Unless you’re at one of about 20 top schools in the country hiring a head coach is similar to recruiting. You go find the best one you can and hope they’re a good fit. Continue reading “Grading The Head Coaching Moves”
Category: Ivy League
Jim Engles Takes Over Columbia At Critical Juncture
Jim Engles was the obvious choice to replace Kyle Smith as Columbia’s head coach. The 47-year-old Staten Island native has experience in light blue, having spent five years as a Lions assistant in the mid-2000s. And he has experience as a New York metro area head coach, having led NJIT from the midst of a 51-game D-I losing streak when he took over to a pair of 20-win seasons when he left. Continue reading “Jim Engles Takes Over Columbia At Critical Juncture”
The Scene As Columbia Is The CIT Champion
I’ll have much more to say about Columbia’s victory over UC Irvine last night. For the moment though, let’s enjoy the CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship. Continue reading “The Scene As Columbia Is The CIT Champion”
Columbia Rolls Into CIT Finals Carrying Ivy League Flag
After beating NJIT somewhat handily 80-65 Sunday night in the semifinals of the CIT, Columbia coach Kyle Smith talked about how great the Ivy League has been.
“The league’s good. I was really happy for Yale,” Smith said. “I feel like sometimes it’s like ‘if a tree falls in the forest’ thing because that’s how I feel about the Ivy League. I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs that there’s really good teams and that helps prove that. Princeton got a horrible seeding in the NIT, should not have been on the road, and they almost advanced as it was.”
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Columbia Setting Records As It Advances In The CIT
The cracks were starting to show in Columbia’s season. The Lions were down seven points to Ball State with six minutes to play and Isaac Cohen was on the bench with four fouls. Continue reading “Columbia Setting Records As It Advances In The CIT”
Ivy League Weekly Roundup: #2BidIvy!
Recapping the news from a historic week in Ivy League basketball: Continue reading “Ivy League Weekly Roundup: #2BidIvy!”
Yale’s Run One For The Ages, And They Knew It
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Like many other seniors in March after a loss that ended their collegiate careers, Brandon Sherrod fought back tears on the postgame NCAA Tournament podium as he was peppered with questions that ranged from inane to sentimental.
However, in Sherrod’s case it was tough to tell whether they were tears of sadness or joy. Knowing Sherrod and his story, I’m going with the latter.
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Yale To Let It Ride In Showdown With Duke
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Most economists and game theorists are adamant that “house money” is a fallacy. No matter how much of a run you’re on or how much you have exceeded what you started with, it makes no sense to risk what you have blindly with little hope of increasing your lot. Continue reading “Yale To Let It Ride In Showdown With Duke”
Yale Puts Its Name With Greats Of Mid-Major Past With Upset
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Yale may have a $23 billion endowment (second to Harvard nationally), and if we were playing the Game of Life (still available at a store near you, I think), they would certainly be far from a cute underdog we love so much this time of year.
But if you’re around college basketball enough, you know a big-time program with the budget of a Central American country when you see one. And Yale ain’t it.
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Appreciate Columbia While They’re Still Here
There’s this restaurant I used to order from in Morningside Heights that would deliver to my apartment, but sometime over the summer they stopped delivering that far south. Now after every Columbia I stop by for takeout on the way home. Continue reading “Appreciate Columbia While They’re Still Here”
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