having fallen at fordham’s rose hill gymnasium back on december 30, the light blue mbb team duly slaughtered div iii mt saint vincent’s in their last non-league battle of the 2023 – 24 campaign. on tuesday, they will travel to ithaca for a tangle with brian earl’s high octane cornell offense. five days later they […] Read more »
the lions play santa two weeks early
there have been two big stories during the 2023 – 24 non-league portion of the ivy league basketball season. first has been the heralded 10 – 1 start by the princeton men’s five. led by sophomores xian lee and caden pierce and senior matt alloco, the tigers have have roared into the season subsequent to […] Read more »
early hope
strangest time of the college basketball calendar, no? too many teams refine their games far from their native hardwood. holiday tourneys proliferate, luring squads and their fans to unhooply climes like maui or the bahamas. the columbia lions have not offered light blue clad rooters any such getaways. our heroes have labored in familiar, or […] Read more »
first principles
tonight the columbia lions return to the hardwood up in providence, rhode island. over the last three seasons, the light blue has won seventeen while losing eighty five games. hard to imagine, but that .200 winning percentage is two times better than their performance in the ivy league where they have won four and lost […] Read more »
nyc nye seism shakes the ivies and allgame
when the current edition of the columbia mens’ basketball team fell to rutgers by forty points in their first contest and by twenty eight to the umass-lowell river hawks in their levien opener, allgame was among the naysaying head hangers in the stands and on the internet. lion fans had best brace for a third […] 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 »