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Colorado basketball tops No. 4 Oregon in Pac-12 opener

Amidst the largest Buffs crowd in four years in the CU Events Center, the University of Colorado men’s basketball team kicked off 2020 with a defeat over the No. 4 Oregon Ducks 74-65 on Thursday.

“We needed this one,” said CU junior guard McKinley Wright. “We knew they had never won here so we wanted to keep it that way and we did a really good job at focusing on the game plan and personnel.”

The sold-out crowd of 10,770, the largest since a 2016 matchup against Arizona, stayed electric throughout the match.

“I would just say to anybody who wasn’t at the game tonight, you missed a heck of a game,” Boyle said.