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The Aftermath: Can fans be upbeat?

Sophomore guard Cory Higgins has been the lone bright spot for CU this season. Photo - Joshua Lawton/Daily Camera Most losses in school history. A solitary conference win, first-round Big 12 Tournament loss, and a winter of frustration now over. Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn thinks that both the men's and women's teams are on the right track (as part of a Q&A on the state of the hoops program in general). Is there any way to [+]

Soapbox: Let’s play hypotheticals with CU men’s hoops

Jermyl Jackson-Wilson and Cory Higgins have been huge for the Buffs this year, but would receive more attention on our Bizarro Buffs. Daily Camera photo by Cliff Grassmick. It's Thursday, February 19, 2009, in an alternate parallel universe. One where the only real difference is a few bounces of a basketball... The CU men's basketball team improved its record in the Big 12 to 8-3 last night, running the season record to a strong 19-6. This puts the [+]

Buffs basketball: Comparing and contrasting

CU junior Dwight Thorne scored 9 points in the first half against Iowa State Wednesday night. Shame nobody else on the team scored a basket in the first 20 minutes. Associated Press photo. Bzdelik's Buffs fell guilty of a curse I'm all-too-familiar with in college basketball this season: overconfidence. According to the Daily Camera's Ryan Thorbrun, part of the reason for Iowa State's 70-42 pasting of the Buffs - which included the Cyclones leading 37-9 at halftime [+]

Update: CU men’s basketball player suspended indefinitely

So the word (for now, at least) has rolled in from the athletic department and CU head coach Jeff Bzdelik - non-scholarship guard Andrew Zehnder is suspended from the team indefinitely, after being arrested. "Since joining our program as a walk-on, Andrew Zehnder has respected our program as a model student-athlete,” Bzdelik said in the press release. “What caused this uncharacteristic lapse of proper conduct is a mystery to us all. Obviously, this kind of behavior [+]

It’s signing day! But there’s other Buffs news, too

Even though much of the attention will be on signing day (with everything CU related looking to be codified after Hawkins' 3:30 p.m. MT press conference), there's still some Buffs news to bring you this morning. First, my Colorado Daily cover story on basketball attendance from today's paper. An even more shocking stat that didn't make the print or online stories is that, if you take the 10,212 fans who showed up to the Kansas game [+]