LAS VEGAS — The loss at UCLA on Feb. 15 wasn’t the ugliest of Colorado’s shortcomings on the highway this season. Nor was it probably the most irritating, because the Buffaloes had been a month faraway from losing a 19-point second-half lead at California.
But that loss throughout the last Pac-12 Convention go to to Pauley Pavilion despatched the Buffs to a brand new nadir with their highway woes. The CU males’s basketball crew has modified that narrative, although, over the previous month and can take a six-game successful streak, together with renewed hopes for a spot within the NCAA Event, into their last look within the Pac-12 match.
The primary spherical started on Wednesday, however the third-seeded Buffs don’t play till the ultimate quarterfinal recreation on Thursday night time (9:30 p.m. MT, FS1) in opposition to both Eleventh-seeded Arizona State or sixth-seeded Utah, who had been set for the ultimate first-round recreation late Wednesday night time.
“I feel the teaching employees actually emphasizes that. Firstly of the season, they all the time discuss how the season is a marathon,” CU senior Tristan da Silva mentioned. “They sort of make the gamers conscious that the video games are vital, however even in case you’re struggling you’ve nonetheless received a variety of time to get higher, to get to the purpose the place you need to get at.”
CU’s season was on the brink following the loss at UCLA, which left the Buffs at 7-7 within the league, 1-7 in true highway video games and 3-8 away from house general. What occurred subsequent might need turned the fortunes of the complete season.
The Buffs (22-9, 13-7 Pac-12) had been on their technique to one other highway loss two nights later at USC when KJ Simpson scored 11 factors in a late 20-5 run that received the Buffs again within the recreation. A Simpson-to-Luke O’Brien dunk tied the sport with 3.7 seconds left, and CU finally prevailed in double time beyond regulation.
