With new head coach Jim Engles bringing in an almost entirely new coaching staff and strategy, and the departure of a senior class that comprised the entire starting lineup, expectations were relatively low for Columbia basketball coming into the season.

3-7 is no perfect record. But for Columbia football, the mark is indicative of the dominant trend since head coach Al Bagnoli took the helm two years ago: progress.

Baseball swept Princeton in the penultimate weekend of Ivy play this weekend to set up a dramatic end to the season.

Baseball began its stretch of division play at home going 1-3 in a back-to-back doubleheader series against Cornell. While the Light Blue’s bats were productive over the weekend, averaging 6.5 runs per game, the pitching staff struggled against a team that leads the Ivy League in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage.

Baseball is not the easiest sport to watch on television. It’s not all that dynamic to behold sitting in your armchair or at a desk in Butler. Each pitch thrown appears as only a flicker on the screen in front of you. The swings are weightless—the insignificant physics of some small men in grey pants hundreds of miles away from you.

Former men’s tennis star Dragos Ignat was acquitted of two criminal charges on Monday stemming from his involvement in an altercation at Mel’s Burger Bar on Sept. 13, 2015.

After winning just one of nine games over its spring break trip, baseball bounced back to split its series 2-2 at Power Five-conference opponent Penn State (9-13).