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2025 Big 12 Tourney thread- #16 seed MEN'S bball (Kansas City, MO; 1st round game vs. #9 seed TCU, Tuesday, 3/11, 1:00 PM MT, ESPN+)
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I think the replay clearly showed it hit the glass first.
alec10burks
Well-Known Member
Whew, great win considering how the rest of the season has been lol
Ok, was watching on my phone so was hard to tell
Wow, 3 more wins to NCAA!
It's pretty common for teams to surpass their season conference win total during the conference tournament.
*4........Buffs would have to win 5 to win this tournament.
Falconetti
Well-Known Member
Not overlooking W Virginia...but Houston, we have a problem
Five? What kind of bull junk tournament is this? We should be playing in the NCAA final 4 with 5 wins.
There's 16 in the conference but the tournament is not a standard 16 team bracket. (If it was we would have been playing Houston today).
Rd 1: Top 8 get byes, bottom 8 play each other, which eliminates 4.
Rd 2: Top 4 get byes, 5 through 8 play the 4 first round winners
Rd 3. Quarterfinals
Rd 4: Semis
Rd 5: Championship
#FireTad
The last sentence, take it easy.
Media after today's win:
Article - https://cubuffs.com/news/2025/3/11/...tcu-in-first-round-of-the-big-12-championship
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Led by Andrej Jakimovski's 16 second-half points, 16th-seed Colorado pushed by No. 9 TCU 69-67 in the first round of the Big 12 Championship Tuesday at the T-Mobile Center.
"When you don't play your best, and we were far from our best today, and you figure out how to win a game in March, it says something about your guys," head coach Tad Boyle said. "This team has come a long way. We've been through a lot together, and they stuck together and to see them with the fight today, even though we didn't play our best."
Colorado (13-19) outlasted TCU (16-16) for the second time in four days to win its first Big 12 Championship game since 2011 and win a game in a conference tournament for the 14th time in 15 seasons.
Jakimovski scored a game-high 18 points, including 16 in the second half, putting Colorado ahead 13 points before TCU responded with a 10-0 run to cut the lead to 63-60 with 1:47 left in the game.
A dunk by Bangot Dak slowed the momentum for the Horn Frogs, but another 3-pointer cut the lead to 65-63 with under a minute to go. As he had been all season, Julian Hammond III was money at the free throw line, making both to make it a two-possession game.
TCU scored quickly to cut the lead back to two points before Javon Ruffin iced the game with two free throws of his own to keep Colorado ahead for good.
While Jakimovski led the way in the second half, Hammond got the team going in the first half, scoring 10 of his 16 points to help grow the lead. The team as a whole shared the ball with assists on 16 of the 21 field goals made.
"I think playing in this tournament the first game is the hardest, and we won this one," Jakimovski said. "We've been practicing really hard the last six months. but we've been struggling with ups and downs. But we are just gonna give everything we got. We are going to try to win one game at a time."
With only 22 points in the paint, Colorado used 9-of-22 (40.9%) shooting from deep and 18 made free throws to score the ball. To keep the game close, TCU used 22 offensive rebounds and 18 second-chance points.
"When we make nine threes, and we guard the way we guard it today, we can beat anybody, but we got to rebound the ball better," Boyle commented. "We're a much, much better shooting team than we've shown this year. Andrej made a few today, which is what we really needed, and RJ [Smith] made a couple. Trevor made plays in the lane on transition and always gives us great energy. When we shoot the ball, it really helps. I mean, it's pretty simplistic, I know, but it is pretty critical. In March, when you get open shots, you better make them."
Defensively is where Colorado thrived against TCU, forcing them to shoot 37.9% from the field and 31.8% from behind the arc. CU's defense was led by Trevor Baskin, who led the team with his season-high four blocked shots.
TCU was led by Noah Reynolds, who scored all of his 17 points in the second half. He shot 7-of-14 from the floor and 3-of-6 from 3-point range.
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"We give up 22 offensive rebounds, you turn over 15 times, and you win," Boyle said. "It's kind of a head-scratcher, but they did what they had to do. I thought Trevor [Baskin] and Andrej [Jakimovski] played like seniors, and that's what you need to have this time of year. You've got to have your veteran guys that you count on to play the way they played today. Julian [Hammond III] and Ruff [Javon Ruffin] were really good as well. Everybody that played, I thought, contributed. Players got to make plays at the critical time of the game, and these two guys [Baskin and Jakimovski] did it, and we got enough stops at the end, but we were far from our best, and that, I guess that's a good thing and a bad thing, but we better be better tomorrow."
