Teddy Bear Toss To Take Place When Women's Hoops Hosts Princeton on Wednesday

Wednesday, December 13

Piscataway, N.J.

6:00 PM

Rutgers University

PRINCETON

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Teddy Bear Toss To Take Place When Women's Hoops Hosts Princeton on Wednesday

Dec 12 | Women's Basketball

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Scarlet Knights & Tigers Tipoff at 6 p.m. on BTN

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Rutgers women's basketball team welcomes Princeton to the RAC for a 6 p.m. tipoff on Wednesday. The contest will air live on BTN with Jason Horowitz and Christy Winters-Scott on the call. Fans can also listen to the game on the Rutgers IMG Radio Network with Ralph Bednarczyk and Mark Peterson calling the action.

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- Game Five of "Seven Games of Giving" - PS4 & NBA Live
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- Seniors Eat Free
- Bingo
- Free Admission with MBB vs. Fordham Ticket Stub
- Free Admission for Junior Knights
- Halftime: SAAC Teddy Bear Toss

Teddy bear toss round ? tomorrow night at @RutgersWBB !
?? Bring new or gently used teddy bears to toss onto the court at halftime
???? All teddy bears will be donated to children in need of a ?? this holiday season in partnership with @RWJBarnabas pic.twitter.com/HhSiHACP19
— Rutgers Athletics (@RUAthletics) December 12, 2017

WRAPPING UP NONCONFERENCE SCHEDULE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The Rutgers women's basketball team, a squad who crept back into the polls receiving votes in the Associated Press Poll this week, closes out nonconference play with Princeton on Wednesday and Houston on Saturday.

The Scarlet Knights are fresh off a 101-35 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday, with RU reaching the 100+ point mark for only the third time in the C. Vivian Stringer era. Rutgers cracked the 100-point mark for the first time since 2014 and the 66-point margin of victory was the largest since 1988.

No member of the Rutgers roster played more than 18 minutes with redshirt senior guard Tyler Scaife leading the way with 25 points in 18 minutes. Junior forward Caitlin Jenkins collected her third double-double of the year with 11 points and 11 rebounds. They were joined in double figures by redshirt sophomore guard Ciani Cryor's 15 points and senior guard Jazlynd Rollins' 10.

ABOUT PRINCETON
The Tigers are off to a 6-2 start on the 2017-18 season and have won three straight including a 60-46 win at Quinnipiac on Saturday.

Princeton's two losses came at the hands of current No. 20/19 Villanova, 62-59, on Nov. 29 and a 67-56 home loss against Georgia Tech on Nov. 19.

Both schools have squared off against Seton Hall this season. While Rutgers dominated the Pirates last Friday, 70-45, the Tigers' contest was closer with an 85-83 victory in the second game of the season.

Princeton fended off a 10-1 Pirate run with just over a minute remaining as the Tigers led 81-78 in the closing moments. Junior guard Gabrielle Rush sealed the victory with 16 seconds remaining with a pair of free throws.

The Tigers have a trio of double figure scorers led by Bella Alarie who is averaging a double-double. The sophomore guard/forward is pouring in 17.0 points per game to go along with hauling in 10.4 rebounds per contest. She has totaled five double-doubles on the year thus far.

Following Alarie on the stat sheet is senior forward Leslie Robinson at 10.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per outing while freshman guard Carlie Littlefield is adding in 10.0 points per game.

STRINGER MILESTONE NUMBERS TO REMEMBER
Rutgers head coach Stringer has compiled a 987-392 career record in 47 seasons and is 13 wins away from joining Stanford's Tara VanDerveer and former Tennessee head coach Pat Summit with 1,000 career victories in women's basketball.

SCAIFE MILESTONE NUMBERS TO REMEMBER
With 1860 career points, Tyler Scaife needs 13 more points to surpass former teammate Kahleah Copper (2012-16) for the third position on the scoring list.

Scaife has scored 249 points this season and kicked off the 2017-18 campaign 10th all-time in scoring.

