Preview and Live Game Thread: Colorado Buffaloes @ SMU Mustangs
by Bob_Bell on Jan 5, 2009 4:30 PM MST
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PrintColorado Buffaloes at SMU Mustangs, Jan 5, 2009 6:00 PM MST
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January 5th, 2009 |
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| Colorado Buffaloes' Top Players |
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| NAME | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
| Cory Higgins | 17.9 | 6.3 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 52.5% | 82.4% | 38.9% |
| Dwight Thorne II | 11.7 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 1.2 | - | 55.9% | 61.1% | 36.8% |
| Austin Dufault | 9.8 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 41.5% | 74.2% | 25.9% |
| Nate Tomlinson | 9.3 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 0.5 | - | 50.7% | 77.3% | 39.4% |
| Casey Crawford | 7.0 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 51.8% | 69.2% | 43.5% |
| Jermyl Jackson-Wilson | 4.9 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 56.1% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| Team Averages | 68.3 | 28.3 | 13.3 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 49.2% | 71.0% | 35.0% |
| SMU Mustangs' Top Players | ||||||||
| NAME | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
| Paul McCoy | 15.0 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 55.9% | 69.2% | 51.9% |
| Derek Williams | 11.4 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 38.7% | 58.8% | 30.0% |
| Mouhammad Faye | 9.5 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 51.9% | 75.0% | 33.3% |
| Bamba Fall | 8.8 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 50.0% | 63.3% | 0.0% |
| Papa Dia | 6.1 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 43.5% | 56.5% | 0.0% |
| Robert Nyakundi | 5.3 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 43.1% | 60.0% | 42.3% |
| Team Averages | 66.4 | 34.4 | 11.1 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 45.8% | 60.8% | 37.4% |
The Buffs are coming off a 25 point loss to the Vermont Catamounts in the Rainbow Classic. They will try and rebound against a mediocre SMU team that has won four games this year, all of which have been at home. SMU has played some relatively good teams this year, unlike the Buffs, but have lost to all of them (Northwestern, Texas A&M, TCU and South Florida). Against Vermont, Colorado cited fatigue as a main reason for the loss eventhough Vermont had played the same amount of games and had to travel farther than the Buffs to get to Hawaii? CU shot 40.8% from the field and 31.3% from beyond the arc. The offense wasn't the only problem against the Catamounts. The Buffs allowed a Vermont team who just lost to Colorado State the night before to score 84 points while shooting 57% from the field and a whopping 64% from three-point land.
I never thought I would say this but effort seems to be an issue with a Jeff Bzdelik coached team. Yes, youth, talent and inexperience are the main driving factor to the trouble this year but to lose to Vermont (by a lot) and Montana State already is disheartening to say the least. Conference play is just two games away and that might be a 1 to 2 win outlook. Wins against SMU and Western Colorado in the next three days would be positive momentum going into the Big 12 slate.
Colorado and SMU have had two common opponents this year: TCU and Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Buffs had the only victory against those two, against APB at home. SMU lost to Pine Bluff by 2, 62 - 64. SMU has only won on it's home court this year (4 - 3), while Colorado is 0 - 2 on the road. Go Buffs!
For more on tonight's game, check out this preview at CUBuffs.com
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Buffs made a nice run to close the half
up 33 – 32. Shooting 50%. When they do that, they are 6 – 2 on the year.
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Buffs still having major problems on the board
17 – 9 they are getting outrebounded
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Buffs lose...70 - 67.
had a chance at the end but missed a three pointer. This is going to be a rough, rough Big 12 season
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hmm...
I watched most of this game while flipping around between CU, Nuggets, and Fiesta Bowl. I have to admit I’m getting a little frustrated with this team. I know how young they are and my expectations certainly weren’t high but finishing the non-conference schedule 8-6 (I’m gonna assume a win against Wasted State) with such a rediculously easy schedule is pretty bad. We’re gonna get absolutley murdered inside and on the boards in the Big 12 season. I guess we have to play zone because we are either too small or too slow to play man and that seems to be why we can’t get rebounds and we give up so many easy shots. Watching tonight we always seem to have a couple guys running out at the shooter at the last minute which leaves the key wide open with no one to crash the boards. I’m not feeling good about the rest of the season, I agree with that 1-2 win prediction. Hopefully we’re wrong…
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