Colorado Wins 63-49 Over Arizona State

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The Buffaloes lit up Tempe on February 11th and beat the Sun Devils in Pac 12 play, 63-49.
The Buffaloes won by a wider-than expected margin. In terms of RPI ranking, Colorado was definitely the better team, #72 to #225. The Buffaloes have already seen the Sun Devils this year, and this win finishes a regular season sweep.
Colorado was able to overpower Arizona State in free throw shooting and also came out ahead in three-point shooting.

The Buffaloes collected 15 points from free throws compared to four for the Sun Devils. Colorado leaned on three-pointers for the win and made 46% of them as opposed to 33% for Arizona State.
Spencer DinWiddie was the high scorer for the Buffaloes with 15 points on 66% shooting in 34 minutes.

CU Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Andre Roberson 29 12 9 2 4 2 3 A S. DinWiddie 34 15 5 1 0 2 2 B Austin Dufault 30 12 6 0 1 0 2 B- Sabatino Chen 11 2 1 2 1 0 0 B- Askia Booker 19 9 2 0 1 0 2 C+ Nate Tomlinson 29 5 2 4 0 0 2 C Carlon Brown 28 8 2 1 0 1 2 C- S. Harris-Tunks 9 0 2 1 0 0 0 C- Jeremy Adams 11 0 3 0 1 0 1

ASU Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO B+ Ruslan Pateev 15 6 6 1 0 0 0 B Trent Lockett 32 10 4 3 1 0 2 B Chanse Creekmur 17 6 1 3 0 0 0 C+ J. Gilling 37 11 3 0 2 1 3 C Chris Colvin 28 4 4 5 1 0 4 C J. Bachynski 14 2 5 0 0 1 2 C Kyle Cain 25 8 2 1 1 0 3 D Carrick Felix 32 2 2 0 1 1 3

The Buffaloes have moved up to 17-8 as they get closer to the final stretch. Their Pac 12 record improves to 9-4, good enough to bump them up to 3rd place.
Coming up next is Utah on the road on February 18th.
Colorado Game Notes:

• This season Colorado has won 100% of the time (4-0) when Spencer DinWiddie has 3 three pointers or more, 90% of the time (9-1) when Nate Tomlinson has 4 assists or more, and 80% of the time (8-2) when Austin Dufault has 6 rebounds or more.
• CU beat the spread by 10.0 points. That makes the 12th time this season the Buffaloes have beat the spread.
• Andre Roberson had a career high with 4 steals.
• The top two scorers (Spencer DinWiddie and Andre Roberson) accounted for 42.8% of the points.
• The Buffaloes have won 100% of the time this season (7-0) after recording 5 or more blocks.

Arizona State Game Notes:

• Ruslan Pateev has led the team in rebounding 3 times in 25 games this season.
• Jonathan Gilling has led the team in scoring 3 times in 25 games this season.
• Arizona State lost and did not cover the spread.
• The top two scorers (Jonathan Gilling and Trent Lockett) accounted for 42.8% of the points.

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Originally posted by Fight CU
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