Tag: college basketball
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Colorado’s young core has shined. Can Tad Boyle keep it together? | College Basketball Insider
BOULDER — Tad Boyle has had the same thought since the offseason. How can he keep his talented freshman class together? The Colorado coach saw glimpses of it during the team’s foreign trip to Australia, but now Buffaloes fans have gotten a chance to see it for multiple months. Isaiah Johnson has put together one…
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Denver’s Carson Johnson named Summit League Player of the Year
In fewer than 15 months, Carson Johnson went from redshirting at a Division II school to becoming the best player in the Summit League. The Denver sophomore guard was named Summit League Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year Tuesday, becoming the second player in the program’s modern Division-I era (since 1998) to…
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Air Force men struggle at foul line, drop heartbreaker at Wyoming
For the second game in a row, it seemed like Air Force would pull out its first conference win of the season. Wyoming basketball had other plans. After trailing for most of the contest, Falcon freshman Kam Sanders scored three straight 3-pointers to take the lead with two minutes left in the game. However, Air…
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The new-look Pac-12 is coming. Can it crash the high-major hoops party? | College Basketball Insider
Football will pay the bills, but the new-look Pac-12’s identity should be defined on the hardwood. After a two-year hiatus, the West Coast’s premier conference will return next fall, and while its ceiling on the football field is mostly limited due to the increasing gap between the power conferences and the rest of the country,…
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Colorado holds against Kansas State for Buffs’ 4th straight home win
BOULDER — A nine-point win and a 34-point loss in the span of two weeks felt the exact same to Tad Boyle. After the Colorado coach ranted about his team not deserving their charter flight home following a blowout loss at Texas Tech, Boyle talked about dodging bullets in his team’s 79-70 win over Kansas…
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Air Force men’s basketball comes up short in another close game against short-handed San Jose State
The win was within reach. After trailing by as many as 12 points in the second half, the Falcons cut San Jose State’s lead to four with less than a minute left, but a turnover by Lucas Hobin in the final 10 seconds allowed the Spartans to secure an 86-80 win over the Falcons in…
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Colorado State grinds out sixth-straight win, continues February surge in Mountain West
FORT COLLINS — Kyle Jorgensen uttered a phrase that could’ve been said a few times now in the month of February. “About a month ago, I don’t think we were winning that game,” the sophomore forward said after Colorado State’s 74-70 win over Fresno State on Tuesday night at Moby Arena. Jorgensen is right. The…
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Colorado State takes down San Diego State for 5th straight win, matching longest streak of season
FORT COLLINS — What was once just a vision for Ali Farokhmanesh is finally turning into reality. When the first-year Colorado State coach built this team last offseason, he envisioned one that would get better as the season wore on and play its best basketball as March neared. That’s exactly what his Rams (17-10, 8-8…
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The next wave of success for JR Payne, CU Buffs women’s basketball has arrived
BOULDER — Inside her office at the CU Events Center, JR Payne had to do a double-take when looking at her computer. It was earlier this month, as the Colorado women’s basketball coach was preparing one of the hundreds of daily practice plans she prepares for her team over the course of a given season.…
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Joe Scott out as Air Force men’s basketball coach in mutual parting of ways
Joe Scott is no longer the head coach of the Air Force men’s basketball team. More than a month after the longtime coach, in his second stint with the program, was suspended, the team announced a “mutual parting of ways” with Scott on Friday. Scott’s first tenure brought Air Force’s lone conference championship in basketball,…