GETTING THE POINTS
Rutgers is enjoying one of its highest scoring averages under C. Vivian Stringer's 23-year tenure "On the Banks"

Top RU Scoring Averages Under C. Vivian Stringer
1. 70.3 (12 games) 2017-18 - 10-2 - Current Season
2. 70.0 (35 games) 1998-99 – 29-6 – Elite Eight
3t. 68.7 (32 games) 2014-15 - 23-10 - 2nd Round
3t. 68.7 (32 games) 1997-98 – 22-10 – Sweet 16
5. 67.3 (29 games) 2002-03 – 21-8 – 2nd Round
6. 66.2 (37 games) 2013-14 – WNIT Champions
7. 65.6 (31 games) 2000-01 – 23-8 – 2nd Round

PROTECTING HOMECOURT
Since the 2002-03 season, the Scarlet Knights have gone 185-43 (.811) at the RAC.

Rutgers is currently riding a six-game home win streak. It is RU's longest home win streak since putting together eight-straight RAC wins between Nov. 22, 2015 to Jan. 13, 2016.

NATIONALLY SPEAKING
As a team, Rutgers appeared in the top 25 in 10 categories including third in total steals (157) and ninth in steals per game (13.1).

Individually, redshirt senior guard Tyler Scaife is second in field goals attempts (199), field goals made (97) and total points (249).

INTO THE DEEP END
All 14 members of the available roster have appeared in 10 of the first 12 games of the 2017-18 season.

Through 12 games, the Scarlet Knight bench is averaging 35.3 points per contest.

In the Scarlet Knights' last outing against FDU, 13 of the 14 members of the rosters scored.

D-D-D-DEFENSE
The defense has turned up the pressure in the last three games. Against Virginia, Seton Hall and Fairleigh Dickinson, the opposition has averaged just 41.0 points per game

                   Avg. Entering       Total Pts.
Team:        Game w/ RU:        vs. RU:
Virginia:        63.2                    43
Seton Hall:    81.1                   45
FDU:              63.0                   35

The traditional Rutgers defense is back! We've held our last 3 opponents to just an average of 41.0 points per game. That's 28.1 PPG under their combined average PPG. pic.twitter.com/dYiaYrJYWz
— Rutgers W.Basketball (@RutgersWBB) December 12, 2017

TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
The box score from Rutgers' 101-35 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 10 certainly showed how balanced the Scarlet Knights can be in stat distribution while also hitting some notable numbers.

- Rutgers reached the 100+ point mark for the 38th time in school history and just the third time in the C. Vivian Stringer era. RU last poured in 100 points in a 100-44 victory over Davidson back on Nov. 30, 2014.
- The 66-point margin of victory was the largest since the 75-point, 108-33, win over Duquesne on Jan. 9, 1988.
- The Scarlet Knights' 23 steals tied the school and RAC record. RU also had 23 thefts against Temple back on Jan. 27, 1987. Thirteen Scarlet Knights registered at least one steal.
- Rutgers captured 25 assists, the most since dishing the ball out 27 times at Temple Dec. 10, 2014. Eleven Scarlet Knights had at least one assist.
- The Scarlet Knights shot over 50 percent for the second-straight game. RU went 41-of-82 from the field to hit 50.0 percent from the floor.
- Rutgers limited themselves to just nine turnovers, marking the game this season with single digit miscues. FDU committed 30 turnovers, the most by an opponent this season, which led to 47 points for the Scarlet Knights.

FROM THE FLOOR
Helping Rutgers to a season-best 50.9 percent (27-of-53) shooting percent in last Friday's win over Seton Hall were three Scarlet Knights who didn't miss.

Redshirt junior forward Stasha Carey went 4-of-4 from the field, including 2-of-2 from downtown, while graduate student guard Nigia Greene went 3-of-3 and junior center Victoria Harris knocked down both her attempts.

The Scarlet Knights followed up the performance by connecting at a 50.0 clip (41-of-82) on Sunday versus Fairleigh Dickinson.

UP NEXT
Rutgers closes out nonconference play on Saturday in a return game with Houston. Big Ten play will open up on Thursday, Dec. 28 when the Scarlet Knights host Purdue.

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