The Princeton women’s basketball team pulled another rabbit out of its hat.
And, of course, it had to be Ashley Chea.
A player with a pedigree of making huge shots hit another one as her 3-pointer at the buzzer forced overtime and the 20th-ranked Tigers survived with an 82-79, victory over Harvard on Monday afternoon at Jadwin Gymnasium.
Chea finished with 19 points, but none were bigger than when she curled off a screen and found herself wide open behind the arc. The junior, as she seems to always do, nailed the game-tying shot.
“It means everything,” Chea said in her postgame Player of the Game interview. “One through 11 we all can shoot that shot. It just happened to be me today. I think the coaches put so much confidence in men and so do my teammates.”
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Chea’s heroics set the stage for an extra five minutes in which Princeton (16-1, 4-0) scored the first five points and held off the Crimson (9-8, 2-2) for their 14th straight victory.
Madison St. Rose also scored 19 points for the Tigers, Olivia Hutcherson added 14, Skye Belker tallied 13 and Fadima Tall had 11.
Karlee White netted a game-high 27 points for Harvard, which tied the game in regulation on a 3 by Saniyah Glenn and took the lead on a 3-pointer by Katie Krupa with five seconds remaining.
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