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Columbia men’s basketball failed to secure its second Ivy League win this weekend. The losses to Princeton on Friday and Penn on Saturday marked the team’s 12th and 13th consecutive losses, cementing the Lions’ spot at the bottom of the Ancient Eight.

Columbia lacrosse entered Saturday’s Ivy opener against Princeton on a three-game losing streak and left with the worst loss of its young season to the three-peat Ivy League champion.

Women’s swimming and diving placed sixth at the Ivy League Championships this past weekend, underperforming its dual-meet season, where it won four out of seven meets against Ivy League teams. Though the team struggled to keep up with Ancient Eight titans Princeton and Harvard, the meet was capped by impressive individual performances.

The Columbia men’s basketball team experienced another tough weekend of Ivy League play, falling to both Penn and Princeton. bringing the Lions’ to their fifth consecutive loss of the season.

Columbia men’s swimming and diving finished its dual season with its first road win of the year and the Light Blue’s first victory against Princeton since 1980. The Lions finished their dual meet season at 6-3 and 5-2 Ivy after beating the second-best team in the league.

In the last road dual meet of the spring, No. 22 Princeton (7-1, 5-0 Ivy) defeated Columbia (3-3, 3-3 Ivy) in its soundest loss of the season. The Lions only mustered three event wins and six second-place finishes on the day, struggling to match up against a formidable Princeton squad, which ended up winning the meet 210-87.

Chichi Ikwuazom is going down in the record books. The senior middle blocker set a new Columbia single-season record for most kills after dominating this weekend’s homestand. The Lions beat Penn 3-1 in Friday’s matchup, but then lost on Saturday in four sets to current Ivy leader Princeton after a comeback effort fell short in overtime of the fourth set. Ikwuazom shone in both games.

Saturday evening saw men’s soccer fall 2-1 in a matchup against Princeton.

In need of a win to stay in the top half of the Ivy table, women’s soccer instead had to settle with a 1-1 double-overtime tie at Princeton after a last-second winner was controversially called off.

In an away game on Saturday, the No. 7 Tigers dismantled the Lions 8-1 in a dominant performance that began in just the first 15 minutes of the match.