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Buffs Basketball Players Will Be Ready Whenever Season Begins

BOULDER — Like almost everyone else who wasn't on the inside of the decision-making process, Colorado senior Dallas Walton was shocked when the Pac-12 recently grouped basketball in with fall sports in the decision to cancel all competition until at least Jan. 1.

Under normal circumstances, the college basketball schedule doesn't start until November — roughly three months away from when the Pac-12 made the call.

But now, no Pac-12 sports will be played until at least 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We knew that football would probably be affected but we weren't anticipating ourselves to be affected," the CU 7-footer said last week.