Columbia University
Seton Hall
Women's Basketball Travels to Seton Hall Tuesday Night
12/8/2025 2:23:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Lions hope to stay hot on the road
NEW YORK – The Columbia women's basketball team (6-4) travels across the Hudson River to battle Seton Hall (5-2) Tuesday night at Walsh Gymnasium. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. This will be Columbia's final game before a 10-day break for exams.
BROADCAST INFORMATION
Tuesday night's game will be streamed live on ESPN+ and the ESPN app. Joe Morales and Laruen DeFalco will have the call.
OPENING TIPS
• Columbia (73) and Seton Hall (49) are both Top 75 in the latest NET Rankings (Dec. 8).
• The Lions are riding back-to-back victories by 40+ points, defeating Wagner at Levien Gymnasium on Saturday, 82-42, and defeating Manhattan in the Bronx, 84-38 (Dec. 3). It's the first time Columbia has won consecutive games by 40+ points since Dec. 1 and Dec. 3, 2022, over Marist (103-54) and Lafayette (91-43).
• Columbia has won 12 straight true road games dating back to last season. The Lions are 3-0 this year and won their last nine such games last year. Its last loss came at Cameron Indoor Stadium in a competitive game against then-No. 13 Duke, 77-61.
• Riley Weiss (19.1) is the Ivy League's top scorer. She ranks 19th in the NCAA in total points (191) and top 30 in points per game. Perri Page (13.4) and Susie Rafiu (12.4) also rank top 10 in the Ivy League in scoring.
• Weiss is 42 points from becoming the 16th player in program history to reach 1,000 in their career.
• Page (55.2%) and Rafiu (53.2%) rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the Ivy League in field goal percentage. Page is also No. 2 in steals (2.4) and top 10 in rebounding (6.4).
• Columbia leads the Ivy League in points per game (75.5), assists per game (17.3), field goal percentage (45.6%), steals per game (12.3), turnovers forced per game (19.70) and free throw attempts per game (18.70).
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.
WAGNER POSTGAME NOTES (Dec. 6)
• Columbia shot 61.1 percent (33-54), its highest percentage in a game since shooting 61.4 percent in an 88-45 win over Northeastern on Nov. 25, 2023.
• Columbia's shooting percentage ranked seventh in program single-game history.
• Columbia had a season-high 25 assists.
• Fliss Henderson hit career-highs in points (15), field goals made (6), field goal percentage (6-10) and 3-pointers made (2).
• Riley Weiss matched a career-high with four assists.
HALFTIME WINNING STREAK
• Columbia has won 34 consecutive games when leading at halftime. The Lions have won their first six 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.
WEISS SHINES IN CANCUN
• Riley Weiss averaged 27.3 points, shot 48.3 percent from the field, including 11-of-26 (.423) from 3-point range, and was 13-of-15 (.867) at the free-throw line in Columbia's three games at the Cancun Challenge.
• Weiss scored 30 in the opener against Kansas State, followed with a season-high 31 the next day in a win over South Dakota State, and finished with 21 against then-No. 12 North Carolina.
• Weiss is the first player in program history to score 30 points in consecutive games. Sue Altman nearly did it in 2003, scoring 30+ twice in three games -- 33 against Harvard (Feb. 14) and 32 against Brown (Feb. 21).
• Weiss's 19 fourth-quarter points against South Dakota State tied the program record for points in a quarter, matching the mark Abbey Hsu set in the third quarter against UMass on Dec. 11, 2021.
• For her efforts, Weiss was named Ivy League Player of the Week (Dec. 1) for a second time this season. She was also named to the Cancun Challenge All-Tournament Team.
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.
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.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
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