Overall experience should be major boost for JR Payne’s Buffaloes

Guard Quinessa Caylao-Do jumps for the ball after Colorado Christian shoots and misses. Nov. 4, 2017. (Robin Fox/ CU Independent)In 2017-18, the Colorado Buffaloes women’s basketball team finished the year with a 15-16 record under head coach JR Payne.

It was a season of growing pains for the Buffaloes. Ultimately, despite good signs of things to come from then-freshmen guards Peyton Carter, Aubrey Knight, Mya Hollingshed plus forward Annika Jank, Colorado was unable to compliment solid years from program centerpieces Kennedy Leonard and Alexis Robinson with a winning record.

But now in mid-November, with the regular season for CU already taking off, players, coaches and admirers of CU’s…