Columbia Lions Men's Basketball Post Season Records
1904 (17-1)
National Intercollegiate Champions as picked by the Helms Foundation
National Champions!
National Intercollegiate Championship (challenge)
[University of Minnesota (W.C.I.A. champs) challenge Columbia to a National Championship series at Minnesota, all expenses paid. Not allowed by faculty, nor would Seniors have participated..]
1905 (19-1)
National Intercollegiate Champions as picked by the Helms Foundation
National Champions!
1910 (11-1)
National Intercollegiate Champions as picked by the Helms Foundation
National Champions!
1930
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament (charity), at Madison Square Garden
4/2 [Columbia, N.Y.U., Syracuse, St. John's & Columbia invited but rejected offer. Did not occur.]
1931
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
1/19 Columbia 26 - Fordham 18 15,000
[Not truly a post-season game.] (Other games:St. John's 17 - C.C.N.Y. 9; Manhattan 16 - N.Y.U. 14)
1931-32
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
12/31 Columbia 22 - N.Y.U. 17 14,500
[Not truly a post-season game.] (Other games:St. John's 16 - Manhattan 6; C.C.N.Y. 23 - Forham 11)
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Play-Off, at the Palestra, Philadelphia
3/17 Princteon 38 - Columbia 35 6,000
1933
Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
2/22 Columbia 21 - Williams 15 (aft.) 5,000 (4th game of afternoon session)
[Not truly a post-season game.] (Other games: St. Francis 19 - L.I.U. 10; Brooklyn 41 - Cathedral 18; Manhattan 38 - Villanova 22 )
1935
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Play-Off, at the Rutgers Gym, New Brunswick
3/13 Pennsylvania 35 - Columbia 34 3,500
1938
Metropolitan A.A.U. Tournament
First Round (Semi-final): at Flatbush Boys Club
2/28 Williamsburg Y.M.H.A. 42 - Columbia Junior Varsity 34
1945
Experimental 3-Point Line Game, at Columbia Gymnasium
2/7 Columbia 73 - Fordham 58 1,000
[20-foot line; also 11 pt. FT from 15', 2 pts. FT from 21 ft; 12' lanes instead of 6'. Columbia's Norm Skinner 3 threes, Herb Poch 2; John Profant 4 three attempts.]
1948 (21-3)
N. C. A. A. Tournament
Eastern Regional, at Madison Square Garden
First Round (Semi-final): [winner in Olympic Trials at MSG]
3/18 Kentucky 76 - Columbia 53 18,477 (2nd g.: Holy Cross 63 - Michigan 45)
Consolation game:
3/20 Michigan 66 - Columbia 49 18,472 (Reg. final: Kentucky 60 - Holy Cross 52)
1950
Columbia Student Development Fund Benefit game, at Morningside Gym
3/11 Columbia 69 - N.Y.A.C. 55
1951 (22-1) [includes 31 game winning streak over 2 seasons]
N. C. A. A.
Eastern Regional, at Madison Square Garden
First Round (¼-final): [winner in Olympic Trials at MSG]
3/20 Illinois 79 - Columbia 71 17,107 (1st g.- St. John's 63 - Connecticut 52)
1952
Exhibition Game
1/7 Columbia 85 - University of Puerto Rico 49
1955
Ivy League Title Play-Offs (3-way tie)
Semi-Final, at Princeton, N.J., :
3/7 Columbia 72 - Pennsylvania 71
Final, at Rutgers, New Brunswick, N.J., :
3/9 Princeton 86 - Columbia 69
1968
Ivy League Title Playoff game, at St. John's Alumni Hall, Jamaica, N.Y.:
3/5 Columbia 92 - Princeton 74 6,005
N. C. A. A.
Eastern Regionals
First Round, at Cole Field House, College Park, Md.:
3/9 Columbia 83 - La Salle 69 12,890 (2nd g.-Davidson 79 - St. John's 70 )
Eastern Regional Final Four, at Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, N.C.
Regional Semi-final:
3/15 Davidson 61 - Columbia 59 O.T. 12,400 (other g.- North Carolina 91- St. Bonaventure 72)
Consolation game:
3/16 Columbia 95 - St. Bonaventure 75 12,400 (Reg. final: North Carolina 70 - Davidson 66)
1969 (20-4)
National Invitation Tournament, at Madison Square Garden
[Ivy League bans Columbia from accepting N.I.T. invitation.]
•Also see Columbia-Barnard Women's Basketball Post-Season Records.
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