Back in March, head coach Tad Boyle’s University of Colorado Boulder men’s basketball squad left the court in Las Vegas after an embarrassing 82-68 first-round loss in the Pac-12 Tournament against Washington State. It was the culmination of a frustrating five-game losing streak to end the season, but CU was still primed for a seat at the table in March Madness with a 20-win season under its belt.
Then, the entire world came to a stop.
Nine months following the anticlimactic end to the 2019-20 season and the continuation of the COVID pandemic, the Buffs made their triumphant return to the Nevada desert with a dominant victory over another Pac-12 foe, the Washington Huskies, at a fanless T-Mobile Arena.