ATLANTA — Columbia women's basketball junior Abbey Hsu has been named an Honorable Mention to the 2023 WBCA Division I Coaches' All-America Team. Hsu is one of 42 players across the country to earn that status. Ten others were named to the All-America Team, as announced by the WBCA on Friday.
 
Hsu is the second Columbia Lion and the ninth player in Ivy League history to earn either AP or WBCA All-America status. Columbia's only other All-America honoree was Judie Lomax '10BC, who was an AP Honorable Mention in 2010. Hsu is the lone Ivy League player on this year's list and one of only seven players from across the country to represent a mid-major conference.
 
"I'm honored to be mentioned alongside the best players in the country," said Hsu, who bested her own Ivy League record this season with 112 made threes. "We have an incredible team and an incredible coaching staff that makes me better every single day. While we've accomplished a lot of things this program has never done before, this is still just the beginning for us. I can't wait to put this uniform back on next year and keep making more history with my teammates."
 
Hsu led Columbia (28-6, 12-2 Ivy) to its best season in school history, marking the second straight campaign the Lions have set a program record for wins. This year's run included the first Ivy League Championship in the team's 37 years as a member of the Ancient Eight. The Lions went on to make the deepest run in a national tournament by any Ivy team in league history, winning five games in the Postseason WNIT to advance to the Championship Game against Kansas. Columbia came up just short against the Jayhawks, 66-59, Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
  
A native of Parkland, Florida, Hsu was one of the NCAA's leading 3-point shooters all season long. Her 3.29 treys per game ranked No. 2 in the country, second only to Iowa's Caitlin Clark, the 2023 WBCA Wade Trophy Player of the Year. Hsu's 112 total threes surpassed the Ivy League record of 108 that she set last year as a sophomore. They were also the fourth most in the NCAA this season, while her 3-point percentage (.377) ranked among the NCAA's top 70. The sharpshooter ended the year as the Ivy League's leading scorer, totaling 606 points and averaging 17.8 per contest. Hsu is the second Lion in program history to net 600 points in a season, two shy of the program record (608) set by Camille Zimmerman '18CC in 2016-17. Her 606 points are the eighth-most in a single season in Ivy League history.
 
A unanimous First Team All-Ivy League selection, Hsu was named the Ivy League Player of the Week a conference-best four times this season and added two Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) honors on top of it. Her two best outings came in wins at UMass (Dec. 10) and at Harvard (Feb. 17). Against the Minutewomen, she drained a then-career-high 34 points while going 9-of-11 from 3-point range, setting a new program record for triples in a game. In late February, she outdid herself by going 13-for-18 from the field and 6-of-10 from beyond the arc on her way to a career-high 35 points in a win at Harvard. Her 35 points are the most in a single game by an Ivy League player this season and tie for the fifth-most in a game in Columbia's record books.
 
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