Colorado University Athletics
Tuesday, March 3
Salt Lake City, Utah
7 p.m.
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Utah
Isaiah Johnson
Photo by: Ashton Scott
Buffs Set To Face Utah In Road Finale
March 01, 2026 | Men's Basketball
Game 30 - Utah, Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Jon M. Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tip: 7:01 p.m. MT
Watch: ESPN+ (Chris Sylvester, Joe Cravens, Sammy Miller)Â https://buffs.me/4r03v95
Radio: KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM (Mark Johnson, Scott Wilke)Â
Listen Online: Sirius XM 390, SXM App 980Â https://sxm.app.link/SXM980
Live Statistics: https://buffs.me/4rJTVZn
THE BUFFALOES: Colorado is 16-13 overall and tied with Arizona State for 11th place in the Big 12 Conference standings with a record of 6-10. The Buffaloes could mathematically reach as high as a tie for ninth in the final league standings, but tiebreakers are likely to cap them no higher than the 11th spot. Colorado was eliminated from the top half, and a potential first round bye, over the weekend.
The Buffaloes are 4-4 over their last eight games, with all four wins coming at the CU Events Center. Colorado has doubled its conference win total from a year ago and the win over K-State guarantees the Buffaloes will finish no lower than 14th in the final league standings.
Colorado heads to Salt Lake City for its final true road game of the season. The Buffaloes are 1-8 in road contests and have lost their last seven.
SCORING BALANCE: Colorado has had at least four players score in double figures in 19 of 29 games. The Buffaloes have had six games with at least five scoring in double digits, most recently in the win over Kansas State.
Colorado had only four games with four players scoring in double figures in 35 contests last year (3-1 record) and none with five.
The Buffaloes have had six different players lead the team in scoring this season and four have had 20-point games. Colorado is averaging 27.7 points per game from its bench, ranking second in the Big 12, accounting for 35 percent of the team's scoring.
Isaiah Johnson is Colorado's leading scorer at 16.4 points per game, which ties for third in the Big 12 and 17th in the nation in scoring by a freshman (based on qualifying individuals). Johnson led the Buffaloes in scoring for a team-best 15th time this season with 19 points on 7 of 9 shooting at Houston. He filled up the box score nicely against Kansas State scoring 18 points and recording career highs with nine rebounds and seven assists, leading the Buffaloes in all three categories.
Johnson leads the Buffaloes in free throws made (140) and attempted (173), 3-pointers made (48) and steals (29) while ranking second in assists (83) and third in 3-point percentage (.371).
Johnson is 11th in the nation for free throws made by a freshman and 25th in free throw percentage (.809).
Junior Barrington Hargress leads Colorado in assists (130), overall shooting (.541), 3-point percentage (.506) and overall field goals made (151) while ranking second in scoring (14.2 ppg) and 3-pointers made (45) and third in steals (26).
Hargress is second in the Big 12 and 11th in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.6 and leads all conference players in league games with a 4.1 mark. He has 17 games with no more than one turnover. Hargress has 10 games with at least five assists. Over the last 14 contests he has 58 assists against just 12 turnovers (4.8 a/to).
Additionally on the Big 12 charts, Hargress ranks sixth in field goal percentage and 13th in assists. He is the best field goal shooter in the Big 12, and 10th in the country, from the guard position. He is the second-best shooter in the nation listed at 6-foot-1, or shorter.
Sophomore Sebastian Rancik is second on the team in rebounding (5.6 rpg), free throws made (111) and attempted (129) and steals (27) and third in scoring (12.3 ppg) and assists (57). Rancik leads the team and ranks third in the Big 12 in free throw percentage at 86.0 percent.
Rancik pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds against Oklahoma State to go along with seven points and a pair of assists. The performance gave him double figures in rebounds for the third time in a four-game span. He also had 10 rebounds at BYU while dishing out a career-best six assists with nine points and a team-high three steals.
Rancik recorded his first career double-double with 17 points and a personal-best 11 rebounds in the home win over Arizona State. Four of those rebounds came off the offensive end, which is also a career high. He is averaging 7.5 rebounds over the last six games.
Junior forward Bangot Dak leads the Buffaloes and is 16th in the Big 12 at 6.4 rebounds per game and seventh in blocks at 1.5 per outing. He is fourth on the team in scoring at 10.9 points per game while shooting 47.5 percent from the field.
Dak had 15 points and a pair of blocked shots at Houston. He recorded team season-high four blocked shots along with 10 points and six rebounds against Kansas State.
Dak was named to the Big 12 Starting Five on Feb. 23, honoring his standout performance against Oklahoma State. Dak scored a game-high 17 points, hitting 5 of 8 from the field and 6 of 7 from the free throw line, along with seven rebounds and a pair of blocked shots.
