NCAA.com Group of the Week, the Columbia Lions kept their most memorable win in school history over a Related Press Top 25 group, overcoming Princeton, 67-65 preceding a sellout horde of 2,698 at Levien Exercise room on Saturday to move into a bind for the Elite level standard season title with the Tigers.
Columbia, which improved to 19-5 generally and 10-1 in Elite level play, has now dominated seven straight matches by and large and 13 straight home games. Princeton, which had a 15-game series of wins reach a conclusion, is currently 20-4 and furthermore 10-1. Since joining the Division I positions in 1986-87, Columbia was already 0-12 all-time against AP Top 25 adversaries.
Senior watchman Nunnery Hsu, the unsurpassed scoring pioneer in Columbia men’s or alternately ladies’ basketball history, beat 2,000 vocation focuses during the game while pouring in a game-high 26 focuses on senior evening. Hsu turned into the fourth player in Ivy ladies’ basketball history to score 2,000 focuses and the first since Hana Peljto of Harvard in 2004. Her 2,000 focuses have come in just four seasons.
Sixteen of Hsu’s 26 focuses came in the last part, remembering 13 for a third period that saw the Lions fabricate an important lead. Her 3-point field objective at the 6:31 characteristic of the third time frame, the 355th of her profession, pushed her vocation scoring all out to more than 2,000 places. Columbia took its biggest lead of the evening, 64-53, on another Hsu triple at the 5:17 characteristic of the fourth time frame. Princeton raged back with a 12-2 run that made it a one-direct game with 53 seconds toward go, yet came up void toward the end.
Cecelia Collins and Kitty Henderson supported Hsu with 14 and 11 places, individually. Collins added four helps and three bounce back, while Henderson had a group high eight bounce back.
Columbia will presently raise a ruckus around town for its last three rounds of the standard season. The stretch starts this Friday and Saturday, when they take on Brown and Yale.