 2019-20 but you have to go back to 2018-19 for an 11-game streak of 10+ assists for Brown.
- A win at Cornell would give Brown two more road Ivy wins than a season ago and would triple the number of league wins from last season.
ABOUT CORNELL (9-13, 2-7 Ivy)
- Cornell dropped games against Princeton and Penn last weekend after earning a win in Providence.Â
- The only other win for the Big Red in Ivy play this season was a 61-48 win over Dartmouth.Â
- Ania McNicholas leads the team with 11.6 points per game and 68 steals.
- Emily Pape is second on the team with 10.5 points per game and leads the Big Red with 6.3 rebounds per game. Pape had a season-high 27 points against the Bears and has scored in double-figures in seven of her last eight games.Â
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