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 – 0, a level of perfection unattained since the autumn of 1969 when the team […] Read more »
veteran lions ablaze – are they real
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 – fifty call by the zebras got avery brown to the line for a free throw […] Read more »
dunzo
bill parcells said, rather famously, “you are what your record says you are.” after twenty seven games, allgame can conclude that the 2023 – 24 columbia lions men’s basketball team is mediocre. a 13 -14 overall mark looks a bit better than their 4 -10 ivy league record but neither number matches our once high […] Read more »
bloodied
for the second time in two meetings this season, the columbia lions mens’ basketball team blew a double digit lead against the harvard crimson. that hardwood fumble left the light blue in a tie for fourth place in the ivy league with the cantabs. having lost twice to tommy amaker’s crew this year, the lions […] Read more »
alive
the columbia mens’ basketball team has played two and a half good games over the last two weeks. that was enough to put them in a three way tie for fourth place in the ivy league with brown and harvard. but for one poor quarter they would be in fourth by themselves. their run of […] Read more »
on the brink
allgame’s beloved lions launched their ivy league season with losses to cornell, yale and princeton. those are the three toughest teams in the league and the light blue managed to hang with each of them for better than a half. today they host the quakers of pennsylvania in perhaps the most important game of the […] Read more »
now it begins
having fallen at fordham’s rose hill gymnasium back on december 30, the light blue mbb team duly slaughtered div iii mt saint vincent’s in their last non-league battle of the 2023 – 24 campaign. on tuesday, they will travel to ithaca for a tangle with brian earl’s high octane cornell offense. five days later they […] Read more »
the lions play santa two weeks early
there have been two big stories during the 2023 – 24 non-league portion of the ivy league basketball season. first has been the heralded 10 – 1 start by the princeton men’s five. led by sophomores xian lee and caden pierce and senior matt alloco, the tigers have have roared into the season subsequent to […] Read more »
early hope
strangest time of the college basketball calendar, no? too many teams refine their games far from their native hardwood. holiday tourneys proliferate, luring squads and their fans to unhooply climes like maui or the bahamas. the columbia lions have not offered light blue clad rooters any such getaways. our heroes have labored in familiar, or […] Read more »
first principles
tonight the columbia lions return to the hardwood up in providence, rhode island. over the last three seasons, the light blue has won seventeen while losing eighty five games. hard to imagine, but that .200 winning percentage is two times better than their performance in the ivy league where they have won four and lost […] Read more »