Friday Wins

Columbia Lions
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Nice wins for both programs last night.

Women get a great road win at Princeton behind another heroic effort from Page. The women are starting to roll at the right time. Men beat Penn at home in a critical game. Penn guarded Kenny really well and bottled him up, but everyone else outperformed. Blair, Gerard played very well. Our big guys were very tough. Go Lions!

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A little surprised that the women’s road win only moved their NET from 59 to 56.

And that Cornell’s NET is worse than Dartmouth’s

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We have a chance to sweep the “Killer P’s” weekend in both MBB and WBB ! Cant remember the last time (or if its ever happened ) in Columbia hoops history.

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Griffith knows Princeton bball from the inside, is a resourceful strategist, and knows how to motivate her players to function as a team. I don’t want to get too far out over my skies, but after 3 wins in a row, she seems to have Princeton’s number.

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The Columbia Women led the whole way against Princeton despite playing most of the game without Riley Weiss who was called for a couple of ridiculous touch fouls very early in the game and then three more questionable “fouls” somewhat later. Perri Page was terrific and both Mia Broom and Simmons were outstanding off the bench. Megan Grifith is a great coach and motivator.

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A few random thoughts:

  • This may be Coach G’s best year of coaching. We have seen the team transform before us.
  • Up till now I always thought Princeton WBB was in our heads and we were somewhat ‘psyched out’ when playing them bc of their aura of invincibility. Now I’m pretty sure we’re in their heads. Hope we beat them 3X this year.
  • After our first win against Princeton a few years ago ealry in this golden era, our Lions team laden with superstars went down to Philly and lost to a good but inferior Penn the next nite. Hope Coach G has us ready this time.
  • The poster above questioned whether the CU men’s and women’s team have ever both swept the same weekend. It must’ve happened. I’ll ask Gemini. Earlier today I had a different thought: Have the Princeton men and women ever been swept on the same weekend? Unlikely that it happened in this century, if ever. I’ll ask Gemini too.
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Columbia players very well, and deserved the win.

Hewing said that, Princeton was hanging with them

until St. Rose got hurt. If she comes back, I like our chances.

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She’s a tremendous player, but I think Princeton was beat before St. Rose exited. Also, Columbia was without its #1 scorer for most of the game.

I could be wrong, but the Princeton Coaches’ press conference posted on Ivy Hoops online had me wondering if St Rose was truely hurt or just frustrated. Have a listen. I apologize if I’m reading too much into it.

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Serious?? She was on the court, walked off with a trainer and didn’t come back in. So lets not put her back in cause she was “ frustrated”?

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The loss to Penn in 2022 followed a Columbia overtime victory against Princeton. Some played close to 45 minutes, and they were absolutely exhausted. But I don’t think we are going to run out of gas tonight, since the one secondary gain of Weiss’ fouling out is that she only played about 21 minutes, and we are deep enough to cover for Henderson and Page, who played 35 and 37 respectively.

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She must have been pretty frustrated to sit out the Cornell game too.

A good win with out her, but we need her back.

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Have u listened to the press conference? Carla wasn’t impressed with the injury.

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Just checked - its never happened. In fact the last time the men’s team swept the Penn/Princeton series was in…1968.