Steve Musco
Jenna Clark, Haley Sabol, Klara Astrom and Brenna McDonald were honored before the game.
76
Winner Columbia CU 21-5,12-1 Ivy League
50
Yale Yale 8-18,5-8 Ivy League
Winner
Columbia CU
21-5,12-1 Ivy League
76
Final
50
Yale Yale
8-18,5-8 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Columbia CU 27 17 15 17 76
Yale Yale 7 22 7 14 50

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Sam Rubin

Bulldogs Salute Seniors, Fall to Columbia

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  –  The Yale women's basketball team got some noteworthy contributions from the Class of 2024 on Senior Day at Lee Amphitheater Saturday afternoon against Columbia, but ultimately it was not enough to take down the first-place Lions. Columbia jumped out to a 27-7 lead after the first quarter, and after Yale trimmed its deficit to 15 by halftime the Lions pulled away in the second half for a 76-50 win. 
 
All three of Yale's healthy seniors started: guard Klara Astrom, guard Jenna Clark and forward Brenna McDonald. They, along with injured forward Haley Sabol, were honored before the game. Clark finished with 16 points, while McDonald added 13.
 
Columbia (21-5, 12-1 Ivy League) remains tied with Princeton for first place in the Ivy League standings. Yale (8-18, 5-8 Ivy League) was in contention for one of the four spots in the Ivy League Tournament at the start of the day, but was eliminated by the loss combined with a win by Brown over Cornell.
 
STATISTICAL LEADERS
  • Clark led Yale with 16 points. McDonald had 13 points and six rebounds. Junior guard Nyla McGill had a double-double, including a team-best 11 rebounds along with 12 points.
 
KEY STAT
  • Columbia shot .857 in the first quarter, hitting 12 of 14 shots.
 
NOTES
  • Clark has moved within 14 points of the 1,000 mark for her career. With two assists Saturday, she is now three away from tying her own single-season school record of 160 (set in 2021-22).
  • This was McGill's fourth double-double of the year. 
  • With the loss, Yale falls to sixth in the Ivy League standings – two games behind fourth-place Penn, who beat Harvard 69-67 at The Palestra Saturday to clinch the fourth and final spot in the Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament.
  • Yale shot a season-best .933 from the free-throw line, hitting 14 of 15 attempts. The Bulldogs' previous best performance at the line this season was an .889 performance against St. John's. The last time the team shot that well from the free-throw line (minimum eight attempts) was a 14-for-14 performance (1.000) Nov. 17, 2012 against Houston.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
  • Yale concludes the season next Saturday at Brown (3:00 p.m.).
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