BOULDER — As soon as Colorado had completed its first losing season in five years last March, men's basketball coach Tad Boyle directed everyone, including himself, toward the nearest mirror.
It had been a season of finger pointing, frustration and failure to meet expectations. A team that had made its third consecutive NCAA Tournament a year earlier was suddenly at a crossroads.
"Everybody in the program — players, coaches, managers, support staff — we were very, very disappointed in last year and felt like we took a step backward, quite frankly," Boyle, CU's sixth-year head coach, told The Denver Post last week.