Home Court Advantage has become an ever more contentious topic for the Ivy League since 2016’s announcement of an Ivy League Basketball Tournament. The men’s and women’s tournaments, which take place at Penn’s Palestra, give a marked advantage to Penn teams as compared to competitions on a neutral court or competitions on another Ivy court. […]

Every wondered to yourself what Columbia Men’s Basketball Coach Jim Engles thinks to himself at night? Returning sports staff writer Gloriana Lopez takes us for a quick jaunt through the coach’s mind. 4:01pm: The women’s team just won their game! Hopefully we’ll have two wins today thanks to that great pep talk I just gave […]

It’s a common fallacy of sports journalism to rest an entire game on a single play. In a 60 minute (or 3 hour) game of football, a point scored on the opening play matters just as much to the final score as a point as the clock expires. If a last-second touchdown is a team’s […]

In the interest of getting people to fill the stands at Homecoming, Staff Writer Abby Rubel and Sports Editor Ross Chapman fill you in on how to pretend like you’ve been a Columbia Football fan all along. So, you know that the Lions are 4-0 going into the Homecoming game against Penn this Saturday and […]

If you haven’t heard, this year is the inaugural Ivy League Basketball Tournament, in which four teams will compete in a bracket to determine who will represent the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament. Since the regular season now has a responsibility to assign the top four seeds, instead of just the top one, there […]

As Columbia Men’s Basketball prepares for their next season, loyal supporters are getting ready to spend the next few months rooting for the Lions. Sports editor Ross Chapman previews what fans can expect in the upcoming season. Last basketball season was one for the record books – or, one for the trophy cases. Thanks to an inspired performance by their […]

The first Columbia football game of the season is this Saturday. Should you go? Should you care? What is college football even like at Columbia? Sports Editor Ross Chapman is here to enlighten you. For the last 50 years, Lions football has tried to turn a corner and become a consistently great, or at least […]

NSOP told you that you should go cheer for your fellow students at athletic competitions. Bwog Sports Editor Ross Chapman takes a look at football to talk about Columbia history and the phenomenon of rooting for losers. Oh, no. Don’t do this to yourself. College football is a marvelous world. As one of the two […]

The NCAA isn’t the only tournament going on right now, although you’re forgiven for not knowing that. The Lions are onto bigger and better things in the postseason, and resident sportster Ross Chapman is here to give you the scoop.  Yale may have been knocked out of the NCAA’s, but that doesn’t mean that the […]

What’s in a name? Sportsball expert Ross Chapman gets to the bottom of this Shakespearean question, tracing the evolution of basketball player Maodo Lo’s nickname.  As the Class of 2016 gets ready for their last spring break, the Columbia community as a whole says goodbye to the Basketball Class of 2016, one which will live […]

Something’s got to give in the Ivy League. This weekend, Columbia said, “not us.” Another week of Ivy basketball has passed, and the top three teams have refused to cede any ground. Columbia, Yale, and Princeton all went 2-0. The Lions, unstable after dropping their first home game last week, bounced back in the strongest […]

Columbia and Yale have been held down for far too long. These two teams haven’t been to the NCAA tournament since the 60’s, but are now both 4-0 and will face off tonight at 5 p.m. in New Haven. The winner of the match will have the inside track to securing the Ivy League title, […]

Cats and dogs might not mix, but some of these Lions are looking particularly wolf-like following their impressive win against Kean (admittedly a Division III school), and they’re ready to enter a new phase in the program. Ross Chapman, of the discerning eye and a taste for silver, observes and speculates about the upcoming game.  This year’s […]

We’ve all had fun watching Columbia Football win two games this season, but if you want to watch an actually successful team dominate the field, go to Dodge at 5:00pm tonight to check out the Columbia Fencing Invitational. Watch last year’s NCAA champions as they square off against teams from Northwestern, Stevens’ Institute Of Technology, NJIT, Fairleigh Dickinson, and […]

It’s the beginning of the semester, which means that while plenty of us are having enough trouble just getting readjusted to classes, the student athletes have an entire season to prepare for. Here’s a brief preview of what’s going on with each team at Columbia for the fall season. Keep checking in with Bwog to […]