Columbia Basketball Schedule: 2008-09

Schedule (key games in bold)

November 14^th @ Fordham (given Fordham's rebuilding as well, the Lions could win this game)

16^th @ Seton Hall 

Tyler Ugolyn Columbia Classic 

21^st Bryant 

22^nd UMBC/Quinnipiac (win over Bryant could set up final against defending America East champs)

25^th Albany 

29^th Stony Brook 

December 3^rd Wagner 

9^th @ St. Francis (N.Y.) (a winnable road game on the schedule)

Aeropostale Holiday Festival (Madison Square Garden)

20^th Virginia Tech 

21^st St. John's/Marist

29^th Sacred Heart (Lions host a Sacred Heart team that many think can win the NEC)

January 2^nd @ Lehigh 

5^th @ American (Lions visit the defending Patriot League champs)

9^th NJIT 

17^th Cornell   

24^th @ Cornell (the Ivy schedule-makers didn't look out for Columbia here; open up league play with two games against the defending champs)

30^th Yale 

31^st Brown 

February 6^th @ Penn

7^th @ Princeton (beating Penn the night before may be a tough task, but the Lions can earn a split of the weekend)

13^th Dartmouth 

14^th Harvard   

20^th @ Brown (first of four consecutive road games that will decide the Lions' place in Ivy pecking order)

21^st @ Yale

27^th @ Harvard

28^th @ Dartmouth

March 6^th Princeton 

7^th Penn (depending on how the Ivy race turns out, this game could mean something extra to the Quakers)