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, revealed all the tenacious talent that the boys had flashed in coming back against loyola […] Read more »
gruesome beginnings
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 league worst 0 – 3 in the ivies. some quick synopses of the last four […] Read more »
jump start
the columbia men’s basketball team boasts an 11 – 2 record. they have also lost two of their last three games to div 1 squads. on december 4 they traveled to albany to be dropped by the suny-albany great danes by fifteen in a game that was effectively decided by half time. on the 11th, […] Read more »
ready for rutgers
on the last dreary saturday of december, the columbia lions men’s basketball team hosted some 1,200 fans for their battle with the fairfield stags. the game promised little, appeared a mismatch almost. the 10 -1 lions seemed likely to run the 5 – 7 stags off the court. a 10 1/2 point betting line was […] Read more »
present and past: reflections on the lions perfect start as they await the stony brook seawolves
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 »