On January 6, I admittedly wrote off the 2016-17 Colorado State men’s basketball season.
CSU had just squeaked past a weak San Jose State team 76-71 two nights before and head coach Larry Eustachy announced that three key members to the team (Devocio Butler, Che Bob and Kimani Jackson) would all be suspended the remainder of the season due to academics. The Rams had lost four of five games, including back-to-back defeats against two awful California squads in Long Beach State and Loyola Marymount.
It was easy to say that Colorado State’s season had conveniently come to a conclusion: The Rams were done.