columbia’s basketball team has won 20 games for the second time in the last three years and will almost certainly be playing after the end of the ivy league season. unless an incalculably unlikely series of events transpire, however, they will not be playing in the big dance, the ncaa tournament. what a bitter draught […] Read more »
middle of the journey
one should forgive the preoccupation of the some 2,500 fans filing into levien last friday. though the evening’s assignment was “beat the crimson,” most of us were gathered in hasty grief counseling sessions, trying to wrap our heads around the sudden, stunning overtime loss to princeton the saturday prior. that game had seemed so well […] Read more »
win six
as paulie b fled levien gymnasium last saturday, struck half blind and nauseous by the magnitude of the just befallen disaster, he more resembled, as did so many lion rooters heading for the exits, a concussed resident of herculaneum fleeing his pumice buried city than a disappointed sports fan leaving an arena. speech was impossible, […] Read more »
disappointed, undaunted, ready for another must win weekend
the columbia lions men’s basketball team returns to levien gymnasium this weekend in second place in the ivy league. a 5 – 1 record, fashioned over three weeks on the road would ordinarily be reason for immense self-congratulation, but, we expect, this crew rues that sole blemish on the report card more than the handful […] Read more »
lions rampant
five weeks ago, the columbia men’s basketball team traveled to long island and battled the america east conference power stony brook seawolves. the light blue led by as many as seventeen points on their way to a nine point loss. it was a game that left many of us shaking our heads at a talented, […] Read more »
big wins
columbia started its journey to the ivy league title and a place in the ncaa tournament as well as possible, edging the cornell big red at levien, 74 -70, on the 16th and then whipping the ithacans at newman arena, 79 – 68. two weeks into league play and the lions are tied for first […] 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 »
jump ball! the lions’ new season tips off
part the first – dedicated to the one i love when the columbia five left levien last march 25 on the short end of a 72 – 69 college insider.com post season tournament battle with the ever despised yales, despondent fans could look ahead to a bright follow up to a 21 win year. the […] Read more »
flat ivy finish but the lions keep running
columbia’s basketball team entered the last two weeks of the ivy schedule with slim but real hopes for the ivy title or at least a solid second place finish. that all evaporated as tommy amaker’s harvard squad dealt them an utter ass whipping, 80 – 47. so thorough was the beating that it nearly erased […] Read more »