Colorado Picks Up Win Over Washington, 87-69

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The Buffaloes lit up Boulder on January 5th and beat the Huskies in conference play, 87-69.
Colorado beat Washington with a significant edge in three-point shooting and free throw shooting. The Buffaloes collected 25 points from free throws compared to 11 for the Huskies. Colorado drained threes, shooting 57% from beyond the arc compared to 20% by Washington. A big highlight for Colorado was the 57% three-point shooting, which was far better than its season average of 39%.
The Buffaloes got a big win they weren't necessarily supposed to get.
Carlon Brown was the high scorer for the Buffaloes with 18 points on 63% shooting in 28 minutes.

Andre Roberson was a factor with a game-leading 12 rebounds.

UW Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Tony Wroten 31 21 6 3 7 0 5 B+ Terrence Ross 28 13 10 1 0 1 2 B C.J Wilcox 30 19 2 0 0 0 2 C+ Desmond Simmons 27 6 5 1 2 0 1 C Abdul Gaddy 33 4 3 1 0 1 0 C Shawn Kemp Jr 9 2 2 0 0 1 1 C- Darnell Gant 18 2 4 1 0 0 2 D Aziz N`Diaye 14 2 2 0 0 0 2 - Martin Breunig 8 0 0 0 0 0 0

CU Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Jeremy Adams 13 6 5 1 1 0 1 A Andre Roberson 32 8 12 0 1 2 2 A S. DinWiddie 30 13 2 5 1 0 1 A Austin Dufault 23 13 4 2 2 0 3 B Nate Tomlinson 23 11 1 3 0 0 2 B Askia Booker 23 12 4 0 0 0 1 B Carlon Brown 28 18 2 0 0 0 4 B- Sabatino Chen 12 6 0 0 1 0 0 C S. Harris-Tunks 9 0 0 1 2 2 0 - Damiene Cain 5 0 2 0 0 0 1

The Buffaloes are now 10-4. They remain in 1st place in the Pac 12 with a 2-0 conference record. This improves their record against RPI Top 100 teams (Washington #90) to 2-2. They're also on a 5 game winning streak.
The next game is against Washington State at home on January 7th.
Colorado Game Notes:

• Nate Tomlinson had a career high with a 100% field goal percentage.
• Carlon Brown had a career high with a 100% three point percentage.
• Andre Roberson has grabbed double-digit rebounds in 3 straight games.
• Colorado started 10-4 during the 2010, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000 seasons (since 1996).
• The Buffaloes set a season high for three point percentage.

Washington Game Notes:

• Terrence Ross recorded a double-double. It was the 3rd of his career.
• Terrence Ross has led the team in rebounding 4 times in 14 games this season.
• Tony Wroten has 12 straight double-digit point games.
• Tony Wroten accounted for 30.4% of the team's points.
• Tony Wroten recorded a team season high in steals with 7.

Check out the complete Games Notes


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