Cornell's Emily and Ally Pape had never gotten to be teammates before this season because of their three-year age gap. They’ve loved it — and tried not to take this brief window for granted.
Ahead of their last game together on Saturday, read this story from our @jennhatfield.bsky.social:
Sonia Citron will have to wait to make her competitive debut for the senior national team. After suffering an injury during Unrivaled, she has been replaced on the roster for the World Cup Qualifying Tournament and won’t be available. @theixsports.bsky.social
For the two mother-daughter coach-player duos in the Atlantic 10, the end of the 2025-26 season also marks the end of a very special era. @natalieheavren.bsky.social has more:
Columbia's Riley Weiss wins her 6th Ivy League Player of the Week award of the season. She's only the 6th player in league history to get that many in a season, per Columbia.
Harvard's Olivia Jones wins her 8th Rookie of the Week award in 17 weeks. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
A line graph showing the NCAA NET rankings week-to-week for all eight Ivy League women's basketball teams.
Here are the weekly NET rankings for Ivy League WBB teams! Princeton made the biggest jump, up 6 spots to No. 38.
Saturday's regular-season finales will include 3 games between teams that are very close in NET: Harvard-Columbia, Brown-Penn, Dartmouth-Cornell. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
Mary Meng becomes just the eighth Ivy League WBB player since 2009-10 to have 12-11-6 in a game, per @herhoopstats.com. The only other Yale player to do it in that span was first-team All-Ivy honoree Camilla Emsbo in 2021-22. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
(4/4) Today's top Ivy WBB performers, Part 2:
P. Page (COL) 13p (3-4 FG, 7-7 FT), 10r, 4s
S. Belker (PRIN) 13p, 3r
Z. Ozel (DART) 13p (5-10 FG)
M. Meng (YALE) 12p (6-9 FG), 11r, 6b
E. Pape (CORN) 12p, 3r
K. White (HARV) 10p (4-5 FG), 7r
(3/4) Today's top Ivy WBB performers, Part 1:
S. Sawyer (PENN) 23p (10-13 FG)
G. Arnolie (BRO) 20p, 5s, 4r, 3a
T. Njike (PENN) 19p (9-15 FG), 8r
R. Weiss (COL) 19p, 3s
F. Tall (PRIN) 18p (7-12 FG), 9r, 4s
K. Capstraw (YALE) 15p (4-8 FG), 10r
(2/4) Today's Ivy League WBB scores:
Columbia 59, Brown 56
Princeton 62, Harvard 49
Yale 57, Cornell 45
Penn 89, Dartmouth 66
@theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
(1/4) Columbia and Princeton WBB won today to stay tied for first place with 1 game left. They'll be the top 2 Ivy League Tournament seeds in some order.
Barring a wild scenario involving a big swing in the NET, Harvard will be the No. 3 seed and Brown the No. 4. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
Sophomore Lydia Chatira is also in street clothes and wearing a boot for the Crimson today. She appeared to get injured last night vs. Penn. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
With just under 2 minutes left, Harvard junior Karlee White gets carried off with a leg injury. White is the Crimson's leading scorer at 15.2 points per game entering today, their co-captain, and one of their hearts and souls.
Princeton leads 57-45. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
There are two potential Ivy League Tournament semifinals going on right now, and both are very tight.
Brown leads Columbia 46-44 with 8:13 to go.
Princeton leads Harvard 13-11 after 1Q.
Turn to ESPN+ to catch either of these games! @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
So it's interesting - I've asked Griffith specifically about keeping things in the back pocket a few times in the past year or so. She said she used to do that more, but now not so much. Win the game right in front of you however you need to, then figure out the next one is basically her approach.
Not totally sure what incentives you mean here, but if you mean not worrying as much about the regular season with an eye toward the tournament, I think every team is trying to enter the tournament playing as well as possible and with some momentum. (Momentum is even Columbia’s word for the season.)
Yale's Ciniya Moore was recruited primarily for defense. Yet as a sophomore, she is the Ivy League's third-leading scorer at 17.6 points per game.
