(2) Columbia Meets (3) Harvard in the Ivy Madness Semifinals Friday Night

Friday, March 13

Ithaca, N.Y.

7:30 p.m.

Columbia

Harvard

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(2) Columbia Meets (3) Harvard in the Ivy Madness Semifinals Friday Night

3/12/2026 3:11:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Lions seeking their first Ivy League Tournament Championship in fifth straight appearance

NEW YORK – No. 2 seed Columbia (20-7, 11-3 Ivy) takes on No. 3 seed Harvard (17-10, 10-4 Ivy) in the semifinals of the 2026 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament, presented by TIAA. Friday night's opening tip is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. This year's tournament is being hosted by Cornell at Newman Arena in Ithaca, New York.

No. 1 seed Princeton (24-3, 12-2 Ivy) will face No. 4 seed Brown (16-10, 8-6 Ivy) in the first semifinal at 4:30 p.m. The winner of each semifinal will meet in the Ivy Madness championship game on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The championship game will be televised nationally on ESPNU.

TICKETS
• Fans can purchase tickets to the 2026 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments by visiting IvyMadness.com. Click here for a direct link to purchase tickets.

GAME COVERAGE
• Friday night's game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and the ESPN App. Saturday's championship game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. and will be televised live on ESPNU. Eric Frede and Christy Thomascutty will have the call for all women's tournament games. Live stats will be available through CornellBigRed.com.

AMITY HALL UPTOWN WATCH PARTIES
• Amity Hall, a proud partner of Columbia Athletics, is hosting an Ivy Madness watch party for each of Columbia's games in the tournament. The watch parties will take place at Amity Hall Uptown, located at 982 Amsterdam Avenue.

Beginning on Friday at 7 p.m., fans can enjoy limited complimentary appetizers and 10% off all orders (food & drink) during the game. There will also be drink specials the whole night. Be sure to request your watch party wristband when you arrive and then join fellow Lions fans to cheer on Columbia women's basketball!

Should Columbia advance championship game, Saturday's watch party special for the Championship Game will begin at 5 p.m.

OPENING TIPS
• Columbia is seeking its first Ivy League Tournament Championship in what is its fifth straight appearance and sixth straight qualification (the 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID-19). The Lions advanced to the championship game in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Last year was the closest they came to winning it, tied with Harvard 65-65 with 3:00 left, but ultimately falling, 74-71.

• This will be the fifth postseason meeting in the last four seasons between Columbia and Harvard. Their first postseason meeting came in the 2023 Ivy League semifinals at Princeton, which Harvard won in overtime, 72-65. The Lions avenged that loss in the 2023 WNIT Great Eight, 77-71, on a run to the WNIT Championship Game. In 2024, Columbia hosted Ivy Madness and defeated the Crimson in the semis, 63-61. Harvard then won last year's Ivy Madness Championship Game in Providence, 74-71. Over those four postseason meetings, the two sides are separated by just two points, 278-276, with an average margin of victory of 4.5 points.

• Riley Weiss was named Ivy League Player of the Year and voted a unanimous First Team All-Ivy League selection. She earned a league-best six Player of the Week awards, becoming the seventh player in league history to earn as many in a season. Weiss leads the Ivy League in scoring (19.7), total points (531), 3-pointers made per game (2.81), total threes (76), 3-point percentage (36.5%) and total field goals made (189). Nationally, she ranks inside the Top 20 in scoring average and 3-pointers made per game.

• Perri Page was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and voted First Team All-Ivy League. She is one of two players in the NCAA to average as many points, rebounds, steals, assists and shoot as high as she does from the field, along with UConn's Sarah Strong. Page ranks No. 6 in the Ivies in scoring (14.5), No. 9 in rebounding (6.2), No. 2 in field goal percentage (54.3%) and led the league in both total steals (66) and steals per game (2.4). Her FG percentage is top 40 in the NCAA, and her steals average is top 60.

ALL-IVY NOTES
• Riley Weiss was named Ivy League Player of the Year and Perri Page was named Defensive Player of the Year. This is the second time in program history that Columbia picked up both awards – Judie Lomax '10BC (Player) and Sara Yee '10SEAS (Defensive) were the first and last to do so in 2009-10.
• Weiss earned her second First Team All-Ivy selection and first Player of the Year award.
• Page picked up her first All-Ivy honors, being named to the First Team.
• This marks the second consecutive season and the third time in the last four seasons that two Lions were selected to the First Team together.
• Fliss Henderson earned her first All-Ivy nod as an Honorable Mention and Academic All-Ivy League. Henderson holds a 3.66 GPA as a major in psychology.

WEISS IS NICE
• Ivy League Player of the Year 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 owns four 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 is a finalist for the L'Cheisman Award, presented to the top Jewish athlete in the country by the Manischewitz Athletic Honors Society.
• In addition to six Ivy League Player of the Week selections, Weiss is a two-time Met Basketball Writers Association Women's Div. I Player of the Week this season, a USBWA Women's National Player of the Week in January, twice named an AP Honorable Mention Player of the Week (Feb. 17, Mar. 3), and named to the NCAA Starting 5 of the Week (Jan. 27).

