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CU’s best player will sit during the team’s summer trip to ‘Straya

With everything that’s going on this week, the Colorado Buffaloes have been turned upside down, figuratively and literally.

The Buffs first announced a pre-season tour of Australia — the literal part, being down under — then re-hired Nate Tomlinson, the Aussie point guard who returns as an assistant coach. And now the latest news is that Bangot Dak will miss the entirety of the summer recovering from injury.

First reported by Pat Rooney, Dak is expected to make a full recovery and return to preseason practices in August. But he will be out during this Australia tour in which the Buffs play four exhibition games from July 23 to August 5, including the national team. (NBA players like Patty Mills and Dante Exum won’t play, but the team is loaded with veteran NBL players.)

This should also present itself as a recruiting trip for the Buffs. Australia is rich in basketball talent and Nate Tomlinson has been active recruiting his countrymen in the past. This trip should increase the visibility of the Buffs and shore up connections between CU and top basketball clubs and academies in the country. And maybe next time Josh Giddey chooses the Buffs over the NBL, like he almost did in 2020.

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Colorado’s week four battle with the ‘Pokes will be at a fully packed Folsom Field

It’s getting real, y’all. Football season is almost here.

On Wednesday afternoon, the University of Colorado announced its first sellout of the 2025 season — the Family Weekend game against Wyoming.

This marks the earliest sellout announcement in recent memory, coming nearly a full month earlier than last year’s first sold-out game. It appears that last season’s nine-win campaign left a lasting impact on the fan base and the university as a whole.

Family Weekend vs. Wyoming is SOLD OUT #GoBuffs | @CUBuffsFootball pic.NOPE/iE6uZeGDQm

— Colorado Buffaloes (@CUBuffs) June 18, 2025​

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A couple of other matchups are trending toward sellout status as well, including the season opener against Georgia Tech and CU’s Big 12 home opener against BYU. If you’re eyeing tickets, that BYU game is set for an 8:15 p.m. kickoff and might end up being the rowdiest crowd Folsom sees this year. The Alamo Bowl rematch alone would be enough to draw hype, but under the lights in Boulder? That one should be electric.

This Wyoming game will mark Colorado and Deion Sanders’ first since signing his new five-year, $54 million contract extension this offseason. If the stands continue to fill like this, it’s hard to argue that it wasn’t money well spent.

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The Buffs and Boomers will play in late July

Tad Boyle and the Colorado Buffaloes’ summer just got a lot more eventful, as the team has officially locked in an exhibition matchup with the Australian Boomers Men’s Basketball National Team in late July.

Allowed once every four years, Boyle announced that he’ll be taking his team to Australia for an international tour. The Buffs will head down under for around two weeks, from July 23 to August 5, and play four exhibition games against Aussie opponents.

CU’s matchup with the Boomers is the first of their exhibition games and will likely be the most difficult. The Boomers’ roster is littered with some of the best players that Australia’s National Basketball League has to offer, including some former NCAA Division I players from major schools like Miami and Wisconsin.

The Boomers should give Bangot Dak, Barrington Hargress and Sabastian Rancik a real challenge. As a team, getting to play such a formidable opponent so early into the summer could act as a serious booster to development. Getting to play the Boomers is likely the best possible case scenario for the Buffs, and Boyle agrees.

“So it’ll be a heck of a challenge for us, heck of an opportunity for us to get better,” said Boyle in a press release. “You want to play against the best, so we’re trying to do that. We are really fortunate and happy to have this opportunity.”

Fans can get an extra-early sneak peek at the 2025-26 Buffs when they play the Boomers at the Gold Coast Sports & Leisure Center near Brisbane. Tip-off is scheduled for 12:00 pm AEST on July 31st, which will be at 7:00 pm on July 30th in Colorado. That’s a 17-hour difference, whew...

Details about how to watch the game and CU’s other three exhibition opponents will be released at a later date. As soon as they become available, we’ll update here at Ralphie Report.

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Coach Prime is spending Father's Day at home with family (including a new grandchild) ... Buff fans don't know how long we'll have Coach Prime in Boulder, but it's never a bad time to look at what he has already brought to CU ...

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Back for the third time, baby

Say what you want about Tad Boyle, but he is loyal. Sometimes to a fault. After a disastrous first season back in the Big 12, the Colorado Buffaloes are running it back for the most part, with some changes. One of those changes is on staff. Nate Tomlinson, who was on staff in prior seasons, and on the team under Tad Boyle even before that, has rejoined the staff as an assistant coach.

https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/06...ff-nate-tomlinson-rejoining-tad-boyles-staff/

Tomlinson was on staff as the director player development from 2019-2021, in the prime McKinley Wright era. He was on staff with Kim English, who then took the head coaching job at Providence College. Tomlinson followed him there, where he cut his teeth enough to come back to Boulder as an assistant coach.

Prior to coaching at all, Tomlinson played basketball at the University of Colorado from 2008 - 2012. He was one of the players that stuck around from the Jeff Bzdelik era and helped Tad Boyle win a Pac-12 conference championship in the first year of the full conference (thank you also to Andre Roberson). Tomlinson is the second former Boyle player to join staff, with Evan Battey also on the bench as an assistant coach. This really isn’t that surprising, given that Tomlinson and Battey were both fan favorites in their time as players at The Keg.

Welcome back once again, Nate!

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