On March 15 and 16, Guest Writer Twyla Frid Lotenberg attended the championship tournament. Here are the best moments, captured on camera.
This year’s annual Ivy League basketball postseason tournament was hosted by Columbia Athletics in the Levien Gymnasium on the weekend of March 15 to 17. The top four teams of the Ivy League competed for a chance at an automatic bid to March Madness. Following is a collection of photos telling the story of the Columbia (23-7, 13-1 Ivy) Lions’ journey through this tournament.
Princeton earns its ticket to March Madness, while Columbia is left devastated. Head coach Griffith delivers a heart-wrenching speech in the post-game press conference, asking the March Madness selection committee to grant Columbia a spot in the NCAA tournament; “I really hope the committee gives… this team a chance, because if we just keep being in this spot, we’re not growing the game.”
On Sunday night the NCAA announced that Columbia had received a bid to the NCAA national tournament, playing Vanderbilt, thus ending the weekend with an unexpected win.
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