PRINCETON, N.J. – Columbia women's basketball senior guard Abbey Hsu has been named the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year while Megan Griffith was selected the Coach of the Year. The Ivy League announced its postseason honors and awards Tuesday afternoon.
 
Hsu is the second Ivy League Player of the Year in Columbia women's basketball history (Judie Lomax, 2009-10). She was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection for the second year in a row. Juniors Cecelia Collins and Kitty Henderson earned Second Team honors. The league also announced its Academic All-Ivy League selections with senior Paige Lauder earning the nod. Each member institution gets one representative
 
The All-Ivy teams are selected by the league's eight head coaches. The top five vote-getters earn first-team accolades, followed by the next five on the second team. Anyone who receives a first or second-team vote earns honorable mention status.

Hsu had a historical final regular-season campaign to a sure-fire Hall of Fame career at Columbia. As a senior, she is averaging a career-best 20.6 points per game, ranking No. 1 in the Ivy League and currently Top 20 in the NCAA. She ranked among the NCAA leaders in several other statistical categories, including No. 11 in 3-pointers made per game (2.89), No. 29 in total threes (78), No. 40 in 3-point percentage (.394), No. 42 in total points (556) and No. 50 in total field goals (199). She led the Ivy League in all of those aforementioned categories. On top of that, she ranks No. 4 in the Ivies in rebounding (7.1), No. 5 in free throw percentage (.762), No. 9 in field goal percentage (.455), No. 7 in minutes played, and top 15 in assists (2.1), total blocks (15) and total steals (32).

Hsu was a seven-time Ivy League Player of the Week award winner and three-time Met Basketball Writers Association Div. I Women's Player of the Week this season. Her seven Ivy League Player of the Week selections are a program best and tie for the second-most in a single season in Ivy League history. Her 14 career Ivy League POTW awards tie for the third-most in league history.

A native of Parkland, Florida, Hsu was named to several National Player of the Year Watch Lists, including the Midseason Watch List for the Jersey Mike's Naismith Women's College Player of the Year Award, a Top 10 Candidate for the Naismith Hall of Fame's Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year, the USBWA All-America and National Player of the Year Watch List, the 2024 Women's College All-Star Game Watch List, and is currently a finalist for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award.

On February 16 in Hanover, New Hampshire, Hsu became Columbia's all-time leading scorer, passing Camille Zimmerman '18CC with her 1,974th career point. A week later, she became the fourth player in Ivy League women's basketball history to reach the 2,000-point plateau as part of a 26-point effort in the win over then-No. 25 Princeton. Hsu is the first Ivy women's player to reach 2,000 career points since Harvard's Hana Peljto in 2004.

Hsu (3.03) and Iowa's Caitlin Clark (3.91) are the only two Div. I players to average at least 3.0 made threes per game over the course of their careers. She is also tied for fifth among active players in total threes (363), top 25 in career points (2,071), top 20 in career scoring average (17.3) and top 25 in career field goals made (735). On top of all that, she is the Ivy League's career leader in 3-point field goals made, passing Harvard's Katie Benzan for the record in early November. Now with 363 career threes, Hsu has made 76 more than Benzan's previous mark of 287.
 
Megan Griffith was named Ivy League Coach of the Year for a second consecutive season. She led the Lions to a 22-5 overall record and 13-1 mark in league play, winning the program's second straight Ivy League Regular Season Championship. Prior to the past two seasons, Columbia had never won the Ivy title.

Columbia's 13 Ivy wins are its most in program history, one better than last year's championship team. This season included Columbia's first win in program history over an AP Top 25 team when the Lions defeated Princeton, 67-65, on February 24 at Levien Gym. Columbia also put together two separate 10-game winning streaks, tying the program record for consecutive wins twice. They earned non-conference victories over Seton Hall, Villanova, Providence and Memphis, to name a few. They also played Florida to the buzzer in the Bahamas and lost a four-point game to Duke, 66-62, in early November.

For a second straight year, the Lions received votes in the AP Top 25. They debuted in the Week 17 poll after defeating Princeton and have gone on to receive votes three consecutive weeks.

Entering this weekend's Ivy League Tournament, Griffith has led Columbia to a combined 75-18 (.806) overall record over the past three seasons. including a 37-5 (.881) record against Ivy League competition. She hopes to guide the Lions to their first Ivy Tournament Championship and what would be their first NCAA Div. I Tournament appearance in program history. The Lions currently sit on the NCAA bubble.

Cecelia Collins is in her first season at Columbia after transferring from Bucknell. She picks up her third career second-team selection, also earning those honors in the Patriot League each of the last two seasons. The Scranton, Pennsylvania native has made an immediate impact, averaging 13.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. She was top tier in Ivy play, averaging 15.1 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.
 
Collins scored in double figures 22 times this season, including five 20-point games. Her season highlight was a career-high 28 points at Pacific, going 9-of-11 from the floor and 3-for-4 from three with five assists.
 
Collins ranks No. 11 in the Ivy League in scoring (13.9), No. 4 in field goal percentage (.493) and is the Ivy League leader in free throw percentage (.865). Her free throw percentage also ranks No. 32 in the NCAA. Meanwhile, she is also No. 5 in the Ivies in assists (4.0) and leads the league with a 2.2 assist/turnover ratio.

After landing All-Ivy Honorable Mention a year ago, Kitty Henderson moved up to the Second Team for the first time in her career. She continued to be one of the elite point guards in the region. Henderson is averaging career-bests in scoring (11.9), rebounding (6.1) and steals (1.9), while also averaging 4.1 assists per game, which ranks No. 4 in the Ivies and top 100 nationally. Her 112 assists are No. 3 in the Ivy League and her 1.47 assist/turnover ratio is No. 5. Henderson's 112 assists so far this season are just outside the top 10 in Columbia's single-season record book.

Henderson ranks No. 13 in the Ivies in scoring (11.9), No. 11 in rebounding (6.1), No. 6 in field goal percentage (.481) and No. 2 in steals per game (1.9). Her 51 total steals are an Ivy League best.
 
Lauder's Academic All-Ivy League selection comes with the senior holding a cumulative 3.60 GPA with a double concentration in economics and psychology. On the floor, the senior from Malvern, Pennsylvania has played in 23 of the 27 games to help the Lions to their second straight Ivy League Regular Season Championship.
 
Second-seeded Columbia will take on third-seeded Harvard in the Ivy League Tournament semifinals this Friday, March 15. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET. The 2024 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, presented by TIAA, are being hosted by Columbia at Schiller Court at Levien Gymnasium. For tickets and information on the event, please visit IvyMadness.com.

2023-24 IVY LEAGUE POSTSEASON HONORS AND AWARDS
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Abbey Hsu, Columbia

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Mataya Gayle, Penn

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Ellie Mitchell, Princeton

COACH OF THE YEAR
Megan Griffith, Columbia

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
*Abbey Hsu, Columbia
*Kaitlyn Chen, Princeton
Kyla Jones, Brown
Harmoni Turner, Harvard
Jordan Obi, Penn

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Cecelia Collins, Columbia
Kitty Henderson, Columbia
Stina Almqvist, Penn
Ellie Mitchell, Princeton
Madison St. Rose, Princeton

HONORABLE MENTION
Grace Arnolie, Brown
Katie Krupa, Harvard
Lola Mullaney, Harvard
Jenna Clark, Yale

* Unanimous selection

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