Colorado University Athletics
Colorado-Missouri Notes
February 27, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Colorado snaps a nine game losing streak in true road games dating back to an 80-79 overtime on this same court Feb. 23, 2010. The Buffaloes broke an 11-game skid away from Boulder dating to that same contest.
Colorado wins its fourth straight and eighth of its last 10 against Missouri and improves its overall lead in the series to 42-27. This was the 69th meeting between the two teams, the most played in team history. CU's 42 wins against the Tigers are also the most the Buffaloes have against any one team.
Colorado has won four straight at Mizzou Arena and is 5-2 there since it opened in 2005.
Colorado's 14 overall wins and five Big 12 wins are its most since the 2007-08 WNIT semifinal team finished 19-15, 5-11 in league play.
Colorado improved to 13-0 when leading at halftime. Colorado's 31-28 first half lead was its first on the road since the Buffaloes led 26-24 at the break at Kansas State on Jan. 20, 2010.
Colorado made 14-of-16 from the foul line (.875). After making just 60 percent from the line over the first 23 games, Colorado is shooting 88.2 percent over the last four (60-of-68).
Colorado committed a season-low eight turnovers.
Senior Brittany Spears scored her 2,000th point on a 3-point field goal from the right side at the 12:20 mark of the second half which gave the Buffaloes a 40-37 lead (the 3-pointer gave her 2,000 exactly). Sophomore Chucky Jeffery provided the assist on Spears' milestone basket.
Spears was 4-of-4 from the free-throw line. Spears now has 329 career free throws made, moving her into 10th place on CU's all-time list past Crystal Ford who had 327 from 1985-89. Spears also leaped into second in career minutes played with 3,972. She passed Tracy Tripp (3,960 from 1985-89) and Erin Scholz (3,963 from 1993-97).
Spears has scored in double digits in 25-of-27 games this season and 104 out of 120 career games. It was her 41st career game with 20-plus points.
Spears had four 3-point field goals, putting her season total to 60, the 11th best mark in team history.
With 2,011 points, Spears retakes active career lead in the Big 12 and is 10th all-time on the league charts. She moved past Oklahoma's Danielle Robinson (2,002), who will play against No. 3 Baylor on Sunday.
Freshman Rachel Hargis had three blocked shots. Fifteen of her blocks this season have come during Big 12 play.
Sophomore Meagan Malcolm-Peck was 1-of-4 from 3-point range. Her 3-point field goal gave her 52 for her career, moving her into a tie for 15th place with Anna Nedovic (2003-07) for 15th on CU's all-time list.
Jeffery was 7-of-9 from the free-throw line, tying career-bests in both categories. It's the fourth time she's reached those numbers, most recently in the win over Colorado State on Dec. 8.
Jeffery had two steals, moving her season total to 65, the 17th best single-season mark in team history.
