PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team continues on the road Wednesday night, heading to Columbia for a rescheduled Ivy League contest in the Big Apple.
 
GAME 17 – PENN (7-9, 2-2 Ivy) at COLUMBIA (13-3, 4-0 Ivy)
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 | 6 p.m.
Levien Gymnasium | New York, N.Y.
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Penn-Columbia Series
Wednesday's matchup will mark the 70th time the two programs go to battle with Penn leading the all-time series, 51-18. The Quakers enter the game with an 18-game win streak on the line dating to the 2011-12 season. Head coach Mike McLaughlin maintains a 19-3 record against Columbia, while Penn also has a 20-14 tally in Levien Gymnasium.
 
Last Time We Met
The last meeting was on March 7, 2020, in the final weekend of Ivy League play before the pandemic hit. Playing on the Lions' home court, the Quakers stifled Columbia's offense en route to a 51-36 victory, the lowest point total Penn has held the Lions to at Levien Gymnasium in program history. Scoring game from seven different Quakers led by Kayla Padilla with 12 points. Defensively, Penn pulled in 50 rebounds including a 19-board performance by Eleah Parker and 10 by Kennedy Suttle. The Quakers bolstered a program-record 11 blocks, seven of which came from Parker, missing the single-game program record by just two set in 2014 by Sydney Stipanovich.
 
About Columbia
The Lions are on the prowl this season, sporting a 13-3 overall record and an unblemished 4-0 tally in the Ivy League. They opened the season with five straight wins before falling at home to Stony Brook, 91-82, the only familiar non-conference opponent on the Lions' schedule to the Quakers. Columbia has defeated Yale (65-55), Harvard (72-64), Cornell (57-46), and Brown (60-52) in their most recent four-game stretch. Leading the Lions this season is Abbey Hsu, averaging 16.6 points per game, while Kaitlyn Davis is close behind at 13.3. Defensively, Davis paces the team with 9.2 rebounds per game and 24 total blocks.
 
Penn's Last Time Out
The Quakers are coming off a road loss at Yale on Saturday, 63-53. Penn was led by a double-double performance by sophomore Jordan Obi with 18 points and 12 rebounds, while Padilla also dropped in 18 points. The Quakers forced Yale into 22 turnovers, the fourth time in the last five games they had opponents turn the ball over 20-plus times.
 
Defensive Strength
Penn currently ranks 26th in the country in field-goal percentage defense, holding opponents to a 35.3 shooting percentage this season. Only Princeton sits in front of the Quakers in the category, sporting a 35.2. A big part of that success comes from blocks, leading the Ivy League in blocked shots (72) and blocked shots per game (4.5). Obi has been a key cog in that area, ranking fourth in the conference in both of those categories with 24 blocks at 1.5 per game.