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2023 Season Archive

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//posted 4.23.2024

**Video: Men’s Basketball 2023-24 Full Season Recap** … KJ Simpson officially declares for the NBA Draft … CU men finish ranked 28th … CU women finish ranked No. 15 … Chauncey Billups becomes the second Buff inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame …

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Preseason Magazines

//posted 4.15.2024

CBS Sports Top 100 Best Players List Includes Three Buffs (Travis Hunter No. 1) … Rating Recruiting potential: CU 5th in the Big 12 … ESPN: 30 Coaches who will define the next decade (No. 14 – Coach Prime) … College Football News: CU going bowling …

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E Pluribus … Viginti Duo

//posted 3.23.2024

There are 351 programs playing Division 1 basketball, but only 22 of those programs – including CU – had both the men’s and women’s teams invited to participate in March Madness … Just how unique (and special) is this March for Buff fans? Let’s find out …

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Colorado Daily

//posted 3.1.2024

CU Director of Player Personnel Chandler Dorrell moving on … Ten CU Transfers who will have an impact this spring … Ten Buffs will participate in CU Football Pro Day on Thursday … The Prime Effect: CU applications set a new record (up 20%) …

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Pac-12/Big 12 Notes

//posted 3.1.2024

College Football attendance highest since 2017; CU leads Power Five in increased attendance … Automatic byes for Big Ten/SEC in 14-team playoff format losing steam … Friday Night Lights: Fox to feature weekly prime-time game, starting this season …

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The CU men’s team got off to a slow start in February, going 1-3, including a 20-point home loss to No. 8 Arizona … The Buffs then righted the ship with three wins to close out the month, including a double-overtime road win over USC … For his 28 point effort in an 89-65 home rout of Utah, KJ Simpson was named the Pac-12 Player-of-the-Week … On the women’s side, the month of February went in the opposite direction … The Buffs won the first three games in February, climbing to a 20-3 record and a No. 1 projected seeding in the NCAA tournament in the first Top 16 early reveal by the NCAA selection committee … The remainder of the month, however, was a disappointment, as the Buffs lost four straight – all to ranked teams – to fall out of the Top Ten in the national rankings …

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(Almost) Worth The Wait

//posted 2.18.2024

We are hard-wired to focus more on agonizing losses than we are to enjoy euphoric wins … Last season, long-suffering CU fans got a taste of glory, but it was quickly taken away … Morale of the story: Enjoy the good times when they come …

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From the Dartmouth NLRB ruling to the anti-trust lawsuits, the NCAA is being attacked on all fronts … Is there enough time for Coach Prime to salvage the CU national brand, giving the Buffs a seat at the big boy table when the NCAA disintegrates? … Let’s find out …

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The NCAA is being attacked on all sides – and is losing pretty much every fight … Will the Big Ten/SEC “advisory group” be able to come up with solutions? … Will Congress protect the “new” NCAA from future suits? … Will CU have a seat at the table? … Let’s find out …

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No back-to-back Big 12 road games … No games against an FBS team with a winning record in 2023 until mid-October … Only three true road Big 12 contests … A game-by-game look at CU’s Big 12 schedule …

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Which teams will be coming off of a bye before facing the Buffs? Which teams have rivalry games the week before facing CU? Can the Buffs take advantage of a soft early schedule, building momentum for a finish against three ranked teams? … Let’s find out …

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The CU men entered 2024 with an 11-2 (2-0) record, then promptly lost 97-50 to No. 10 Arizona to kick off a three-game road losing streak … The Buffs rebounded to win four straight before finishing the month with a split road trip to the state of Washington … The CU women, meanwhile, entered January with an 11-1 record and a No. 5 national ranking … A big win over No. 8 Stanford pushed the Buffs to No. 3 in the rankings before CU fell to No. 5 UCLA, 76-68, before the largest crowd (11,338) to ever watch a women’s game at the CU Events Center … A home win over No. 12 Utah kept the Buffs in the Top Ten nationally throughout the month …

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