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hsst – air escapes the balloon

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Paul

the atmosphere in the lisa landau carnoy lounge* in levien gymnasium was positively fizzy saturday afternoon. former players, the parents of several of this season team’s starters, various important supporters of both the columbia men’s and women’s team, as well … Continue reading →

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1 – 6 and ready to roll

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Paul

allgame is still trying to shake the last giddy vestiges of the cumbb’s frantic 74 – 72 comeback win over brown at levien yesterday afternoon from his noggin. that win, the lions first league victory since february 16 last year, … Continue reading →

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gruesome beginnings

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Paul

the last days of 2024 and the earliest of 2025 have not been happy for the cmbb team. from the proud height of a program best 11 – 1 start, they have stumbled to 11 – 5 overall and a … Continue reading →

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present and past: reflections on the lions perfect start as they await the stony brook seawolves

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Paul

the columbia men’s basketball team visited brooklyn this wednesday and for the second time in three games turned an apparent mundane win into a very close run thing. not to bury our lede, the light blue now stands at 6 … Continue reading →

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veteran lions ablaze – are they real

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Paul

the columbia men’s basketball team edged lehigh tuesday evening, 76 – 75. they survived a frantic mountainhawk rally that turned an eleven point deficit, with only 1:26 to play, into a tied game with 4.8 seconds remaining. a fifty – … Continue reading →

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upbeat at the first break

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Paul

the columbia lions, seven weeks into their effort to climb out of the deepest despondency of their, let’s face it, less than brilliant history, visited lafayette last evening and grabbed the team’s first road victory of the season. the 57 … Continue reading →

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three stinkers set up a battle for the basement

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Paul

having lifted allgame’s heart with their stout play versus princeton and penn, the lions squandered our good will in two sloppy saturday losses at levien, first to harvard and then to brown. they followed those half-hearted defenses of home court … Continue reading →

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back in business

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Paul

at long last, allgame reports from the rectangular hardwood. readers have reached out, curious as to our whereabouts and the current state of the lions. the omicron variant has inflicted its perhaps most serious effects upon the ivy league basketball … Continue reading →

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hard lessons of youth

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Paul

the columbia lions mens’ basketball team won its first two games of the season by furiously rallying against the binghamton bearcats and then coasting against div iii mt st vincent’s of the bronx in a glorified scrimmage. having established that … Continue reading →

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small sample optimism

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Paul

it took three games of its 2021 – 22 schedule for the lions to notch their first basketball victory in forever. the win came against the 318th ranked div I team in the nation, the suny binghamton bearcats, so allgame … Continue reading →

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