BOULDER — Carlon Brown scored a season-high 28 points and Colorado stayed perfect in the Pac-12 with a 71-60 win over Washington State on Saturday.
Austin Dufault added 17 for the Buffaloes (11-4, 3-0), who finished up a monthlong, eight-game home stand.
Reggie Moore scored 14 points and Faisal Aden had 12 for Washington State (9-7, 1-3), which has lost three of four.
Brown had 18 points in the second half and hit a career-high six 3-pointers. His three-point play gave Colorado a 50-31 lead. Askia Booker followed with a layup and Andre Roberson hit a 3-pointer to give the Buffaloes a 55-33 edge with 11:21 left.
The Cougars went on an 11-1 run to pull within 65-57 with 2:42 left, but Colorado hit 6 of 8 free throws down the stretch to secure the win.
The Cougars didn’t get their first field goal of the second half until Aden’s layup with 14:30 remaining.
The Buffaloes continued to push the lead. Brown’s three-point play made it 50-31, Askia Booker followed with a layup and Andre Roberson hit a 3-pointer to give Colorado a 55-33 edge with 11:21 left.
Washington State went on an 11-1 run to pull within 65-57 with 2:42 left, but the Buffaloes hit 6 of 8 free throws down the stretch to secure the win.
Colorado went more than five minutes without a point in the early going, allowing the Cougars to pull within 12-11. But Dufault scored eight points during an 11-0 run that put the Buffaloes on top 23-11 with 6:51 left in the first half.
The Cougars got to within seven before Brown scored five straight points to boost the lead to 11 late in the first half, and Colorado took a 32-24 lead into the locker room.
