NEW YORK – Columbia women's basketball (16-3, 5-1 Ivy) will host Dartmouth (2-18, 0-6 Ivy) in the team's annual Pride Game, scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on Schiller Court at Levien Gymnasium.
 
PRIDE DAY
The first 500 fans in attendance on Saturday will receive a pair of #CULionsPride sunglasses. This will be the team's third annual Pride Game, which celebrates the University's and surrounding community's LGBTQ+ community. The women's basketball team will wear branded Pride Night shooting shirts during pre-game warmups. TICKETS
Fans can purchase tickets ahead of time by visiting GoColumbiaLions.com/Tickets. Fans can also purchase tickets on-site at the ticket window, located at the main entrance on the southeast corner of 120th and Broadway.
 
GAME COVERAGE
Fans unable to attend Saturday's game can watch live on ESPN+. Live stats will be provided by GoColumbiaLions.com. Live updates will be posted to the Columbia women's basketball team's Twitter account (@CULionsWBB).
 
WHAT TO KNOW:

LEADING THE NATION
• Abbey Hsu leads the country in 3-pointers made per game (3.58) and ranks No. 2 in total threes (68). She is 68-of-156 from the outside this season (.436), which ranks her top 20 nationally in 3-point percentage.
 
• As a team, the Lions rank No. 3 in the NCAA in 3-pointers made per game (9.8) and top five in total threes (187). Columbia is 37.4 percent from the outside, ranking 13th in the country.
 
DOUBLE DIPPING
• Abbey Hsu was named both the Ivy League and Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Women's Div. I Player of the Week for games played Jan. 17-22. Hsu led the Lions to a 20-point victory over Brown, 94-74, in the team's only game of the week. She scored a game-high 26 points, including going 7-of-11 from 3-point range. Her 4-point play midway through the third quarter put Columbia up 20 for the first time. The Ivy honors were the third of the year for Hsu, while the MBWA award was her second. HITTING AT A RECORD PACE
• Columbia is hitting shots at a record pace this season. Currently, the Lions are shooting 46.1 percent, which would rank No. 2 in program history and would be the best mark of the Lions' NCAA Div. I era.
 
• This year, Columbia has posted four of the program's top seven shooting games. The best game came at Cornell (Jan. 16), where the Lions shot 63.0 percent (34-54), which is the second-highest mark in program history and the best in the Div. I era. The program record is 63.3 percent, which came against Staten Island in 1986. Columbia shot 62.5 percent in a 103-54 win over Marist (Dec. 1), which ranks fourth. Their shooting percentages at Yale (Dec. 31) and LIU (Dec. 13) of 59.3 percent and 59.0 percent, respectively, rank sixth and seventh.
 
IN THE POLLS
• Columbia is receiving three votes in this week's USA Today Sports Coaches Poll. The Lions debuted with four votes on Jan. 3. This is the fourth straight week they are receiving votes.
 
• Columbia currently ranks No. 2 in the CollegeInsider.com Women's Mid-Major Top 25. Columbia began the 2022-23 season ranked No. 9 and peaked at No. 2.
 
• Columbia received its first votes in the AP Top 25 in program history, debuting with two votes in the Week 6 Poll (Dec. 12). The Lions went on to receive votes in four straight polls. They dropped out in Week 10 following a loss at Penn. BUBBLE WATCH
• ESPN's latest women's basketball Bracketology has Columbia as an 11 seed as one of the "Last Four Byes" into the NCAA Tournament. The predictions have the Lions facing off against sixth-seeded South Florida in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ESPN's predictions are put together by Charlie Creme, who currently has Penn as the AQ out of the Ivy League. The Quakers won the head-to-head tiebreaker over Columbia to this point in the season.
 
QUICK HITS
• Columbia is a combined 41-10 (.804) over the course of the last two seasons.
• Columbia is 14-0 this season when getting to the foul line more than its opponent. The Lions have won each of its last 27 games when committing fewer fouls than the opponent.
• Columbia is an unbeaten 14-0 this season when shooting 40 percent or better from the floor.
• Columbia is one of three teams in the country to use the same starting five all season (Vermont, No. 14 Oklahoma).
• Four of Columbia's starting five average double figures scoring - Abbey Hsu (17.8), Jaida Patrick (12.7), Kaitlyn Davis (12.3) and Kitty Henderson (10.1). Hannah Pratt is just outside of that at 9.7 per game. Those five all sit inside the top 25 in the Ivy League in scoring.
• Kaitlyn Davis (7.9) ranks No. 4 in the Ivy League in rebounding. Five Lions (Davis, Henderson, Pratt Patrick, Hsu) rank among the top 20 in the Ivy League.
• Kitty Henderson ranks No. 2 in the Ivy League in assists (88) and assists per game (4.6). Henderson, Davis (3.1), Patrick (2.9), Hsu (2.7) and Rivera (2.5) all rank Top 15 in the Ivy League.
• Paige Lauder (.590) and Kaitlyn Davis (.534) rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the Ivy League in field goal percentage. Hsu (.443) and Henderson (.439) are also in the Top 10. Pratt (.432) and Patrick (.408) rank 11th and 13th.
• Davis (0.9), Patrick (0.8) and Pratt (0.7) are all Top 10 in the Ivy League in blocks.
• Patrick (1.7) and Davis (1.6) rank No. 9 and No. 11 in the Ivy League in steals.

THE OPPONENT
• Dartmouth (2-18, 0-6 Ivy) challenged Princeton in its last game, leading by as many as five in the second quarter, but ran out of gas in the fourth. Princeton's offense hit its stride and shot 60 percent from the field in the second half en route to a 79-59 win.
 
• Victoria Page leads the Big Green in scoring at 9.0 points per game. She is followed closely behind by Mekkena Boyd (8.7) and Mia Curtis (8.4). Boyd is coming off a career-high 15-point performance against the Tigers. She has led Dartmouth in scoring in each of the last two games. Emma Koch averages a team-leading 6.5 boards.
 
• The Lions have won each of its last four games against Dartmouth, sweeping the season series in 2020 and 2022. The team to win the first game between these two sides has gone on to sweep that year's series each of the last seven seasons.
 
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.