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Abbey Hsu Named AP All-America Honorable Mention
3/20/2024 12:45:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Hsu picks up All-America honors for the second consecutive season
NEW YORK – Columbia women's basketball senior guard Abbey Hsu has been named an AP All-America Honorable Mention, as announced by the Associate Press Wednesday afternoon. This is Hsu's first AP All-America honor – last year, she earned WBCA Coaches All-America status. She is the first player in program history to earn multiple All-America selections.
Hsu, the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year, is the second Ivy League Player of the Year in Columbia women's basketball history (Judie Lomax, 2009-10). For the second year in a row, she was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection.
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. 8 in 3-pointers made per game (3.03), No. 12 in total threes (88), No. 37 in 3-point percentage (.398), No. 32 in total points (598) and No. 41 in total field goals (212). She led the Ivy League in all of those aforementioned categories. On top of that, she ranks No. 3 in the Ivies in rebounding (7.4), No. 5 in free throw percentage (.761), No. 3 in field goal percentage (.453) and No. 6 in minutes played.
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 (3.06) 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 third among active players in total threes (373), top 20 in career points (2,113) and in career scoring average (17.3) and top 25 in career field goals made (748). 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, Hsu has made 86 more than Benzan's previous mark of 287.
The Lions make their March Madness debut tonight when they take on Vanderbilt in the First Four. The two 12 seeds square off at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia at 9 p.m. ET. The game will be televised live on ESPNU.
2024 AP All-America Teams
First Team: Caitlin Clark, Iowa; JuJu Watkins, WSC; Cameron Brink, Stanford; Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame; Paige Bueckers UConn.
Second Team: Liz Kitley, Virginia Tech; Angel Reese, LSU; Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina; Madison Booker, Texas; Jacy Sheldon, Ohio State.
Third Team: Alissa Pili, Utah; Mackenzie Holmes, Indiana; Georgia Amoore, Virginia Tech; Dyaisha Fair, Syracuse; Raegan Beers, Oregon State.
Honorable Mention: Lauren Betts, UCLA; Audi Crooks, Iowa State; Aaliyah Edwards, UConn; Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga; Lauren Gustin, BYU; McKenna Hofschild, Colorado State; Abbey Hsu, Columbia; Kiki Iriafen, Stanford; Rickea Jackson, Tennessee; Ta'Niya Latson, Florida State; Ayoka Lee, Kansas State; Cotie McMahon, Ohio State; Aneesah Morrow, LSU; Nika Muhl, UConn; Lucy Olsen, Villanova; Charisma Osborne, UCLA; Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina; JJ Quinerly, West Virginia; Saniya Rivers, North Carolina State; Kiki Rice, UCLA; and Jaylyn Sherrod, Colorado; Skylar Vann, Oklahoma.
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Hsu, the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year, is the second Ivy League Player of the Year in Columbia women's basketball history (Judie Lomax, 2009-10). For the second year in a row, she was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection.
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. 8 in 3-pointers made per game (3.03), No. 12 in total threes (88), No. 37 in 3-point percentage (.398), No. 32 in total points (598) and No. 41 in total field goals (212). She led the Ivy League in all of those aforementioned categories. On top of that, she ranks No. 3 in the Ivies in rebounding (7.4), No. 5 in free throw percentage (.761), No. 3 in field goal percentage (.453) and No. 6 in minutes played.
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 (3.06) 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 third among active players in total threes (373), top 20 in career points (2,113) and in career scoring average (17.3) and top 25 in career field goals made (748). 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, Hsu has made 86 more than Benzan's previous mark of 287.
The Lions make their March Madness debut tonight when they take on Vanderbilt in the First Four. The two 12 seeds square off at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia at 9 p.m. ET. The game will be televised live on ESPNU.
2024 AP All-America Teams
First Team: Caitlin Clark, Iowa; JuJu Watkins, WSC; Cameron Brink, Stanford; Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame; Paige Bueckers UConn.
Second Team: Liz Kitley, Virginia Tech; Angel Reese, LSU; Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina; Madison Booker, Texas; Jacy Sheldon, Ohio State.
Third Team: Alissa Pili, Utah; Mackenzie Holmes, Indiana; Georgia Amoore, Virginia Tech; Dyaisha Fair, Syracuse; Raegan Beers, Oregon State.
Honorable Mention: Lauren Betts, UCLA; Audi Crooks, Iowa State; Aaliyah Edwards, UConn; Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga; Lauren Gustin, BYU; McKenna Hofschild, Colorado State; Abbey Hsu, Columbia; Kiki Iriafen, Stanford; Rickea Jackson, Tennessee; Ta'Niya Latson, Florida State; Ayoka Lee, Kansas State; Cotie McMahon, Ohio State; Aneesah Morrow, LSU; Nika Muhl, UConn; Lucy Olsen, Villanova; Charisma Osborne, UCLA; Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina; JJ Quinerly, West Virginia; Saniya Rivers, North Carolina State; Kiki Rice, UCLA; and Jaylyn Sherrod, Colorado; Skylar Vann, Oklahoma.
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