Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle knows the roar of 10,000-plus inside Coors Events Center.
Just not lately.
The Buffaloes host two Pac-12 heavyweights this week — No. 4 Arizona State at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and No. 14 Arizona at noon Saturday — but it might prove difficult to crack five-figure attendance, like CU did a record 12 times through the 2012-13 season. That CU squad rode the momentum of an unlikely Pac-12 Tournament championship run. The 2018 Buffaloes (8-6, 0-2) enter their most prominent conference matchups in Boulder with less fanfare after an NIT berth.
CU drew an average of 6,946 in attendance after six nonconference games this season, good for sixth-most in the league.