BIG-GAME PERRI
• Against this year's Ivy League Tournament field, Perri Page is averaging 20.5 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.7 steals and 2.0 assists per game. She is also shooting 67.7 percent from the floor (44-65) in those six games. They include a pair of career-high 25-point performances against Princeton (Feb. 13) and Harvard (Mar. 7).
• In Columbia's four games against only Harvard and Princeton, Page is averaging a team-best 24.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game, while shooting 66 percent (35-53) from the field.

HERE'S A TIP…
• The Lions have won 23 consecutive opening tip-offs. All 23 have been won by Perri Page. The streak began on November 24 against Binghamton. Of the 27 games in the regular season, Columbia has won 24 opening tips. Page holds a record of 24-2, losing to only Ohio (Nov. 9) and Saint Joseph's (Nov. 20).

ELITE COMPANY
• Perri Page is one of two players in the NCAA to average at least 14.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.4 steals, 2.0 assists and shoot as well as she does from the field (54.3%). The other is BIG EAST Player of the Year and reigning All-American Sarah Strong (UConn).

SENIOR CAPTAINS
• Susie Rafiu and Perri Page are Columbia's only two seniors and co-captains. In their time at Columbia, the Lions have gone a combined 95-27 (.779), including a run to the 2023 WNIT Championship Game, Columbia's first NCAA Tournament selection in 2024, and Columbia's first NCAA Tournament win in 2025.
• Entering Ivy Madness, Rafiu has played in 103 career games and made 70 starts. She has totaled 618 points, 239 rebounds, 106 assists, 81 steals and 44 blocks. She ranks No. 4 in Columbia women's basketball history in field goal percentage at 51.4% for her career.
• Page has played in 106 games and made 56 starts in her career, including all 27 starts this season. She has totaled 840 career points, 503 rebounds, 147 steals, 127 assists and 25 blocks. Page ranks No. 9 at Columbia in career steals, No. 9 in field goal percentage (49.9%) and 17th in rebounds.

ROAD WARRIORS
• Columbia is 11-1 (.917) in true road games this season, which ties with South Carolina for the sixth-best road record in the country. Only UConn (12-0), UCLA (9-0), North Dakota State (12-0) and Louisville (9-0) are undefeated in such games.
• When including neutral-site games, the Lions are 12-3 (.800). They went 1-2 at the Cancun Challenge, defeating eventual Summit League Tournament Champion South Dakota State, 80-67. They also suffered a narrow, 95-92, loss to Kansas State and played UNC close, trailing by just two with 2:00 left in the third.
• Columbia won 16 straight true road games from Dec. 21, 2024 - Jan. 30, 2026, which was the longest active "away" winning streak in the country. The streak did not include "neutral" site games.
• The Lions went 12-0 in true road games during the 2025 calendar year and were the only team in the nation to post an undefeated record.
• Columbia defeated then-No. 19 Princeton, 73-67, on Jan. 30 to extend the streak to 16.
• Penn ended the streak with a 64-55 win over Columbia the next night, Jan. 31, at the Palestra.

RECORD BOOK TRACKER
• Perri Page enters the game with 503 career rebounds. She became the 17th player in program history to reach 500 rebounds in the regular season finale against Harvard (Mar. 7). She is 33 away from the top 15.
• Page is tied for fourth in single-season steals (66). She is 12 away from the record of 78 by Kitty Henderson.
• Weiss's 531 points this season are the seventh-most in program history. The No. 6 spot is owned by her as well, scoring 553 last season. Only Camille Zimmerman '18CC and Abbey Hsu '24CC have reached 600.
• Weiss (1,298) is No. 7 on Columbia's all-time scoring list, 11 behind Kathy Gilbert (1987-91) for sixth.
• Weiss (459) is No. 7 all-time in FG made. She passed Ellen Bossert '86BC (435) on Feb. 21 at Dartmouth.
• Weiss (215) is the 18th player in Ivy League history to make 200 career threes. She is just seven threes away from Brown's Sophie Bikofsky (2001-05) for a top 10 spot.
• Perri Page (147) is eighth all-time at Columbia in steals. She is one behind Abbey Hsu '24CC for seventh, and four behind her head coach, Megan Griffith '07CC, for sixth.
• Susie Rafiu (51.4%) is No. 4 all-time in field goal percentage. Page ranks seventh (49.9%).

SINGLE-GAME RECORD BREAKERS
• Riley Weiss broke Columbia's single-game scoring record with 40 points in an 89-32 victory over Dartmouth (Jan. 24). She is also tied for third on that list with her 38-point performance in a win at Cornell (Feb. 7).
• Weiss also owns the No. 1 and No. 3 spots in field goals made, making 15 at Dartmouth and 13 at Cornell.
• Weiss tied the record for 3-pointers made in a game with nine against both Dartmouth and Cornell.
• Nasi Simmons broke Columbia's single-game steals record with 10 on Jan. 17 against Yale.
• Perri Page tied the previous single-game steals record with eight against Binghamton (Nov. 24).

HARVARD POSTGAME NOTES (Mar. 7)
• Perri Page tied a career-high with 25 points. Her 9-of-12 shooting performance was the best by a Lion since Cecelia Collins went 9-for-12 as part of a triple-double against Cornell on March 8, 2025.
• Harvard's 20 made free throws tied South Dakota State (20-30) for the most by an opponent this season.
• Harvard's two three-pointers (2-12) were the fewest by an opponent in a Columbia loss since Duke went 1-for-10 in a 66-62 win over the Lions on Nov. 14, 2023.

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