Snapshot: CU Buffs girls 70, Arizona State 62
Turning level: The Buffs couldn’t shake off a feisty ASU upset bid till they closed the sport with an 8-2 burst.
Buff of the sport: With apologies to Quay Miller and her double-double, Tameiya Sadler got here off the bench to go 6-for-6 from the ground and 3-for-4 on the free throw line, ending with a CU career-best of 16 factors.
What’s subsequent?: The Buffs face a top-25 battle on the street on Sunday at No. 18 Arizona (midday, Pac-12 Community).
TEMPE, Ariz.— The early begin wasn’t a great tipoff time on the street for the Colorado girls’s basketball group. And, certainly, the Buffaloes appeared to hit the snooze button quite a lot of occasions all through the competition.
But, in the long run, CU discovered a solution to win.
The Twenty first-ranked Buffs have been removed from their finest in a Friday afternoon battle at Arizona State, however the Buffs made the performs down the stretch and obtained a clutch efficiency off the bench from Tameiya Sadler to flee Desert Monetary Area with a 70-62 victory.
The win ended a 14-game shedding streak towards ASU that dated again precisely 10 years to Feb. 17, 2013. The Buffs improved to 21-5 total, marking the twelfth time in program historical past the membership has reached 21 wins, and 12-3 within the Pac-12 Convention.
Mixed with the win by the boys’s group in the identical area about 15 hours earlier, it’s the first time the CU women and men have received in Tempe in the identical season.
“I believe the foul bother early form of made us a bit discombobulated,” CU head coach JR Payne mentioned. “We felt like we have been doing what we wanted to do however had a number of folks in foul bother. They’re a very good scrappy defensive-minded group. I assumed they did a very good job of being disruptive of what we have been making an attempt to do, and a few pictures that sometimes fall didn’t. So it was kind of a mix of all these issues made for form of a jumbled sport.”
ASU is struggling via a winless marketing campaign in Pac-12 play, however too many turnovers from the Buffs — they dedicated 5 within the first 5 minutes, 24 seconds and completed with 20 — and foul bother saved CU out of sync.
With 1:13 left within the first quarter, level guard Jaylyn Sherrod was whistled for a foul and was then charged with a technical. ASU made all 4 free throws and added a bucket on the following possession to take a 21-19 lead. Sherrod sat for the rest of the primary half, however that’s when Sadler picked up the slack.
Sadler had scored solely 15 factors complete within the earlier seven video games, however she went 4-for-4 with 11 factors within the first half, main the Buffs to a 42-31 lead on the break. A switch from Washington, Sadler completed 6-for-6 with a CU career-high of 16 factors whereas additionally including 5 rebounds and three assists.
“Coming in and being prepared, something can occur,” Sadler mentioned. “You by no means know when your quantity goes to be known as. So, coming in with confidence and simply making an attempt to be within the movement of the sport.”
ASU didn’t go away quietly, reducing CU’s 11-point halftime benefit to seven by the top of the third quarter and battling to inside 62-60 with 3:22 remaining within the sport. A Sadler free throw gave CU a three-point cushion earlier than Frida Formann made essentially the most of a tricky taking pictures day by pulling down a key 3-pointer, pushing the Buffs’ lead again to 6 factors.
CU completed the sport on an 8-2 run to carry off the Solar Devils. CU ahead Quay Miller posted her seventh double-double of the season with 17 factors and 10 rebounds.
“I proceed to reward our upperclassmen. They do a terrific job of creating certain that we’re actually targeted and perceive the scout,” Payne mentioned. “When issues begin to go sideways a bit bit, they’re those that kind of reel us again in to make it possible for we don’t get too up and down and we keep fairly calm. Our higher classmen did that once more in the present day.”
No. 21 Colorado 70, Arizona State 62
COLORADO (21-5, 12-3 Pac-12)
Sherrod 2-5 4-4 8, Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Formann 3-10 0-0 8, Miller 8-16 0-0 17, Vonleh 4-7 0-1 8, Sadler 6-6 3-4 16, Wetta 3-6 1-2 9, Wynn 0-1 1-2 1, McLeod 1-3 1-1 3, Whittaker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-55 10-14 70.
ARIZONA STATE (7-17, 0-15 Pac-12)
Simmons 5-9 0-1 11, Skinner 9-23 8-9 27, Hunt 4-15 1-1 10, Mokwuah 2-4 1-2 5, Sousa 1-1 0-0 2, Crisp 0-3 0-0 0, Erikstrup 2-6 0-0 5, Newman 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 24-64 10-13 62.
Colorado 22 20 11 17 – 70
Arizona St 21 10 15 16 – 62
3-point discipline targets — Colorado 6-18 (Formann 2-7, Wetta 2-2, Miller 1-7, Sadler 1-1, Wynn 0-1); Arizona State 4-19 (Hunt 1-8, Skinner 1-6, Erikstrup 1-3, Simmons 1-2). Rebounds — Colorado 40 (Miller 10); Arizona State 33 (Hunt 8). Assists — Colorado 20 (Sherrod 5); Arizona State 10 (Simmons, Skinner 3). Steals — Colorado 10 (Miller 4), Arizona State 9 (Skinner 4). Turnovers — Colorado 20, Arizona State 14. Whole fouls — Colorado 16, Arizona State 17. Fouled out — None. Technical fouls — Sherrod. A — 2,793.