CU's young basketball team, while it has plenty of talent coming up, has lost several key players from last year's 21-win, 12-loss team. Evan Battey, Eli Parquet, and Keeshawn Barthelemy all have departed. The November/December non-conference schedule has some tests for this new-look group of Buffs.
We'll get a taste of how things are going when CU hosts Nebraska in a charity exhibition at the Events Center on October 30th. The season then starts a week later with CU hosting UC Riverside, a team that beat Arizona State last year and lost to Oregon by just 6 points. Then CU plays away from Boulder for five straight games, beginning with a SWAC challenge contest at Grambling in Louisiana. After that CU travels to Nashville for a tough "neutral" court contest against Tennessee (27-8 last year.) Staying on the road, the Buffs then will play three games in the Myrtle Beach Invitational, opening with UMass, with the second round game against either Texas A&M or Murray State.
On November 27th the Buffs return home to face Yale, an interesting matchup with CU now having Jalen Gabbidon transfer in from Yale, a guy who was named the Ivy Leagues Defensive Player of the Year. CU then has two December conference games, ASU in Boulder and Udub in Seattle. The Buffs then finish the second half of December with four straight home games, starting with CSU, and then with three quite winnable games, North Alabama, Northern Colorado, and Southern Utah.
The newly assembled collection of faces on CU's team will be a test of Tad Boyle's coaching. Before January we should have a good idea on whether CU's 2022-23 team will be tournament material.
We'll get a taste of how things are going when CU hosts Nebraska in a charity exhibition at the Events Center on October 30th. The season then starts a week later with CU hosting UC Riverside, a team that beat Arizona State last year and lost to Oregon by just 6 points. Then CU plays away from Boulder for five straight games, beginning with a SWAC challenge contest at Grambling in Louisiana. After that CU travels to Nashville for a tough "neutral" court contest against Tennessee (27-8 last year.) Staying on the road, the Buffs then will play three games in the Myrtle Beach Invitational, opening with UMass, with the second round game against either Texas A&M or Murray State.
On November 27th the Buffs return home to face Yale, an interesting matchup with CU now having Jalen Gabbidon transfer in from Yale, a guy who was named the Ivy Leagues Defensive Player of the Year. CU then has two December conference games, ASU in Boulder and Udub in Seattle. The Buffs then finish the second half of December with four straight home games, starting with CSU, and then with three quite winnable games, North Alabama, Northern Colorado, and Southern Utah.
The newly assembled collection of faces on CU's team will be a test of Tad Boyle's coaching. Before January we should have a good idea on whether CU's 2022-23 team will be tournament material.
