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March 1st
… CU in the Arena …
Getting to Know: Stanford
Game … Thursday, March 2nd, 7:00 p.m. (MT), ESPN2, 760 AM radio; Sirius 81; XM 81
Game Notes … From CUBuffs.com
OPENING TIP: A win Thursday would give Colorado head coach Tad Boyle two significant milestones. It would be his 100th win at the Coors Events Center (entering game 99-18 overall in his seventh season) and also his 147th win at Colorado which would tie him for third in all-time wins at the school with Forrest B. “Frosty” Cox, who led the Buffaloes to a 147-89 record from 1936-50.
ABOUT THE BUFFALOES: Colorado is 16-13 overall and tied with Stanford and Washington State for eighth place in the Pac-12 at 6-10. The group is one-half game behind Arizona State for seventh place. The Sun Devils are 7-10 with a single home game against rival Arizona on Saturday. The Buffaloes have dropped their last two, but have also won six of nine since opening the conference season with seven-straight losses. Colorado is coming off an 86-81 setback to Utah in its only action last week.
Colorado could still mathematically finish as high as sixth in the final Pac-12 standings, USC currently sits in that spot at 8-8, but with tiebreakers involved the Buffaloes will be in the No. 7-10 seed range for the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas, March 8-11. Colorado would need to win both games this weekend, and have Arizona State lose to Arizona, to capture the No. 7 seed.
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Related …
… “Buffs Gear For Visit From Surging Stanford” … From CUBuffs.com
… “Josh Fortune aims for one last flurry of 3-pointers for CU basketball” … From the Daily Camera
… “Wesley Gordon hopes to end inconsistent year with wins in final CU Buffs home games” … from the Daily Camera
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Quotable Tad Boyle … “The thought for the day for our team today was there are two types of teams this time of year,” Boyle said. “Those that can’t wait for the season to be over and those that don’t want it to end. We have to be the latter.”
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Stanford 2016-17 Season: Stanford is 14-14 overall and resides in a three-way tie with Colorado and Washington State for eighth in the Pac-12 at 6-10. The Cardinal have won two of their last three, wrapping up their home season with wins over California and Oregon State before falling just short against Oregon in their home finale. Stanford is just 1-8 in road games this year with its only win coming at Oregon State on Jan. 19.
The Cardinal are next-to-last in scoring in the Pac-12 at 69.4 points per game while shooting 44 percent from the floor. Stanford is last in the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting (.312) and has also made and taken the fewest among league schools (132 of 423). Defensively, Stanford allows 69.6 points on 44 percent shooting. The Cardinal rank second in the Pac-12 in steals (6.8 spg) and third in turnover margin (plus-1.7). Junior forward Reid Travis leads Stanford and ranks third in the Pac- 12 in scoring at 17.7 points per game and is fifth in rebounding at 8.8 an outing.
Series: This will be the 20th meeting between Colorado and Stanford with the Buffaloes taking a 10-9 edge in the series after their 81-74 win over the Cardinal on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes have won the last seven and 7 of 9 since joining the Pac-12 for the 2011-12 season. Colorado leads the series 6-3 in Boulder and has won the last three at the Coors Events Center.
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February 28th
… CU in the Arena …
Buffs still have plenty to play for
From CUBuffs.com … It has been, without a doubt, one of the more frustrating seasons for Tad Boyle in his six years as the Colorado basketball coach.
A team tabbed by many as having NCAA Tournament talent has, in his words, underachieved — albeit by the smallest of margins.
With a 16-13 overall record and a 6-10 conference mark, the Buffs are literally four possessions away from being 20-9 and 10-6 — literally a team playing to improve its NCAA Tournament seed down the home stretch of the season.
But in a sport where every possession counts, where the slimmest margin for error creates a gulf between the haves and have-nots, the Buffs find themselves on the wrong side of that chasm. Those four possessions in games the Buffs led in the final minute have now left Colorado in the unenviable position of needing four straight wins in the Pac-12 tournament to simply earn an NCAA berth.
It’s not an impossible task — the Buffs actually accomplished the feat five seasons ago in Boyle’s second year in Boulder — but given that three of the nation’s top 10 teams currently reside in the Pac-12, it’s highly unlikely.
