In the 36-year history of the Penn women's basketball team, 17 Quakers have eclipsed 1,000 career points, most recently guard Joey Rhoads in 2007.
After senior captain Carrie Biemer's 45-point output this weekend against Brown and Yale - which earned her Big 5 Player of the Week honors - she finds herself only five points shy of the career milestone.
Although Biemer said she would have liked to reach the milestone at the Palestra, she was focused on winning as opposed to individual statistics.
Then again, the two are often inextricably linked - in Penn's six victories, she has averaged 21.67 points per game, as opposed to 16.6 per game in the team's 15 losses.
"I'm sure Carrie would be happy if she scored 10 points and we won, because that's really what it's about," Penn coach Pat Knapp said. "There's a great list of Penn players that she'll join, and she'll add on to that" over the rest of the season.
With seven games remaining, Biemer would become the ninth-leading scorer in Penn history at her current Ivy League-leading pace of 18 points per game.
In Penn's four-out, one-in offense, Biemer can combine her low-post skills with her perimeter shooting. She has shot 46-for-113 (40.7 percent) from beyond the arc and has accounted for 31.9 percent of the team's scoring with 379 points.
"If you give the ball to Carrie, you're pretty much guaranteed an assist," said sophomore guard Erin Power, whose 77 dimes this season account for over 33 percent of the team's total.
Knapp said Biemer's proximity to the milestone had no bearing whatsoever on the offensive gameplan against Yale. But had she not been limited to 28 minutes due to foul trouble, Biemer likely would have reached the 22 points she needed to reach 1,000.
Instead she will likely hit the landmark at Dartmouth's Leede Arena, unless she repeats her season-low two-point output against the Big Green in an embarrassing 56-39 loss two weeks ago.
But Biemer would likely rather be shut down again if the Quakers could avenge that loss to reach a .500 record in the Ivy League.
And beyond her superlative individual play, that's just another reason why she is Penn's captain and unquestioned leader.
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