This was the most effective half, when you concentrate on it: The Columbia Lions have been unimpressed with themselves. Right here they have been, dying moments of a basketball sport that will quickly be the supply of bewilderment for school basketball followers in all places — “Wait, that score’s backward, isn’t it?” — and the least stunned folks inside Finneran Pavilion have been the Lions themselves.
“Honestly,” Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa says, “it wasn’t that big a surprise to us.”
All over the place else? Sure. Columbia 90, Villanova 80, that was a shock. That was a stunner. Possibly Villanova isn’t the place it was a number of years in the past underneath Jay Wright, however this was nonetheless a Large East group vs. an Ivy League group, nonetheless contained in the Cats’ lair, and the Lions seized a 10-point lead halfway although the second half and easily eased on house.
That was Nov. 6.
