In their 13th season under head coach Ray Tellier, the Lions compiled a 3–7 record and were outscored 326 to 206.
Sloane Joseph, Brian Lysiak, Jeff McCall and Johnathan Reese were the team captains.
The Lions and crosstown rival Fordham Rams had initially hoped to play the game as a sign of New York City resiliency.
[3] Unlike the other Ivy League teams, which played a nine-game schedule in 2001, Columbia chose to reschedule its canceled game and add it to the end of the year, on Thursday, November 22.
Columbia played its homes games at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.