UP NEXT
Colorado will advance to play No. 8 seed West Virginia tomorrow in the second round of the Big 12 Championships at 1 p.m. at the T-Mobile Center (ESPN+ / KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM).
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Box score - https://cubuffs.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2024-25/tcu/boxscore/17321
Article - https://cubuffs.com/news/2025/3/11/...tcu-in-first-round-of-the-big-12-championship
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Colorado Takes Down TCU in First Round of the Big 12 Championship
By: Aiden Tank, Athletic CommunicationsKANSAS CITY, Mo. – Led by Andrej Jakimovski's 16 second-half points, 16th-seed Colorado pushed by No. 9 TCU 69-67 in the first round of the Big 12 Championship Tuesday at the T-Mobile Center.
"When you don't play your best, and we were far from our best today, and you figure out how to win a game in March, it says something about your guys," head coach Tad Boyle said. "This team has come a long way. We've been through a lot together, and they stuck together and to see them with the fight today, even though we didn't play our best."
Colorado (13-19) outlasted TCU (16-16) for the second time in four days to win its first Big 12 Championship game since 2011 and win a game in a conference tournament for the 14th time in 15 seasons.
Jakimovski scored a game-high 18 points, including 16 in the second half, putting Colorado ahead 13 points before TCU responded with a 10-0 run to cut the lead to 63-60 with 1:47 left in the game.
A dunk by Bangot Dak slowed the momentum for the Horn Frogs, but another 3-pointer cut the lead to 65-63 with under a minute to go. As he had been all season, Julian Hammond III was money at the free throw line, making both to make it a two-possession game.
TCU scored quickly to cut the lead back to two points before Javon Ruffin iced the game with two free throws of his own to keep Colorado ahead for good.
While Jakimovski led the way in the second half, Hammond got the team going in the first half, scoring 10 of his 16 points to help grow the lead. The team as a whole shared the ball with assists on 16 of the 21 field goals made.
"I think playing in this tournament the first game is the hardest, and we won this one," Jakimovski said. "We've been practicing really hard the last six months. but we've been struggling with ups and downs. But we are just gonna give everything we got. We are going to try to win one game at a time."
With only 22 points in the paint, Colorado used 9-of-22 (40.9%) shooting from deep and 18 made free throws to score the ball. To keep the game close, TCU used 22 offensive rebounds and 18 second-chance points.
"When we make nine threes, and we guard the way we guard it today, we can beat anybody, but we got to rebound the ball better," Boyle commented. "We're a much, much better shooting team than we've shown this year. Andrej made a few today, which is what we really needed, and RJ [Smith] made a couple. Trevor made plays in the lane on transition and always gives us great energy. When we shoot the ball, it really helps. I mean, it's pretty simplistic, I know, but it is pretty critical. In March, when you get open shots, you better make them."
Defensively is where Colorado thrived against TCU, forcing them to shoot 37.9% from the field and 31.8% from behind the arc. CU's defense was led by Trevor Baskin, who led the team with his season-high four blocked shots.
TCU was led by Noah Reynolds, who scored all of his 17 points in the second half. He shot 7-of-14 from the floor and 3-of-6 from 3-point range.
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"We give up 22 offensive rebounds, you turn over 15 times, and you win," Boyle said. "It's kind of a head-scratcher, but they did what they had to do. I thought Trevor [Baskin] and Andrej [Jakimovski] played like seniors, and that's what you need to have this time of year. You've got to have your veteran guys that you count on to play the way they played today. Julian [Hammond III] and Ruff [Javon Ruffin] were really good as well. Everybody that played, I thought, contributed. Players got to make plays at the critical time of the game, and these two guys [Baskin and Jakimovski] did it, and we got enough stops at the end, but we were far from our best, and that, I guess that's a good thing and a bad thing, but we better be better tomorrow."
UP NEXT
Colorado will advance to play No. 8 seed West Virginia tomorrow in the second round of the Big 12 Championships at 1 p.m. at the T-Mobile Center (ESPN+ / KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM).
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Box score - https://cubuffs.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2024-25/tcu/boxscore/17321
Buffsbball
Well-Known Member
Buffs are 6-1 when he’s our leading scorer. Feel like he’s been so streaky hitting his shots but when he’s on it does so much for this team.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, the world ended the one time he took an opening round loss.
Odds are increasing dramatically. At least Beakers have won things. You guys are just Nebraskans without history.
RG just walked by me, started to engage and saw the look I gave him and walked away. Might be time for me to get a drink.
Guys, I'm a little concerned Goose is so drunk he's about to fight his alternate personality which is apparently an ISU fan.
alec10burks
Well-Known Member
Hopefully we can at least make this a game