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 vu. only a week before, a missed free throw by dartmouth’s adrease jackson had managed […] Read more »
sweep
having slaughtered cornell at levien on the 2oth of january, the lions journeyed to ithaca on the 27th and forgot what they had just done. matt morgan and stone gettings controlled the game, mostly throughout, and the big red hung on for an 82 – 81 victory. thus it was a chastened columbia crew that […] Read more »
what we learned
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 first two weekends in january. it took only twenty seconds for the overzealous zebras to […] Read more »
baby, it’s cold outside
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 the maine black bears from frigid orono. doubly appropriate since the lions started the year […] Read more »
dark days
columbia men’s basketball team stands at 1 – 9 with one game remaining before the holiday break. according to kenpom.com they are the best one win team in the nation and have played the ninth toughest schedule. so lion fans have those stats to meditate on in these very short, very dark days. allgame urges […] Read more »
Home at last
levien gymnasium has probably never looked warmer than it does right now to the dinged up, road weary, one win columbia hoopsters. they have just completed a bataan death march through the middle atlantic losing six of seven contests. they have lost to a terrific villanova squad, a solid penn state five and then good […] Read more »
transitional
columbia’s surprising football team now finds itself on a losing streak, sadly familiar terrain. the ivy title that had been within their grasp just two weeks ago still beckons, but can be captured only with complex, multilateral assistance. first, someone must deal yale its second loss. princeton, licking its wounds from a close fought loss […] Read more »
nothing is written – resilient, talented lions surge to the head of the ivy football class
allgame seldom comments on the lion football program, so lamentable has been its performance. the current eleven, however, deserves commendation. twenty years ago, my sons and i sat in the top tier of franklin field shrieking our joy at columbia’s overtime victory in penn’s cavernous stadium. defensive star marcellus wiley raised his helmet, at our […] Read more »
done
contrary to reporting in the Columbia Spectator, it wasn’t until penn’s jackson donahue drilled an nba distance trey to seal the quakers win over harvard on saturday night that the columbia lions men’s basketball season ended. columbia’s valiant rear guard effort in new haven was irrelevant. only a penn loss could have altered their fate. unfortunately, […] Read more »
staying alive! the lions stop the quakers
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. it was the most thrilling new york – philly dust up in, almost exactly, 38 […] Read more »