Quick break
Why the Buffs gained: CU performed robust protection, holding Oregon State to a 3-for-17 mark on 3-pointers, whereas posting a .525 discipline purpose proportion.
Three stars:
1. Tristan da Silva: Completed with a full stat line with a game-high 19 factors, seven rebounds and 4 assists.
2. Cody Williams. Went 6-for-10 from the ground with 16 factors, six rebounds, two steals and no turnovers.
3. Eddie Lampkin Jr.: Practically posted a double-double, ending with 17 factors and eight rebounds.
Up subsequent: CU performs its subsequent three video games on the street, starting Wednesday at Washington (9 p.m. MT, ESPNU).
The Colorado males’s basketball staff returned to the CU Occasions Middle final week reeling from an terrible street journey and in want of a reboot in its quest to play an element within the Pac-12 Convention race.
The Buffaloes put the ultimate touches on reaching that feat on Saturday.
CU accomplished a three-game dwelling sweep by dominating Oregon State, posting a 90-57 victory on the Occasions Middle. The Buffs improved to 12-0 at dwelling and joined CU’s 1968-69 Massive Eight championship squad as the one groups in program historical past to win their first 12 dwelling video games.
After taking part in consecutive video games with the highest seven rotation gamers all wholesome for the primary time in additional than a month, CU as soon as once more performed shorthanded on Saturday as beginning ahead J’Vonne Hadley was sidelined as a result of a knee harm.
“One other actually good win. Workman-like effort,” CU head coach Tad Boyle stated. “I assumed our guys had been fairly dialed-in on the defensive finish, which is what we have now been difficult about over the past week, week and a half of apply or so. Guarding the 3-point line is one thing we’ve talked about that we haven’t finished a fantastic job of at occasions, however tonight we had been terrific. Had some actually good defensive efforts.”
The Buffs scored the sport’s first 5 factors and by no means trailed, utilizing a 14-0 run within the first half to take management and construct a 22-point lead late within the first half.
CU led 45-23 at halftime and reeled off a 14-1 run early within the second half, pushing the result in 33 factors.
CU shot not less than 50% for the eleventh time this season, ending at .525, whereas holding Oregon State to a .333 mark and a 3-for-17 exhibiting on 3-pointers. CU matched a season-low with solely eight turnovers. After being essentially the most turnover-prone staff within the Pac-12 for the majority of the season, the Buffs have recorded a season-low turnover whole in three of the previous 4 video games.
“I believe our guys, they’re making extra easy performs,” Boyle stated. “It’s eliminating the foolish ones. It’s simply making easy performs and taking what the protection provides you. We’re making progress in that space, too.”
Six gamers scored in double figures for the Buffs, led by a 19-point, seven-rebound, four-assist efficiency from senior ahead Tristan da Silva. Freshman Cody Williams went 6-for-10 with 16 factors and a season-high-tying six rebounds, whereas middle Eddie Lampkin completed with 17 factors and eight rebounds. CU level guard KJ Simpson recorded 13 factors, seven rebounds and 4 assists.
Whereas the Buffs have cruised at dwelling, and regained some much-needed momentum with three wins on the Occasions Middle in every week, CU will look to lastly recover from the hump away from dwelling when it takes an 0-4 mark in true street video games into Wednesday’s date at Washington to start a run of three consecutive street video games.
“Each recreation issues. We will’t be lackadaisical with sure opponents,” da Silva stated. “We acquired to ensure we dig in each single time that we step on the ground, whether or not that’s from one half to a different or that’s one recreation to a different. We’re about to go on the street, so I really feel like this little momentum that we’ve acquired going proper now’s going to be good for us on the street, too. We’ve simply acquired to maintain doing what we’re doing.”
OREGON ST. (9-9, 1-6 Pac-12)
Bilodeau 8-12 2-2 18, Ndong 1-1 0-0 2, Akanno 0-6 0-0 0, Pope 3-11 3-4 10, Rochelin 0-3 1-2 1, Lake 2-4 6-6 10, Rataj 4-12 1-3 11, Craig 0-2 0-0 0, Marrs 1-3 1-1 3, Wright 0-0 0-0 0, Ibekwe 1-4 0-0 2, Stevens 0-1 0-0 0, Marial 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-60 14-18 57.
COLORADO (14-5, 5-3)
Williams 6-10 2-3 16, da Silva 6-10 6-7 19, Lampkin 7-13 3-4 17, O’Brien 4-6 1-2 10, Simpson 4-8 4-4 13, Hammond 1-6 0-0 2, Diop 3-4 4-4 10, Ruffin 1-2 0-0 3, Dak 0-1 0-0 0, Hurlburt 0-0 0-0 0, Pease 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-61 20-24 90.Halftime — Colorado 45-23. 3-point discipline targets — Oregon St. 3-17 (Rataj 2-5, Pope 1-3, Craig 0-1, Rochelin 0-1, Bilodeau 0-2, Lake 0-2, Akanno 0-3), Colorado 6-15 (Williams 2-3, O’Brien 1-1, Ruffin 1-2, Simpson 1-2, da Silva 1-3, Dak 0-1, Pease 0-1, Hammond 0-2). Rebounds — Oregon St. 31 (Rataj 6), Colorado 41 (Lampkin 8). Assists — Oregon St. 10 (Lake, Rataj, Craig 2), Colorado 19 (Hammond 5). Turnovers — Oregon State 10 (Akanno, Rataj, Ibekwe 2); Colorado 8 (Lampkin, Hammond 2). Complete fouls — Oregon St. 22, Colorado 17. Fouled Out — Rochelin. Technicals — Ndong, Lampkin, Simpson. Attendance — 7,944.
