NEW YORK – Columbia's Abbey Hsu has been selected as the 2023-24 All-Met Division I Women's College Basketball Player of the Year, as announced on Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA). She is the second Lion to win the award in its 29 years of existence (Camille Zimmerman, 2016-17).
 
Hsu and the All-Met teams will be honored at the 91st MBWA Haggerty Awards Dinner on Thursday, April 18, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, New York. The Haggerty Dinner is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States. For those who cannot attend the awards dinner in person, especially for remote family and friends, the Haggerty Awards live stream will begin at 7 p.m. ET.
 
The Met Basketball Writers Association is unique in that it encompasses 21 New York City Metropolitan area schools across NCAA Div. I. Those schools include Army West Point, Columbia, Fairfield, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, LIU, Manhattan, Marist, Monmouth, NJIT, Princeton, Rider, Rutgers, Sacred Heart, St. John's, Saint Peter's, Seton Hall, Stony Brook and Wagner.
 
Additionally, junior Cecelia Collins was named Second Team All-Met and junior Kitty Henderson was named Third Team All-Met. These are the first All-Met Team selections for both Collins and Henderson – Henderson was the All-Met Division I Women's Rookie of the Year in 2021-22.
 
A native of Parkland, Florida, Hsu was selected by the Connecticut Sun as the 34th overall pick in Round 3 of the 2024 WNBA Draft on Monday night. She is the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year and was named to several National Player of the Year Watch Lists throughout the season, including the Midseason Watch List for the Jersey Mike's Naismith Women's College Player of the Year Award. She was also named an All-America Honorable Mention by both the Associated Press and Women's Basketball Coaches Association and was also a finalist for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award.
 
As a senior, Hsu averaged a career-best 20.4 points per game, ranking No. 1 in the Ivy League and top 25 in the NCAA. Her 611 points scored this season are a new Columbia single-season record. She ended her career as the all-time leading scorer in Columbia basketball history, amassing 2,126 career points in four seasons. She is also the Ivy League's all-time leader in made 3-pointers (375) and third on the Ivy League's all-time women's basketball scoring list.
 
At the conclusion of the season, Hsu (3.05) and Iowa's Caitlin Clark (3.94) were the only two active Div. I players to average at least 3.0 made threes per game over the course of their careers. Hsu was also third among active players in total threes (375), top 20 in career scoring average (17.3), top 25 in career points (2,126) and top 25 in career field goals made (751).
 
Among the many stats Hsu ranked near the top of the NCAA in this season, she was No. 10 in 3-pointers per game (3.00), No. 14 in total threes (90), No. 21 in points per game (20.4) and No. 39 in total points (611).

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.
 
Collins, a Second Team All-Ivy honoree, played her first season at Columbia after transferring from Bucknell. She made an immediate impact, averaging 13.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.9 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 25 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. She ranked No. 11 in the Ivy League in scoring (13.7), No. 4 in field goal percentage (.490) and was the Ivy League leader in free throw percentage (.861). Her free throw percentage also ranked No. 32 in the NCAA. Meanwhile, she was also No. 4 in the Ivies in assists per game (3.9) and led the league with a 2.0 assist/turnover ratio.
 
Henderson, also a Second Team All-Ivy selection, continued to be one of the elite point guards in the region this year. She averaged career-bests in scoring (12.1), rebounding (6.2) and steals (1.8), while also averaging 4.0 assists per game, which ranked No. 4 in the Ivies and top 100 nationally. Her 121 assists ranked No. 3 in the Ivy League and her 1.34 assist/turnover ratio was No. 6. Henderson's 121 assists rank just outside the top 10 in Columbia's single-season record book.
 
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