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 the road is tough in the ivies and today we find ourselves brushing the debris […] Read more »

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 over fairleigh dickinson and st.  francis (brooklyn) were one sided affairs in which the visiting […] Read more »

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 to the land.  the lions start their 2013-2014 run on saturday night and allgame welcomes […] Read more »

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 underwhelming harvard team represents the ivies in the big  dance.  i expect little noise from […] Read more »

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 unhappily in the wilderness.  friday last, though, a blizzard blew into the northeast and created […] Read more »

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 in this regard as the boys went 3 -17 from beyond the arc.  that kind of […] Read more »

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.  brian barbour chipped in with 16 while steve frankoski shot 60% from beyond the arc. […] Read more »

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 not unreasonable.  the non-league portion of their schedule has provided moments of great encouragement as […] Read more »

sitting in bergen county, awaiting beloved guests, we conjure friends and places far flung.  veritably i see kentucky, arkansas, the dakotas, seattle and brooklyn – all possessed of america’s hardwood love and especially blessed this season.  for lo, we have been vouchedsafe a glorious victory.  indeed, the columbia lions, undaunted by their close loss to a resilient marist squad, traveled […] Read more »

Ohio State broke my heart Saturday night and sent Syracuse home for the year.  The Buckeyes’  fierce defense, personified by Aaron Craft, effectively shut down all four Orange guards while their big men dominated down low, outrebounding Cuse by double figures.  So, I am finished as a fan for this year, but before the last […] Read more »