Colorado University Athletics
Colorado-Kansas State Big 12 Notes
March 12, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Colorado drops to 8-12 in Big 12 Championship tournament games and has lost its last three.
The Buffaloes end the season on a six-game losing streak, their longest to close a season since the 1984-85 team lost their last eight. Three of those losses have come to Kansas State.
Kansas State won all three meetings this season, which evens the all-time series at 32 wins apiece. Kansas State holds a 2-1 edge in Big 12 Championship tournament meetings.
Colorado is now 3-5 in Big 12 Championship first round games (seeded No. 5 or lower)
The No. 12 seed drops to 1-13 all-time in the Big 12 Championship, and 1-11 against the No. 5 seed.
Colorado's 21 total rebounds were its fewest since grabbing 21 at Minnesota on Nov. 23, 2003.
Sophomore Brittany Spears became the 22nd player in team history to reach 1,000 points and now has 1,002. She is the second fastest to reach that mark (63 games) trailing only CU Athletic Hall of Famer Lisa Van Goor and joins Van Goor as the only players to reach it as a sophomore.
Spears scored 530 points in 2008-09, the ninth best single-season total in team history. Her 18.3 points per game average ranks sixth on CU's single-season list.
