Colorado-Colorado State Notes

Colorado is off to its first 2-0 start since the 2003-04 season.

Colorado improves to 30-10 all-time against Colorado State and extends its current winning streak over the Rams to three. CU, which has also won six of the last seven meetings, is 20-2 all-time against CU at home.

Colorado opened the season with two 80+ scoring games for the first time since the 2002-03 season, an 85-66 win over Rice and 86-43 win over Detroit Mercy. The 179 combined points in these two games are the most since the 2000-01 season when the Buffs totaled 189 (93-43 win over Albany and 96-45 over Howard).

Colorado's 93 points are the most against the Rams since a 94-77 win on Dec. 20, 1980.

Colorado has scored 80+ points in five of its last six games against Colorado State, the lone exception being CU's 56-51 win in Boulder in 2006. CU is 4-1 in those five games, with CSU winning an 86-83 thriller in Fort Collins in 2005.

Fast Starts for Spears: For the second straight game Brittany Spears started the game red hot. In Sunday's season opener she scored 15 of CU's first 21 points hitting 6-of-7 from the field. Tonight she hit her first five field goal attempts, including a pair of 3-pointers and scored 10 of the team's first 12 points.

Spears notched her first double-double of the season and eighth of her career while tying her career high 24 points set at Missouri (1/9/08). Spears also matched a career high with 9 field goals, tying her output from the UCF game.

Bianca Smith, sporting a 1.7 rebound average entering the season, recorded a career-high eight rebounds and has 14 in her past two games and 20 in her past three dating back to CU's 2008 Postseason WNIT semifinal game against Marquette.

Kara Richards set a career high with 25 points, surpassing her previous best of 24 set twice during her freshman year (vs. Manhattan and vs. Iowa State). She was also a career best 9-of-9 from the free throw line. She secured her fifth career 20 point game and first since scoring 22 against Baylor on Feb. 21, 2007.

Redemption from the line. After struggling to make just 16-of-26 free throws against UCF in the opener, Colorado made its first 17 free throws and finished 22-of-24 from the line on the evening. The 17 straight free throws to start the game is the most by Colorado since its school-record 19-of-19 effort against Nebraska on Feb. 7, 1987. The 22-of-24 is also their best performance with 20 or more made since going 22-of-23 against Iowa State on Feb. 14, 2001.

Kelly Jo Mullaney, facing her former team, scored 14 points and dished out six assists.