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 »
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 »
redux and done
the lions five did exactly what it had to on friday night, downing dartmouth 70 – 66. in the process they avenged a stinging ivy league defeat while playing some of their toughest perimeter defense. big green junior guard brendan barry, who had torched them in hanover for twenty one, managed fourteen points but was […] Read more »
take aways from a terrific weekend
patrick tape was, appropriately, named the ivy league player of the week after leading the columbia lions to consecutive road wins in providence and new haven. the big guy averaged 16 points per game and grabbed 6.5 rebounds per contest. he now moves smoothly and confidently down on the blocks and can score over anyone […] Read more »
still alive
penn and princeton visited levien gymnasium this past weekend and tangled with the lions in two very different games. friday evening columbia faced a quaker team that was tied for first in the ivies and beat the lions in philadelphia on february 13 but that had not won in new york in five seasons. columbia […] Read more »
lions look to awake from the nightmare of history as the killer p’s visit
when brown’s tamenchang choh jumped over kyle castlin and grabbed the rebound of brandon anderson’s intentionally missed free throw with nine seconds remaining in overtime last saturday in providence, lion fans would have been forgiven their overwhelming sense of deja vu. only a week before, a missed free throw by dartmouth’s adrease jackson had managed […] Read more »
what we learned
three games into the ivy league schedule and the ultimate fate of the columbia lions hoopsters in conference play has started to take shape. join allgame in a perusal of that still distant shore from the vantage point of the first two weekends in january. it took only twenty seconds for the overzealous zebras to […] Read more »