NEW YORK -- Columbia coach Armond Hill was fired Monday, two days after his team finished with a 2-25 record, the worst season in the school's 103-year basketball history.

The Lions lost their final 18 games, the last one a 44-40 defeat at Princeton on Saturday. Hill had a 72-141 record during his eight seasons, beginning in 1995. None of his teams had winning a record.

"I am thankful to Armond for the time he spent with us, but I believe that a change in leadership is what our program needs at this point in time,'' athletic director John Reeves said.

Reeves said a search for a successor would begin immediately.

This season the Lions scored 40 or fewer points in a game seven times and finished with the nation's second-lowest scoring average.

Columbia also became only the second team to go through an Ivy League season winless, finishing 0-14. Dartmouth twice finished without a league victory in 1963-64 and 1965-66. Columbia's only wins came against UTEP and Army.

This marked the first time in Ivy League history that a school had been winless in football (0-7) and basketball in the same academic year. Football coach Ray Tellier was dismissed Nov. 26, 2002, after 14 seasons.

Hill was the 20th coach in Columbia history and his eight-year stay was the fourth longest.

Hw was an all-Ivy forward at Princeton. He co-captained the Tigers team that won the 1975 NIT, the only Ivy team ever to win that tournament.

He was an assistant coach at Princeton for four seasons before succeeding Jack Rohan as Columbia's head coach.

Hill also had an eight-year career in the NBA with Atlanta, Milwaukee, the Clippers and Seattle. he was Atlanta's first-round draft choice in 1976, the ninth choice overall.

Columbia won only one of five games in the 1900-01 season but this year's percentage of .074 was the lowest ever.