Colorado Basketball – 2022-23 Season

… The CU women capped a fantastic season with a run to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament … The sixth-seeded dispatched 11-seed Middle Tennessee and home-standing No. 3 seed Duke before falling to national championship runner-up Iowa in the round of 16 … Buffs finish with a 25-9 record and a No. 15 national ranking … The CU men, meanwhile, limped home with a second-round loss in the Pac-12 tournament and a second-round exit in the NIT tournament with a loss to Utah Valley State … Boyle’s team finished with a winning record, but just barely, going 18-17 overall, 8-12 in Pac-12 play …

A promising start to the month – home wins over Cal and Stanford – quickly deteriorates as the Buffs go 1-4 the rest of February, including a tough 60-56 home loss to No. 4 UCLA … The CU women’s team, meanwhile, had a 5-2 record, including a tough double-overtime loss to No. 3 Stanford, to finish the regular season with a 22-7 (13-5) record (and a No. 20 national ranking) …

The Buffs opened the new year with a pair of dominating wins over the Oregon schools, but that proved to be the highlight, as the men would only win one more game the rest of the month, including road sweeps by the Los Angeles and Oregon schools … The best news of the month? The signing of prep All-American, one of the highest-rated recruits in CU history … The CU women, meanwhile, had a strong month, re-entering the national polls on a 6-2 month, a January which included a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat No. 8 UCLA, 73-70 …

CU enjoys a six-game winning streak during the month, including a rout of Colorado State and a win over Southern Utah which gives Tad Boyle win No. 262, passing Sox Walseth for the most wins in CU history … But December is marred by bookend embarrassing Pac-12 road losses to Washington and Cal …

Buffs picked to finish 6th in the Pac-12 in media poll … CU opens the season with a 4-3 record, including road wins over No. 11 Tennessee and No. 24 Texas A&M, to go with losses to Grambling State and UMass … Tad Boyle on 4-3 start: “I may have overscheduled for this team” …

CU Basketball opens practices: “We lost some size, but we gained some speed” … CU picks up three-star 6’5″ shooting guard Courtney Anderson, Jr. … Jabari Walker selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round of the NBA Draft … Ceal Barry retires: Barry’s legacy: “(I’m proud of) the fact that we were relevant” … Buffs add junior college transfer J’Vonne Hadley: “He fit exactly what we need” … Senior 6’5″ wing Jalen Gabbidon (from Yale) transfers to CU … Tad Boyle named head coach of the 2022 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team … Buffs pick up transfer Ethan Wright (Princeton) … CU’s Mya Hollingshed picked No. 8 overall in WNBA Draft …