In his first career Ivy League dual match, Timothy Wang was serving up 5-4 in the third set against Dartmouth’s Max Schmidt at sixth singles.

Men’s tennis made quick work of Monmouth on Saturday, dispatching the Hawks 7-0 in the team’s last match before its annual spring break trip to Texas.

Tucked under the west bleachers of Lawrence A. Wien Stadium not far from where the Harlem and Hudson rivers meet lies the Dick Savitt Tennis Center, where Columbia’s tennis program has recently registered unprecedented success. Men’s tennis has won four consecutive Ivy League titles and has not lost an Ivy League match inside the Bubble since 2011. Women’s tennis won its first-ever Ivy League title in 2013, and this year, the team’s, head coach Ilene Weintraub, CC ’02, has brought in back-to-back top-10 recruiting classes in search of another Ancient Eight title.

Men’s basketball came up just short against Dartmouth, losing 80-78 in Hanover in heartbreaking fashion.

As men’s basketball readies to face off against Dartmouth and Harvard to close its season, Spectator has attempted to analyze the various scenarios that could lead Columbia to its first-ever appearance in the Ivy League Tournament.

After rising to a program-high No. 8 spot in the national Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings last week, men’s tennis moved up an additional three spots to fifth place on Tuesday to earn the program’s and the Ivy League’s highest-ever national ranking.

In a game where there were more total fouls called than total shots made, men’s basketball capitalized on 33 made free throws to claim an 89-82 victory over Brown on Friday at Levien Gymnasium.

In a decade of firsts for men’s tennis, somehow the team has found another way to shatter expectations, rising above goals that were once considered quixotic at best and impossible at worst.

Senior guard Kyle Castlin was just 12 years old the last time men’s basketball beat Princeton at home.