On a day of memorial and celebration for the program, men’s basketball fell to Cornell 78-64 on Saturday, finishing the season on a 12-game losing streak.

On Saturday night, Columbia men’s basketball looked like it could steal a game from a Brown team holding onto dear life in the race for the last spot in the Ivy League Tournament. Tied 39-39 at halftime, the Lions’ second Ivy League win this season was well within reach.

It has been a long season for Columbia men’s basketball, to say the least.

In what has been a calamitous six weeks of Ivy League play, Saturday marked a new low for men’s basketball.

For 24 minutes of play, Columbia men’s basketball went neck and neck with the top team in the Ivy League.

Frank Thomas, CC ’56, Law ’63, was not a typical college basketball center. Standing at 6-foot-4, Thomas often had to tussle with players much larger than him. However, despite his smaller stature, Thomas possessed a knack for cleaning the glass like few others. During his three-year varsity basketball career with the Lions, Thomas averaged 14.2 rebounds per game, setting the program’s single-season and all-time rebounding records.

Nearly a month ago, men’s basketball captured its first Ivy League victory in 721 days.

Columbia football ended its season with a game that senior running back Ryan Young could only describe as “surreal.”

In the worst conference defeat of the season, men’s basketball fell to Brown on Saturday 93-74.

Following last weekend’s Ivy League road trip, men’s basketball returned home for the first time in over a month.