For the most part, the Colorado men’s basketball team is together on campus for the first time since mid-March, when the Buffaloes scattered as the Pac-12 Conference tournament, and then the NCAA Tournament, were canceled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet it hardly will be a return to business as usual for coach Tad Boyle’s program.
Monday marked the beginning of voluntary workouts for all student-athletes on CU’s campus as prescribed in guidelines set forth by the Pac-12. But while the bulk of the CU men’s basketball roster indeed is expected to be in Boulder by Tuesday, including most of the newcomers for the 2020-21 season, the beginning of those voluntary workouts will not unfold seamlessly.