It was a productive, even historic performance on the road by the Colorado Buffaloes last week.
Certainly the program hopes the run leads to bigger team-oriented goals in the coming weeks. Yet the effort brought home a little hardware nonetheless.
On Monday, CU guard KJ Simpson was named the Pac-12 Conference’s Freshman of the Week after scoring in double figures during each of the Buffaloes’ three wins-in-five days road trip last week. It is the second Freshman of the Week honor this season for Simpson (also Nov. 29) and the third for the Buffs this season (also Julian Hammond III, Jan. 10).
Simpson averaged 13 points in CU’s wins at Oregon State, Cal and Stanford. The 6-foot-2 guard also averaged 3.0 rebounds (Simpson averages 2.5 rebounds on the season), and while he shot just .444 (12-for-27), Simpson was able to get to the free throw line, going 8-for-10 at the line at Cal and 6-for-8 at Stanford.
Simpson posted 10 points and five rebounds in the trip opener at Oregon State before recording a huge night in Berkeley, going 5-for-9 with a season-high 19 points at Cal. Simpson helped the Buffs finish the road sweep with 10 points, two rebounds and two steals at Stanford.
Simpson had not yet recorded consecutive games with double-digit points before the road trip, but he will take a streak of three in a row into the Buffs’ home date on Thursday against Arizona State (7 p.m., Pac-12 Network).
