New York Ivies at Lee This Weekend; Senior Day Saturday

**NEW HAVEN, Conn. – **The Yale women's basketball team (6-18, 2-9 Ivy League) hosts Columbia Friday (6:00 p.m.,

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Last Game

Yale fell at Penn 68-52 last Saturday. Three Quakers scored in double digits, led by 22 from Mataya Gayle. Senior forward

Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) led the Bulldogs with a career-high 12 rebounds. She added six assists.

Senior Day

Senior forward

Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.), Yale's captain, will be honored at Saturday's game as the Bulldogs celebrate Senior Day. Capstraw is the lone senior on the Yale roster. She earned a starting role in her first year, when she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week five times and finished second on the team in scoring (9.2 ppg). She started all 27 games her sophomore season, when she again ranked second on the team in scoring (11.2 ppg). She also started all 27 games her junior season, when she led the team in assists (70). This season she has established career highs in assists (90) and steals (38) while posting the best shooting percentage of her career (.389). She ranks second in the Ivy League in assists per game (4.1), seventh in the Ivy League in steals per game (1.7) and seventh in the Ivy League in rebounds per game (6.4).

Block Party

Yale leads the Ivy League in blocks with 116, 27 more than the next-closest team (Penn, 89). First-year forward

Dorka Kastl (Budapest, Hungary) is second in the league in blocks with 38. That ranks 10th all-time at Yale. The school single-season record for blocks is 63, set by

Erica Davis '07 in 2006-07.

Thirty Something

Yale has three players with 30 or more steals this season: senior forward

Kiley Capstraw (West Orange, N.J.) (38), sophomore guard

Marisa Chapman (Middletown, N.Y.) (33) and sophomore guard

Ciniya Moore (Bradenton, Fla.) (31). The last time Yale had three or more players with 30 or more steals in a season was 2017-18, when

Tamara Simpson '18 had 130,

Roxy Barahman '20 had 64 and

Ellen Margaret Andrews '21 had 38.

Scouting Columbia

Columbia (18-6, 9-2 Ivy League) enters the weekend tied for first in the Ivy League with No. 25 Princeton. The Lions are seeking their fourth straight Ivy title (shared with Princeton in 2022-23 and 2023-24, solo in 2024-25). They could clinch the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League Tournament (Mar. 13-14 at Cornell's Newman Arena) with two wins this weekend and a Princeton loss. Columbia is No. 12 in the nation in steals per game (12.3) and is shooting an Ivy League-best .444.

Scouting Cornell

Cornell (8-16, 3-8 Ivy League) has lost five in a row heading into Friday's game at Brown. The Big Red has totaled just 75 points in its last two losses, vs. then-No. 24 Princeton (a 58-39 loss) and at Harvard (a 74-37 loss). Yale

beat the Big Red 58-43 when these two teams met in Ithaca Jan. 19. The Bulldogs have won 10 of the last 11 in the series.

Friday in the Ivy League

• Columbia at Yale, 6:00 p.m.

• No. 25 Princeton at Dartmouth, 6:00 p.m.

• Cornell at Brown, 7:00 p.m.

• Penn at Harvard, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday in the Ivy League

• Columbia at Brown, 5:00 p.m.

• Cornell at Yale, 5:00 p.m.

• Penn at Dartmouth, 5:00 p.m.

• No. 25 Princeton at Harvard, 6:00 p.m.

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