CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomore Hannah Pratt scored a career-high 17 points and first-year Abbey Hsu caught fire in the fourth quarter to lead the Columbia women's basketball team to a come-from-behind win on the road over Harvard, 62-57, Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion.
 
The win is Columbia's fifth straight, which stands alone as the longest Ivy League winning streak in program history. The Lions (16-8, 7-4 Ivy) also earned their first ever season sweep over Harvard (14-10, 5-6 ivy) and won in Cambridge for the first time since 2009.
 
"We're just completely locked in," said Pratt, who shot 7-of-12 on the night and hit 3-of-7 from downtown. "We've been trying to build this program for the past few years … it's really coming together. We've been putting in this work all year and I think it's really paying off."

Friday's Ivy League results moved Columbia into a three-way tie for second place in the league standings with Yale (7-4) and Penn (7-4). The Bulldogs defeated the Quakers, 71-54, in Philadelphia. Harvard remains in fifth place, two games back of the pack with three regular season games remaining,
 
All of Pratt's scoring came in the first three quarters, including seven in the third period that helped the Lions take their first lead of the game. The Boca Raton, Florida native hit back-to-back buckets during a 9-0 run before first-year Carly Rivera scored in transition to put Columbia on top, 39-37.
 
Harvard took a one-point lead heading into the fourth quarter but then Abbey Hsu took over for Columbia. The rookie out of Parkland, Florida scored a dozen of her 14 points over the final period, including back-to-back 3-pointers that turned a 50-50 game into a six-point Lions lead with 2:17 remaining.
 
"[Hsu] just needed to figure out what's happening and she hit the shots we needed her to," Columbia head coach Megan Griffith said. "For her to just stick with it, listen to her teammates and stay confident is really impressive for her."

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WOW! Back-to-back triples for the rookie and she's now got 12 fourth-quarter points! Lions with their largest lead, 56-50. Timeout Harvard.

2:14 left.

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Senior Janiya Clemmons and first-year point guard Carly Rivera chipped in with eight points apiece. Rivera tallied a game-high seven assists.

Columbia trailed by as many as 10 points, 27-17, in the first half. Pratt scored her team's final seven points before the intermission to cut the margin to 34-27 at the break.

After committing 11 first-half turnovers, the Lions limited themselves to just five in the second half to help turn things around. They wound up with a 19-14 advantage in points off turnovers, which proved to be the same margin by which they won the game.

"Harvard had an excellent game plan against us," Griffith added. "This is a very hard environment to play in. I don't care if it's an empty gym, full gym, this is a tough place to play and I know from personal experience. I think that second half we adjusted really well, we trusted each other in what we were doing defensively and started playing free on the offensive end."
 
Columbia outscored Harvard, 35-23, in the second half and limited the Crimson to just nine third-quarter points on 18.8 percent shooting.
 
Lola Mullaney led Harvard with a game-high 20 points while Tess Sussman had 17. However, the majority of the duo's scoring came in the first half, combining for just 13 of their 37 points over the final 20 minutes.
 
Columbia will look to seal its place in the 2020 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament presented by TIAA on Saturday when it takes on Dartmouth. Tip from Leede Arena is scheduled for 5 p.m.

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