On Saturday afternoon, the Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball team beat Colorado State, 86-80, in a nail-biting installment of the Rocky Mountain Showdown.
Heading into the game at the CU Events Center, the Buffs had lost the last two matchups against the Rams and were looking for a win.
Colorado won the opening tipoff and the Rams came out in a strong man-to-man defense. After passing the ball around the court, junior forward Lucas Siewert drained a three as the shot clock buzzer went off.
From there it was the Buffs’ turn to get into man-to-man defense.