Cambridge, Mass. - The Harvard women's basketball team will travel to Columbia for their first Ivy League road game of the season on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 12:00 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.
What to Know
• Harvard women's basketball opened the Carrie Moore era this season with 7 nonconference wins and wins over Princeton and Brown to start the Ivy League campaign. Saturday will present the next Ivy opponent for the Crimson at Columbia.
• Moore is in Year 1 after the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith, who was at the helm of the Crimson program for 40 years. Moore was named The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women's Basketball on April 6, 2022, and arrived in Cambridge after spending the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Michigan, helping the Wolverines to a 25-7 record and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Moore also had assistant-coaching stints at North Carolina, Princeton and Creighton.
• Harmoni Turner has enjoyed a career season so far this year, scoring a career-high 31 points in the season opener against URI, a career-high 9 assists against Boston College and a career high 7 steals against Maine. She has reported 20+ points in seven games so far this season. Turner has garnered Ivy League Co-Player of the Week Honors twice, Ivy League Player of the Week once and was named to the Cancun Challenge All-Tournament team.
• In last week's victory over Princeton, Harvard snapped the reigning Ivy League champions' 42-game Ivy League win streak and their seven-game win streak over the Crimson.
• Lola Mullaney scored a career-high 30 points against Brown, marking the second game of the 2022-23 season where a Crimson player has scored 30+ points. She shot 11-for-15 from the floor and 6-for-10 from three. Elena Rodriguez also reported a career high in rebounds against the Bears, pulling down 11.
• Four Crimson players put up double digits against Brown in Mullaney (30), Turner (16), Rodriguez (11) and Katie Krupa (10).
• Harmoni Turner put up 26 points for the Crimson to lead the team against Yale, scoring 20 in the second half alone. She finished the game shooting 10-of-24 from the floor and 2-of-3 from three. This was her seventh game of the season scoring 20+ points.
• Harmoni Turner leads the Ivy League in points per game with 18.9. With 18.9 points per game, 5.4 rebounds per game and 4.0 assists per game, she is 1 of 3 Division I athletes to average 18+ ppg, 5+ rpg and 4+ apg.
• Harvard is meeting Ivy League competitor Columbia for the 73rd time in series history, one in which Harvard leads 64-8. The Lions currently hold a 4-game win streak over the Crimson, narrowly winning both matchups in the 2022 season, most recently on Feb. 18, 2022 with a score of 70-74.
• Columbia has only recently began to compete with Harvard, as up until 2019 they had only won three games since 1980.
• With matching 2-1 Ivy records, the winner of Saturday's game will stand tied for first or second in the Ivy League standings, pending the result of the Penn/Dartmouth game.
• Harvard's 2022-23 schedule featured 12 non-conference games before Ivy League play began on Dec. 31 against Princeton. With a 2-1 Ivy record and an 9-6 record overall, Harvard currently sits tied for second with Columbia in the Ivy League standings.
Up Next
The team will head to Hanover, N.H. to compete against Dartmouth on Monday, Jan. 16 at 5:00 p.m. The game will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and be streamed on ESPN+.