For @theixsports.bsky.social, I wrote about how Moore's made the jump - and whether she feels any pressure in this role. #NCAAWBB
(3/3) Today's top Ivy WBB performers, Part 2:
O. Jones (HARV) 11p (4-5 FG), 6r, 3s
M. Meng (YALE) 10p (5-6 FG), 7r
T. Charles (PRIN) 10p (5-8 FG), 10r, 4b, 3s
J. Myrthil (DART) 9p (3-3 FG), 2r
(2/3) Today's top Ivy WBB performers (except the Brown game, for which stats aren't working), Part 1:
R. Weiss (COL) 26p (10-18 FG)
T. Njike (PENN) 16p (6-11 FG), 7r
A. Wright (BRO) 14p, 10r
S. Rafiu (COL) 14p (6-9 FG), 6r, 3s
M. St. Rose (PRIN) 13p (3-5 3pt), 4a, 3r, 3s
(1/3) Huge day for Brown WBB, which clinches an Ivy League Tournament spot for the first time since the inaugural tourney in 2017. Today's Ivy scores and top performers:
Brown 62, Cornell 47
Harvard 60, Penn 46
Princeton 97, Dartmouth 47
Columbia 68, Yale 47
@theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
The Ivy League WBB Tournament field (but not the seeds) is officially set, as Harvard and Brown got in with wins tonight to join Columbia and Princeton. Everyone has two regular-season games left; both of Columbia and Harvard's are vs. the tourney field. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
After Harvard WBB led by as many as 18, Penn got it within 1. But Harvard ended 3Q on an 8-0 run (5 from Olivia Jones) to lead 50-39.
And Brown has opened up a 46-29 lead vs. Cornell. If these scores hold, H and B clinch the last Ivy Madness spots. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
Yale WBB led first-place Columbia after 1Q and trails just 30-27 at halftime. Yale is +2 in the paint and +6 from the line to counter the Lions' 5-15 shooting from 3.
Columbia's Riley Weiss leads all scorers with 11 points (3-8 3pt). Ciniya Moore has 9 for Yale. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
Yale’s Ciniya Moore has made the biggest jump in scoring in the Ivy League, and the Bulldogs have gotten better in the process. @jennhatfield.bsky.social features the sophomore's journey.
(2/2) A lot of that is due to junior transfers Mary Meng (2.2 blocks per game) and Luisa Vydrova (0.7). First-year Dorka Kastl (2.4) has also been crucial.
That rim presence helped Yale's defense allow 5.7 points fewer per 100 possessions than last year. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
(1/2) This might be one of the starkest improvements I've ever seen year-to-year in @herhoopstats.com data: Yale WBB blocked 4.4% of opponents' shots last year, which ranked in the 4th percentile nationally. This year? 11.7%, which ranks in the 91st percentile. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
Princeton's Madison St. Rose wins Ivy League Player of the Week - unbelievably, for the first time in her career. She had 30p and 4r in win over Brown.
Harvard's Olivia Jones gets her 7th Rookie of the Week award. She had 8p, 9r and 7a in a win over Cornell. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
A line graph showing the NCAA NET rankings week-to-week for all eight Ivy League women's basketball teams.
Ivy League WBB teams have 3 games left in the regular season. Here's how their NET rankings look today.
Notably, Penn and Brown swapped places in the hierarchy again, and Harvard is well clear of them. That could matter if tiebreakers come into play. @theixsports.bsky.social #NCAAWBB
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Great stuff here from my friend and colleague @teebaker-wbb.bsky.social! Senior day can still resonate in this transfer portal/NIL era. #NCAAWBB
I love how Princeton's Madison St. Rose, after scoring 30 points, takes the opportunity to say Fadima Tall (11p, 13r, 5s) "was the best player on the court." St. Rose praised Tall for getting so many 50-50 balls, deflections and rebounds. "I feel like sometimes that's not always seen." #NCAAWBB
