MBB Hosts Colorado Christian, Tuesday

BOULDER ? The University of Colorado menGÇÖs basketball team returns to the home court this week taking on the Colorado Christian Cougars, Tuesday, 7 p.m. at the Coors Events Center.

The Buffaloes (2-2) are coming off a 78-52 loss Saturday night at Wisconsin in the final game of the AmericaGÇÖs Youth Classic in Madison. CU also defeated Florida A&M and Savannah State.

Colorado Christian resides from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and brings a 1-1 record into Tuesday nightGÇÖs game.

There is no television coverage for the game, but CU will provide live video streaming as part of the BuffsTV subscription package. The pay-per-view fee is $9.95 per month ($74.95 annual). For more information visit www.CUBuffs.com.

The game can also be heard on KKZN 760 with the voice of CU basketball, Mark Johnson and analyst Charles Johnson.

Senior guard Richard Roby, named to the AmericaGÇÖs Youth Classic all-tournament team, scored a game-high 20 points (8-of-15) at Wisconsin, then tallied another game-high 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the win over Savannah State. Roby, the schoolGÇÖs seventh all-time leading scorer (1,504 points) and CUGÇÖs leader each of the last three seasons, is 63 points from sixth place and Randy Downs (1982-85).

The CCU Cougars, a Division II school are from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ? The Cougars are 1-1 on the season defeating Langston, 81-64 and falling to Dixie State, 72-85 ? CCU head coach David Daniels enters his third year (22-33 record) leading the Cougars to a 13-15 mark last season.
CU is 66-26 (.717) against the RMAC and last played a school from that conference in the regular season during 2001-02 (Nov. 19, 2001, 77-56 over Regis)
Sophomore guard Xavier Silas scored a career-high 24 points in CUGÇÖs 83-59 victory over Florida A&M, Thursday night at the Kohl Center. SilasGÇÖ previous best was 23 points at Baylor (Jan. 30). He also had a career-best five assists and a season-high 8-of-11 (.727) from the field. It was SilasGÇÖ second career 20+ scoring game.
CUGÇÖs back-to-back victories at the AmericaGÇÖs Youth Classic are the Buffs first consecutive wins since the 2005-06 season
After four games, the Buffaloes are shooting nearly 50 percent from the field (83-of-173, .480) and allowing the opposition 58.5 ppg.
CU is playing seven games in the month of November, the most since playing seven in 1998-99.

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