Colorado will play Baylor on Wednesday, February 4, at Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas. The game marks Colorado’s first visit to Baylor since 2011 and is set for a 6 p.m. MT tipoff. The matchup will be broadcast on Peacock and can be heard on KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM as well as online via Sirius XM.
The Buffaloes come into the game with a record of 13-9 overall and are tied with TCU and Cincinnati for tenth place in the Big 12 Conference with a league record of 3-6. Colorado recently ended a six-game losing streak by defeating TCU 87-61 on February 1.
With this win, Colorado has matched its conference win total from last season in fewer games and already has one more regular season victory than all of last year, when it finished with 14 wins after the Big 12 Championship.
In their recent win over TCU, Colorado held their opponent to just 33.3 percent shooting from the field, matching their best defensive performance of the season. This was also the best defensive mark against a conference opponent since holding Utah to 31.6 percent shooting during the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament in 2024. Under head coach Tad Boyle, “Colorado is 16-1 against conference opponents who shoot 33.3 percent or less and has won the last six.”
The Buffaloes committed only eight turnovers against TCU, marking their tenth game this season with single-digit turnovers. They also recorded a season-high-tying 24 assists—the most against a conference opponent since registering 25 assists versus Stanford in March of 2017—and matched their season high with eleven three-point field goals.
Individual performances included Isaiah Johnson scoring sixteen points and recording five assists; he now ranks eighth all-time among Colorado freshmen for points scored in a season (364). Josiah Sanders set career highs in points (twelve), assists (six), field goals made (five), and attempts (nine). Fawaz “Tacko” Ifaola had career highs with six points and six rebounds while making all his field goal attempts so far this season. Bangot Dak shot an efficient seven-for-eight from the field for fourteen points—the highest percentage by any Buffaloes player this year—while Jalin Holland notched a career-high four assists.
Colorado’s NET ranking stands at seventy-five as of February 1, having reached as high as thirty-nine earlier this season.
Baylor enters Wednesday’s contest at twelve wins and nine losses overall and holds a two-and-seven record within Big 12 play. The Bears return home after securing their second conference victory by defeating West Virginia on the road, sixty-three to fifty-three. Baylor averages eighty-four points per game while allowing seventy-five point four to opponents, ranking second in offensive rebounds per game within the Big 12 at thirteen point twenty-four—a mark that also places them thirty-sixth nationally.
Redshirt sophomore guard Cameron Carr leads Baylor with an average of nineteen point four points per game while shooting fifty-two point one percent from the floor—second-best among guards in the conference. Three other Bears players average double figures: freshman guard Tounde Yessoufou (seventeen point three), fifth-year guard Obi Agbim (eleven point one), and senior guard Dan Skillings Jr. (ten point two). Yessoufou also averages two steals per game.
This will be the twenty-ninth meeting between Colorado and Baylor; Colorado leads the series seventeen to eleven but trails six to three in games played at Waco. The teams met last year for the first time since Colorado rejoined the Big 12 Conference, with Colorado winning that matchup seventy-six to seventy-four in Boulder.
