PRINCETON — It’s a Sweet Sixteen. No, not the NCAA Tournament round whee the Princeton women’s basketball team has aspirations of ending up, but against its rival 45 miles south on I-95. Olivia Hutcherson scored 19 points, Skye Belker added 16 and the 23rd-ranked Tigers pulled away in the seco nd half for a 69-50 victory — their 16th in a row over Penn — on Friday night at Jadwin Gymnasium. “We harp on every single game, especially at home, that we are going to get every team’s best,” said Toby Nweke, who got the start at forward and had a solid outing with seven points, four rebounds and four assists. “Just be super disciplined in everything, especially the offense … taking the right shots, making the right reads and defensively not having those long lapses.” The Tigers (19-2, 7-1) trailed by two at halftime before turning up the defense. They held the Quakers (13-8, 3-5) to 20 points in the second half, including 2-of-13 shooting in the fourth quarter. “We were just not very happy with how we were playing. In the last few minutes (of the first half), we let up a couple of points,” Nweke said. “We got to the locker room and we just thought that we were going to turn it up defensively.” It was a defensive half coach Carla Berube had been waiting for. “I had been looking for that,” Berube said with a laugh. “It wasn’t anything we talked about at halftime other than let’s play the way we are capable of playing. Part of that great defense is you are taking good shoots on the offensive ends and not letting them get out in transition on us.” The Tigers won the third quarter, 24-13, and then pushed the lead to a comfortable margin in the fourth quarter. Madison St. Rose returned from a one-game absence after jarring her left knee last weekend against Columbia and scored 15 points in 29 minutes. Simone Sawyer and Mataya Gayle scored 16 points each for the Quakers. Princeton gets a chance to avenge its lone Ivy loss next Friday at Columbia. “We know we are going to see every team’s best,” Nweke said. “We have to start off hot, start off strong and it’s just something that we’ve been trying to harp on this whole year. The last couple Ivy League games we’ve kind of came out with a rough start, so just trying to be the imposer as soon as we start the game.” ...read more read less