Colorado-Denver Notes

Team
Colorado doubled up Denver on the boards 46-23. That plus-23 margin is Colorado’s best since outrebounding Fort Lewis by the exact same count (46-23) on Dec. 2 2015.

Colorado improves to 58-25 all-time against Denver, winning seven straight and eight of the last nine. Denver’s last win in this series was in 1964.

The Buffaloes have won 18 of their last 19 nonconference regular season games at the Coors Events Center. Overall, Colorado has won 23 of its last 27 and 33 of its last 38 at Coors (all games).

Colorado had 12 players score, 10 had 2+ rebounds, eight had an assist and six had a made 3-point field goal.
 
Players

George King (11 points, 7 rebounds, 5-8 FG) moves into 32nd  on Colorado’s all-time rebounds list with 446. He now ties Askia Booker and Fred Edmonds.

Deleon Brown (13 points, 2 steals, 5-9 FG) set a career high in field goals with five; his previous best was four against Stanford and Washington. He tied a career high in steals with two.

Lucas Siewert (7 points, 7 rebounds, 2 blocks) set a career high with seven rebounds, one game after matching his previous high of six against Northern Colorado. high; his previous best was 6 rebounds which he has done four times throughout his career. Also had his first career two block game.

Namon Wright (14 points, 4 rebounds, 4-5 FG) CU high of 14 points.

McKinley Wright (12 points, 3 rebounds, 6-9 FG) has hit double figure scoring in his first two career games. Had 10 in the win over Northern Colorado

Freshman Alexander Strating made his collegiate debut scoring four points. Dallas Walton scored his first collegiate points on a 3-pointer.