Buffs Breeze Past Southern Utah

CEDAR CITY, Utah – Colorado head coach JR Payne returned to her former stomping grounds and led the No. 25 Buffaloes to their ninth consecutive win, rolling Southern Utah ??-??

Colorado (9-0) improved to 5-0 all-time against the Thunderbirds, with coach Payne picking up her first win against her former team.

"The anticipation for T [Toriano Towns], Jill [Mahoney] and myself returning to Cedar City had been mounting for quite a while," Payne said of her return. "Just knowing how much Cedar City and Southern Utah meant to us. We really tried, knowing the game was going to be something we had to pour all of our focus into – we tried to get all the emotion out before the game started so when it…