Category Archives: Columbia Basketball

double disappointment

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Paul

just a week ago, allgame insiders were exchanging giddy emails with subject lines like “break up the lions” that extolled the feisty play of rosenberg, osetkowski et al during a turn of the new year winning streak.  but play on … Continue reading →

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ivy league season preview

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Paul

our lions enter the ivy league season playing their best basketball to date.  the five games we excitedly anticipated back in mid-december proved as thrilling as we thought they might and more successful than we dared hope.  admittedly, the wins … Continue reading →

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mid-december illuminations

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Paul

the kentucky derby like charge from the gate that is college basketball in november has yielded to the more sedate pace of the exam period schedule.  sparse crowds turn out in the underheated campus gymnasiums of small north east colleges … Continue reading →

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preliminary notes on a work in progress

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Paul

columbia’s lions, let off the leash by coach smith for the season opener against maryland-eastern shore,  posted an easy victory to start their 2013 -2014 campaign.  up only five at the half, the blue settled into their 2 -3 zone … Continue reading →

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busload of faith

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Paul

a stunningly beautiful tri-state autumn has softened the hideous brutalities of columbia’s gridiron season and the even tougher blow of lou reed’s departure.  november lifts our hearts with the promise of festal celebrations and the happy return of hardwood hopes … Continue reading →

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big mike and the boys

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Paul

64 teams await the first jump ball at noon today and we feel the pressure to prognosticate a bit.  allgame has not appeared since the lions ran the crimson off the boards at levien almost six weeks ago.  that same … Continue reading →

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one crazy weekend in the city of dreams

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Paul

winning on the road in the ivies is hard as heidegger.  just ask coach paul cormier, professor of roundball philosophy at dartmouth, whose big green had lost 24 straight league games away.  that is more than 3 years of wandering … Continue reading →

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tropical depression

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Paul

the lions made their annual foray to the ivy league’s southern precincts where they lost games to penn and princeton.  both contests demonstrated the blue’s current three point shooting woes with the quaker game on friday a piece de resistance … Continue reading →

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forth and back

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Paul

on the 19th, columbia observed the presidential inaugural by traveling to ithaca.  starting slowly, they managed to craft a narrow half time margin before thoroughly dismantling ezra cornell’s rubes, 67 -58, behind big mark cisco’s 18 points and 9 boards.  … Continue reading →

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gotta crystal ball? ivy preseason notes

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Paul

back in mid-autumn, before the season tipped off, the lions were the consensus ivy league third place squad.  they were expected to trail princeton and defending champion harvard.   as the league prepares to tip off at last, that prognostication seems … Continue reading →

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