The Arizona Wildcats started the Rocky Mountain road trip on the wrong foot, losing 75-72 to the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder.
Here are three takeaways from the game:
This team is only as good as its guard-play
Since Arizona's front court of Ryan Anderson and Kaleb Tarczewski can usually be counted on to have a strong performance, it leaves the Wildcats' guards as the team's so-called "x-factor". During the team's winning streak, the guards, notably Parker Jackson-Cartwright, stepped up their game but, against Colorado, the guards didn't perform as well as they needed to, and it resulted in Arizona's sixth loss.