Springfield, Mo. – The No. 1 seed Columbia College women's basketball team secured the 2026 American Midwest Conference (AMC) Tournament Championship with an 86-58 victory over No. 2 seed William Baptist University on Monday in Springfield, Mo.
 
Columbia, who won its fifth-straight AMC Tournament Championship and 11^th in program history, raced to an 10-0 lead to the start the contest and never looked back.
 
The Cougars won their 19^th-straight game to improve to 30-1, while Williams Baptist had its nine-game win streak snapped and fell to 24-5. Columbia topped the 30-win plateau for the first time since 2004-05 season and third time in program history.
 
Lexi Miller (22 points, seven assists, seven rebounds), Ashtyn Klusmeyer (21 points), and Tori Rubel (11 points, eight rebounds) scored in double figures for Columbia. Lexi Rubel just missed a triple-double with nine points, 14 rebounds and nine assists.
 
The Cougars shot 47.3 percent (35-of-74) from the field and hit 11 three-pointers in the win, and dominated the glass with a 57-33 rebounding advantage.
 
Columbia opened the game on a 10-0 run, building a double-digit advantage in the first three minutes. A pair of three-pointers from Lauren Friedrich and Lexi Miller fueled an 8-0 surge that stretched the lead to 18-4.
 
Miller poured in eight first-quarter points as the Cougars took a 22-11 lead, knocking down 5-of-8 attempts from beyond the arc.
 
Columbia opened the second quarter with six straight points to extend the lead to 28-11, but Williams Baptist responded with a 9-3 run to cut the margin to 31-20. The Cougars closed the half on a dominant 15-0 surge while holding WBU without a field goal over the final 5:56 to take a commanding 49-22 lead into the break.
 
Klusmeyer, Lexi Miller and Tori Rubel each tallied 11 first-half points for Columbia, which shot 8-of-18 from three-point range and owned a 28-15 rebounding edge. The Cougars also dished out 15 assists on 20 made field goals.
 
Columbia scored 11-straight points early in the third quarter to extend the lead to 60-24, and led 69-38 after three quarters of play.
 
Chelsea Hamilton (10 points) and Joi Montgomery (10) scored in double figures for Williams Baptist, which was limited to 29.2 percent (19-of-65) shooting from the field in the loss.
 
The 2026 NAIA Women's Basketball Championship qualifiers will be announced on Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. (CT), and the first round is set to begin on Friday, March 13 at a site to be determined.
 
Columbia and Williams Baptist have both earned an automatic bid to the NAIA National Tournament. The Cougars are making their 11th-straight NAIA Tournament appearance and 22^nd in school history.
 
NOTES: Columbia has won four-straight against Wiliams Baptist and leads the all-time series 53-4 … Mya Miller recorded the 500^th rebound of her career … Lexi Miller is two points shy of 1,500 career points … The Cougars had a 22-2 advantage in second-chance points.