Columbia University
Binghamton
Women's Basketball Hosts Binghamton Monday Night on SNY
11/23/2025 12:49:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Lions conclude three-game homestand ahead of Cancun Challenge
NEW YORK – The Columbia women's basketball team (2-2) concludes a three-game homestand on Monday night against Binghamton (3-2). Opening tip from Schiller Court at Levien Gymnasium is scheduled for 7 p.m.
BROADCAST INFORMATION
Monday night's game will be televised live in the New York area on SportsNet New York (SNY). Lance Medow and Doug Feinberg will be on the call. The broadcast will also be available for viewing on ESPN+.
OPENING TIPS
• This will be the first series meeting between Columbia and Binghamton since December 10, 2016, when the Lions and then-first-year head coach Megan Griffith went up to Vestal, New York, and won, 75-65. It was Griffith's seventh career victory.
• The Lions are coming off a 66-48 loss against Saint Joseph's last Thursday. Susie Rafiu led all Lions with 14 points, while Perri Page scored 12 and Riley Weiss had 10. Columbia scored its fewest points in a game since a 57-39 loss to Princeton in 2022.
• Despite an 0-2 start at home, Columbia is a combined 37-6 (.860) 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. This is Columbia's first 0-2 start at home since the 2013-14 season.
• Riley Weiss ranks No. 2 in the Ivy League and top 100 in the NCAA in scoring at 17.8 points per game. She was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 10, following Columbia's 2-0 start.
• Columbia has three of the Ivy League's top seven scorers, with Perri Page (14.8) ranking sixth and Susie Rafiu (14.3) ranking seventh. Page is also top 10 in the Ivy League in rebounding (6.8).
• Susie Rafiu (.590) and Perri Page (.590) are tied for the Ivy League lead in field goal percentage. They each rank No. 50 in the NCAA.
• Fliss Henderson (2.8) and Perri Page (2.0) are both top five in the Ivy League in steals.
• Fliss Henderson (3.3) and Marija Avlijas (2.5) are both top 10 in the Ivy League in assists. Susie Rafiu (2.3) and Mia Broom (2.3) are tied for 12th.
THE SERIES
• Columbia and Binghamton are meeting for the seventh time in series history, with the Lions holding a 5-1 series lead. Columbia dominated the first meeting, 93-59, which still stands as the Lions' largest series victory (34 points). Columbia is an undefeated 3-0 at home against the Bearcats. Binghamton's first and only series win came on January 6, 2001, in upstate New York, 78-34. The Lions are 3-0 against BU since. This will be Binghamton's first visit to New York City since 2015.
SAINT JOSEPH'S POSTGAME NOTES (Nov. 20)
• Columbia scored its fewest points in a game since Feb. 5, 2022, in a 57-39 loss at Princeton. It was Columbia's fewest points at home since falling to Penn, 51-36, on March 7, 2020.
• The Lions went 0-for-14 from 3-point range, failing to make a 3-point basket for the first time since going 0-for-20 against Boston College on March 24, 2022, in the Round of 16 of the WNIT. Despite not hitting a 3-pointer against BC, the Lions came back from 17 points down to win, 54-51.
• Columbia hosted its 15th annual Education Day Game. Students from more than 20 New York City schools were in attendance, with an announced crowd of 2,511. 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 Gym in 2023.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
• Columbia is a combined 37-6 (.860) 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.
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.
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 the 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.
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