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2012-13 COLUMBIA Women’s BASKETBALL ColumBia (3-18, 1-6) GAME VS. prinCEton (16-5, 7-0) 2012-13 SCHEDULE 23 jadwin gymnasium • FEB. 22, 2013 • 7 p.m. NOVEMBER ALL-TIME SERIES VS. PRINCETON 9 LONG ISLAND L 42-53 The Lions will look to snap an nine-game losing skid to Princeton, which holds the all-time series advantage, 45-20. Earlier this season, Princeton used hot second-half shooting and capitalized on second chance 11 Vermont L 40-46 opportunities to take a 87-41 victory over the Lions in Levien Gym.Columbia fell 95-35 on the road and 86-46 14 WAGNER L 47-61 in Levien Gym a season ago to the Tigers, who are currently on a 31-game winning streak in the Ivy League. 18 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON W 54-47 23 Morgan State L 51-60 SCOUTING THE TIGERS 28 Army L 51-61 The Tigers extended their Ivy League win streak to 31 this past weekend with victories over Dartmouth, 77-65, and Harvard, 67-51. Leading the way for Princeton is Niveen Rasheed, who is coming off a pair of double- DECEMBER double performances and her third Ivy League Player of the Week accolades. Rasheed leads the Tigers with 1 Bryant L 54-68 17.3 ppg and 9.4 rpg. 4 Colgate L 48-67 ColumBia (3-18, 1-6) 7 IONA L 63-67 GAME VS. 11 SAINT FRANCIS (NY) W 49-45 24 pEnn (12-9, 5-2) 29 Long Beach State L 50-79 thE palEstra • FEB. 23, 2013 • 7 p.m. 31 Cal State Fullerton L 49-61 ALL-TIME SERIES VS. PENN JANUARY Penn holds the advantage in the all-time series with Columbia, 36-18. Earlier this year, the Lions played a 7 Lehigh L 33-58 strong first half, shooting nearly 50 percent from the floor to take a 31-27 halftime lead before Penn ultimately 9 LAFAYETTE L 49-47 got hot in the second frame and topped the Lions, 52-40. Last season, the Lions fell 75-50 to the Quakers in 19 Cornell* L 54-68 the Palestra before dropping a 61-41 decision in Levien Gym. Columbia’s last win over Penn came during the 26 CORNELL* L 64-71 (2OT) 2010 season in a 61-54 score at Levien Gym. FEBRUARY SCOUTING THE QUAKERS 1 PENN* L 40-52 Penn enters into the weekend series riding a three-game winning streak, including a 63-40 victory over 2 PRINCETON* L 41-87 Dartmouth last Saturday. Currently 5-4 in the Palestra, the Quakers are led by Alyssa Baron, who is averaging 8 Dartmouth* L 52-62 13.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. 9 Harvard* TBD 15 BROWN* W 62-51 16 YALE* L 43-62 22 Princeton* 7 p.m. 23 Penn* 7 p.m. COLUMBIA LIONS ROSTER NOTES MARCH 1 Yale* 7 p.m. PROBABLE STARTERS 2 Brown* 6 p.m. # NAME POS HT CL PPG RPG 8 HARVARD* 7 p.m. 00 Miwa Tachibana G 5-4 So. 6.4 0.8 9 DARTMOUTH* 7 p.m. 2 Mead, Sara G 5-7 So. 5.1 2.8 10 Brittany Simmons G 5-8 Sr. 6.7 5.4 Home games in BOLD 20 Tyler Simpson F 5-9 Sr. 9.9 3.7 51 Courtney Bradford F 6-1 Jr. 5.2 6.3 * denotes Ivy League game OFF THE BENCH 1 Taylor Ward G 5-7 Jr. 5.6 1.7 4 Taylor Ball G 5-9 Sr. 2.3 1.1 3 Caitlyn Unsworth G 5-9 So. 3.3 0.1 MEDIA Information 12 Diana Lee G 5-5 Sr. 1.2 0.9 All media requests for the Columbia University 13 Agata Jankova F 6-1 Sr. 1.0 3.0 women’s basketball team must go through 15 Lizzy Stachon C 6-3 So. 1.6 2.4 the Office of Sports Information and Media 24 Crystal Owusu G 5-10 So. 1.0 0.3 25 Bailey Ott F/C 5-11 Fr. 3.6 3.7 Relations. Please contact Lauren Boots, 30 Kayla Patton G 5-10 Fr. 0.0 0.0 Assistant Director, at 212-851-5643 or lb2865@ 32 Campbell Mobley F 6-1 So. 1.8 0.5 columbia.edu for more information. 34 Amara Mbionwu F 6-1 So. 1.5 2.3 44 Nicole Santucci C 6-4 Jr. 1.4 1.2 gocolumbialions.com/womensbasketball COLUMBIA Women’s BASKETBALL HEAD COACH PAUL NIXON Columbia improved its overall win total by two games from the prior season. Among a number of late-season highlights was a home sweep of Penn and Princeton, the Paul Nixon begins his eighth year at the helm of Columbia first for the Lions since 2004. women’s basketball in 2012-13. In his seven seasons as the Lions’ head coach, Nixon has revamped the way Despite finishing 3-25 overall and 1-13 in Ivy League Columbia has played basketball. His style of transition basketball and pressure play last season, the 2011-12 squad boasted several Ivy defense is appealing both to women’s