having slaughtered cornell at levien on the 2oth of january, the lions journeyed to ithaca on the 27th and forgot what they had just done.  matt morgan and stone gettings controlled the game, mostly throughout, and the big red hung on for an 82 – 81 victory.  thus it was a chastened columbia crew that […] Read more »

columbia men’s basketball team stands at 1 – 9 with one game remaining before the holiday break.  according to kenpom.com they are the best one win team in the nation and have played the ninth toughest schedule.  so lion fans have those stats to meditate on in these very short, very dark days.   allgame urges […] Read more »

levien gymnasium has probably never looked warmer than it does right now to the dinged up, road weary, one win columbia hoopsters.  they have just completed a bataan death march through the middle atlantic losing six of seven contests.  they have lost to a terrific villanova squad,  a solid penn state five and then good […] Read more »

contrary to reporting in the Columbia Spectator, it wasn’t until penn’s jackson donahue drilled an nba distance trey to seal the quakers win over harvard on saturday night that the columbia lions men’s basketball season ended.  columbia’s valiant rear guard effort  in new haven was irrelevant.  only a penn loss could have altered their fate. unfortunately, […] Read more »

the columbia lions will journey to the finger lakes this saturday to commence the 2016 – 17 ivy league campaign. cornell’s big red should be subdued by a light blue squad that is starting to play some solid ball, but this trip is always tiring and thus dangerous.  coach engles’ crew must find the focus […] Read more »

the 2015 ivy league basketball season ended  at levien gymnasium on the first saturday of march. a championship banner was raised, but it was decidedly too dark a blue. the yale five claimed their first ncaa tournament berth since 1962 and will carry the hopes of all elite eight hoops fans into the arena in […] Read more »

    having just won their two best played games of this still green season, columbia’s ballers managed to drop consecutive contests by two stinking points.  the fairfield stags stymied the lions up in connecticut, 82 – 81 in ot while the longwood lancers journied up from the virginian hinterlands to humble our heroes 70 […] Read more »

on february’s last weekend, an apparently resurgent lion hoops crew returned to levien from its first ivy road sweep since 2008 for the final home set of the league season.  they fell flat, getting whipped by both dartmouth and harvard.  that sad parlay put a full stop to any hopes they might have had for […] Read more »

for the second straight weekend, the columbia lion basketball squad lost a tough friday night game before demolishing an overmatched competitor that had just made the exhausting bus trip from ithaca to morningside heights.  this week’s failure was against the princeton tigers; the victory was over penn’s quakers.  that pair of battles ended the lions’ […] Read more »