Lions Receive First Votes in Coaches Poll

NEW YORK — Three weeks after receiving its first AP Top 25 votes, the Columbia women’s basketball team is now receiving its first votes in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll. The Lions checked in with four votes in the Week 9 poll, as released on Tuesday.
 
Columbia (12-2, 1-0 Ivy) is off to its best 14-game start in program history and currently rides a program-best nine-game winning streak. The Lions soundly defeated Yale, 97-53, on Saturday in New Haven to begin Ivy League play. Its winning streak currently ties for the seventh-longest in the country. The Lions are outscoring opponents by a margin of 30.7 points per game over that span and averaging 89.1 offensively.
 
The historic start to the 2022-23 campaign has seen Columbia defeat four teams that are all currently inside the top 75 of the NCAA Net Rankings. All four of those victories came on the road, besting Seton Hall (51), Miami (53), UMass (66) and Memphis (73). The Lions are now 8-1 on the road this season and 24-2 in their last 26 true away games, which spans back to the end of the 2019-20 academic year.
 
The USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll is conducted weekly throughout the regular season using a panel of head coaches at Division I schools. The panel is chosen by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. The members represent each of the…