having lost three straight div i contests by a total of four points, the columbia lions proceeded to lose their offensive leader mike smith to an injury in their blowout win over bryant. the smithless light blue followed that victory up with a nice 74 -71 defeat of iona at madison square garden. tonight they […] Read more »
the bitter pill of a thrilling loss
three weeks into the 2018 – 19 men’s basketball schedule, the columbia lions have yet to win a div 1 game. their fifth fail against such a competitor came this past Sunday when a decent but hardly terrific blue hen team visited from Delaware. the now 6 – 2 hens held off the lions in […] Read more »
still alive
penn and princeton visited levien gymnasium this past weekend and tangled with the lions in two very different games. friday evening columbia faced a quaker team that was tied for first in the ivies and beat the lions in philadelphia on february 13 but that had not won in new york in five seasons. columbia […] Read more »
lions look to awake from the nightmare of history as the killer p’s visit
when brown’s tamenchang choh jumped over kyle castlin and grabbed the rebound of brandon anderson’s intentionally missed free throw with nine seconds remaining in overtime last saturday in providence, lion fans would have been forgiven their overwhelming sense of deja vu. only a week before, a missed free throw by dartmouth’s adrease jackson had managed […] Read more »
sweep
having slaughtered cornell at levien on the 2oth of january, the lions journeyed to ithaca on the 27th and forgot what they had just done. matt morgan and stone gettings controlled the game, mostly throughout, and the big red hung on for an 82 – 81 victory. thus it was a chastened columbia crew that […] Read more »
what we learned
three games into the ivy league schedule and the ultimate fate of the columbia lions hoopsters in conference play has started to take shape. join allgame in a perusal of that still distant shore from the vantage point of the first two weekends in january. it took only twenty seconds for the overzealous zebras to […] Read more »
baby, it’s cold outside
this is the weather that birthed basketball. our so far bitter northeast winter evokes warm memories of overheated, sweat stinking gymnasiums and young athletes running the hardwood. no more appropriate opponent, then, for the lions to finish 2017 against than the maine black bears from frigid orono. doubly appropriate since the lions started the year […] Read more »