columbia men’s basketball team stands at 1 – 9 with one game remaining before the holiday break. according to kenpom.com they are the best one win team in the nation and have played the ninth toughest schedule. so lion fans have those stats to meditate on in these very short, very dark days. allgame urges […] Read more »
Home at last
levien gymnasium has probably never looked warmer than it does right now to the dinged up, road weary, one win columbia hoopsters. they have just completed a bataan death march through the middle atlantic losing six of seven contests. they have lost to a terrific villanova squad, a solid penn state five and then good […] Read more »
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columbia’s surprising football team now finds itself on a losing streak, sadly familiar terrain. the ivy title that had been within their grasp just two weeks ago still beckons, but can be captured only with complex, multilateral assistance. first, someone must deal yale its second loss. princeton, licking its wounds from a close fought loss […] Read more »
nothing is written – resilient, talented lions surge to the head of the ivy football class
allgame seldom comments on the lion football program, so lamentable has been its performance. the current eleven, however, deserves commendation. twenty years ago, my sons and i sat in the top tier of franklin field shrieking our joy at columbia’s overtime victory in penn’s cavernous stadium. defensive star marcellus wiley raised his helmet, at our […] Read more »
done
contrary to reporting in the Columbia Spectator, it wasn’t until penn’s jackson donahue drilled an nba distance trey to seal the quakers win over harvard on saturday night that the columbia lions men’s basketball season ended. columbia’s valiant rear guard effort in new haven was irrelevant. only a penn loss could have altered their fate. unfortunately, […] Read more »
staying alive! the lions stop the quakers
one day after playing perhaps their worst game of the year, a gritty lion squad ended the penn basketball team’s five game winning streak and put themselves in position to play in the first ivy league post season hoops tournament. it was the most thrilling new york – philly dust up in, almost exactly, 38 […] Read more »
downs and ups, a gritty lion squad gets ready to visit new england
the lions five traveled to philadelphia on february 10th and fell to a previously winless (in league) pennsylvania crew. the failure is gruesome enough given the quakers’ previous ineptitude but columbia managed to revert to those behaviors it had seemed to overcome recently. no one scored other than the core three – petrasek, hickman and […] Read more »
half way home
last weekend, the lion hoops crew split two rousing battles in front of nearly packed houses. the games against yale and brown both featured the lions’ now tough, if not impenetrable, 2 – 3 zone, improved three point shooting and increased offensive contributions from the bench. those three things resulted in a win over the […] Read more »
north and south, the ivy league season gets real
the columbia lions will journey to the finger lakes this saturday to commence the 2016 – 17 ivy league campaign. cornell’s big red should be subdued by a light blue squad that is starting to play some solid ball, but this trip is always tiring and thus dangerous. coach engles’ crew must find the focus […] Read more »
a lot of fun but still a loss
when paulie b was undergraduating, he spent nearly as much time playing half court hoops as he did contemplating matters literary. lacking a quick first step or reliable jump shot, he depended on enthusiastic rebounding, pestiferous hand checking defense and the setting of hard screens to stay on the floor. the experience left your correspondent […] Read more »