CHICAGO — Donnie Boyce had a plan. The way it went awry — so painfully and heartbreakingly, when he was so close to achieving his goals — put a tremendous damper on the end of his Colorado basketball career.
Yet the moment still provides Boyce with grade-A material for the second act of his basketball career.
While CU coach Tad Boyle has taken great strides to cultivate a network of basketball alumni during his decade at the helm, Boyce has remained a distant and detached figure. The man who ended his CU career as the program’s all-time leading scorer, whose bond with Chauncey Billups helped bring the most prized recruit in Buffs history to Boulder one year after Boyce graduated, rarely has returned to the campus where he thrilled so many fans more than two decades ago.