Snapshot: CU Buffs MBB 59, California 46
Turning level: CU reeled off a 26-5 run that buried the Golden Bears within the second half.
Buff of the sport: Tristan da Silva. The junior ahead shot 7-for-13 general and 3-for-6 on 3-pointers, scoring 17 of his game-high 20 factors after halftime.
What’s subsequent?: The Buffs will search a house sweep after they host Stanford on Sunday (5 p.m., FS1).
Tristan da Silva insists he merely is making an attempt to let every sport come to him with out forcing something.
Nonetheless, with Colorado’s offense as soon as once more floundering, the Buffaloes sorely have been in want of a spark. And after halftime, da Silva gamely stepped to the forefront to ship.
The junior ahead for the CU males’s basketball group sparked a second-half rally that saved the Buffs from one other doubtlessly embarrassing end result in opposition to lowly California, as Colorado was capable of take management down the stretch to tug away from the Golden Bears for a 59-46 victory in a Pac-12 Convention battle on Thursday night time on the CU Occasions Heart.
The win ended a slide of 5 losses in six video games for the Buffs, who additionally received their sixth consecutive residence sport in opposition to the Golden Bears.
“I obtained some simple seems I felt like. Perhaps they left me open somewhat bit extra as a result of I wasn’t enjoying so nicely within the first half,” da Silva mentioned. “I obtained a pair open seems and a pair simple baskets across the rim. I’m simply making an attempt to play the sport the correct manner, and I occurred to attain proper out of the gate within the second half.”
Cal led by 10 factors late within the first half, however a 7-0 run by the Buffs to finish the body reduce the Bears’ result in 27-24 on the break.
The groups traded baskets early within the second half, with da Silva scoring CU’s first 12 factors after halftime. With da Silva lastly breaking the ice offensively after the Buffs shot .250 within the first half with 10 turnovers, Colorado reeled off 13 consecutive factors to spark what became a 26-5 run. That burst erased a six-point lead for the Bears and gave CU a 54-39 lead with 5 minutes, 35 seconds remaining.
“Tristan’s been enjoying at such a excessive stage the final two and a half, three weeks,” CU head coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “Earlier in league play he had his ups and downs. He had his inconsistencies, so to talk. However currently, he’s been enjoying at a fairly darn excessive stage. And tonight, we obtained some help. KJ (Simpson) I assumed performed actually, rather well. Luke O’Brien and Jalen Gabbidon got here off the bench and actually gave us a shot within the arm, I assumed.”
Da Silva went 7-for-13 general, 3-for-6 on 3-pointers and 3-for-4 on the free throw line earlier than ending with 20 factors. He turned the primary CU participant to attain a minimum of 20 factors in 4 consecutive video games since Josh Scott early within the 2015-16 season.
Simpson added 10 factors, 4 assists and three steals, whereas O’Brien and Gabbidon added 9 factors apiece off the bench.
After permitting Cal to shoot .580, the highest taking pictures mark by a CU foe this season, throughout a loss in Berkeley on New Yr’s Eve, the Buffs held the Bears to a .372 mark whereas forcing 22 Cal turnovers. The Buffs dedicated just one turnover after halftime.
“I talked to our group at halftime concerning the truth we shot 25% within the first half. Had some beauty and turned it over 10 occasions…however you shoot 25% and also you’re down three at half, it means you’re doing one thing proper. It means you’re actually battling, preventing and scratching and clawing. We didn’t let our frustrations on offense leak over to our power and execution on protection. That’s an indication of maturity. It’s an indication of psychological toughness.”
Colorado 59, California 46
CALIFORNIA (3-19, 2-9 Pac-12)
Kuany 2-10 6-7 10, Newell 4-10 0-0 8, Alajiki 2-3 0-0 6, Thiemann 3-5 1-1 7, Brown 1-8 2-2 5, Roberson 0-1 1-2 1, Okafor 1-3 0-0 2, Bowser 0-0 0-0 0, Anyanwu 2-2 0-0 4, Robinson 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 16-43 10-12 46.
COLORADO (13-11, 5-8 Pac-12)
da Silva 7-13 3-4 20, Lovering 2-4 0-4 4, Simpson 4-10 2-2 10, Hadley 0-0 0-0 0, Clifford 0-3 0-1 0, O’Brien 2-5 4-4 9, Hammond III 1-6 1-3 4, Gabbidon 3-8 3-4 9, Wright 0-0 1-2 1, Ruffin 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 19-50 16-26 59.
Halftime — Cal 27-24. 3-point area objectives — Cal 4-11 (Kuany 0-2, Newell 0-1, Alajiki 2-3, Brown 1-4, Robinson 1-1). Colorado 5-18 (da Silva 3-6, Simpson 0-2, Clifford 0-1, O’Brien 1-3, Hammond III 1-2, Gabbidon 0-3, Ruffin 0-1). Rebounds — Cal 32 (Newell 6); Colorado 33 (O’Brien 7). Assists — Cal 9 (Brown 3); Colorado 9 (Simpson 4). Whole fouls — Cal 22, Colorado 18. A — 6,712.