Columbia 80, at Cornell 55

ITHACA, N.Y. (Interstat) — Riley Weiss scored 38 points and the Columbia Lions used a dominant second quarter to pull away from the Cornell Big Red for an 80-55 victory in an Ivy League women’s basketball game Saturday at Newman Arena. The game, played before an announced crowd of 247, was a decisive reversal of the teams’ meeting just over a month prior, when Cornell won by seven in New York. This time, Columbia’s offensive efficiency and defensive pressure proved overwhelming. Columbia, which improved to 15-6 overall, set the tone early with a high-scoring but tightly contested first quarter, leading… Read more...