Colorado Takes Down Arizona State, 69-54

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On January 19th in Boulder the Buffaloes beat the Sun Devils, 69-54.
A note regarding this game: The RPI ranked Colorado much higher, #62 to #183.
Colorado gained an advantage by coming out way ahead in rebounding and free throw shooting. [TABLE="class: charttable"]
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Colorado used its advantage on the boards to generate more possessions and second-chance shots with a total of 34 rebounds to their 22. Free throw shooting paid off, with 20 points coming from free throws for the Buffaloes to six for the Sun Devils.
Andre Roberson and Spencer DinWiddie led all scoring for the Buffaloes, each with 12 points. Roberson also helped out with a game-leading 10 rebounds. [TABLE="class: charttable"]
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Mins	Pts	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO
Carrick Felix
J. Gilling
Chris Colvin
J. Bachynski
Max Heller
Kyle Cain
Ruslan Pateev
Chanse Creekmur

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Andre Roberson
S. DinWiddie
Austin Dufault
Jeremy Adams
Askia Booker
Nate Tomlinson
Carlon Brown
S. Harris-Tunks
Sabatino Chen
Shannon Sharpe
Beau Webb

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The Buffaloes are now 12-6. They move up to 3rd in the Pac 12, and their conference record improves to 4-2.
The next game on the schedule is Arizona at home on January 21st.
Colorado Game Notes:

• Austin Dufault has 5 straight double-digit point games.
• Colorado has won 85% of the time this season (6-1) after committing 13 or fewer turnovers.
• Andre Roberson recorded the 26th double digit rebound game of his career.
• CU beat the spread by 6.0 points. That makes the 9th time this season the Buffaloes have beat the spread.
• CU has won 91% of the time this season (11-1) after holding an opponent to under 41.7% field goal percentage.

Arizona State Game Notes:

• Carrick Felix has led the team in rebounding 5 times in 18 games this season.
• The top two rebounders (Carrick Felix and Jordan Bachynski) accounted for 45.4% of the rebounds.
• Arizona State lost and did not cover the spread.
• This was the 3rd foul out of the season for Kyle Cain.
• The top two scorers (Chris Colvin and Carrick Felix) accounted for 51.8% of the points.

Check out the complete Games Notes


Originally posted by Fight CU
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