Janiya Clemmons’ basketball career perfectly matches the word “commencement.” On the one hand, she will leave her college life, along with the Lions—who she played with for four years—behind. On the other hand, Clemmons is also starting a new chapter in her basketball career as she looks to play professionally.

Softball has been one of the best-performing teams at Columbia throughout this decade. Head coach Jennifer Teague is coming off of an Ivy League Coach of the Year season during which the Lions could have received their first Ivy League championship; the team was projected to win the conference before the 2020 season was canceled.

At the start of the decade, the Lions were a consistent bottom-half team in the Ivy League. After a nine-win season in 2010, the Light Blue failed to reach .500 three times this past decade, and didn’t reach the nine-win milestone again until 2017, when coach Tracey Bartholomew built an impressive title-contending team that finished second in the league.

For most of its history, Columbia women’s basketball has been a weak program, with a winning percentage of 0.344. But in many ways, the 2010s was its best decade in its 33-year experience in Division I, as Columbia kicked off the decade with its first-ever winning season and concluded it with its second. Yet at the same time, the Lions continued to struggle throughout their decade on the court, hitting the bottom in conference standings five times and taking second to last three times. The team’s average conference win total in the decade was just 3.8 games out of the 14 total games played against Ivy League opponents each season.

Women’s basketball dropped both games in its last home weekend to end the regular season. The Lions’ offense failed to pick up steam in the 77-52 loss to Princeton, as well as in the 51-36 defeat to Penn, locking down the fourth playoff seed.

Women’s basketball double killed the Crimson and the Big Green to secure a tournament spot after its 62-57 win in Cambridge. This extended the team’s winning streak to six games, the program’s longest in Ivy play. Columbia now ranks third in the Ivy League after consolidating its record with a 62-50 victory against Dartmouth and looks to finish the regular season strong at Levien Gymnasium next weekend.

When first-year guard Abbey Hsu pulled up and drained her 31st point of the night, Columbia’s lead on Harvard came to 32. In head coach Megan Griffith’s four seasons with the Lions, the team has won only once against the Crimson before Hsu’s explosive night.

The Lions claimed their second weekend sweep of the season, beating Brown 76-66, before beating the Bulldogs 74-65 the next day, avenging an earlier embarrassing home loss against Yale. After four straight wins over the last two weeks, the Lions are back in an Ivy Madness position, currently tied for third on the Ivy table. This is the first time since 2008 that the program has had two consecutive weekend sweeps.