having just won their two best played games of this still green season, columbia’s ballers managed to drop consecutive contests by two stinking points. the fairfield stags stymied the lions up in connecticut, 82 – 81 in ot while the longwood lancers journied up from the virginian hinterlands to humble our heroes 70 […] Read more »
#theroadtohoustonstartsonbroadway
a rehabbed and reinforced columbia hoops squad opened its 2015 – 16 campaign with a boring 45 point rout of the visiting kean college cougars during lunch break on friday the thirteenth. the mismatch in size, talent and skills was such that no conclusions can surely be drawn from the one sided (107 – 62) […] Read more »
double homicide on the heights
on february’s last weekend, an apparently resurgent lion hoops crew returned to levien from its first ivy road sweep since 2008 for the final home set of the league season. they fell flat, getting whipped by both dartmouth and harvard. that sad parlay put a full stop to any hopes they might have had for […] Read more »
stealers wheel
for the second straight weekend, the columbia lion basketball squad lost a tough friday night game before demolishing an overmatched competitor that had just made the exhausting bus trip from ithaca to morningside heights. this week’s failure was against the princeton tigers; the victory was over penn’s quakers. that pair of battles ended the lions’ […] Read more »
the new normal
back when allgame was first developing his unhealthy preoccupation with lion hoops, the unquestionable marquee matchups of the ivy season were against the “killer p’s.” the princeton and pennsylvania games were much the most anticipated and challenging games of any ivy campaign. in the years following the lions lone league championship back in ’68, the […] Read more »
scary – can a struggling lion squad succeed in the ivies?
two weekends ago, the lions traveled to ithaca and edged an improved cornell squad, 48 – 45. the savor of that valuable league road win was tempered by the unpalatable stats line posted by columbia’s offensive leader, maodo lo. the junior guard from berlin was not only shut out by the big red but also […] Read more »
a dizzying december delivers lions to the new year
columbia ended a challenging december on a down note, losing to the st. francis terriers in brooklyn on tuesday the thirtieth, 74 -68. the result bookended a month opening defeat at the hands of the visiting marylanders from loyola, the only lion home loss to date and a bitter pill to swallow after the […] Read more »