With five games remaining in the regular season, the Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball team sits in a tie for seventh-place in the Pac-12 Conference.
It remains a situation not at all in line with the Buffs’ preseason expectations and fifth-place selection in the league’s preseason media poll. Yet after a disastrous 0-7 start in Pac-12 play, wins in five of their past six games has nevertheless given the Buffs the belief they are peaking at the right time of the season.
If the regular season ended Monday, the Buffs would begin the Pac-12 tournament as the league’s No. 8 seed with a first-round date against Stanford. While the harsh reality of the standings has the Buffs in the bottom half of the league, head coach Tad Boyle knows a defensive rebound at Arizona State, or just one more defensive stop against USC or at road dates against Washington and Washington State, and his Buffs easily could have reversed their 5-8 Pac-12 mark.
In other words, the disparity in the standings generally is greater than what the Buffs have experienced on the scoreboard.
“We’ve won five of six, so I think the results kind of say that,” Boyle said. “Now we’ve got five league games left so we can’t just assume this is going to continue. We’ve got to focus on Oregon State and what it’s going to take to beat them.”
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