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 »
upbeat at the first break
the columbia lions, seven weeks into their effort to climb out of the deepest despondency of their, let’s face it, less than brilliant history, visited lafayette last evening and grabbed the team’s first road victory of the season. the 57 – 45 win over an apparently lousy leopard squad is hardly mind altering but, now […] Read more »
three stinkers set up a battle for the basement
having lifted allgame’s heart with their stout play versus princeton and penn, the lions squandered our good will in two sloppy saturday losses at levien, first to harvard and then to brown. they followed those half-hearted defenses of home court with a similarly shoddy loss to yale in new haven. the raveled sleeve of our […] Read more »
back in business
at long last, allgame reports from the rectangular hardwood. readers have reached out, curious as to our whereabouts and the current state of the lions. the omicron variant has inflicted its perhaps most serious effects upon the ivy league basketball schedules. the final non-league games of late december were largely cancelled (including columbia’s contest against […] Read more »
hard lessons of youth
the columbia lions mens’ basketball team won its first two games of the season by furiously rallying against the binghamton bearcats and then coasting against div iii mt st vincent’s of the bronx in a glorified scrimmage. having established that they could win, they promptly went on a four game losing streak. they could not […] Read more »
small sample optimism
it took three games of its 2021 – 22 schedule for the lions to notch their first basketball victory in forever. the win came against the 318th ranked div I team in the nation, the suny binghamton bearcats, so allgame doesn’t intend to book any final four reservations yet. still, after the utter misery of […] Read more »
this heart
as a ravening predator loosed on a zebra rich savannah, allgame returns hungrily to the prospect of a new season of columbia men’s basketball. our appetite inflamed further by sad remembrance of deep, persistent famine, we ask your indulgence as we quickly recollect the most recent history of the light blue five. the pandemic erased […] Read more »
dog days of winter
the columbia lions men’s basketball team has adorned this dreary, snowless mid-atlantic winter with a five game losing streak. the ivy league season debuted promisingly enough with an efficient win over a poor cornell team at levien on january 18. the thoroughness of the big red’s dismissal made a victorious reprise seem likely at cornell […] Read more »
excelsior
the columbia men’s basketball team lost the tip off saturday evening last but little else as they dominated cornell for a 75 – 61 win. that victory over a smaller, slower squad was the absolutely necessary beginning to their ivy league campaign. first year jack forest led the offense with 23 points, a performance that […] Read more »
bitter
the columbia lions men’s basketball team concluded its decade with a last second loss to the great danes of suny albany. the dogs arrived at levien less than an hour and a half before tip off, having endured a southward trek from the capital in just miserable weather. nevertheless, they seemed rather sprightly as they […] Read more »