STANFORD, Calif. — A rules change in college basketball from a few years ago ended the practice of the visiting team choosing which end of the floor they wanted at the outset of games.
Now games are set up so offenses play in front of their own bench in the second half, but if Colorado coach Tad Boyle had his way, he would prefer having his option again on the road.
While this nuance certainly wasn't the reason why Boyle's Colorado Buffaloes suffered a second-half collapse in a 75-62 loss Saturday at Stanford, his attempts at trying to pinpoint why his club could play so efficiently on defense in the first half, when the Buffs' defense was in front of the CU bench, before turning into a club that allowed the Cardinal to shoot 72 percent in the second half brought him back to this rules wrinkle.