basketball fans and the players in the program. League honorees as records were broken. “I am confident we have players who are assertive,” Nixon said. “And they will be confident to step up offensively when they have the opportunities. At the same time, Then-junior Tyler Simpson picked up honorable mention we’re also going to continue to work hard on the defensive end, apply pressure and All-Ivy League honors after finishing the season with a force our opponents into some mistakes.” team-high 12.6 points per game average and shooting 45.6% from the field. She ranked seventh in the Ivy Nixon came to Columbia from Indiana University, where he served as assistant coach League in points per game, and fourth in the Ivy League for the Hoosiers from 2002-05. His responsibilities included recruiting, game/bench in field goal percentage. A promising returner for the strategy, scouting and individual player development. The Hoosiers’ 2003 recruiting 2012-13 squad, Simpson helped lift the Lions to their only class was ranked in the national Top 25. He also was charged with managing the Ivy League victory of the season as she scored 20 points vs. Yale. team’s academic progress and coordinating alumni relations. The young squad also had three different Ivy League Rookies of the Week. First- Prior to his tenure at Indiana, Nixon spent three years as an assistant at the year Amara Mbionwu was the first to earn the honor for the week of Nov. 13, as she University of Southern Mississippi. On the court, Nixon worked primarily with the averaged 6.5 points and a team-high 8.5 rebounds in two games for the Lions. The post players and helped Southern Miss to the 2000 Women’s National Invitation next week, Miwa Tachibana took the honor, as she led the Lions in scoring against Tournament (WNIT). His recruiting class that year also earned national accolades, Wagner. Tachibana was 4-for-7, scoring 11 points. And in January, Caitlyn Unsworth ranked in the nation’s top 40. made it 3-for-3, as she was named Rookie of the week, scoring 18 points in two games for the Lions. Nixon spent two years as an assistant at the University of Nevada-Reno and four years in a similar position at Marshall University. While at Nevada, he recruited As for record-breaking, Melissa Shafer set a new program record in three-pointers Kate Smith, the 1999-2000 Big West Freshman of the Year, and the 1997-98 team made against Harvard last season as she hit a three at the 9:53 mark in the second posted the best record in the school’s history. During his four seasons at Marshall, half to give her 162 three-pointers made all time, surpassing Emily Roller’s record of he recruited two Southern Conference Freshmen of the Year; the 1996-97 team won 161, set from 1995-99. Shafer finished her career with 166 three-pointers. the Southern Conference Championship and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. During the 2010-11 season, Nixon led the youngest squad that he has assembled at Columbia to a fourth-place finish in conference, which included a home-and-home As a student at Vanderbilt, Nixon was a volunteer assistant with the women’s sweep of Yale. The Bulldogs finished the season in second place in the Ivy League team from 1991-93 and a manager for the men’s basketball team all four seasons, and earned a spot in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. eventually being named head manager. During his time with the Commodores, the men’s team won the NIT, reached the NCAA tournament twice, including the Sweet The road victory over Yale on March 4, 2011, marked a milestone in the career of Sixteen in 1993, and was the Southeastern Conference Champion the same year Nixon. With the win, he became the program’s all-time leader in Ivy League victories under Eddie Fogler, the 1993 National Coach of the Year. as a head coach. Nixon achieved the milestone victory in two fewer seasons (6) than any of his predecessors. Nixon graduated from Vanderbilt in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies. He received a master of science in health, physical education and recreation Also in 2010-11, Kathleen Barry ‘11CC was named first team All-Ivy League for the from Marshall in 1996.