Buffs Top ASU To Advance To Pac-12 Quarterfinals — CU MEN’S BASKETBALL

ASU was out-rebounded 39-26.

“He’s gonna be good”, Namon Wright said of McKinley.

Up next for No. 5-seed UNC: 3:35 p.m. Thursday vs.

The surprising season of the Huskies’ men’s basketball team clanked to an unceremonious end Wednesday night in the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas when seventh-seeded Washington (20-12, 10-9) fell 69-66 to 10th-seeded Oregon State in overtime.

Vegas Madness was just getting started on the men’s side when a hometown kid was introduced to a hometown crowd at T-Mobile Arena at high noon Wednesday.

So, Boyle will likely not be at 100 percent for Colorado’s next game, against the top-seeded Arizona Wildcats in Thursday’s quarterfinal matchup.

“We were very confident”. Winners of six of their last seven games, the Hawks have been unsafe as they won at Rhode Island in a shocking 30-point drubbing a few weeks ago.

“We had to win”. We’ve beaten some really, really good teams this year. Just being able to have that opportunity to go out there and compete at this level with anything that can happen. Utah, who also finished 11-7 in Pac-12 play, has +400 odds to win it all.

Wright led the way by very almost posting the fourth triple-double in program history, recording 20 points, 11 assists, and eight rebounds. However, the conference tournaments naturally get overlooked by the 64-team NCAA Tournament.

In extra time, Nowell fouled out and was followed shortly by Dickerson.

OR shot 29.2 percent from the first half, was 0 for 2 on free throws and trailed 24-17 at the half.

This loss arguably puts ASU’s NCAA tournament hopes in jeopardy, as they have dropped four of its last five games. “The strength of this team is the depth and the number of weapons that we have”.

The loss to the Bruins snapped a four-game winning streak.

Wright had 19 points and five assists in Colorado’s 90-81 overtime win over then fourth-ranked ASU on January 4, then had 16 points and 10 assists two days later when the Buffs beat Arizona 80-77.

KEY STATISTICS: The Buffs shot 53 percent from the field (33-for-62), including 62 percent from 3-point range (13-for-21).

Drew Eubanks pulled OSU even with two free throws at the 36.3-second mark.

“He’s a once in a generation player”, Arizona coach Sean Miller said. The Colorado coach initially thought he might have torn his Achilles’ tendon, though the team doctor believes it to be a calf injury.

UCLA lost the teams’ first meeting, a double-overtime thriller in which Holiday played 48 out of a possible 50 minutes.

“We’re in March now”. They were, you know, obviously more aggressive.

“You can’t have one or two guys”, Boyle said. And other times he literally wrapped the players in an embrace and whispered words of encouragement. “We talked about being the aggressors both offensively and defensively, and I thought we were”.

Halftime – Colorado 41-37.

Dominique Collier added 17 points, George King had 12 points and 7 rebounds, Lucas Siewert had 12 points and D’Shawn Schwartz chipped in 10 to round out Colorado’s balanced attack. At 6 p.m., Washington and Oregon State will square off for the rights to face USC in the second round.

Colorado was crisp on offense, thanks to Wright’s leadership, and tightened down defensively during its big run to earn a shot at top-seeded Arizona.