Category Archives: Ivy League Basketball

the lions five did exactly what it had to on friday night, downing dartmouth 70 – 66.  in the process they avenged a stinging ivy league defeat while playing some of their toughest perimeter defense. big green junior guard brendan … Continue reading →

patrick tape was, appropriately, named the ivy league player of the week after leading the columbia lions to consecutive road wins in providence and new haven.  the big guy averaged 16 points per game and grabbed 6.5 rebounds per contest. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →