Quick break
Why the Buffs received: For many of the day, CU performed stable protection, crashed the boards and restricted turnovers, whereas changing Oregon’s turnovers into factors.
Three stars:
1. CU’s Aaronette Vonleh: Posted the third double-double of her profession with 16 factors and 10 rebounds, whereas additionally having two blocks and a career-best 4 steals. Seven of her rebounds got here on the offensive glass.
2. Oregon’s Phillipina Kyei: Quiet first half, however she completed with 12 factors and a game-high 17 rebounds, together with 5 offensive rebounds.
3. CU’s Tameiya Sadler: Got here off the bench to attain seven factors, dish six assists and give you two steals in 27 minutes.
Up subsequent: CU visits Washington State on Friday at 8 p.m. MT.
EUGENE, Ore. – Colorado has had significantly better days than Sunday, however head coach JR Payne won’t ever complain a couple of win within the highway.
The third-ranked CU ladies’s basketball staff fought via taking pictures woes to roll previous Oregon 61-48 at Matthew Knight Enviornment.
Aaronette Vonleh posted her second double-double of the season, with 16 factors and 10 rebounds in serving to the Buffs (17-3, 7-2 Pac-12) bounce again from Friday’s loss at No. 25 Oregon State.
“Actually happy with how we responded after Friday night time’s recreation,” Payne mentioned. “We have been all very disillusioned with how we carried out Friday. To not take something away from Oregon State, however we have been very pissed off and disillusioned with ourselves within the Friday night time recreation.
“I feel a mature group can look ourselves within the mirror and say, how may we now have been higher and what are we going to do about it? We’re not going to cry about it, we’re not gonna pout; we’re gonna repair it and actually lean into one another to be higher subsequent outing. I believed we did that as we speak.”
CU led by as many as 21 factors, however Oregon (11-11, 2-7) made issues attention-grabbing within the fourth quarter. A 13-2 Geese run, sparked by Phillipina Kyei and Grace VanSlooten, sliced CU’s result in 50-43 with 4 minutes, 56 seconds to play.
The Buffs responded with a 6-0 run, nonetheless. Frida Formann had 4 factors in that surge and added a 3-pointer with 1:49 to go to bump the result in 14.
“It was demanding for me,” Payne mentioned of Oregon’s rally. “Even in that run, I believed they hit robust photographs. These pull-up jumpers, these are actually robust photographs that (VanSlooten) was making. We kind of withstood the run and made sufficient of our personal to maintain it at bay.”
Along with Vonleh’s 16 factors, Formann completed with 9, but it surely was a quiet day offensively for many of the Buffs. CU obtained essential contributions off the bench, nonetheless, from Tameiya Sadler (seven factors, six assists) and Charlotte Whittaker (eight factors, three rebounds).
General, CU shot simply 34.6% (27-of-78), its second-lowest share of the season, but in addition had a season-high 20 offensive rebounds. Vonleh, who’s from close by West Linn, Ore., had seven offensive boards.
“Netty is simply so good and nonetheless has a lot room to develop,” Payne mentioned. “Actually nice for her to have the ability to play in entrance of her household. Her mother and her grandmother and lots of people right here, which is at all times nice to have the ability to try this. I do know she’s loved being near them right here, as effectively.”
Defensively, the Buffs held Oregon to only 17.4% (4-of-23) taking pictures within the first half. The Geese didn’t hit a area objective within the closing 13:58 of the half and CU went into intermission with a 31-11 lead. It was the lowest-scoring half for a Buffs’ opponent since Arizona had 10 within the second half on Feb. 23, 2014.
Within the second half, nonetheless, the Geese went 14-of-34 (41.2%) and outscored the Buffs 37-30.
“I believed our protection was phenomenal within the first half, not as nice within the second half,” Payne mentioned. “I feel after we actually are targeted defensively guarding as a staff – we speak rather a lot about, like Grace VanSlooten, nobody’s going to cease her by themselves, however collectively we will make her work for her buckets, issues like that. So I believed we defended very well as a staff.”
It was sufficient to get the Buffs again within the win column.
“Our convention is so good, it’s a must to have a brief reminiscence,” Payne mentioned. “We discuss this rather a lot, however good or unhealthy, it’s a must to have a really brief reminiscence as a result of the subsequent staff can beat you when you don’t. So, I used to be actually happy with how we responded.”
No. 3 Colorado 61, Oregon 48
COLORADO (17-3, 7-2 Pac-12)
Sherrod 2-4 0-0 4, Formann 4-10 0-0 9, Miller 2-9 1-1 5, Vonleh 7-17 2-4 16, Nolan 2-11 0-0 6, Sadler 3-10 0-1 7, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, Wetta 1-5 0-0 2, Whittaker 4-7 0-0 8. Totals 27-78 3-6 61.
OREGON (11-11, 2-7 Pac-12)
Basham 1-4 0-0 2, Grey 2-13 8-12 13, Williams 1-7 0-0 2, Kyei 5-9 2-2 12, VanSlooten 8-19 0-0 16, Chamberlin 1-4 0-0 3, Wagner 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Hamel 0-0 0-0 0, Rambus 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 18-57 10-14 48.
Colorado 13 18 14 16 – 61
Oregon 8 3 17 20 – 48
3-point objectives – Colorado 4-18 (Nolan 2-7, Formann 1-6, Sadler 1-2, Miller 0-2, Smith 0-1), Oregon 2-16 (Grey 1-4, Chamberlin 1-4, Williams 0-5, VanSlooten 0-3). Rebounds – Colorado 52 (Vonleh 10), Oregon 41 (Kyei 17). Assists – Colorado 22 (Wetta 7), Oregon 5 (VanSlooten 2). Steals – Colorado 11 (Vonleh 4), Oregon 3 (Chamberlin 2). Turnovers – Colorado 9, Oregon 15. Whole fouls – Colorado 15, Oregon 9. Fouled out – None. Attendance – 2,517.