Senior guard Abbey Hsu is set to make one final college basketball appearance.

Almost two decades after graduating from Columbia, Sue Altman, CC ’05, continues to recall the lessons she learned in her time on the women’s basketball team. After pursuing professional basketball and educational activism in New Jersey, Altman began her unexpected journey into politics.

BLACKSBURG, Va.—Women’s basketball fell to Vanderbilt University 72-68 on Wednesday night, ending the team’s 2024 postseason campaign and marking the final game of senior guard Abbey Hsu’s record-breaking collegiate career.

Women’s basketball will look to pull off an upset in its first ever March Madness appearance this Wednesday night.

For the first time in program history, women’s basketball is headed to the brightest stage in collegiate basketball—the NCAA tournament.

Women’s basketball stumbled against Princeton in a  75-58 loss on Saturday in the championship game of the 2024 Ivy League women’s basketball tournament.

Columbia is through to the Ivy Madness final after defeating Harvard 63-61 on Friday. Enroute to finding the semifinal victory they were unable to clinch in 2023, four Lions scored in double digits to secure Columbia’s place in the tournament final for the first time since 2022. Now poised to face Princeton on Saturday, the teams will vie for automatic qualification to the NCAA tournament.

Women’s basketball traveled to Cornell on Saturday for the final game of its conference season, clinching a statement 82-46 victory that secured the Lions the Ivy League title for a second season in a row, once more tied with Princeton at the top.

In a huge game with potential Ivy League championship implications, women’s basketball defeated conference rival Princeton 67-65, marking the program’s first win over a ranked team.