Originally Posted by grebletie
I know nothing about the ECCC. What makes the win, or the race weekend, historic?
the ECCC is the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. It is normally the strongest performer at nationals, of the 10 collegiate conferences.
The ECCC teams race three times over each weekend during their season. They take part in time trials, team time trials, criteriums and road races.
Columbia beat defending national champion Penn State over this weekend and several other big state schools like U. of New Hampshire and U. of Vermont. Yes, sports at Columbia generally suck. But this team definately does not.