Stephen Mitchell / The Denver Post)
LAS VEGAS — Lisa Van Goor assumed Colorado athletic director Rick George was joking. It turned out it was very serious, and very flattering, business indeed.
Arguably the greatest player in the history of the Colorado women's basketball program, Van Goor put up her unprecedented, and still unrepeated, numbers for the Buffaloes decades before the program became a member of the Pac-12 Conference.
Nevertheless, when the time came to nominate a CU legend for this year's Pac-12 Hall of Honor induction class, George huddled with two associate athletic directors — Dave Plati and former longtime women's basketball coach Ceal Barry — to pick the appropriate alumnus.