The Cal Golden Bears and the Colorado Buffaloes meet in a Pac-12 conference quarter-final matchup in college basketball action from the T-Mobile Arena on Thursday night.
The Cal Golden Bears come into this one fresh off of a 76-58 beatdown of Stanford in the first round last time out. Matt Bradley led the Bears in scoring with 19 points coming on 7 of 11 shooting with 3 threes and a team-high 6 assists with 6 rebounds while Ryan Betley had 13 points on 4 of 5 shooting with 3 threes in 17 minutes and Andre Kelly added 12 points with a team-high 9 rebounds to round out the trio of double-digit scorers for Cal in the winning effort. Grant Anticevich had 9 points with 4 rebounds while Joel Brown and Jarred Hyder each had a pair of steals as well in the victory.
The Colorado Buffaloes come in as the #3 seed in the conference tournament after finishing the regular season with a 14-6 record as part of their 20-7 overall mark this season. McKinley Wright IV leads the Buffaloes in scoring and assists with 15.3 PPG and 5.7 APG along with 4.3 RPG while Jeriah Horne leads the Buffs on the glass with a team-high 6 RPG in addition to his 11.5 PPG as the only other double-digit scorer for Colorado this season. Evan Battey has 9.9 PPG and 5.3 RPG and D’Shawn Schwartz has 8.8 PPT this season as well for Colorado. As a team, Colorado is averaging 73.7 PPG on 45.7% shooting from the field and 36.6% from three while allowing 63 PPG on 41.4% shooting from the field and 32.7% from three this season.
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