The record probably is where it needs to be at this stage of the season, and now the Colorado men’s basketball team has a legitimate NCAA Tournament credential-building win to its credit.
Nevertheless, it often has been a ragged and inconsistent form of basketball on display for the Buffaloes throughout much of the nonconference schedule. Yet against then-No. 13 Dayton last week in Chicago, the Buffs pulled off a critical overtime victory.
The telling shot that erased a month’s worth of frustrations arrived on D’Shawn Schwartz’s game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer. Yet it was following through on a pair of the primary coaching points in recent weeks — one team-wide, another individually — that put the Buffs in position to win.