Wishing only the best to the team as they take on Utah this Thursday afternoon in the 1st round of the Pac 12 tourney at Seattle's KeyArena. (Per the Buffzone preview (http://www.buffzone.com/womensbasketball/ci_31694238/cu-womens-basketball-face-utah-first-pac-12), the winner of Thursday's game faces tournament #1 seed Oregon Friday at 12:30 PM MT.)
Beat the Utes!
For any Buff fans who live in or plan to be in Seattle for the game(s) -
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Cubuffs.com Preview-
Direct link - http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/2/27/w...peat-2015-teams-run-in-pac-12-tournament.aspx
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BOULDER – As the Colorado's women's basketball team prepares for the Pac-12 Tournament this week, the team's five returners from last season are entering familiar territory. However, this season, they are looking for a different result.
CU's two seniors Brecca Thomas and Zoe Correal are the only two players on the roster who have advanced past the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament in their careers as the team has bowed out in the first round the past two seasons. They were part of CU's shocking run to the semifinals in 2015.
Head coach JR Payne is trying to prepare the team to take a different mentality from years past and go into the tournament with confidence, understanding that it is win or go home at this point in the season—there is no tomorrow when you lose.
There are certainly reasons to be confident: her team has been playing its best basketball of the season over the past month. Despite facing one of its toughest stretches of the schedule, CU has managed a 3-5 record in February, notable considering the Buffs went 1-7 in January.
"I feel like we really have gotten better in the last month or so, and not just on the court, but off the court and the way that we're playing for each other is significantly better," Payne said. "Our urgency is better, our execution is better at times. We're short on numbers [due to injuries] so everybody just has to step up and everybody has to do a little bit more and everybody has to play with that do-or-die mentality because that's really what it is at this point.
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FIRST-ROUND OPPONENT UTAH
CU gets a very familiar opponent in the first round with Utah (19-10, 8-10 Pac-12) on Thursday. The two teams split two meetings this season and have actually split their past four meetings. CU earned a 69-65 win on Feb. 1 in Salt Lake City after falling behind 16-0 to start the game. Leonard tied a career high with 31 points in that game and Thomas scored 13 second-half points to lead the comeback. However, just three days later, the Utes got revenge with a 78-74 win in Boulder.
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Utah is led by Megan Huff, a first-team all-conference selection. The 6-3 junior is averaging 14.5 points and 7.9 rebounds, both team bests, but she missed the past two games with an injury.
Senior Emily Potter, a 6-6 forward from Canada, averages 12.6 points and 7.6 rebounds, while shooting 50 percent from the floor with 53 blocked shots. Junior wing Daneesha Provo, another Canadian, is averaging 13.0 points and connects at a 43 percent rate from deep, but has missed the past three games due to injury.
With Huff and Provo out recently, freshman Tori Williams and senior Tilar Clark stepped up in their absence. Williams had 13 points in an overtime loss at No. 10 UCLA on Saturday and Clark had 12 points and six rebounds in an overtime loss at USC on Thursday.
Potter also raise her level of play last weekend, averaging 22.0 points and 12.0 rebounds in the two games.
Thursday's game will tip off at 12:30 p.m. MT at KeyArena in Seattle and will be televised on Pac-12 Networks.
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Vs. Utah (Thursday, 12:30 PM MT start)
Live video - Game is being shown live on the Pac 12 Mountain and National channels. For those whose TV/ Satellite/ Cord Cutting subscription includes access to one of those Pac 12 channels, the game can also be streamed through a link at https://pac-12.com/womens-basketball/event/2018/03/01/colorado-vs-utah .
Live Audio - Buff's schedule doesn't list anything, but assume like other games, audio broadcast will be on Radio: 630 KHOW, with broadcast also available for streaming via http://cubuffs.com/watch/?Live=1194&type=Live .
Live stats - (Can't find sure- thing link yet; looks like link MAY (???) become available before game time at http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/tournament.php?tid=206.)
Beat the Utes!
For any Buff fans who live in or plan to be in Seattle for the game(s) -
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Cubuffs.com Preview-
Direct link - http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/2/27/w...peat-2015-teams-run-in-pac-12-tournament.aspx
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BOULDER – As the Colorado's women's basketball team prepares for the Pac-12 Tournament this week, the team's five returners from last season are entering familiar territory. However, this season, they are looking for a different result.
CU's two seniors Brecca Thomas and Zoe Correal are the only two players on the roster who have advanced past the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament in their careers as the team has bowed out in the first round the past two seasons. They were part of CU's shocking run to the semifinals in 2015.
Head coach JR Payne is trying to prepare the team to take a different mentality from years past and go into the tournament with confidence, understanding that it is win or go home at this point in the season—there is no tomorrow when you lose.
There are certainly reasons to be confident: her team has been playing its best basketball of the season over the past month. Despite facing one of its toughest stretches of the schedule, CU has managed a 3-5 record in February, notable considering the Buffs went 1-7 in January.
"I feel like we really have gotten better in the last month or so, and not just on the court, but off the court and the way that we're playing for each other is significantly better," Payne said. "Our urgency is better, our execution is better at times. We're short on numbers [due to injuries] so everybody just has to step up and everybody has to do a little bit more and everybody has to play with that do-or-die mentality because that's really what it is at this point.
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FIRST-ROUND OPPONENT UTAH
CU gets a very familiar opponent in the first round with Utah (19-10, 8-10 Pac-12) on Thursday. The two teams split two meetings this season and have actually split their past four meetings. CU earned a 69-65 win on Feb. 1 in Salt Lake City after falling behind 16-0 to start the game. Leonard tied a career high with 31 points in that game and Thomas scored 13 second-half points to lead the comeback. However, just three days later, the Utes got revenge with a 78-74 win in Boulder.
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Utah is led by Megan Huff, a first-team all-conference selection. The 6-3 junior is averaging 14.5 points and 7.9 rebounds, both team bests, but she missed the past two games with an injury.
Senior Emily Potter, a 6-6 forward from Canada, averages 12.6 points and 7.6 rebounds, while shooting 50 percent from the floor with 53 blocked shots. Junior wing Daneesha Provo, another Canadian, is averaging 13.0 points and connects at a 43 percent rate from deep, but has missed the past three games due to injury.
With Huff and Provo out recently, freshman Tori Williams and senior Tilar Clark stepped up in their absence. Williams had 13 points in an overtime loss at No. 10 UCLA on Saturday and Clark had 12 points and six rebounds in an overtime loss at USC on Thursday.
Potter also raise her level of play last weekend, averaging 22.0 points and 12.0 rebounds in the two games.
Thursday's game will tip off at 12:30 p.m. MT at KeyArena in Seattle and will be televised on Pac-12 Networks.
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Vs. Utah (Thursday, 12:30 PM MT start)
Live video - Game is being shown live on the Pac 12 Mountain and National channels. For those whose TV/ Satellite/ Cord Cutting subscription includes access to one of those Pac 12 channels, the game can also be streamed through a link at https://pac-12.com/womens-basketball/event/2018/03/01/colorado-vs-utah .
Live Audio - Buff's schedule doesn't list anything, but assume like other games, audio broadcast will be on Radio: 630 KHOW, with broadcast also available for streaming via http://cubuffs.com/watch/?Live=1194&type=Live .
Live stats - (Can't find sure- thing link yet; looks like link MAY (???) become available before game time at http://www.statbroadcast.com/events/tournament.php?tid=206.)
