Colorado crushes TCU to snap 6-game skid
Sebastian Rancik scored 17 points, Isaiah Johnson added 16 points, and Colorado ended a six-game skid with an 87-61 win over TCU on Sunday in Boulder, Colo.
Colorado (13-9, 3-6 Big 12) won for the first time since beating Utah on Jan. 7 and matched its Big 12 win total from last year. Bangot Dak scored 14 points, Josiah Sanders had career highs with 12 points and six assists and Barrington Hargress finished with 10 points for the Buffaloes.
TCU (13-8, 3-5) has lost two in a row and six of its last eight.
Xavier Edmonds led the Horned Frogs with 13 points before being ejected early in the second half. He was the only Horned Frog to score in double digits in the game.
TCU leading scorer David Punch had eight points, just the fourth time this season he has been held below 10.
The Horned Frogs led 17-15 on a 3-pointer by Micah Robinson, but Colorado took control in the final 12 minutes of the first half.
Felix Kossaras hit a 3-pointer that put the Buffaloes ahead for good. Punch made two shots to keep TCU close, but Colorado began to pull away. Sanders completed a three-point play and added another basket during a 12-0 run that gave the Buffaloes a 34-21 lead. Edmonds scored four points in the final minutes of the half, but Dak's tip-in made it 38-25 at intermission.
Colorado continued to surge at the start of the second half. Leading 40-30 after a putback by Edmonds, Johnson hit a 3-pointer and a jumper, Hargress hit a short pull-up jumper and Johnson connected with Dak on an alley-oop to make it 52-35.
The Buffaloes increased their lead to 21 points with another dunk by Dak, and things kept getting worse for TCU.
Trailing 59-38 with 13:14 remaining, Edmonds was called for a flagrant-2 foul when he swung his elbow while battling Rancik for a rebound. It was originally a technical foul but upgraded to flagrant on review. Edmonds was ejected and Rancik split the two free throws.
Colorado used an 8-1 run to extend its lead to 67-39, its largest of the day, and finished it off from there.