First-Place Columbia Travels to Dartmouth for Saturday Matinee

Saturday, February 21

Hanover, N.H.

2:00 p.m.

Columbia

Dartmouth

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First-Place Columbia Travels to Dartmouth for Saturday Matinee

2/20/2026 1:42:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Lions look to lock up Ivy Madness berth

NEW YORK – Back in first place in the Ivy League standings, the Columbia women's basketball team (17-6, 8-2 Ivy) travels to Hanover, New Hampshire, to face Dartmouth (10-13, 1-9 Ivy). Opening tip is scheduled for 2 p.m.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
Saturday afternoon's game will be available on ESPN+. Matt Corsetti and Lori McBride will call the action from Leede Arena.

OPENING TIPS
• The Lions are tied for first place in the Ivy League standings and own the head-to-head tiebreaker vs. Princeton for the No. 1 seed. Columbia completed a regular-season sweep of the Tigers with a 70-56 win last Friday night at Levien Gymnasium, outscoring Princeton 45-25 in the second half. The next night, they exacted a bit of revenge against Penn, downing the Quakers, 69-56, for a weekend sweep.

• Columbia is receiving a vote in this week's AP Top 25. It's the first time the Lions have received votes since the Week 1 poll (Nov. 10).

• Riley Weiss was named both the Ivy League and Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Player of the Week following her performances against Princeton and Penn last weekend. She earned the Ivy League nod for a league-leading fifth time this season. The junior from Long Island averaged 22.0 points and shot 47 percent from the floor across both games, including 41 percent (7-17) from 3-point land. The Associated Press voted Weiss a National Player of the Week Honorable Mention.

• Weiss leads the Ivy League and ranks top 25 in the NCAA in points per game (19.7). She also ranks among the top 25 in the nation in 3-pointers made per game (2.87) and top 50 in total threes (66).

• Perri Page is one of three players in the NCAA to average at least 14.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, 2.4 steals and shoot 50% or better from the field. The other two players are UConn's reigning All-American Sarah Strong and Abilene Christian's Meredith Mayes. Nationally, Page ranks top 40 in FG% (54.0%).

• Columbia leads the Ivy League in scoring margin (+11.2), assists per game (16.9) and steals per game (12.3). The Lions rank No. 14 in the NCAA in steals and top 35 in assists.

IVY MADNESS SCENARIOS
• Columbia's magic number is one to clinch a berth to Ivy Madness for the sixth straight season. The Lions lead fifth-place Penn by four games with four games remaining.

• The Ivy League Tournament began in 2017. The Lions clinched a berth into the tournament for the first time in 2020, but that year's event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The Lions are currently tied with Princeton at 8-2 atop the Ivy League standings. For seeding purposes, Columbia owns the head-to-head tiebreaker against Princeton by virtue of sweeping the regular-season series.

• Brown (7-3 Ivy) and Harvard (7-3 Ivy) are tied for third in the standings. Both the Bears and Crimson can also clinch their spots at Ivy Madness with wins on Saturday, but only if Penn loses to Yale.

THE DAWG REPORT
• Notes in this section come from data captured by Columbia's Data & Analytics Department. They affectionately refer to their data team as "Data & Analytics With Grit".

• In games where Columbia's press defense allows less than 0.88 points per possession, the Lions have a 92 percent winning percentage, including wins against Princeton & Seton Hall.

• Across all Ivy League games among all Ivy League teams, there have been 14 games where one team grabbed at least 60 percent of all available rebounds. Columbia now owns five of those games, including the top two highest rebound percentage games, after grabbing 63.2 percent of rebounds against Princeton on Friday.

OVERCOMING THE 3-BALL
• Columbia is the only team in the NCAA to win at least five games this season when allowing the opponent to shoot 50 percent or better from 3-point range. Last year, TCU led the NCAA in winning six such games, eventually advancing to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.

RECORD BOOK TRACKER
• Weiss (452) is nine points from posting a top-10 mark for points in a single season. She is also currently sixth on that list with 553 from last season. Her 19.7 points per game this season currently ranks fourth.
• Weiss (1,219) is eighth on Columbia's all-time scoring list, passing Shawnee Pickney '01CC (1,180) last weekend against Princeton. Weiss is 73 points behind Kristina Tyer '88CC (1,292) for seventh.
• Weiss (431) is five field goals from passing Ellen Bossert '86BC (435) for seventh all-time.
• Weiss (205) is the 18th player in Ivy League history to make 200 career threes. She is now 17th on that list and just 17 threes away from Brown's Sophie Bikofsky (2001-05) for a top 10 spot.
• Perri Page (136) is ninth all-time at Columbia in steals. She is 10 behind Kathleen Barry '11CC for eighth.

PENN POSTGAME NOTES (Feb. 13)
• Columbia had 17 steals, marking its eighth game of the season with at least 15.
• Nasi Simmons hit career-highs in FG attempts (10), 3-point attempts (3), blocks (2) and minutes (27:24).
• Mia Broom tied a career-high in 3-pointers made by going 4-for-9. She also played a career-high 33:31.

PRINCETON POSTGAME NOTES (Feb. 13)
• Columbia completed a regular season sweep against Princeton for the second consecutive year. Its four-game series winning streak is its longest against the Tigers since winning nine straight from 2001-05.
• The Lions earned their third win against an AP Top 25 opponent in program history, all of which have come since 2024, and all of which have come against Princeton.
• Perri Page (25) and Riley Weiss (23) each scored 20+ points, marking the first time the Lions had two players score 20+ since Weiss (26) and Kitty Henderson (22) did it in an 80-71 win at Harvard on Jan. 31, 2025.
• Page posted her second 20-10 game of the season, the other coming in a 58-55 win at Harvard on January 10.

HALFTIME WINNING STREAK
• Columbia has won 42 consecutive games when leading at halftime. The Lions have won their first 14 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 IS NICE
• Riley Weiss is one of two players in the NCAA to score 38+ points in multiple games this season. The other is Iowa State's Audi Crooks, who has three 40-point games.

• Weiss is the first player in the NCAA since Caitlin Clark (Iowa) and Madison Conner (TCU) to have multiple games with 9+ made threes in a single season. Clark and Conner did it during the 2023-24 season.

• In her 38-point performance at Cornell (Feb. 7), Weiss tied the Columbia record with nine made threes. It is the second time she has made 9+ threes in a game this season. The other came in her record-breaking 40-point performance against Dartmouth.

• Weiss ranks Top 25 in the NCAA and leads the Ivy League in scoring average (19.7 ppg). She also leads the league in total points (452), field goals made (161), 3-pointers made (66) and 3-pointers made per game (2.87).

• Weiss is a finalist for the L'Cheisman Award, presented to the top Jewish athlete in the country by the Manischewitz Athletic Honors Society.

• She has been named Ivy League Player of the Week five times this season, the most of any player in the league.

• She is a two-time Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Women's Div. I Player of the Week this season. She was also named a USBWA Women's National Player of the Week once in January, named an AP Honorable Mention Player of the Week (Feb. 17) and named to the NCAA Startling 5 of the Week (Jan. 27).

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