Quick break
Why the Buffs gained: For many of the day, CU performed strong protection, crashed the boards and restricted turnovers, whereas changing Oregon’s turnovers into factors.
Three stars:
1. CU’s Aaronette Vonleh: Posted the third double-double of her profession with 16 factors and 10 rebounds, whereas additionally having two blocks and a career-best 4 steals. Seven of her rebounds got here on the offensive glass.
2. Oregon’s Phillipina Kyei: Quiet first half, however she completed with 12 factors and a game-high 17 rebounds, together with 5 offensive rebounds.
3. CU’s Tameiya Sadler: Got here off the bench to attain seven factors, dish six assists and give you two steals in 27 minutes.
Up subsequent: CU visits Washington State on Friday at 8 p.m. MT.
EUGENE, Ore. – Colorado has had a lot better days than Sunday, however head coach JR Payne won’t ever complain a couple of win within the highway.
The third-ranked CU girls’s basketball staff fought by taking pictures woes to roll previous Oregon 61-48 at Matthew Knight Area.
Aaronette Vonleh posted her second double-double of the season, with 16 factors and 10 rebounds in serving to the Buffs (17-3, 7-2 Pac-12) bounce again from Friday’s loss at No. 25 Oregon State.
“Actually pleased with how we responded after Friday night time’s recreation,” Payne mentioned. “We had been all very upset with how we carried out Friday. To not take something away from Oregon State, however we had been very annoyed and upset with ourselves within the Friday night time recreation.
“I feel a mature group can look ourselves within the mirror and say, how may we’ve got been higher and what are we going to do about it? We’re not going to cry about it, we’re not gonna pout; we’re gonna repair it and actually lean into one another to be higher subsequent day trip. I assumed we did that in the present day.”
CU led by as many as 21 factors, however Oregon (11-11, 2-7) made issues fascinating within the fourth quarter. A 13-2 Geese run, sparked by Phillipina Kyei and Grace VanSlooten, sliced CU’s result in 50-43 with 4 minutes, 56 seconds to play.
The Buffs responded with a 6-0 run, nevertheless. Frida Formann had 4 factors in that surge and added a 3-pointer with 1:49 to go to bump the result in 14.
“It was irritating for me,” Payne mentioned of Oregon’s rally. “Even in that run, I assumed they hit robust pictures. These pull-up jumpers, these are actually robust pictures that (VanSlooten) was making. We form of withstood the run and made sufficient of our personal to maintain it at bay.”
Along with Vonleh’s 16 factors, Formann completed with 9, however it was a quiet day offensively for many of the Buffs. CU acquired vital contributions off the bench, nevertheless, from Tameiya Sadler (seven factors, six assists) and Charlotte Whittaker (eight factors, three rebounds).
General, CU shot simply 34.6% (27-of-78), its second-lowest share of the season, but additionally had a season-high 20 offensive rebounds. Vonleh, who’s from close by West Linn, Ore., had seven offensive boards.
“Netty is simply so good and nonetheless has a lot room to develop,” Payne mentioned. “Actually nice for her to have the ability to play in entrance of her household. Her mother and her grandmother and lots of people right here, which is all the time nice to have the ability to do this. I do know she’s loved being near them right here, as properly.”
Defensively, the Buffs held Oregon to simply 17.4% (4-of-23) taking pictures within the first half. The Geese didn’t hit a subject purpose within the ultimate 13:58 of the half and CU went into intermission with a 31-11 lead. It was the lowest-scoring half for a Buffs’ opponent since Arizona had 10 within the second half on Feb. 23, 2014.
Within the second half, nevertheless, the Geese went 14-of-34 (41.2%) and outscored the Buffs 37-30.
“I assumed our protection was phenomenal within the first half, not as nice within the second half,” Payne mentioned. “I feel after we actually are centered defensively guarding as a staff – we discuss so much about, like Grace VanSlooten, nobody’s going to cease her by themselves, however collectively we will make her work for her buckets, issues like that. So I assumed we defended very well as a staff.”
It was sufficient to get the Buffs again within the win column.
“Our convention is so good, you must have a brief reminiscence,” Payne mentioned. “We discuss this so much, however good or unhealthy, you must have a really brief reminiscence as a result of the following staff can beat you when you don’t. So, I used to be actually pleased with how we responded.”
No. 3 Colorado 61, Oregon 48
COLORADO (17-3, 7-2 Pac-12)
Sherrod 2-4 0-0 4, Formann 4-10 0-0 9, Miller 2-9 1-1 5, Vonleh 7-17 2-4 16, Nolan 2-11 0-0 6, Sadler 3-10 0-1 7, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Wetta 1-5 0-0 2, Whittaker 4-7 0-0 8. Totals 27-78 3-6 61.
OREGON (11-11, 2-7 Pac-12)
Basham 1-4 0-0 2, Grey 2-13 8-12 13, Williams 1-7 0-0 2, Kyei 5-9 2-2 12, VanSlooten 8-19 0-0 16, Chamberlin 1-4 0-0 3, Wagner 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Hamel 0-0 0-0 0, Rambus 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 18-57 10-14 48.
Colorado 13 18 14 16 – 61
Oregon 8 3 17 20 – 48
3-point targets – Colorado 4-18 (Nolan 2-7, Formann 1-6, Sadler 1-2, Miller 0-2, Smith 0-1), Oregon 2-16 (Grey 1-4, Chamberlin 1-4, Williams 0-5, VanSlooten 0-3). Rebounds – Colorado 52 (Vonleh 10), Oregon 41 (Kyei 17). Assists – Colorado 22 (Wetta 7), Oregon 5 (VanSlooten 2). Steals – Colorado 11 (Vonleh 4), Oregon 3 (Chamberlin 2). Turnovers – Colorado 9, Oregon 15. Complete fouls – Colorado 15, Oregon 9. Fouled out – None. Attendance – 2,517.
