the new columbia hoops season is one road trip and two home games old and allgame has already been treated to the menu of frustrations and thrills this crew can provide. the home opener versus army was our first opportunity to watch coach engles’s up tempo lions. fourteen minutes into the game, columbia led by […] Read more »
o brave new world! lions tip off the 2016 – 17 campaign
last time out we bade hail and farewell to the departing quartet of lion hoopsters (messrs lo, rosenberg, mullins and cohen) who had so wonderfully entertained us. we wished them godspeed in the (less than) prestigious c.i.t. tournament where the boys proceeded to do themselves and their fans proud, running the field and hoisting a […] Read more »
a valedictory
the 2015 ivy league basketball season ended at levien gymnasium on the first saturday of march. a championship banner was raised, but it was decidedly too dark a blue. the yale five claimed their first ncaa tournament berth since 1962 and will carry the hopes of all elite eight hoops fans into the arena in […] Read more »
short
columbia’s basketball team has won 20 games for the second time in the last three years and will almost certainly be playing after the end of the ivy league season. unless an incalculably unlikely series of events transpire, however, they will not be playing in the big dance, the ncaa tournament. what a bitter draught […] Read more »
middle of the journey
one should forgive the preoccupation of the some 2,500 fans filing into levien last friday. though the evening’s assignment was “beat the crimson,” most of us were gathered in hasty grief counseling sessions, trying to wrap our heads around the sudden, stunning overtime loss to princeton the saturday prior. that game had seemed so well […] Read more »
win six
as paulie b fled levien gymnasium last saturday, struck half blind and nauseous by the magnitude of the just befallen disaster, he more resembled, as did so many lion rooters heading for the exits, a concussed resident of herculaneum fleeing his pumice buried city than a disappointed sports fan leaving an arena. speech was impossible, […] Read more »
disappointed, undaunted, ready for another must win weekend
the columbia lions men’s basketball team returns to levien gymnasium this weekend in second place in the ivy league. a 5 – 1 record, fashioned over three weeks on the road would ordinarily be reason for immense self-congratulation, but, we expect, this crew rues that sole blemish on the report card more than the handful […] Read more »
lions rampant
five weeks ago, the columbia men’s basketball team traveled to long island and battled the america east conference power stony brook seawolves. the light blue led by as many as seventeen points on their way to a nine point loss. it was a game that left many of us shaking our heads at a talented, […] Read more »
big wins
columbia started its journey to the ivy league title and a place in the ncaa tournament as well as possible, edging the cornell big red at levien, 74 -70, on the 16th and then whipping the ithacans at newman arena, 79 – 68. two weeks into league play and the lions are tied for first […] Read more »
petrasek and lo lead the blazing lions into new year
columbia has won five straight and the lions are starting to resemble the team we anticipated back at season’s outset. the three losses that preceded the current success were by a total of four points. seven points judiciously distributed over those matches would have them boasting a gaudy 12 – 2 record and looking like […] Read more »