Colorado will host Kansas State on Wednesday, February 25, at the CU Events Center in Boulder. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:07 p.m. MT and will be broadcast on FS1, with radio coverage on KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM and streaming available via Sirius XM and live statistics online.
A special ticket offer is available for fans, allowing entry to both Tuesday’s women’s basketball home finale against Utah and Wednesday night’s men’s game against Kansas State for $20.
The Buffaloes enter the contest with a 15-12 overall record and are tied with Arizona State for 11th place in the Big 12 Conference at 5-9. Colorado has won three of its last six games, all at home. The team recently matched its previous season’s win total in fewer games and surpassed last year’s conference win tally.
Colorado ranks among the top teams nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (39th) and turnovers per game (44th). In their recent victory over Oklahoma State, they recorded 20 assists to 12 turnovers. Against TCU earlier this season, they matched a season high with 24 assists while limiting themselves to eight turnovers.
The Buffaloes have consistently met their goal of limiting turnovers, recording single-digit turnover totals in eleven games this season and achieving their target of eleven or fewer turnovers in nineteen out of twenty-seven games. This marks significant improvement compared to last year’s performance.
Offensively, Colorado has seen balanced scoring throughout the roster. At least four players have scored in double figures in eighteen games this season, including five games where five players reached double digits—a notable increase from last year.
Freshman Isaiah Johnson leads Colorado with an average of 16.3 points per game, ranking fourth in the Big 12 and seventeenth nationally among freshmen scorers. He also leads the team in free throws made and attempted, three-pointers made, steals, and ranks second in assists and three-point percentage. Johnson is tenth nationally for free throws made by a freshman.
Junior Barrington Hargress leads Colorado in assists (120), field goal percentage (.543), three-point percentage (.500), overall field goals made (146), while ranking second in scoring (14.2 points per game) and third in steals (24). Hargress has one of the best assist-to-turnover ratios both within the Big 12 (second) and nationally (eleventh).
Sophomore Sebastian Rancik is second on the team in rebounding (5.6 per game) as well as free throws made and attempted; he also ranks third in scoring (12.3 points per game) and assists. Rancik leads Colorado with an 85.6 percent free throw rate.
Junior forward Bangot Dak tops the team with 6.6 rebounds per game—fourteenth-best in the Big 12—and is fourth on the squad with an average of 10.8 points per outing while shooting nearly fifty percent from the field. Dak was named to the Big 12 Starting Five for his recent performance against Oklahoma State, marking his first weekly conference honor since Colorado rejoined the league last season.
In NCAA NET rankings through February 22, Colorado stands at No. 69 after peaking at No. 39 earlier this season.
Kansas State arrives with an overall record of 11-16 and a conference mark of 2-12, tying them for fifteenth place in the Big 12 standings after dropping seven of their past eight games—including five straight road losses. The Wildcats average just over eighty points per contest but allow more than eighty-one points defensively each night.
Kansas State features junior guard P.J. Haggerty—third nationally at twenty-three-and-a-half points per game—and senior guard Nate Johnson who averages twelve point one points along with a conference-leading fifty-seven steals this season.
This matchup marks the teams’ one hundred forty-sixth meeting since their series began in nineteen thirty-four; Kansas State holds a ninety-seven to forty-eight advantage all-time but Colorado has claimed four of the past five meetings.
