The Colorado males’s basketball crew didn’t encounter a lot resistance throughout its two-game homestand in opposition to the Oregon colleges.
The Buffaloes made certain to make the most of the chance.
The Buffs accomplished their first Pac-12 Convention sequence sweep of the season on Saturday night time, dominating Oregon State from the opening tip for a 62-42 victory on the CU Occasions Middle. It was CU’s seventh win in its previous eight video games.
“In apply, we’ve been going again to the fundamentals. Defensively particularly,” CU ahead Tristan da Silva mentioned. “For us, it simply comes right down to guarding the ball, being in hole assist after which being in help-side too. Then figuring out our rotations, taking part in with most effort and power on protection. We realized over the previous two video games, and we get straightforward transition and straightforward offense, it’s far more enjoyable to play. I really feel like if we keep on with that, it’s going to be a enjoyable season for us.”
CU put up some traditionally spectacular defensive numbers through the back-to-back routs of Oregon and Oregon State.
The Buffs held these two foes to a mixed capturing proportion of.337 whereas surrendering a complete of solely 83 factors. It was the fewest factors CU has surrendered in consecutive convention video games since permitting 70 in highway video games in opposition to Kansas and Iowa State through the 1948-49 season. It was the fewest factors allowed by CU in any set of back-to-back video games since December of 2011, when the Buffs allowed 34 factors in opposition to New Orleans adopted by 33 in opposition to Utah.
“Spectacular, spectacular protection effort once more by our guys. I’ve obtained to tip my hat to them,” CU head coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “They actually responded to the problem that we gave them early this week. We put back-to-back efforts collectively. We weren’t at our greatest offensively tonight. I believed we have been somewhat sloppy with the ball sloppy with the ball, particularly that second half. Didn’t shoot it notably effectively. However when you possibly can win going away capturing 41% and turning it over 13 occasions, you’re doing one thing actually good on the opposite finish.”
The Buffs scored the sport’s first seven factors and by no means trailed, holding OSU to a .276 first-half capturing proportion (8-for-29) whereas constructing a 33-18 halftime lead. The Beavers briefly obtained inside 14 factors halfway by means of the second half, however the Buffs held OSU to only 4 factors over the following six minutes to tug away.
Da Silva put collectively one other sturdy all-around sport, going 7-for-10 with 17 factors and 5 rebounds. It was a balanced assault in help of da Silva, with J’Vonne Hadley ending with 9 factors and Nique Clifford including eight.
Level guard KJ Simpson returned to the lineup after lacking the win in opposition to Oregon whereas as a consequence of an sickness and struggled to seek out his rhythm offensively, going 1-for-8 with six factors, however he contributed seven rebounds whereas matching a career-high with six assists.
Two days after holding Oregon main scorer Will Richardson to 5 factors on a 1-for-9 night time, the Buffs held OSU’s prime two scorers, Jordan Pope and Glenn Taylor Jr., to a mixed 4-for-20 with 9 factors.
“They’ve taken the scouting report and we’ve locked down the perfect gamers on the opposite groups,” Boyle mentioned. “You get into convention play and also you lock folks down like we’ve got the final two video games, good issues occur.”
Colorado 62, Oregon St. 42
OREGON ST. (7-9, 1-4 Pac-12)
Andela 3-4 0-0 6, Rataj 1-2 0-0 3, Taylor 2-9 0-3 4, Akanno 4-11 0-0 10, C.Wright 0-4 0-0 0, Pope 2-11 0-0 5, Bilodeau 2-5 0-0 4, Ryuny 3-4 2-3 8, Krass 0-2 0-0 0, Stevens 1-1 0-0 2, Rochelin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 18-53 2-6 42.
COLORADO (11-6, 3-3)
da Silva 7-10 2-3 17, Lovering 1-1 3-4 5, Clifford 3-9 1-2 8, Hadley 4-5 1-2 9, Simpson 1-8 3-4 6, O’Brien 1-5 1-2 4, Hammond 2-5 2-2 7, Ruffin 2-4 0-0 5, E.Wright 0-3 1-2 1, Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-51 14-21 62.
Halftime — Colorado 33-18. 3-point objectives — Oregon St. 4-14 (Akanno 2-7, Rataj 1-2, Pope 1-3, Taylor 0-1, C.Wright 0-1), Colorado 6-19 (Clifford 1-2, O’Brien 1-2, Hammond 1-3, Ruffin 1-3, Simpson 1-3, da Silva 1-3, Miller 0-1, E.Wright 0-2). Rebounds — Oregon St. 34 (Bilodeau 12), Colorado 38 (O’Brien 9). Assists — Oregon St. 6 (Taylor, Pope 2), Colorado 15 (Simpson 6). Whole Fouls — Oregon St. 17, Colorado 14. A — 6,203.
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