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 »
a lot of fun but still a loss
when paulie b was undergraduating, he spent nearly as much time playing half court hoops as he did contemplating matters literary. lacking a quick first step or reliable jump shot, he depended on enthusiastic rebounding, pestiferous hand checking defense and the setting of hard screens to stay on the floor. the experience left your correspondent […] Read more »
of two minds
the new columbia hoops season is one road trip and two home games old and allgame has already been treated to the menu of frustrations and thrills this crew can provide. the home opener versus army was our first opportunity to watch coach engles’s up tempo lions. fourteen minutes into the game, columbia led by […] Read more »
o brave new world! lions tip off the 2016 – 17 campaign
last time out we bade hail and farewell to the departing quartet of lion hoopsters (messrs lo, rosenberg, mullins and cohen) who had so wonderfully entertained us. we wished them godspeed in the (less than) prestigious c.i.t. tournament where the boys proceeded to do themselves and their fans proud, running the field and hoisting a […] Read more »
short
columbia’s basketball team has won 20 games for the second time in the last three years and will almost certainly be playing after the end of the ivy league season. unless an incalculably unlikely series of events transpire, however, they will not be playing in the big dance, the ncaa tournament. what a bitter draught […] Read more »
middle of the journey
one should forgive the preoccupation of the some 2,500 fans filing into levien last friday. though the evening’s assignment was “beat the crimson,” most of us were gathered in hasty grief counseling sessions, trying to wrap our heads around the sudden, stunning overtime loss to princeton the saturday prior. that game had seemed so well […] Read more »