Thursday, November 20
New York, N.Y.
11:00 a.m.
Columbia University
vs
Saint Joseph's
An attendance of 2,733 was announced for last year's Education Day Game. Columbia earned a hard-fought 81-79 win over San Francisco.
Photo by: Columbia University Athletics / Stockton Photo, Inc.
Columbia Hosts Saint Joseph’s Thursday Morning for Education Day
11/19/2025 9:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Lions hope to bounce back against the Red Hawks
NEW YORK – The Columbia women's basketball team (2-1) continues a three-game non-conference homestand on Thursday morning when it faces off against Saint Joseph's (3-1). The opening tip-off is scheduled for 11 a.m., with more than 2,000 New York City elementary school students expected to be in attendance for Education Day.
EDUCATION DAY
Students from more than 20 New York City schools will be in attendance for the 15th annual Columbia women's basketball Education Day Game. The first such game was held in 2008 and was hosted annually through 2019. After being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Education Day returned to Levien Gymnasium last season.
OPENING TIPS
• The Lions are coming off a 77-67 loss in their home opener against Richmond this past Saturday. Richmond's Maggie Doogan (16), Rachel Ullstrom (16), Alicia Newell (16) and Ally Sweeney (15) all score 15+ points. The Spiders got off to a slow start, shooting just 3-of-19 (.158) in the first quarter, but went on to shoot 22-of-35 (.629) the rest of the way. Columbia's Susie Rafiu recorded her third career double-double (14 Pts, 10 Reb).
• Despite Saturday's loss, Columbia is a combined 37-5 (.881) at home since the start of the 2022-23 season. The Lions won 20 straight regular-season games at home between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
• Riley Weiss leads the Ivy League and ranks Top 30 in the NCAA in points per game (20.3). She was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 10, following Columbia's road wins at Butler (Nov. 7) and Ohio (Nov. 9).
• Perri Page (15.7) and Susie Rafiu (14.3) rank No. 6 and No. 9, respectively, in the Ivy League in scoring. Page is also No. 3 in rebounding at 8.3 per game.
• Susie Rafiu (.600) and Perri Page (.581) are No. 3 and No. 4 in the Ivy League in field goal percentage.
• Mia Broom leads the Ivy League in 3-point field goal percentage at 54.5 percent (6-11). She and Weiss each average 2.0 made 3-pointers per game.
• Fliss Henderson (4.0), Marija Avlijas (3.3) and Mia Broom (3.0) rank Nos. 4, 5 and 6, respectively, in the Ivy League in assists per game.
• Fliss Henderson (2.3), Perri Page (2.0) and Riley Weiss (2.0) rank Nos. 4, 5 and 6 in the Ivy League in steals per game.
RICHMOND POSTGAME NOTES (Nov. 15)
• Riley Weiss had a career-high five steals.
• Mia Broom scored a career-high 14 points and made a career-high five field goals.
• Fliss Henderson played a career-high 31:40.
• Columbia suffered its first non-conference loss at home since Nov. 14, 2023 to then-No. 22 Duke, 66-62. It snapped a 10-game home winning streak against non-conference opponents.
• Riley Weiss's 25 field goal attempts were the seventh-most in a game in program history.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
• Despite Saturday's loss against Richmond, Columbia is a combined 37-5 (.881) at home since the start of the 2022-23 season.
• The Lions won 20 straight regular-season games at home between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
• Columbia went 14-1 (.933) at home during the 2023-24 regular season, followed by 10-1 last season.
WEISS EARNS WEEK 1 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Riley Weiss was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on November 10. She averaged 22.5 points in road wins at Butler (Nov. 7) and Ohio (Nov. 9). Weiss scored nine of the final 14 points in regulation on her way to a game-high 27 in the season-opening overtime win at Butler. Two days later, she netted 18 points in just 24 minutes against the Bobcats. Weiss sat most of the second half with Columbia leading by as many as 30.
BUILDING A MARCH RESUME
• Columbia's non-conference schedule includes nine games against teams that qualified for last year's NCAA Tournament, WBIT or WNIT. Five of those games are against last season's NCAA field, which includes the home opener against Richmond (Nov. 15), all three contests at the Cancun Challenge – Kansas State (Nov. 27), South Dakota State (Nov. 28) and North Carolina (Nov. 29) – as well as a late December trip to Fort Myers to battle Florida Gulf Coast (Dec. 29). The Lions will also host 2025 WBIT competitors Saint Joseph's (Nov. 20) and UTSA (Dec. 20) and travel across the Hudson to renew a rivalry with Seton Hall (Dec. 9). Butler qualified for the 2025 WNIT.
• In total, Columbia's 2025-26 schedule includes eight games against NET Top 50 teams and 12 games against NET Top 100 teams from a year ago.
