Women’s Basketball to Welcome Columbia and Cornell to Pizzitola this Weekend

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's basketball team will welcome Columbia to the Pizzitola Sports Center on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. and Cornell on Saturday at 3 p.m. for two huge Ivy League matchups on the second-to-last weekend of the regular season. With wins in both games and some outside help, Brown would put itself in position to clinch a spot in Ivy Madness for the first time.

The two games are part of back-to-back doubleheaders with the men's team, who will welcome Harvard on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday following the women's games on both days.

Free t-shirt vouchers will be handed out to the first 100 students to attend the women's game on Friday.

CLINCHING SCENARIOS
Brown could clinch a spot in Ivy Madness as soon as Saturday with the all three of the following scenarios taking place:
- Brown wins over both Columbia and Cornell
- Loses by Penn to both Dartmouth and Harvard
- Yale losing at least one game this weekend to either Cornell or Columbia

Brown enters Friday evening in a tie with Penn for the fourth and final spot in Ivy Madness with three games remaining.
Brown is coming off a close 80-73 defeat last Saturday at Harvard in a game that saw five lead changes and seven ties, which included Brown rallying from a 17-point first half deficit to take the lead.
WEEKEND WARRIORS: Brown is 10-2 on Saturdays and Sundays this season, compared to 0-4 on Fridays. Their lone Saturday blemishes came on Feb. 3 at No. 25 Princeton and February 24 at Harvard.
On February 10 at Columbia, Brown outshot the Lions by a 45.0%-44.9% margin. It was the first time this season Brown lost a game when outshooting its opponent (7-1).
Grace Arnolie (24 pts) and Kyla Jones (27 pts) led Brown at Columbia by combining for 51 of the team's 73 points and nine of Brown's 13 assists. After Brown rallied to tie the score at 51 midway through the third quarter, the Lions roared back and used a 15-0 over the next four minutes to take control.
Brown's five wins in Ivy play are the most since the 2016-17 season when they went 7-7.

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