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November 15th
… Citius, Altius, Fortius …
No. 3 Seed Buffs outlast Utah Valley, 2-1, in double-overtime to advance in NCAA tournament
From CUBuffs.com … Reagan Kotschau flew through the air like Supergirl Friday night at Prentup Field, extending Colorado’s season and punching the team’s ticket to the second round of the NCAA Tournament all in one swoop. Her diving header in double overtime completed Colorado’s comeback, defeating Utah Valley in dramatic fashion, 2-1.
The double-overtime win is the team’s first in extra time in its 15 NCAA Tournament appearances. It was also CU’s 16th win of the season, marking the most in a season in program history.
“I feel great,” Kotschau said after her winner. “I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because we’re all so dead [at that point of the night]. It just feels really good that we grinded out that win.”
Utah Valley (14-5-3) got on the board early with a goal from Bailey Peterson. Leah Wolf was solid all night for the Wolverines, making four saves.
Freshman Vivi Zacarias got Colorado back on track with her second goal of the season. Kotschau’s game-winner was her sixth goal of the year. She now has five game-winners this season.
Jordan Nytes recorded six saves over 105 minutes, recording her 41st career win as a Buff. Ava Priest sent in the ball on Kotschau’s game-winner for her sixth assist of the season.
“What a match,” head coach Danny Sanchez expressed. “Maybe the most special atmosphere since I’ve been here. I want to give a shoutout to everyone who helped put this together tonight. You have to enjoy special nights like this. I want to give a lot of credit to Utah Valley. They came out and played great soccer and really put us under pressure the whole match.”
Colorado advances in the bracket for the second consecutive year and is now 12-14-1 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
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November 13th
… Citius, Altius, Fortius …
No. 22 CU volleyball upsets No. 16 TCU in five sets
… Note … Buffs taking on No. 8 Arizona State, Saturday, 1:00 p.m., MT, ESPN+ …
From CUBuffs.com … The 22nd-ranked Colorado volleyball team (21-5, 11-3 Big 12) defeated No. 16 TCU (18-8, 8-6 Big 12) in five sets (25-21, 19-25, 19-25, 29-27, 19-17) at CU Events Center on Thursday, Nov. 13.
The Buffs notched their fourth-ranked win of the season on a comeback thriller match against the Horned Frogs. CU went down 2-1 but fought back in the last two sets – taking them both to extras. The match saw 42 tie scores and 18 lead changes overall. Senior setter Rian Finley reached 1,000 career assists, becoming the 15th Buff to do so.
“This is the tale of two matches,” head coach Jesse Mahoney said. “We came out really efficient in the first set, and then in sets two and three, TCU blocked us a ton. We had a ton of attacking errors. Credit to our players —set four and set five — really righted the ship. We passed well the entire match, and we just kept chipping away. We talked in timeouts about, ‘hey, keep doing the right things, and you’ll get rewarded,’ and that’s what happened. That was a great win for us. That’s a really good team and [this win] puts us in a good position.”
Colorado had out-assisted (60-50), out-aced (10-4) and out-dug (60-54) TCU. CU held TCU to .180 or lower in the first, fourth and fifth sets.
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