A loss is a loss, but the nice job the basketball team did last night against #1 Kentucky at Rupp Arena was finally a positive representation of Columbia athletics on national TV.
What I liked more than the score and more than the fact that the Lions led at halftime, was the fact that you'd never guess Columbia was an Ivy League team just by looking at the way they moved around on the court.
Long gone was the slow, plodding play that teams like Princeton made an Ivy League staple.
The Lions looked fast, agile and ready for anything.
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No Rosenberg, no Mullins, and a 17 to 4 free throw disadvantage to boot. Yet Cal was complaining after the game that he was missing two reserve guards. Lo and Castlin are the real deal.
Very impressive without Rosenberg and Mullins.
We gave MSU a game last year, too..
Hey. You get to make fun of Princeton's style once you've matched their success. Till then, play nice.
I was there, sitting on the floor under the basket, at the 43-41 win over UCLA in 1996 at the NCAA tournament in Indy. It was slow all right, to the point of driving UCLA nuts, and it. was. awesome.
I'm not completely happy with our 4-guard setup. And after Frankoski the next two subs, MComber and Coby, are in fact forwards. (Though Coby usually gets into foul trouble.)
Still, Kyle Smith is getting great production out of his available players. But I see Bryan Grimes at the games as a graduated spectator and I think, this could have been his year, especially with Rosenberg out.
It's a real team, in other words, and it's a pretty darn good one.
On our four guard setup, Kyle likes to put three or four very athletic guys on the court at the same time, all of whom are around 6'4" or so,and can do just about everything. Grimes would have been a great player for us if he hadn't blown out his knee. Castlin reminds me of Grimes insofar as he has the same type of athleticism and all around court skills. He is a candidate for ROY.
Old Lion, I basically agree with you. It's amazing to me that several opponents to date have clearly underestimated the rebounding abilities and sheer aggressiveness of our starting four guards and Frankoski.
And I hope that delusion continues into Ivy play.
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