Columbia, Hsu Take Home NCAA.com Team, Player of the Week Honors
2/27/2024 7:29:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Hus eclipsed 2,000 points and led the Lions to their first AP Top 25 win in program history
Columbia (19-5, 10-1 Ivy) recorded its first win in school history over an Associated Press Top 25 team, defeating Princeton, 67-65 before a sellout crowd of 2,698 at Levien Gymnasium on Saturday. The win moved the Lions into a tie with the Tigers for first place in the Ivy League standings.
Columbia has now won seven straight games, 17 of its last 18 overall and 13 straight home games. Since joining the Division I ranks in 1986-87, Columbia was previously 0-12 all-time against AP Top 25 opponents.
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Senior guard Abbey Hsu, the all-time scoring leader in Columbia men's or women's basketball history, topped 2,000 career points during the game while pouring in a game-high 26 points on senior night. Hsu became the fourth player in Ivy women's basketball history to score 2,000 points and the first since Hana Peljto of Harvard in 2004. Her 2,000 points have come in only four seasons.
Sixteen of Hsu's 26 points came in the second half, including 13 in a third period that saw the Lions build a 10-point lead. Her 3-point field goal at the 6:31 mark of the third period, the 355th of her career, pushed her career-scoring total to over 2,000 points. Columbia took its largest lead of the afternoon, 64-53, on another Hsu triple at the 5:17 mark of the fourth period. Princeton stormed back with a 12-2 run that made it a one-point game with 53 seconds to go but came up empty at the end.
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In addition to taking home NCAA Player of the Week honors, Hsu was named Ivy League Player of the Week for a seventh time this season on Monday. She was later named to the USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and Coaches All-America Top 40 Watch List earlier on Tuesday.
Columbia will now hit the road for its final three games of the regular season. The stretch begins this Friday and Saturday when they take on Brown and Yale.
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