Michael Bettis / For the Reporter-Herald)
FORT COLLINS — If nothing else, the non-conference season was interesting for Colorado State.
Before the season, coach Larry Eustachy said this year's squad was the best-shooting team he's ever had. And that sure looked like the case early as the sharp-shooting Rams stormed out to a 5-0 start with a pair of RPI top-100 wins over Northern Iowa and Oakland.
But the way the CSU was winning — outscoring teams from the perimeter, rather than the program's trademarks of defense and rebounding — proved unsustainable. In fact, the run-and-gun style that produced more than 90 points a game during the early-season win streak turned out to be a detriment.