columbia prepared for its fight with the deepest team in college basketball this coming wednesday by playing its best game to date. they buried the bucknell bisons at levien this saturday evening past, 62 – 39. it was their first win over the visitors in three seasons. the squad played an impeccable first six minutes […] Read more »
jump ball! the lions’ new season tips off
part the first – dedicated to the one i love when the columbia five left levien last march 25 on the short end of a 72 – 69 college insider.com post season tournament battle with the ever despised yales, despondent fans could look ahead to a bright follow up to a 21 win year. the […] Read more »
flat ivy finish but the lions keep running
columbia’s basketball team entered the last two weeks of the ivy schedule with slim but real hopes for the ivy title or at least a solid second place finish. that all evaporated as tommy amaker’s harvard squad dealt them an utter ass whipping, 80 – 47. so thorough was the beating that it nearly erased […] Read more »
double disappointment
just a week ago, allgame insiders were exchanging giddy emails with subject lines like “break up the lions” that extolled the feisty play of rosenberg, osetkowski et al during a turn of the new year winning streak. but play on the road is tough in the ivies and today we find ourselves brushing the debris […] Read more »
ivy league season preview
our lions enter the ivy league season playing their best basketball to date. the five games we excitedly anticipated back in mid-december proved as thrilling as we thought they might and more successful than we dared hope. admittedly, the wins over fairleigh dickinson and st. francis (brooklyn) were one sided affairs in which the visiting […] Read more »
mid-december illuminations
the kentucky derby like charge from the gate that is college basketball in november has yielded to the more sedate pace of the exam period schedule. sparse crowds turn out in the underheated campus gymnasiums of small north east colleges offering minors in zone defense and the history of hoops to watch traditional non-league foes […] Read more »
preliminary notes on a work in progress
columbia’s lions, let off the leash by coach smith for the season opener against maryland-eastern shore, posted an easy victory to start their 2013 -2014 campaign. up only five at the half, the blue settled into their 2 -3 zone shortly after the break and raced off to a 28 point lead before taking the […] Read more »
busload of faith
a stunningly beautiful tri-state autumn has softened the hideous brutalities of columbia’s gridiron season and the even tougher blow of lou reed’s departure. november lifts our hearts with the promise of festal celebrations and the happy return of hardwood hopes to the land. the lions start their 2013-2014 run on saturday night and allgame welcomes […] Read more »
big mike and the boys
64 teams await the first jump ball at noon today and we feel the pressure to prognosticate a bit. allgame has not appeared since the lions ran the crimson off the boards at levien almost six weeks ago. that same underwhelming harvard team represents the ivies in the big dance. i expect little noise from […] Read more »
one crazy weekend in the city of dreams
winning on the road in the ivies is hard as heidegger. just ask coach paul cormier, professor of roundball philosophy at dartmouth, whose big green had lost 24 straight league games away. that is more than 3 years of wandering unhappily in the wilderness. friday last, though, a blizzard blew into the northeast and created […] Read more »