Slide continues as CU Buffs fall to No. 8 UCLA on road – JS
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Colorado’s Aaronette Vonleh, heart, tries to dribble previous the UCLA protection throughout a ladies’s basketball sport at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (College of Colorado Athletics)
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Why the Buffs misplaced: Regardless of taking part in good protection all evening, the Buffs might by no means maintain any rhythm offensively. They completed with a season low in factors and their lowest area objective share (.286) in over a yr.
1. UCLA’s Kiki Rice: The Bruins’ level guard had a game-high 20 factors, together with 9 rebounds, 4 assists, three blocks and two steals.
2. UCLA’s Charisma Osborne: Completed with 14 factors, together with a large 3-pointer with 88 seconds to play.
3. CU’s Jaylyn Sherrod: Led the Buffs with 10 factors and 7 rebounds. She additionally had 4 assists and 4 steals.
Up subsequent: CU returns residence to host Washington on Thursday at 7 p.m. (Pac-12 Community).
LOS ANGELES – A four-game string towards ranked opponents gave the Colorado ladies’s basketball crew a possibility to make an announcement and a transfer within the Pac-12 standings.
The Buffaloes did, nevertheless it wasn’t the assertion or the transfer that they had hoped to make.
No. 13-ranked CU rallied twice on Monday evening, however sputtered late in falling to No. 8 UCLA in a defensive battle 53-45 at Pauley Pavilion.
CU (20-7, 10-6 Pac-12) has misplaced 4 consecutive video games. Though all 4 have been towards high 20 groups, the shedding streak has taken CU from the highest of the standings to a tie for fifth place with two video games to play.
