HOPEWELL, N.J. — Columbia women's basketball junior guard Abbey Hsu has made the 15-player Midseason Watch List for the 2023 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award, presented by Her Hoops Stats. The updated list was published Wednesday morning.
 
Hsu is one of 15 players representing 14 different schools and 12 conferences that have been named to the midseason list. She is also the lone representative from the Ivy League. To be eligible for this award, players must compete in one of the 26 conferences deemed to be "mid-major." Conferences ineligible to have players considered for the award include the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC. All stats only include games against Division I opponents, unless otherwise noted, and are through games on Jan. 17.
 
A native of Parkland, Florida, Hsu averages 17.3 points, 4.2 rebounds. 2.7 assists and 1.1 steals through Columbia's 18 games this season. She has led the Lions to a 15-3 overall record, matching the best 18-game start in program history, as well as a 4-1 record against Ivy League competition.
 
Hsu has proven, once again, to be one of the elite 3-point shooters in the country. To this point, she averages an NCAA-best 3.39 made 3-pointers per game, ranks No. 2 in the country in total threes (61) and is top 40 in 3-point percentage (.421). All of those marks lead the Ivy League. She is also second in the conference in scoring average (17.3), first in total points (312), second in field goals made (104) and fourth in field goal percentage (.432).
 
Among active career leaders, Hsu ranks No. 3 in 3-pointers made per game (3.04). That mark trails only two highly decorated All-Americans in Taylor Robertson of Oklahoma (3.66) and Caitlin Clark of Iowa (3.29).
 
Hsu has scored in double figures in 16 of 18 games this season, which includes seven 20-point games and one 30-point outing. Her best performance of the year came in an, 83-74, road victory over reigning Atlantic 10 champion UMass, hitting 12-of-18 from the floor and 9-of-11 from 3-point range to net a career-high 34 points. Her nine triples are a new Columbia single-game record and make Hsu one of just five players in the NCAA this season to hit nine or more threes in a game.
 
Hsu was named to the Preseason Watch List after a sophomore season that saw her set a new Ivy League record with 108 made threes. She averaged 16.4 points and netted 524 total points, ranking fourth in program history for points in a season. She scored in double figures in 28 of the team's 32 games, including nine 20-point outings, and also broke Columbia's single-season record for minutes played (1,064). Following Columbia's run to the WNIT National Quarterfinals, Hsu was named First Team All-Met by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers' Association.
 
Columbia (15-3, 4-1 Ivy) begins a five-game homestand on Saturday when it hosts Brown (8-9, 1-4 Ivy). Tip-off from Schiller Court at Levien Gymnasium is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET.

About Becky Hammon
Hammon was a three-time All-American during her career at Colorado State and led the Rams to the Sweet 16 in 1999, the program's only appearance to date. She was signed by the New York Liberty in 1999 and traded to the San Antonio Stars in 2007, where she played the rest of her career. Hammon retired in 2014 as a six-time All-Star and a two-time All-WNBA First Team honoree. In 2016 she was named one of the top 20 players in WNBA history and was recently named to the W25. Hammon became the second female coach in NBA history when she began coaching for the San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Additionally, Hammon is the only woman to be a head coach in the NBA Summer League as well as the only woman to be a member of an NBA All-Star coaching staff. Currently, Hammon is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces and won the 2022 WNBA Championship in her first season.

About Her Hoop Stats
Her Hoop Stats was founded in 2017 to unlock better insight about women's basketball at all levels. We began as a statistics site focused on providing consistent, reliable, and easy-to-access data about women's basketball for both mobile and desktop environments. Her Hoop Stats has expanded to become a leading independent voice in the women's game providing content through our newsletter, podcast network, YouTube channel, and social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
 
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