The two freshmen from the Colorado basketball recruiting class of 2018 bring wildly divergent games to the court. Yet both of them, Eli Parquet and particularly Daylen Kountz, will be counted on to fill key roles if the Buffaloes wish to turn their lofty preseason expectations into reality.
Kountz brought an attack-the-basket mindset to Boulder from Denver East, and his late-season surge that included several memorable highlights at the Pac-12 Conference tournament has the sophomore penciled in for a pivotal role on a team that might boast its first national ranking in nearly six years when the AP preseason top 25 is released Monday morning.