the last three games of the 2024-25 basketball season will soon be played. allgame cares only for the two that comprise the final four. the actual championship contest is always bitter sweet. nothing remains of the five liveliest months of our year. noone has next. baseball and empty hardwood till autumn. that quick report is […] Read more »
1 – 6 and ready to roll
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 »
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 »
veteran lions ablaze – are they real
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 »