The last time the Colorado Buffaloes as well as the Colorado State Rams both made the NCAA Tournament in the very same season remained in 2013. With the means both groups are playing so far, they are well on their method to punching their ticket to the postseason.
The Colorado Buffaloes are 13-4 as well as have won 6 of their last 7 video games. According to Jerry Palm with CBS Sports, the Buffs are currently a projected No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Buffs are third in the Pac-12 standings and are led by McKinley Wright IV.
The senior point guard as well as standards 14.8 points, 5.8 aids, as well as 4.5 rebounds. Wright is a top 10 finalist for the 2021 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award and requires just 18 rebounds to come to be the very first Pac-12 player to ever before tape 1,600 factors, 600 rebounds and also 600 assists in a profession.
Regardless of beating Washington State 70-58 on Wednesday evening, Wright was not pleased with his group’s overall effort.
” A win is a win. Yet we’re not satisfied. We’re competing for a Pac-12 champion,” Wright stated on Wednesday evening.
“We simply got to be much better if we intend to contend for a Pac-12 champion and also make a deep run in the competition. we can not have performances like tonight. We had them down practically 20 in the very first fifty percent. We allowed them suffice to six in the 2nd half. We reached be much better.”
David Roddy of the Colorado State Rams during a game versus the Denver Pioneers on Nov. 5, 2019. “> David Roddy The Colorado State Rams are 12-3 as well as 9-2 in the Mountain West Conference.
Jerry Palm has the Rams as a 10th seed in the NCAA Tournament. Colorado Buffaloes secure McKinley Wright IV The Rams are a half-game back from the top of the Mountain West standings and transmitted Boise State 78-56 on Wednesday night. They were led by David Roddy that had a career-high 27 points and also 15 rebounds. The Rams aren’t just a one-man program as they have 3 players that average double-digits, which is the way head coach Niko Medved likes it.
” Different video games, different nights, you mosting likely to need various individuals to tip up,” Medved said on Wednesday evening. “I assume these men actually do. They embrace being a group and also the are embracing their function. It’s one point to approve it it’s an additional thing to welcome it and intend to be great at it and I assume that it’s starting ahead along for our people which what makes us an actually excellent group.”
The Colorado Buffaloes host the Utah Utes on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. while the Colorado State Rams plays the Boise State Broncos at 9 p.m. on Friday.