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Lions Receive First Votes in Coaches Poll
1/3/2023 1:33:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Lions now receiving votes in both major polls
NEW YORK — Three weeks after receiving its first AP Top 25 votes, the Columbia women's basketball team is now receiving its first votes in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll. The Lions checked in with four votes in the Week 9 poll, as released on Tuesday.
Columbia (12-2, 1-0 Ivy) is off to its best 14-game start in program history and currently rides a program-best nine-game winning streak. The Lions soundly defeated Yale, 97-53, on Saturday in New Haven to begin Ivy League play. Its winning streak currently ties for the seventh-longest in the country. The Lions are outscoring opponents by a margin of 30.7 points per game over that span and averaging 89.1 offensively.
The historic start to the 2022-23 campaign has seen Columbia defeat four teams that are all currently inside the top 75 of the NCAA Net Rankings. All four of those victories came on the road, besting Seton Hall (51), Miami (53), UMass (66) and Memphis (73). The Lions are now 8-1 on the road this season and 24-2 in their last 26 true away games, which spans back to the end of the 2019-20 academic year.
The USA TODAY Sports women's basketball coaches poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at Division I schools. The panel is chosen by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The members represent each of the 32 Division I conferences that receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Each coach submits a Top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24, and so on down to one point for 25th.
Columbia's first year competing as an NCAA Div. I program was the 1986-87 academic year. The program first played under the umbrella of Columbia University in 1984, coinciding with the formation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium. To this day, the unique arrangement allows Barnard College students to compete with Columbia undergraduates in NCAA Division I Athletics and the Ivy League. This year's team has three active players who attend Barnard College (Noa Comesaña, Mary Lobon, Nicole Stephens).
The Lions will put their winning streak on the line this Friday night on national television when they take on Princeton (8-4, 0-1 Ivy). Tip-off at Jadwin Gymnasium is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.
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.
Columbia (12-2, 1-0 Ivy) is off to its best 14-game start in program history and currently rides a program-best nine-game winning streak. The Lions soundly defeated Yale, 97-53, on Saturday in New Haven to begin Ivy League play. Its winning streak currently ties for the seventh-longest in the country. The Lions are outscoring opponents by a margin of 30.7 points per game over that span and averaging 89.1 offensively.
The historic start to the 2022-23 campaign has seen Columbia defeat four teams that are all currently inside the top 75 of the NCAA Net Rankings. All four of those victories came on the road, besting Seton Hall (51), Miami (53), UMass (66) and Memphis (73). The Lions are now 8-1 on the road this season and 24-2 in their last 26 true away games, which spans back to the end of the 2019-20 academic year.
The USA TODAY Sports women's basketball coaches poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at Division I schools. The panel is chosen by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The members represent each of the 32 Division I conferences that receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Each coach submits a Top 25 with a first-place vote worth 25 points, second place 24, and so on down to one point for 25th.
Columbia's first year competing as an NCAA Div. I program was the 1986-87 academic year. The program first played under the umbrella of Columbia University in 1984, coinciding with the formation of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium. To this day, the unique arrangement allows Barnard College students to compete with Columbia undergraduates in NCAA Division I Athletics and the Ivy League. This year's team has three active players who attend Barnard College (Noa Comesaña, Mary Lobon, Nicole Stephens).
The Lions will put their winning streak on the line this Friday night on national television when they take on Princeton (8-4, 0-1 Ivy). Tip-off at Jadwin Gymnasium is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.
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.
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