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 »
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 »
baby, it’s cold outside
this is the weather that birthed basketball. our so far bitter northeast winter evokes warm memories of overheated, sweat stinking gymnasiums and young athletes running the hardwood. no more appropriate opponent, then, for the lions to finish 2017 against than the maine black bears from frigid orono. doubly appropriate since the lions started the year […] Read more »
staying alive! the lions stop the quakers
one day after playing perhaps their worst game of the year, a gritty lion squad ended the penn basketball team’s five game winning streak and put themselves in position to play in the first ivy league post season hoops tournament. it was the most thrilling new york – philly dust up in, almost exactly, 38 […] Read more »
downs and ups, a gritty lion squad gets ready to visit new england
the lions five traveled to philadelphia on february 10th and fell to a previously winless (in league) pennsylvania crew. the failure is gruesome enough given the quakers’ previous ineptitude but columbia managed to revert to those behaviors it had seemed to overcome recently. no one scored other than the core three – petrasek, hickman and […] Read more »
half way home
last weekend, the lion hoops crew split two rousing battles in front of nearly packed houses. the games against yale and brown both featured the lions’ now tough, if not impenetrable, 2 – 3 zone, improved three point shooting and increased offensive contributions from the bench. those three things resulted in a win over the […] Read more »