It marks the first Big 12 weekly honor of any kind for Dak and the first for the Buffaloes since rejoining the conference last season. This is the first season of the Big 12 Starting Five, which honors strong performances across the conference. Dak is joined on the Big 12 Starting Five by Arizona's Anthony Dell'Orso, UCF's Themus Fulks, Cincinnati's Moustapha Thiam and BYU's AJ Dybantsa who claimed both Player and Newcomer of the Week honors.
Freshman guard Ian Inman is starting to make a big impact off the bench. Inman had 17 points, on 5 of 7 from 3-point range, and five rebounds - all career highs - in the win over Kansas State. It was his third career double-figure scoring game, all coming in the span of six contest. Inman has scored 55 of his season's 66 points in the last nine games (6.1 ppg). He is Colorado's fifth leading scorer in terms of average during Big 12 play (5.3 ppg).
CU IN THE NET: A snapshot of Colorado's NET rankings in 2025-26 (through games of Feb. 28).
Jon M. Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tip: 7:01 p.m. MT
Watch: ESPN+ (Chris Sylvester, Joe Cravens, Sammy Miller)Â https://buffs.me/4r03v95
Radio: KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM (Mark Johnson, Scott Wilke)Â
Listen Online: Sirius XM 390, SXM App 980Â https://sxm.app.link/SXM980
Live Statistics: https://buffs.me/4rJTVZn
THE BUFFALOES: Colorado is 16-13 overall and tied with Arizona State for 11th place in the Big 12 Conference standings with a record of 6-10. The Buffaloes could mathematically reach as high as a tie for ninth in the final league standings, but tiebreakers are likely to cap them no higher than the 11th spot. Colorado was eliminated from the top half, and a potential first round bye, over the weekend.
The Buffaloes are 4-4 over their last eight games, with all four wins coming at the CU Events Center. Colorado has doubled its conference win total from a year ago and the win over K-State guarantees the Buffaloes will finish no lower than 14th in the final league standings.
Colorado heads to Salt Lake City for its final true road game of the season. The Buffaloes are 1-8 in road contests and have lost their last seven.
SCORING BALANCE: Colorado has had at least four players score in double figures in 19 of 29 games. The Buffaloes have had six games with at least five scoring in double digits, most recently in the win over Kansas State.
Colorado had only four games with four players scoring in double figures in 35 contests last year (3-1 record) and none with five.
The Buffaloes have had six different players lead the team in scoring this season and four have had 20-point games. Colorado is averaging 27.7 points per game from its bench, ranking second in the Big 12, accounting for 35 percent of the team's scoring.
Isaiah Johnson is Colorado's leading scorer at 16.4 points per game, which ties for third in the Big 12 and 17th in the nation in scoring by a freshman (based on qualifying individuals). Johnson led the Buffaloes in scoring for a team-best 15th time this season with 19 points on 7 of 9 shooting at Houston. He filled up the box score nicely against Kansas State scoring 18 points and recording career highs with nine rebounds and seven assists, leading the Buffaloes in all three categories.
Johnson leads the Buffaloes in free throws made (140) and attempted (173), 3-pointers made (48) and steals (29) while ranking second in assists (83) and third in 3-point percentage (.371).
Johnson is 11th in the nation for free throws made by a freshman and 25th in free throw percentage (.809).
Junior Barrington Hargress leads Colorado in assists (130), overall shooting (.541), 3-point percentage (.506) and overall field goals made (151) while ranking second in scoring (14.2 ppg) and 3-pointers made (45) and third in steals (26).
Hargress is second in the Big 12 and 11th in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.6 and leads all conference players in league games with a 4.1 mark. He has 17 games with no more than one turnover. Hargress has 10 games with at least five assists. Over the last 14 contests he has 58 assists against just 12 turnovers (4.8 a/to).
Additionally on the Big 12 charts, Hargress ranks sixth in field goal percentage and 13th in assists. He is the best field goal shooter in the Big 12, and 10th in the country, from the guard position. He is the second-best shooter in the nation listed at 6-foot-1, or shorter.
Sophomore Sebastian Rancik is second on the team in rebounding (5.6 rpg), free throws made (111) and attempted (129) and steals (27) and third in scoring (12.3 ppg) and assists (57). Rancik leads the team and ranks third in the Big 12 in free throw percentage at 86.0 percent.
Rancik pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds against Oklahoma State to go along with seven points and a pair of assists. The performance gave him double figures in rebounds for the third time in a four-game span. He also had 10 rebounds at BYU while dishing out a career-best six assists with nine points and a team-high three steals.
Rancik recorded his first career double-double with 17 points and a personal-best 11 rebounds in the home win over Arizona State. Four of those rebounds came off the offensive end, which is also a career high. He is averaging 7.5 rebounds over the last six games.
