Tag: Mark Cisco

Checking out Columbia’s plus/minus

I was reading Princeton Basketball and catching up on the Tigers when I came across his post about Princeton’s plus/minus numbers through the first 10 games of the season. Now, I think people read into these numbers a bit too much, and last season Ken Pomeroy wrote a good takedown of +/-. Still, there’s value in looking at lineup combinations and just having the numbers confirm what your eyes, or other stats, are seeing. Let’s look at some for Columbia through the Lions’ first 11 games of the season.

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“Muck ball” carries Columbia past LIU

It wasn’t pretty. There were 67 missed shots and 35 turnovers. But, in the end, Columbia earned its seventh victory in a row, a 63-53 grinder over Long Island.

Well, at least as much as a game played at the quick-tempo that the Blackbirds like to play can be a grinder.

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Columbia falls in final minutes to American

Columbia's Mark Cisco makes his move.

For the second game in a row Columbia had an opponent right where it wanted them. The Lions were up four on American with 6:17 to play, but let the lead slip away and the Eagles pulled out a 66-58 victory at Levien Gymnasium on Saturday night.

American closed on an 18-6 run over the final six minutes of the game.

“We’ve got to study it some,” said Columbia head coach Kyle Smith. “We’ve got to put ourselves in more of those situations in practice. We’ve got guys that haven’t been in those situations at all. There’s really nothing like game experience, but at the same time we have to look at what we can do coaching wise.”

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