Colorado Basketball: 2021-22 season preview and outlook for Buffaloes

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2021-22 season outlook

Colorado basketball has finished fifth place or better in the Pac-12 basketball standings across the past three seasons under head coach Tad Boyle. He’s got a guard-heavy rotation of experience and newcomers with potential and some veterans in the frontcourt in Evan Battey and Luke O’Brien to make quite the splash in 2021-22.

There will be some moving parts for the team to adjust to, but Boyle plays a defense-first style that’s produced quite the trend for his program across the past few seasons. They had the best scoring defense (63.8 ppg) in the conference and ranked 32nd in the college basketball landscape this past season and fielded one of the best benches in Pac-12 basketball as well.

The Buffaloes ranked first in Pac-12 basketball this past year in scoring (25.3 ppg), second in rebounding (12.1 rpg), tied for second in assists (3.9 apg), and second in 3-point field goal percentage (38.3 percent).

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They have the depth to keep things trending in the right direction. If Jabari Walker, Eli Parquet, Battey, and O’Brien can find their identities early and the newcomers can follow their lead, Colorado basketball has a chance to make back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2021-22.

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