Notes

December 06, 2009 | Women's Basketball

 

Seton Hall-Colorado Postgame Notes

Colorado wins its fourth straight, its best string since winning five in a row to close out the nonconference portion of the 2008-09 season.

The Buffaloes improve to 6-1 for the first time since 2003-04 and are more than half way to their 2008-09 win total of 11.

TALES OF TWO HALFS: Colorado had arguably its worst first half in team history one year ago in the matchup against Seton Hall setting a program low 13 points on 19 percent shooting (5-of-27) as the Pirates cruised 77-40. The Buffaloes certainly made sure that wouldn't happen again. CU scored 39 points on 55 percent from the field (16-of-29) in the first 20 minutes today. CU had one less point and one more field goal in the first half than the Buffs had in the entire game last year.

First Half Chart

                              2008    Today
Points                  13       39
Field Goals            5         16
FG Atts                  27       29
FG Pct                 18.5    55.2                                      

Impressive Point Swing: The 63 point swing from last year's 77-40 loss to Seton Hall to this year's win is the second largest in a series in team history (games no longer than two seasons apart). The Buffaloes had a 67 point swing against Idaho State during the 1981-82 season. Here are the top point swings in team history.

Opponent Score 1 Margin Date Score 2 Margin Date Difference
Idaho State 55-61 -6 1/22/82 116-55 +61 2/13/82 +67
Seton Hall 40-77 -37 12/9/08 80-54 +26 12/6/09 +63
Nebraska 49-90 -41 1/6/99 70-53 +17 1/23/99 +58
Colorado State 42-81 -39 2/6/75 53-38 +15 11/20/75 +54
Illinois 44-88 -44 1/4/98 78-70 +8 12/28/99 +52
Texas A&M 60-69 -9 1/6/92 92-51 +41 12/31/92 +50

Brittany Spears - Scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to record her 19th career double-double and fourth this season which leads the Big 12. She also had a career-high five 3-point field goals.

Chucky Jeffery - Registered career highs with 19 points and six assists. The six assists are also a team season high.

Colorado had a team season high 21 assists, its most since also having 21 in a 82-71 loss against Iowa State on Feb. 7, 2009.

Colorado has scored 80 points in back-to-back games for the first time since the first two games of the 2008-09 season, an 86-59 win over UCF (11/16/08) and a 93-63 win over Colorado State (11/19/08)

Colorado shot a season best 53 percent from the floor, hitting 31-of-58. The 53 percent is the best since the Buffaloes hit 55 percent in a win over Nebraska on Jan. 31, 2009.

Bianca Smith - Hit three 3 pointers to move her career total to 195. She needs just two to catch Kate Fagan for fourth place on CU's all-time list. Fagan had 197 from 1999-04.

Alyssa Fressle - Recorded a season-high 10 points, her 13th career double-digit scoring performance.

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