Men's Basketball

Coming off a season that saw Columbia's men's basketball team post 16 victories (the most since 1992-3) and seven in the league, expectations were high going into this year.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

The Columbia men’s basketball team heads to Princeton today to take on the Tigers, a team led by senior Noah Savage.

By every measure, the seniors playing their last games for Columbia this weekend comprise one of the most successful classes in the history of the men’s basketball program.

Since Cornell clinched the Ivy League championship last weekend, the seven other teams in the conference will spend their final weekend of Ivy play preparing for the upcoming season and trying to finish their current campaigns on positive notes.

His chin resting on his hands, Joe Jones sat in Saturday’s post-game news conference dejected.

After ranking twelfth in the entire nation last season in three-point percentage at an astonishing clip of 40.2 percent, the Lions have struggled at times behind the three-point line.

If you aren’t a huge Ivy basketball fan or only tune into the sport when the calendar turns to March 1, you may have missed a piece of history on Saturday night.

Coming off a split with Brown and Yale, Columbia (14-13, 7-5 Ivy) continued its quest for its first over-.500 campaign since 1992-93. However, the eight win has proven to be elusive, and the Lions will have to continue their quest next weekend after a weekend split against Harvard and Dartmouth.

His chin resting on his hands, Joe Jones sat in Saturday’s post-game news conference dejected.

The night before, he had watched his team grind out a lackluster victory over Harvard—and he hadn’t been satisfied with the performance. Saturday, the Lions faced Dartmouth, which came to Levien Gymnasium with an abysmal 2-9 record. It was their chance to put things right and complete their third weekend sweep of the season.