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Colorado-California Post Game Notes
February 12, 2015 | Men's Basketball
GAME NOTES
• Colorado falls to 11-12 overall and 4-7 in the Pac-12 Conference.
• It's the first time under the Boyle coaching staff that CU falls below .500 this late in any season.
• First time the Buffaloes have lost back-to-back home games since 2009-10; a first for Boyle at CU.
• Fourth home loss this season, the most since going 8-9 during the 2008-09 campaign.
• Cal leads all-time in the series, 13-12, first win in Boulder since 1974 breaking six-game skid.
• Buffs/Bears are tied at 4-4 in Pac-12 play; Boyle-CU coached teams still lead Cal 5-4.
• Cal has now won three of four in the series since 2013.
• Only the 13th home loss (69-13) for the Boyle coaching staff at the Coors Events Center in five years [2010-11: Kansas, Texas A&M (ot); 2011-12: Wyoming, Stanford; 2012-13: UCLA, Arizona State (ot), Oregon State; 2013-14: UCLA, Arizona; 2014-15: Colorado State, Washington, Utah, California].
• Three Pac-12 home losses matches the 2012-13 conference season (that year: UCLA, Arizona St., Oregon St.).
• CU falls to 3-7 in single-digit games this season (2-3 at home).
• CU falls to 38-11 (.775) at the Coors Event Center when the attendance is over 9,000 fans.
• CU made 3 three-pointers extending its 3-point streak to 422-straight games.
• First game since January 7 (at Utah) where Booker, Johnson, and Scott have started the same game.
• Third game in a row to shoot below 33% from the field in the first half.
• 11th different starting lineup for the Buffaloes this season (Booker, Collier, Gordon, Johnson, Scott).
• CU falls to 8-3 when having 6 or more assists (13).
• CU falls to 2-9 when trailing at half this season.
• CU falls to 2-8 when shooting below 39.9% (36.7%) and drops to 0-11 when shooting a lower percentage than opponent.
• CU drops to 3-3 when scoring 60-69 points.
• CU falls to 7-7 when outrebounding the opponent and falls to 7-4 when they have 40-49 rebounds.
• CU falls to 1-8 when shooting below 69.9% from the free-throw line.
• CU drops to 8-9 when committing more turnovers than opponent.
• First loss of season when having more assists than opponent.
• Only 3rd loss of season when committing more blocks than opponent
• First career start.
Josh Scott
• 9th multi-block game this season (24th career). 15th career game with 3+ blocks, seventh this season.
• 4 blocks ties career high and moves him into No. 9 all-time on school's block list (95).
• 5th time to lead CU in scoring this season (17).
• Leads team with 6th doublt-digit rebound game this season, led team in rebounding 9 of last 11 games.
• 11th game with 2 or more blocks.
Jaron Hopkins
• Season-high with 9 rebounds.
• 7th game with 7+ boards.