Rick Bowmer / Associated Press)
With the postseason officially at hand, the Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team professed a desire to erase the past and focus on the next challenge.
Yet that likely will be easier said than done — particularly if the Buffs find themselves attempting to protect a late lead in the loser-goes-home games soon to come.
CU will limp into its first game of the Pac-12 Conference tournament on Wednesday on the heels of a late meltdown at Utah in the regular-season finale Saturday night. In a scene that has become frighteningly familiar to Buffs fans this season, CU turned in another Jekyll-and-Hyde performance, dictating the action for a large portion of the contest before folding and allowing a 14-point lead with under eight minutes to play slip away.