Outside the CU Events Center on Monday, the temperature was in the low thirties and inside, it wasn’t much warmer for Oregon State, who posted an ice-cold shooting performance en route to a massive defeat at the hands of the Buffaloes, 78-49.
Any doubt that Colorado deserves their spot lurking just a game back of USC and UCLA for the Pac-12 lead went by the wayside, as Tad Boyle’s crew forced Oregon State to shoot an abysmal 18-55 from the floor and turn the ball over 20 times over the course of forty minutes.
The Beavers had only one player in Ethan Thompson score in double-figures, as the team’s leading scorer posted 10 points on a 3-9 outing.