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Colorado-California Notes
January 31, 2016 | Men's Basketball
Team
The Buffaloes are 17-5 overall. Colorado has won five of their last six and improve to 12-1 at home.
Colorado is 9-2 against the Bears when playing at Coors Events Center. Cal still holds the overall series lead 14-13.
CU has started 6-3 or better in league play for just the third time in the last 43 seasons:
Colorado / *Best 9-Game Conference Starts
Season Conference Top Player W L Pct.
1958-59 Big 8 Don Walker 6 3 .667
1961-62 Big 8 Ken Charlton 10 0 1.000
1962-63 Big 8 Ken Charlton 6 3 .667
1963-64 Big 8 Jim Davis 6 3 .667
1964-65 Big 8 Pat Frink 6 3 .667
1966-67 Big 8 Pat Frink 6 3 .667
1968-69 Big 8 Cliff Meely 7 2 .778
1972-73 Big 8 Scott Wedman 7 2 .778
1996-97 Big 12 Chauncey Billups 7 2 .778
2011-12 Pac-12 Andre Roberson 6 3 .667
2015-16 Pac-12 Josh Scott 6 3 .667
(*—seasons with 14 or more league games)
ÂColorado has outrebounded its opponent in 19 of 22 games.
The Buffs forced 15 turnovers, the second most this year, but they only led to seven points.
Colorado only had two turnovers in the first half.
In the first half, California made 4 of its first 8 (50%) but finished to 4-18 (22.2%). Colorado started out 1-19 (5.3%) and went on a run to improve to 12-17 (70.6%).
Colorado started the game 8-14 FT but made 13-16 in the last 4:30.
The Bears led by 9 early in the first half, their largest lead of the game, but Colorado pulled ahead to finish the first half with a 14 point lead. Colorado's largest lead was 17 in the second half.
California shot their season worst 35% FG.
Jaylen Brown scored 13 of the last 16 for Cal. The Bears are just 1-6 when he scores 18 or more.
CU is now 16-1 when scoring over 70 points.
Sunday afternoon's attendance at Coors was a season high 9,424
Players
Josh Scott
Scott had 18 points against California and now has 88 double-figure scoring games. He also became ninth in career scoring with a total of 1,568 points. He took sole control of the 19th spot for games played now with 114, passing Chris Copeland who had 113 from 2002-06. Â Scott had five rebounds becoming the fifth player in team history to reach 900 (901).
George King
King has 17 double-figure scoring games after scoring 13 points against California. He has made 20 of his last 21 from the foul line.
Dominique Collier
Collier has 26 assists in the last seven games (3.7 apg)
Xavier Talton
Talton played in his 123rd game tonight, moving him to fifth career games played. He is tied with Levi Knutson, Stephane Pelle, and Will Smith.
Tory Miller
Miller had nine rebounds, one short of his season-high. He has 34 rebounds over the last five games (6.8 rpg)
Wesley Gordon
Gordon's 47 blocks matches his 34-game total from the 2014-2015 season. He is now tied with thats previous total for 10th on CU's single-season list.