Mental toughness is a characteristic hard to define and even more difficult to quantify. Yet for much of the season, Colorado men's basketball coach Tad Boyle has lamented a stark lack of that sort of toughness among his Buffaloes.
That, however, might be changing.
It wasn't just picking up only the second road sweep of the program's Pac-12 history that might give fans hope a still-young CU rotation may be turning a corner. It was the manner in which the Buffs were able to close out those wins by finishing strong in hostile territory.
"There may be some games down the stretch where we play well defensively, we play well rebounding, and we play well on offense and we lose.