Colorado will host the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Roadrunners in a men’s basketball game on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at the CU Events Center in Boulder. The game is set to tip off at 2:01 p.m. Mountain Time and will be broadcast on ESPN+ and KOA radio.
The Buffaloes enter the matchup with an 8-1 record after their first loss of the season to Colorado State on December 6. This marks Colorado’s best start through nine games since the 2018-19 season. The team had previously won its first eight games for the first time in 76 years, matching its second-best start in school history.
Colorado has demonstrated strong offensive performance during nonconference play. The team ranks fourth nationally in three-point shooting percentage at 41 percent but attempts relatively few three-pointers per game. Overall, they are shooting 52.1 percent from the field, which places them third in the Big 12 Conference and thirteenth nationally.
The Buffaloes average 88.4 points per game and have maintained low turnover rates, ranking eleventh nationally with just over nine turnovers per contest and fifteenth in assist-to-turnover ratio.
At least four players have scored in double figures for Colorado in each of its nine games this season. Freshman Isaiah Johnson leads all bench scorers with an average of 15.3 points per game while shooting over fifty-eight percent from the field.
Junior forward Bangot Dak was named most valuable player at the Acrisure Holiday Classic after averaging fourteen points, eight rebounds, four assists, and two-and-a-half blocks without any turnovers during that tournament.
Junior Barrington Hargress leads Colorado with nearly five assists per game and has recorded three games with at least eight assists this season.
Sophomore Sebastian Rancik is second on the team in scoring and rebounding averages while leading Colorado in free throw percentage at nearly eighty-five percent.
Bench contributions remain significant for Colorado as reserves contribute over thirty-six points per game—accounting for forty-one percent of total scoring—which ranks second among Big 12 teams and twenty-second nationally.
Graduate Elijah Malone and sophomore Felix Kossaras are leading shooters for Colorado; Malone has made more than sixty-three percent of his field goals across all nine games this season while Kossaras is making nearly sixty-three percent from the floor.
As of December 11, Colorado’s NET ranking stands at forty-five for this season so far.
UTSA arrives with a record of four wins and five losses following a recent defeat by Alabama. The Roadrunners are averaging just under seventy-three points per game but rank highly nationwide in rebounding statistics while allowing opponents only thirty-eight percent shooting—the best mark within their conference—and limiting opponents’ three-point success as well.
Graduate guard Jamir Simpson leads UTSA’s offense with an average of almost nineteen points per game and has made twenty-seven three-pointers so far this year. Several other Roadrunner players also contribute between seven to nine points each night.
This meeting marks only the fifth time these programs have played each other; Colorado holds a perfect record against UTSA dating back to their last matchup—a ninety-two to seventy-seven victory—in December of nineteen ninety-five.
