At Spectator, there is something of a stigma against what we call “coshooting.” Every November, at our annual election kick-off, staffers looking to lead one of Spectator’s Journalism or Business & Innovations sections are told in no uncertain terms to avoid coshooting—running with a partner to lead a section together—and instead go at it alone. Reasons for this are myriad, ranging from the feeling that co-shooters seek to do less individual work to concerns over conflict management.

Women’s basketball steamrolled St. John’s University in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament on Thursday. The Lions blew past the Red Storm by 48 points, led by a 22-point performance from junior guard Riley Weiss.

Women’s basketball fell to Harvard Friday night in the Ivy Madness semifinal, 67-65.

Women’s basketball defeated Penn in a Valentine’s Day matchup on Saturday 69-56, maintaining its position atop the Ivy League.

Women’s basketball took down No. 24 Princeton on Friday in a 70-56 win. With the result, the Lions’ Ivy League championship four-peat hopes are alive and well, now in the conference lead.

Women’s basketball fell to Penn on Saturday in a surprising 64-55 loss. Although the game was tight from the start, the Quakers pulled ahead in the fourth quarter to defeat the Lions for the first time in three years.

Women’s basketball upset No. 19 Princeton in New Jersey on Friday. In a game with potential Ivy League championship implications, the Lions put up one of their best performances of the season, shocking the Tigers to tie for first place in the league standings.

Women’s basketball at Columbia has undergone a meteoric rise throughout the 2020s—both in the quality of the program and in its popularity. But long before Columbia was competing for Ivy League championships, the women’s game on campus had rather humble origins on the other side of Broadway, at Barnard College.