On March 20, the Columbia women’s basketball team defeated the Washington Huskies 63–60 in the First Four round of the NCAA tournament — the first March Madness victory in the team’s forty-year history. “I don’t think there’s a limit to what we can do,” Columbia women’s basketball coach Megan Griffith ’07CC told this magazine last fall, before the 2024–25 season. The Lions then rolled to a 23–6 record, including a league-best 13–1 in the Ivies, followed by their ecstatic win over Washington. Though they lost their next game to West Virginia and were eliminated from the tournament, the 2025 Lions went out with a mighty roar.