Junior forward Bangot Dak leads the Buffaloes and is 16th in the Big 12 at 6.4 rebounds per game and seventh in blocks at 1.5 per outing. He is fourth on the team in scoring at 10.9 points per game while shooting 47.5 percent from the field.
Dak had 15 points and a pair of blocked shots at Houston. He recorded team season-high four blocked shots along with 10 points and six rebounds against Kansas State.
Dak was named to the Big 12 Starting Five on Feb. 23, honoring his standout performance against Oklahoma State. Dak scored a game-high 17 points, hitting 5 of 8 from the field and 6 of 7 from the free throw line, along with seven rebounds and a pair of blocked shots.
It marks the first Big 12 weekly honor of any kind for Dak and the first for the Buffaloes since rejoining the conference last season. This is the first season of the Big 12 Starting Five, which honors strong performances across the conference. Dak is joined on the Big 12 Starting Five by Arizona's Anthony Dell'Orso, UCF's Themus Fulks, Cincinnati's Moustapha Thiam and BYU's AJ Dybantsa who claimed both Player and Newcomer of the Week honors.
Freshman guard Ian Inman is starting to make a big impact off the bench. Inman had 17 points, on 5 of 7 from 3-point range, and five rebounds - all career highs - in the win over Kansas State. It was his third career double-figure scoring game, all coming in the span of six contest. Inman has scored 55 of his season's 66 points in the last nine games (6.1 ppg). He is Colorado's fifth leading scorer in terms of average during Big 12 play (5.3 ppg).
CU IN THE NET: A snapshot of Colorado's NET rankings in 2025-26 (through games of Feb. 28).
Current: 78 | Highest: 39 (Dec. 2) | Lowest: 86 (Jan. 29)
Avg. Opponent Net Rank: 18 | Opponent Avg. Net: 95
Quad 1: 1-9 | Quad 2: 4-3 | Quad 3: 7-1 | Quad 4: 4-0
ABOUTÂ THE UTES: Utah is 10-19 overall and tied for 15th in the Big 12 at 2-14. The Utes have lost their last three, returning home for their final home game of the season. The Utes are averaging 74.5 points per game, shooting 45.1 percent from the field. Utah makes 7.9 3-pointers per game which ranks ninth in the Big 12. Defensively, the Utes are allowing 78.1 points per game, and have held opponents to 47.3 percent shooting. Utah forces 9.5 turnovers per game and allows teams to shoot 34.2 percent from the 3-point line.Â
Junior guard Terrence Brown leads the Utes at 19.7 points per game which ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 39th in the NCAA. Brown also leads the team with 3.7 assists per game, 1.4 steals per game, and 143 made free throws which is second the Big 12. The Utes have two other players who average double-digits in points: Fifth-year guard Don McHenry (17.1) and junior forward Keanu Dawes (12.6). Dawes makes an impact on the defensive side of the ball with 7.14 defensive rebounds per game. He has the second most defensive rebounds per game in the Big 12 and ranks 10th in the country.
THE SERIES: This will be the 65th meeting between Colorado and Utah with the Buffaloes holding a 36-28 advantage. Colorado won the first matchup this season 85-73, on Jan. 7, in Boulder. Utah holds a 20-10 series lead in Salt Lake City, winning the last three matchups. The last win in Utah for Colorado came on Mar. 5, 2022, an 84-71 victory.
ABOUTÂ THE UTES: Utah is 10-19 overall and tied for 15th in the Big 12 at 2-14. The Utes have lost their last three, returning home for their final home game of the season. The Utes are averaging 74.5 points per game, shooting 45.1 percent from the field. Utah makes 7.9 3-pointers per game which ranks ninth in the Big 12. Defensively, the Utes are allowing 78.1 points per game, and have held opponents to 47.3 percent shooting. Utah forces 9.5 turnovers per game and allows teams to shoot 34.2 percent from the 3-point line.Â
Junior guard Terrence Brown leads the Utes at 19.7 points per game which ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 39th in the NCAA. Brown also leads the team with 3.7 assists per game, 1.4 steals per game, and 143 made free throws which is second the Big 12. The Utes have two other players who average double-digits in points: Fifth-year guard Don McHenry (17.1) and junior forward Keanu Dawes (12.6). Dawes makes an impact on the defensive side of the ball with 7.14 defensive rebounds per game. He has the second most defensive rebounds per game in the Big 12 and ranks 10th in the country.
THE SERIES: This will be the 65th meeting between Colorado and Utah with the Buffaloes holding a 36-28 advantage. Colorado won the first matchup this season 85-73, on Jan. 7, in Boulder. Utah holds a 20-10 series lead in Salt Lake City, winning the last three matchups. The last win in Utah for Colorado came on Mar. 5, 2022, an 84-71 victory.
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