Quick break
Why the Buffs received: CU performed sturdy protection, holding Oregon State to a 3-for-17 mark on 3-pointers, whereas posting a .525 area purpose share.
Three stars:
1. Tristan da Silva: Completed with a full stat line with a game-high 19 factors, seven rebounds and 4 assists.
2. Cody Williams. Went 6-for-10 from the ground with 16 factors, six rebounds, two steals and no turnovers.
3. Eddie Lampkin Jr.: Almost posted a double-double, ending with 17 factors and eight rebounds.
Up subsequent: CU performs its subsequent three video games on the highway, starting Wednesday at Washington (9 p.m. MT, ESPNU).
The Colorado males’s basketball workforce returned to the CU Occasions Heart final week reeling from an terrible highway journey and in want of a reboot in its quest to play an element within the Pac-12 Convention race.
The Buffaloes put the ultimate touches on attaining that feat on Saturday.
CU accomplished a three-game residence sweep by dominating Oregon State, posting a 90-57 victory on the Occasions Heart. The Buffs improved to 12-0 at residence and joined CU’s 1968-69 Large Eight championship squad as the one groups in program historical past to win their first 12 residence video games.
After enjoying consecutive video games with the highest seven rotation gamers all wholesome for the primary time in additional than a month, CU as soon as once more performed shorthanded on Saturday as beginning ahead J’Vonne Hadley was sidelined because of a knee harm.
“One other actually good win. Workman-like effort,” CU head coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “I assumed our guys had been fairly dialed-in on the defensive finish, which is what we’ve been difficult about during the last week, week and a half of follow or so. Guarding the 3-point line is one thing we’ve talked about that we haven’t performed an excellent job of at occasions, however tonight we had been terrific. Had some actually good defensive efforts.”
The Buffs scored the sport’s first 5 factors and by no means trailed, utilizing a 14-0 run within the first half to take management and construct a 22-point lead late within the first half.
CU led 45-23 at halftime and reeled off a 14-1 run early within the second half, pushing the result in 33 factors.
CU shot at the very least 50% for the eleventh time this season, ending at .525, whereas holding Oregon State to a .333 mark and a 3-for-17 exhibiting on 3-pointers. CU matched a season-low with solely eight turnovers. After being probably the most turnover-prone workforce within the Pac-12 for the majority of the season, the Buffs have recorded a season-low turnover whole in three of the previous 4 video games.
“I feel our guys, they’re making extra easy performs,” Boyle mentioned. “It’s eliminating the foolish ones. It’s simply making easy performs and taking what the protection provides you. We’re making progress in that space, too.”
Six gamers scored in double figures for the Buffs, led by a 19-point, seven-rebound, four-assist efficiency from senior ahead Tristan da Silva. Freshman Cody Williams went 6-for-10 with 16 factors and a season-high-tying six rebounds, whereas middle Eddie Lampkin completed with 17 factors and eight rebounds. CU level guard KJ Simpson recorded 13 factors, seven rebounds and 4 assists.
Whereas the Buffs have cruised at residence, and regained some much-needed momentum with three wins on the Occasions Heart in every week, CU will look to lastly recover from the hump away from residence when it takes an 0-4 mark in true highway video games into Wednesday’s date at Washington to start a run of three consecutive highway video games.
“Each sport issues. We will’t be lackadaisical with sure opponents,” da Silva mentioned. “We received to ensure we dig in each single time that we step on the ground, whether or not that’s from one half to a different or that’s one sport to a different. We’re about to go on the highway, so I really feel like this little momentum that we’ve received going proper now’s going to be good for us on the highway, too. We’ve simply received to maintain doing what we’re doing.”
OREGON ST. (9-9, 1-6 Pac-12)
Bilodeau 8-12 2-2 18, Ndong 1-1 0-0 2, Akanno 0-6 0-0 0, Pope 3-11 3-4 10, Rochelin 0-3 1-2 1, Lake 2-4 6-6 10, Rataj 4-12 1-3 11, Craig 0-2 0-0 0, Marrs 1-3 1-1 3, Wright 0-0 0-0 0, Ibekwe 1-4 0-0 2, Stevens 0-1 0-0 0, Marial 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-60 14-18 57.
COLORADO (14-5, 5-3)
Williams 6-10 2-3 16, da Silva 6-10 6-7 19, Lampkin 7-13 3-4 17, O’Brien 4-6 1-2 10, Simpson 4-8 4-4 13, Hammond 1-6 0-0 2, Diop 3-4 4-4 10, Ruffin 1-2 0-0 3, Dak 0-1 0-0 0, Hurlburt 0-0 0-0 0, Pease 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-61 20-24 90.Halftime — Colorado 45-23. 3-point area targets — Oregon St. 3-17 (Rataj 2-5, Pope 1-3, Craig 0-1, Rochelin 0-1, Bilodeau 0-2, Lake 0-2, Akanno 0-3), Colorado 6-15 (Williams 2-3, O’Brien 1-1, Ruffin 1-2, Simpson 1-2, da Silva 1-3, Dak 0-1, Pease 0-1, Hammond 0-2). Rebounds — Oregon St. 31 (Rataj 6), Colorado 41 (Lampkin 8). Assists — Oregon St. 10 (Lake, Rataj, Craig 2), Colorado 19 (Hammond 5). Turnovers — Oregon State 10 (Akanno, Rataj, Ibekwe 2); Colorado 8 (Lampkin, Hammond 2). Whole fouls — Oregon St. 22, Colorado 17. Fouled Out — Rochelin. Technicals — Ndong, Lampkin, Simpson. Attendance — 7,944.