Tuesday, December 10
7 p.m.
Colorado
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Denver
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Buffs Set for Front Range Battle: Five Things to Know
December 09, 2024 | Women's Basketball
Tuesday's tip off against Denver is set for 7 p.m. MT
BOULDER – The Colorado women's basketball team closes the non-conference season on Tuesday night with a showdown against front-range rival Denver. The Buffaloes and Pioneers will renew acquaintances at the CU Events Center with a 7 p.m. MT tip.
Tuesday will be the 13th meeting between the two teams. The Buffs are 9-3 all-time against DU. CU dropped the last meeting, 85-84, at Hamilton Gymnasium in Denver back on Dec. 8, 2020. Frida Formann had 17 points in the loss. The Buffs are a perfect 6-0 at home against Denver.
Colorado improved to 8-2 on Saturday with its 76-59 win over Southern Utah. The Buffs led for all but 49 seconds in the contest and shot 51.7% from the field. Lior Garzon led the team with a game-high 20 points off the bench. Formann (15) and Jade Masogayo (10) closed the day in double figures.
Denver (4-4) got the upper hand over Portland State, 57-41, on Saturday. The Pioneers have won four of their last five games after a 0-3 start to the season.
Five Things to Know
"We've known JoJo. We recruited her out of her junior college after her freshman year, so we've known her since then and really believed in her then. She's a National Junior College Player of the Year, so she's extremely talented and gifted and she has always believed that she could be a great college player. To fight back from the two injuries that she had took a significant amount of heart, desire, and work, so if anyone's willing to work as hard as she did to come back, we knew that she would do it again and be able to get out on the floor." – head coach JR Payne on Nworie's debut.
Thad Anderson and former Buff Kami Carmann Snyder will have the call on ESPN+.
Cory Lopez and Carol Callan will have pregame coverage starting 30 minutes before tip-off on the Colorado Radio Network.
Up Next: Dec. 21, West Virginia (6 p.m. MT)
Tuesday will be the 13th meeting between the two teams. The Buffs are 9-3 all-time against DU. CU dropped the last meeting, 85-84, at Hamilton Gymnasium in Denver back on Dec. 8, 2020. Frida Formann had 17 points in the loss. The Buffs are a perfect 6-0 at home against Denver.
Colorado improved to 8-2 on Saturday with its 76-59 win over Southern Utah. The Buffs led for all but 49 seconds in the contest and shot 51.7% from the field. Lior Garzon led the team with a game-high 20 points off the bench. Formann (15) and Jade Masogayo (10) closed the day in double figures.
Denver (4-4) got the upper hand over Portland State, 57-41, on Saturday. The Pioneers have won four of their last five games after a 0-3 start to the season.
Five Things to Know
- No PG(s), No Problem – Colorado was without the services of PGs Kindyll Wetta and Kennedy Sanders against Southern Utah. It was the first game Wetta missed in her career, having played in 108 straight. CU handed out 17 assists in the win. Johanna Teder dished out a career-high seven assists, and Sara-Rose Smith also had a career-high with five.
- Garzon in the Zone –Lior Garzon recorded her third 20-point game of the season against Southern Utah. She leads the team this season in 20-point efforts and is the only player with multiple 20-point games this season. She is averaging 14.8 points per game in CU's eight wins this season.
- Helping Hands – The Buffs are 17th in the nation and sixth in the Big 12 with 18.7 assists per game. Despite missing Saturday's game, Wetta remains ranked seventh in the NCAA with 61 total assists. Colorado has had 20 or more assists in five games this season. The team is 22-1 over the last two seasons when posting 20 or more assists.
- Three-da – Frida Formann has scored double figures in five of her six games since returning to the lineup. She's leading the team with her 14.7 points per game. Formann ranks 15th in program history with 1,414 career points. She moved into a tie for 13th all-time in games started, making her 108th career start on Saturday.
- Debuts – Sophomore JoJo Nworie became the final Buff to hit the court this season. She made her DI debut on Saturday, finishing with five points, one rebound and one block in her eight minutes.
"We've known JoJo. We recruited her out of her junior college after her freshman year, so we've known her since then and really believed in her then. She's a National Junior College Player of the Year, so she's extremely talented and gifted and she has always believed that she could be a great college player. To fight back from the two injuries that she had took a significant amount of heart, desire, and work, so if anyone's willing to work as hard as she did to come back, we knew that she would do it again and be able to get out on the floor." – head coach JR Payne on Nworie's debut.
Thad Anderson and former Buff Kami Carmann Snyder will have the call on ESPN+.
Cory Lopez and Carol Callan will have pregame coverage starting 30 minutes before tip-off on the Colorado Radio Network.
Up Next: Dec. 21, West Virginia (6 p.m. MT)
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