Colorado Loses To California, 57-50

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On January 12th in hostile territory, the Buffaloes fell to the Golden Bears, 57-50, in conference play. Colorado was competitive throughout, and actually up at the half 29-22. But California came out stronger in the second, and came back for the win.
A key stat in regard to the game: A year ago, Colorado won 89-72.
Colorado let this one slip away while being overpowered in turnover margin and outplayed in offensive rebounding.

Offensive rebounding was a big problem for Colorado as California chalked up nine offensive boards to eight. The Buffaloes gave the ball away 17 times to eight for the Golden Bears. Colorado struggled with only 50 points compared to its 70.6 average this season.
Austin Dufault did his best to keep the Buffaloes in it with 19 points in 33 minutes. Andre Roberson added 14 rebounds.

CU Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Andre Roberson 32 11 14 0 0 2 2 A Austin Dufault 33 19 6 1 0 0 2 B Carlon Brown 37 9 5 4 1 1 5 B S. Harris-Tunks 11 3 3 2 0 0 1 D+ Askia Booker 21 3 4 1 0 0 4 D S. DinWiddie 17 2 1 1 0 0 2 D Nate Tomlinson 36 0 3 1 0 0 1 - Jeremy Adams 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 - Damiene Cain 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 - Sabatino Chen 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cal Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO B+ Harper Kamp 33 14 8 2 1 1 3 B David Kravish 26 6 7 0 0 3 0 B Justin Cobbs 39 12 5 2 3 0 4 B Richard Solomon 12 6 2 0 2 0 1 B Allen Crabbe 38 9 5 0 1 0 0 B- Jorge Gutierrez 38 5 6 4 1 0 0 C Robert Thurman 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 C- Emerson Murray 5 3 0 1 0 0 0 - Bak Bak 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

The Buffaloes are now 11-5. They fall to 3-1 and 3rd place in the Pac 12. Their record against RPI Top 50 teams (California #36) falls to 0-3.
Next up is a matchup with Stanford on the road on January 14th.
Colorado Game Notes:

• Andre Roberson accounted for 35.0% of the team's rebounds.
• Austin Dufault accounted for 38.0% of the team's points.
• Andre Roberson recorded a double-double. It was his 10th this season and 15th of his career.
• Andre Roberson has led the team in rebounding in 15 out of 16 games this season.
• Andre Roberson recorded the 25th double digit rebound game of his career.

California Game Notes:

• Harper Kamp has led the team in rebounding 3 times in 18 games this season.
• Justin Cobbs has 4 straight double-digit point games.
• California won, but did not cover the spread.
• The top two scorers (Harper Kamp and Justin Cobbs) accounted for 45.6% of the points.
• The top two rebounders (Harper Kamp and David Kravish) accounted for 41.6% of the rebounds.

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Originally posted by Fight CU
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