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Colorado Basketball
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March 1st
… CU in the Arena …
Getting to Know: Stanford
Game … Thursday, March 2nd, 7:00 p.m. (MT), ESPN2, 760 AM radio; Sirius 81; XM 81
Game Notes … From CUBuffs.com
OPENING TIP: A win Thursday would give Colorado head coach Tad Boyle two significant milestones. It would be his 100th win at the Coors Events Center (entering game 99-18 overall in his seventh season) and also his 147th win at Colorado which would tie him for third in all-time wins at the school with Forrest B. “Frosty” Cox, who led the Buffaloes to a 147-89 record from 1936-50.
ABOUT THE BUFFALOES: Colorado is 16-13 overall and tied with Stanford and Washington State for eighth place in the Pac-12 at 6-10. The group is one-half game behind Arizona State for seventh place. The Sun Devils are 7-10 with a single home game against rival Arizona on Saturday. The Buffaloes have dropped their last two, but have also won six of nine since opening the conference season with seven-straight losses. Colorado is coming off an 86-81 setback to Utah in its only action last week.
Colorado could still mathematically finish as high as sixth in the final Pac-12 standings, USC currently sits in that spot at 8-8, but with tiebreakers involved the Buffaloes will be in the No. 7-10 seed range for the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas, March 8-11. Colorado would need to win both games this weekend, and have Arizona State lose to Arizona, to capture the No. 7 seed.
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Related …
… “Buffs Gear For Visit From Surging Stanford” … From CUBuffs.com
… “Josh Fortune aims for one last flurry of 3-pointers for CU basketball” … From the Daily Camera
… “Wesley Gordon hopes to end inconsistent year with wins in final CU Buffs home games” … from the Daily Camera
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Quotable Tad Boyle … “The thought for the day for our team today was there are two types of teams this time of year,” Boyle said. “Those that can’t wait for the season to be over and those that don’t want it to end. We have to be the latter.”
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Stanford 2016-17 Season: Stanford is 14-14 overall and resides in a three-way tie with Colorado and Washington State for eighth in the Pac-12 at 6-10. The Cardinal have won two of their last three, wrapping up their home season with wins over California and Oregon State before falling just short against Oregon in their home finale. Stanford is just 1-8 in road games this year with its only win coming at Oregon State on Jan. 19.
The Cardinal are next-to-last in scoring in the Pac-12 at 69.4 points per game while shooting 44 percent from the floor. Stanford is last in the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting (.312) and has also made and taken the fewest among league schools (132 of 423). Defensively, Stanford allows 69.6 points on 44 percent shooting. The Cardinal rank second in the Pac-12 in steals (6.8 spg) and third in turnover margin (plus-1.7). Junior forward Reid Travis leads Stanford and ranks third in the Pac- 12 in scoring at 17.7 points per game and is fifth in rebounding at 8.8 an outing.
Series: This will be the 20th meeting between Colorado and Stanford with the Buffaloes taking a 10-9 edge in the series after their 81-74 win over the Cardinal on Feb. 2. The Buffaloes have won the last seven and 7 of 9 since joining the Pac-12 for the 2011-12 season. Colorado leads the series 6-3 in Boulder and has won the last three at the Coors Events Center.
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February 28th
… CU in the Arena …
Buffs still have plenty to play for
From CUBuffs.com … It has been, without a doubt, one of the more frustrating seasons for Tad Boyle in his six years as the Colorado basketball coach.
A team tabbed by many as having NCAA Tournament talent has, in his words, underachieved — albeit by the smallest of margins.
With a 16-13 overall record and a 6-10 conference mark, the Buffs are literally four possessions away from being 20-9 and 10-6 — literally a team playing to improve its NCAA Tournament seed down the home stretch of the season.
But in a sport where every possession counts, where the slimmest margin for error creates a gulf between the haves and have-nots, the Buffs find themselves on the wrong side of that chasm. Those four possessions in games the Buffs led in the final minute have now left Colorado in the unenviable position of needing four straight wins in the Pac-12 tournament to simply earn an NCAA berth.
It’s not an impossible task — the Buffs actually accomplished the feat five seasons ago in Boyle’s second year in Boulder — but given that three of the nation’s top 10 teams currently reside in the Pac-12, it’s highly unlikely.
… Continue reading story here …
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