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 »

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 »