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Colorado welcomes No. 19 Oregon to Coors Events Center on Thursday. It starts at 9 p.m. EST and you can catch it on ESPN 2. The Buffaloes defeated the Ducks 48-47 on Feb. 7 and are 3-1 against them over the past four years.
Colorado is fifth in the conference and Oregon is first. Both teams continue to jockey for position.
In spite of 14 points and seven rebounds from Xavier Johnson, the Buffaloes came up short 62-46 against California on Mar. 2. He contributes 4.8 rebounds per game in addition to his 8.3 points per game. For the Ducks, Arsalan Kazemi put up 17 points and 12 rebounds in the 85-75 win over Oregon State on Feb. 28. With 9.9 rebounds per game and 2.2 steals per game, he has team-best marks in both categories. Oregon will hope to exploit their strengths, which include: defensive rebounding percentage at 72.5 and offensive rebounding percentage at 36.9. StatSmack! Colorado is better than Oregon
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Colorado is fifth in the conference and Oregon is first. Both teams continue to jockey for position.
In spite of 14 points and seven rebounds from Xavier Johnson, the Buffaloes came up short 62-46 against California on Mar. 2. He contributes 4.8 rebounds per game in addition to his 8.3 points per game. For the Ducks, Arsalan Kazemi put up 17 points and 12 rebounds in the 85-75 win over Oregon State on Feb. 28. With 9.9 rebounds per game and 2.2 steals per game, he has team-best marks in both categories. Oregon will hope to exploit their strengths, which include: defensive rebounding percentage at 72.5 and offensive rebounding percentage at 36.9. StatSmack! Colorado is better than Oregon
- The Colorado blocks leader (Andre Roberson, 38 blocks) has more blocks than the Oregon blocks leader (Tony Woods, 31 blocks).
- A for effort, but Colorado has emerged victorious against Oregon the last two times they've played.
- You'll do better on next semester's exams, right? Colorado currently has a higher Academic Progress Rate (962 to 926) than Oregon, per the NCAA.
- Boom! Colorado defeated Oregon by 1 point the last time they played (Feb 07, 2013).
| ORE Players | Mins | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | |
| B+ | Arsalan Kazemi | 29 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| B | E.J. Singler | 30 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| B | Damyean Dotson | 28 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| B | Dominic Artis | 26 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| B- | Carlos Emory | 26 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| C+ | Tony Woods | 21 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| C | Johnathan Loyd | 22 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| C | Waverly Austin | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C- | Ben Carter | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | Austin Kuemper | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D+ | Willie Moore | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | Fred Richardson | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D | N. Lucenti | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D | Coleton Baker | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CU Players | Mins | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | |
| A- | Andre Roberson | 34 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| B+ | S. Dinwiddie | 33 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| B | Josh Scott | 29 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| B | Askia Booker | 32 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| B- | Xavier Johnson | 23 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| C | Sabatino Chen | 24 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| C- | Ben Mills | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D+ | Jeremy Adams | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | Beau Gamble | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D+ | Xavier Talton | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | Eli Stalzer | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| D+ | S. Harris-Tunks | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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