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 barry, who had torched them in hanover for twenty one, managed fourteen points but was […] Read more »
take aways from a terrific weekend
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. he now moves smoothly and confidently down on the blocks and can score over anyone […] Read more »
almost completely historic
the long suffering, desperately in need of a second Ivy League win, columbia lions men’s basketball team, rallied heroically and, down by five with less than a minute thirty in overtime, pulled out a 79 – 77 victory over the penn quakers and threw a significant wrench in steve donahue’s kids’ hopes of making the […] Read more »
misery
the columbia men’s basketball team traveled north two weeks ago and lost a heart stoppingly exciting game against Harvard, falling 98 – 96 in triple overtime, before continuing on to hanover, new hampshire where they managed perhaps their flattest performance of the season. the big green dropped them emphatically, 82 – 66. returning to levien, […] Read more »
lost weekend prior to the longest journey
buoyed already by columbia’s solid win over cornell, imagine our surprised pleasure last friday upon arriving at levien to see devin cannady observing the Princeton shoot around in street clothes. the tigers’ leading scorer and rebounder (nifty statistical double for a 6′ 2″ guard) would not be balling against the lions. our delight at the […] Read more »
got one
having fallen way behind in ithaca before rallying frantically to lose by one stinking point, the lions chose a different tactical approach in their home court rematch with cornell. tai bibbs hit a layup and free throw fifteen seconds into Saturday’s ivy battle and the lions had the better of the battle for most of […] Read more »
bataan death march?
since mike smith went down for the season with a torn meniscus in the game against bryant, the lions have been 2 -3. we cannot credit the win over the decidedly earthbound soaring eagles of div iii elmira as a bead on the wampum belt. similarly, we dismiss the late november victory against st. joe’s […] Read more »
promising
having lost three straight div i contests by a total of four points, the columbia lions proceeded to lose their offensive leader mike smith to an injury in their blowout win over bryant. the smithless light blue followed that victory up with a nice 74 -71 defeat of iona at madison square garden. tonight they […] Read more »
the bitter pill of a thrilling loss
three weeks into the 2018 – 19 men’s basketball schedule, the columbia lions have yet to win a div 1 game. their fifth fail against such a competitor came this past Sunday when a decent but hardly terrific blue hen team visited from Delaware. the now 6 – 2 hens held off the lions in […] Read more »
still alive
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 on february 13 but that had not won in new york in five seasons. columbia […] Read more »