Down to eight healthy players on Friday night — and star senior Kennedy Leonard wasn't one of them — the Colorado women's basketball team went into its matchup with sixth-ranked Stanford fighting an uphill battle.
Brushing the adversity aside, the Buffaloes played the first 25 minutes like giant-killers, but simply didn't have enough in the tank to finish the job.
Stanford controlled the final 15 minutes to thwart CU's upset bid and hand the Buffs their seventh-consecutive loss, 80-69, at CU Events Center.
Alexis Robinson scored a season-high 25 points and Annika Jank had her first double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) in more than 13 months to lead the valiant effort by the Buffs (10-8, 0-7 Pac-12), who led for most of the first two and a half quarters.