# 2016–17 Columbia Lions women's basketball team

The 2016–17 Columbia Lions women's basketball team represented Columbia University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lions, led by first-year head coach Megan Griffith, played their home games at Levien Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 13–14, 3–11 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They failed to qualify for the Ivy women's tournament, new this year.

## Ivy League changes

This season, the Ivy League will institute conference postseason tournaments. The tournaments will only award the Ivy League automatic bids for the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments; the official conference championships will continue to be awarded based solely on regular-season results. The Ivy League playoff will take place March 11 and 12 at the Palestra in Philadelphia. There will be two semifinal games on the first day with the No. 1 seed playing the No. 4 seed and the No. 2 seed playing the No. 3 seed. The final will be played the next day for the NCAA bid.

## Schedule

| Date time, TV | Opponent$^#$ | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state |
| Non-conference regular season ||||||
| November 11, 2016* 2:00 pm | UMBC | L 56–67 | 0–1 | Levien Gymnasium (326) New York City, NY |
| November 13, 2016* 2:00 pm | at Richmond | W 65–58 | 1–1 | Robins Center (654) Richmond, VA |
| November 19, 2016* 4:00 pm | at Saint Francis (PA) | W 84–77 | 2–1 | DeGol Arena (505) Loretto, PA |
| November 22, 2016* 7:00 pm | at Stony Brook | L 53–55 | 2–2 | Island Federal Credit Union Arena (501) Stony Brook, NY |
| November 27, 2016* 2:00 pm | Colgate | W 75–67 | 3–2 | Levien Gymnasium (478) New York City, NY |
| November 30, 2016* 7:00 pm | at Loyola (MD) | W 65–53 | 4–2 | Reitz Arena (137) Baltimore, MD |
| December 2, 2016* 11:00 am | UMass Lowell | W 76–57 | 5–2 | Levien Gymnasium (2,271) New York City, NY |
| December 7, 2016* 7:00 pm | Providence | W 66–64 $^{OT}$ | 6–2 | Levien Gymnasium (286) New York City, NY |
| December 10, 2016* 12:00 pm | at Binghamton | W 75–65 | 7–2 | Binghamton University Events Center Vestal, NY |
| December 12, 2016* 7:00 pm | LIU Brooklyn | W 66–57 | 8–2 | Levien Gymnasium (319) New York City, NY |
| December 29, 2016* 10:00 pm | at Cal State Fullerton | W 61–46 | 9–2 | Titan Gym (212) Fullerton, CA |
| December 31, 2016* 4:00 pm | at Long Beach State | L 60–73 | 9–3 | Walter Pyramid (641) Long Beach, CA |
| January 4, 2017* 11:30 am, ESPN3 | at NJIT | W 65–51 | 10–3 | Fleisher Center (996) Newark, NJ |
| Ivy League regular season ||||||
| January 14, 2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 | at Cornell | L 70–77 | 10–4 (0–1) | Newman Arena Ithaca, NY |
| December 21, 2017 4:30 pm, ESPN3 | Cornell | L 55–69 | 10–5 (0–2) | Levien Gymnasium (875) New York City, NY |
| January 27, 2017 7:00 pm | at Dartmouth | W 91–88 $^{4OT}$ | 11–5 (1–2) | Leede Arena (529) Hanover, NH |
| January 28, 2017 6:00 pm | at Harvard | L 68–70 | 11–6 (1–3) | Lavietes Pavilion (704) Cambridge, MA |
| February 3, 2017 4:00 pm | at Yale | W 72–68 | 12–6 (2–3) | John J. Lee Amphitheater (408) New Haven, CT |
| February 4, 2017 7:00 pm | at Brown | L 60–69 | 12–7 (2–4) | Pizzitola Sports Center (274) Providence, RI |
| February 10, 2017 7:00 pm | Penn | L 54–64 | 12–8 (2–5) | Levien Gymnasium (408) New York City, NY |
| February 11, 2017 6:00 pm | Princeton | L 52–62 | 12–9 (2–6) | Levien Gymnasium (562) New York City, NY |
| February 17, 2017 7:00 pm | Harvard | L 55–58 | 12–10 (2–7) | Levien Gymnasium (477) New York City, NY |
| February 18, 2017 6:00 pm | Dartmouth | W 69–48 | 13–10 (3–7) | Levien Gymnasium (532) New York City, NY |
| February 24, 2017 7:00 pm | at Princeton | L 54–78 | 13–11 (3–8) | Jadwin Gymnasium (827) Princeton, NJ |
| February 25, 2017 7:00 pm | at Penn | L 59–68 | 13–12 (3–9) | The Palestra (967) Philadelphia, PA |
| March 3, 2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 | Brown | L 59–76 | 13–13 (3–10) | Levien Gymnasium (459) New York City, NY |
| March 4, 2017 6:00 pm | Yale | L 47–55 | 13–14 (3–11) | Levien Gymnasium (579) New York City, NY |
| *Non-conference game. $^#$Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Time. ||||||