BIG EAST DOMINANCE
• With a 74-69 overtime win at Butler in the season opener, Columbia is now 10-2 over its last 12 games against BIG EAST opponents. All 12 of those games have come in the Megan Griffith head-coaching era (2016-pres.). That includes a 4-0 record against Providence, 2-0 vs. Georgetown, 1-1 vs. Villanova, 2-1 vs. Seton Hall, and now 1-0 against Butler. The Lions earned their first BIG EAST win in program history when they defeated Providence in overtime, 66-64, on Dec. 7, 2016 in New York. In fact, four of Columbia's BIG EAST wins have now come in overtime, including each of its last two.
HALFTIME WINNING STREAK
• Columbia has won 30 consecutive games when leading at halftime. The Lions have won their first two such games so far this season, all 20 games when leading at the half in 2024-25, and their final eight such games in 2023-24. Columbia's last loss with a halftime lead came at Princeton on January 20, 2024, taking a 37-33 lead into the locker rooms but coming up short, 80-65.
INTERNATIONAL LIONS
• According to research performed by NCAA member institution communication staffs, Columbia is one of just 12 programs in the country with nine or more international players on its roster. Of those schools, only Columbia, Washington State, South Florida and San Francisco have nine or more countries represented on their respective rosters. Columbia has two players from Spain, and one each from Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Serbia and United Kingdom. Six of Columbia's 15 players are from the United States.
PRESEASON NUGGETS
• Columbia begins its 41st varsity season and 39th competing at the NCAA Div. I level as a member of the Ivy League. The program's first season competing as the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium was 1984-85, followed by its first season competing in both the Ivy League and NCAA Div. I in 1986-87. The 2020-21 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Columbia returns nine of its 12 players from the 2024-25 season, including three of its five starters. The Lions return 62.9 percent of their scoring and 70.1 percent of their rebounding. Eight of the nine returners played in at least 20 of Columbia's 31 games last season.
• Kitty Henderson and Cecelia Collins are Columbia's biggest losses from last season. Both graduated last May. Henderson was a four-year member of the program, while Collins was a two-year member who transferred in as a junior from Bucknell. Last season, the duo combined for 825 points, 357 rebounds and a staggering 288 assists. Both were All-Ivy League selections.
• Columbia's top returning scorer is junior Riley Weiss. Last season, she scored 553 points and averaged 17.8 per game, ranking top 10 in Columbia single-season history in both categories. Weiss also knocked down 96 triples last year, good for third-best in team history, with an 87.5% free throw percentage, which ranked second.
• The Lions have five newcomers to the roster this year, welcoming four first-years and one junior transfer, Hilke Feldrappe, who played her first two collegiate seasons at Missouri.
THE SERIES
• Columbia and Saint Joseph's are squaring off for the third time overall and the first time since 2019. That year, the Red Hawks visited Levien Gymnasium and walked away with a 71-57 victory. The year prior, the two sides met for the first time ever and went to overtime in Philadelphia. Saint Joseph's also came out on top in that one, 68-61.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
• Click here for Saint Joseph's Information
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
EDUCATION DAY
Students from more than 20 New York City schools will be in attendance for the 15th annual Columbia women's basketball Education Day Game. The first such game was held in 2008 and was hosted annually through 2019. After being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Education Day returned to Levien Gymnasium last season.
OPENING TIPS
• The Lions are coming off a 77-67 loss in their home opener against Richmond this past Saturday. Richmond's Maggie Doogan (16), Rachel Ullstrom (16), Alicia Newell (16) and Ally Sweeney (15) all score 15+ points. The Spiders got off to a slow start, shooting just 3-of-19 (.158) in the first quarter, but went on to shoot 22-of-35 (.629) the rest of the way. Columbia's Susie Rafiu recorded her third career double-double (14 Pts, 10 Reb).
• Despite Saturday's loss, Columbia is a combined 37-5 (.881) at home since the start of the 2022-23 season. The Lions won 20 straight regular-season games at home between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
• Riley Weiss leads the Ivy League and ranks Top 30 in the NCAA in points per game (20.3). She was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 10, following Columbia's road wins at Butler (Nov. 7) and Ohio (Nov. 9).
• Perri Page (15.7) and Susie Rafiu (14.3) rank No. 6 and No. 9, respectively, in the Ivy League in scoring. Page is also No. 3 in rebounding at 8.3 per game.
• Susie Rafiu (.600) and Perri Page (.581) are No. 3 and No. 4 in the Ivy League in field goal percentage.
• Mia Broom leads the Ivy League in 3-point field goal percentage at 54.5 percent (6-11). She and Weiss each average 2.0 made 3-pointers per game.
• Fliss Henderson (4.0), Marija Avlijas (3.3) and Mia Broom (3.0) rank Nos. 4, 5 and 6, respectively, in the Ivy League in assists per game.
• Fliss Henderson (2.3), Perri Page (2.0) and Riley Weiss (2.0) rank Nos. 4, 5 and 6 in the Ivy League in steals per game.
RICHMOND POSTGAME NOTES (Nov. 15)
• Riley Weiss had a career-high five steals.
• Mia Broom scored a career-high 14 points and made a career-high five field goals.
