CU's Evan Battey is fourth on the team in scoring and rebounding, and leads the team in offensive rebounds. (Joel Broida)
BOULDER — Colorado redshirt freshman Evan Battey is steadily coming into his own as a Division I college basketball player.
Battey, whose much-publicized return to the game has been a focal point of nearly every Buffs television broadcast, is slowly but surely shaking off the rust of a two-year layoff from playing competitively.
Now, that layoff — due first to ineligibility issues, then a life-threatening stroke — is becoming more and more of a memory from the distant past.