PRINCETON — Long gone are the days of Abby Meyers and Julia Cunningham leading the Princeton women’s basketball offense, however, if there is one thing to know about head coach Carla Berube, she can always field a team ready to make a run to the NCAA tournament, no matter what lineup she puts out on the floor. The familiar faces who ran Princeton’s offense are no longer here due to transferring and graduation. In the frontcourt, the Tigers boast seven players over 6-feet tall and many of them have learned from one of the best defenders in the Ivy League, Ellie Mitchell. She graduated from Princeton after last season and was the Ivy League’s Defensive Player of the Year for the last three years. Berube said while forwards such as Parker Hill, Paige Morton and Katie Theirs have years of experience learning from Mitchell, it is actually their backcourt that possesses the most in-game experience. She expects that trio along with junior forward Tabitha Amanze to have increased roles this year. “Parker is such an amazing passer, she certainly could play on the perimeter and she and (Tabitha) can work well (together) but we’re trying to really spread ourselves a bit more with our fours being able to extend our offense and shoot from the outside,” Berube said. Hill is well aware of the situation her team is in with losing star players and a good chunk of its scoring and leadership. “The biggest misconception … people are thinking that we’re not going to be good at rebounding since we lost a lot of our rebounders last year,” Hill said. “But I think they underestimate a lot of the players that we still have. We pride ourselves on defense and crashing (the boards).” The backcourt will no longer be carried by point guard Kaitlyn Chen who departed from Princeton to spend her fifth year in college at UConn. She’ll learn under the legendary head coach Geno Auriemma and play with presumptive No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, Paige Bueckers. That responsibility falls to junior Madison St. Rose, who has made an immediate impact on the Tigers the moment she set foot on campus. She was named Second Team All-Ivy League last season after averaging 14.8 points per game and won Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2023. Being the upperclassman now, she is aware of the leadership role she now has. “I have to be more vocal now, I have no one else to lean on,” St. Rose said in the lobby of Jadwin Gymnasium. “People might have to be leaning on me, I have to be direct sometimes and I haven’t been that way for the past two years. It’s all a learning process learning from my teammates. (They are) also feeding me advice.” It will also fall to sophomore Ashley Chea, a 5-foot-8-inch guard from Montebello, Calif., who Berube said is a “really, really good shooter, certainly a good pull-up jump shooter.” For the Tigers, dominating the Ivy League has been commonplace. They’ve suffered only three conference losses since the 2019-20 season (2020-21 was canceled due to COVID-19). Though many teams in the league look different this year, it is still going to be a competitive slate. “Harvard has a lot back from last year, I think they brought in a great class. Columbia lost their best player in Abbey Hsu, but certainly they have a lot coming back. Brown is emerging, too,” Berube said. “All games are really competitive and all coaches in the league are chomping at the bit to win this Ivy League.” Who’s New Princeton brought in three newcomers for the class of 2028, including Princeton alumna Chet Nweke’s sister, Toby Nweke. Toby is a 5-foot-9-inch guard out of Woodbine, Md., and was a 1,000-point scorer in high school. Berube described her as a “shooter” and a “3-point threat.” She said the three freshmen in Toby, forward Emily Eadie and guard Cristina Parrella have “immersed themselves into Princeton pretty seamlessly which is not always easy.” On the coaching front, Princeton made a slight change and promoted Lauren Batista to an associate coach on Berube’s staff. She previously was a recruiting coordinator.