Weiss Tabbed Ivy League, Met Basketball Player of the Week

PRINCETON, N.J. – Following her profession efficiency on Saturday, Columbia sophomore Riley Weiss has been named Ivy League Ladies’s Basketball Participant of the Week. The league workplace introduced its weekly alternatives Monday afternoon.

A day later, Weiss was additionally named the Met Basketball Writers Affiliation (MBWA) Ladies’s Div. I Participant of the Week. The designation, for video games performed January 20-26, is exclusive in that in encompasses gamers from 21 Met-area Division I faculties (Military West Level, Columbia, Fairfield, FDU, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, LIU, Manhattan, Marist, Monmouth, NJIT, Princeton, Rider, Rutgers, Sacred Coronary heart, St. John’s, Saint Peter’s, Seton Corridor, Stony Brook and Wagner).
 
Weiss matched a career-high with 25 factors to guide Columbia (14-4, 5-0 Ivy) in a 79-54 rout over Penn on Saturday at Levien Gymnasium. An area product from Hewlett, Weiss went 8-of-11 from the ground, together with 6-of-9 from three-point vary. Her six makes from deep have been a brand new career-high. She additionally matched one other career-high with 4 assists, including three rebounds and two steals to her remaining tally.
 
Weiss ranks No. 6 within the NCAA in three-pointers made per recreation this season (3.11). She can be No. 15 within the nation in complete three-point makes (56). The second-year guard is the Ivy League chief in each classes, in addition to three-point subject objective proportion (.371). Her 17.2 factors per recreation lead the Lions and rank No. 3 within the Ivy League.
 
Saturday’s victory saved Columbia alone atop the Ivy League standings. The Lions have received seven straight general and prolonged their dwelling profitable streak to 19 straight video games relationship again to final season.
 
Cecelia Collins was named to this week’s Ivy League Honor Roll. The senior from Scranton, Pennsylvania had 19 factors, 10 rebounds and 5 assists towards the Quakers to report her first double-double of the season.
 
Columbia now prepares for an Ivy League back-to-back on Friday and Saturday at Harvard (15-2, 4-1 Ivy) and Dartmouth (8-10, 2-3 Ivy). The weekend begins towards Harvard on Friday night time at 7 p.m. That recreation might be televised nationally on ESPNU.
 
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