• Fliss Henderson played a career-high 31:40.
• Columbia suffered its first non-conference loss at home since Nov. 14, 2023 to then-No. 22 Duke, 66-62. It snapped a 10-game home winning streak against non-conference opponents.
• Riley Weiss's 25 field goal attempts were the seventh-most in a game in program history.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
• Despite Saturday's loss against Richmond, Columbia is a combined 37-5 (.881) at home since the start of the 2022-23 season.
• The Lions won 20 straight regular-season games at home between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
• Columbia went 14-1 (.933) at home during the 2023-24 regular season, followed by 10-1 last season.
WEISS EARNS WEEK 1 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Riley Weiss was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on November 10. She averaged 22.5 points in road wins at Butler (Nov. 7) and Ohio (Nov. 9). Weiss scored nine of the final 14 points in regulation on her way to a game-high 27 in the season-opening overtime win at Butler. Two days later, she netted 18 points in just 24 minutes against the Bobcats. Weiss sat most of the second half with Columbia leading by as many as 30.
BUILDING A MARCH RESUME
• Columbia's non-conference schedule includes nine games against teams that qualified for last year's NCAA Tournament, WBIT or WNIT. Five of those games are against last season's NCAA field, which includes the home opener against Richmond (Nov. 15), all three contests at the Cancun Challenge – Kansas State (Nov. 27), South Dakota State (Nov. 28) and North Carolina (Nov. 29) – as well as a late December trip to Fort Myers to battle Florida Gulf Coast (Dec. 29). The Lions will also host 2025 WBIT competitors Saint Joseph's (Nov. 20) and UTSA (Dec. 20) and travel across the Hudson to renew a rivalry with Seton Hall (Dec. 9). Butler qualified for the 2025 WNIT.
• In total, Columbia's 2025-26 schedule includes eight games against NET Top 50 teams and 12 games against NET Top 100 teams from a year ago.
BIG EAST DOMINANCE
• With a 74-69 overtime win at Butler in the season opener, Columbia is now 10-2 over its last 12 games against BIG EAST opponents. All 12 of those games have come in the Megan Griffith head-coaching era (2016-pres.). That includes a 4-0 record against Providence, 2-0 vs. Georgetown, 1-1 vs. Villanova, 2-1 vs. Seton Hall, and now 1-0 against Butler. The Lions earned their first BIG EAST win in program history when they defeated Providence in overtime, 66-64, on Dec. 7, 2016 in New York. In fact, four of Columbia's BIG EAST wins have now come in overtime, including each of its last two.
HALFTIME WINNING STREAK
• Columbia has won 30 consecutive games when leading at halftime. The Lions have won their first two such games so far this season, all 20 games when leading at the half in 2024-25, and their final eight such games in 2023-24. Columbia's last loss with a halftime lead came at Princeton on January 20, 2024, taking a 37-33 lead into the locker rooms but coming up short, 80-65.
INTERNATIONAL LIONS
• According to research performed by NCAA member institution communication staffs, Columbia is one of just 12 programs in the country with nine or more international players on its roster. Of those schools, only Columbia, Washington State, South Florida and San Francisco have nine or more countries represented on their respective rosters. Columbia has two players from Spain, and one each from Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Serbia and United Kingdom. Six of Columbia's 15 players are from the United States.
PRESEASON NUGGETS
• Columbia begins its 41st varsity season and 39th competing at the NCAA Div. I level as a member of the Ivy League. The program's first season competing as the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium was 1984-85, followed by its first season competing in both the Ivy League and NCAA Div. I in 1986-87. The 2020-21 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Columbia returns nine of its 12 players from the 2024-25 season, including three of its five starters. The Lions return 62.9 percent of their scoring and 70.1 percent of their rebounding. Eight of the nine returners played in at least 20 of Columbia's 31 games last season.
• Kitty Henderson and Cecelia Collins are Columbia's biggest losses from last season. Both graduated last May. Henderson was a four-year member of the program, while Collins was a two-year member who transferred in as a junior from Bucknell. Last season, the duo combined for 825 points, 357 rebounds and a staggering 288 assists. Both were All-Ivy League selections.
• Columbia's top returning scorer is junior Riley Weiss. Last season, she scored 553 points and averaged 17.8 per game, ranking top 10 in Columbia single-season history in both categories. Weiss also knocked down 96 triples last year, good for third-best in team history, with an 87.5% free throw percentage, which ranked second.
• The Lions have five newcomers to the roster this year, welcoming four first-years and one junior transfer, Hilke Feldrappe, who played her first two collegiate seasons at Missouri.
THE SERIES
• Columbia and Saint Joseph's are squaring off for the third time overall and the first time since 2019. That year, the Red Hawks visited Levien Gymnasium and walked away with a 71-57 victory. The year prior, the two sides met for the first time ever and went to overtime in Philadelphia. Saint Joseph's also came out on top in that one, 68-61.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
• Click here for Saint Joseph's Information
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on the Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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