CSU Rams No. 10 Seed, CU Buffs Holding On As No. 12 Seed – CBS Chicago

(CBS4) – With somewhat greater than two weeks till Choice Sunday, the Colorado Buffaloes and Colorado State Rams nonetheless have loads of work forward of them to safe a spot within the NCAA Event.

Jerry Palm of CBS Sports has the Buffs holding onto one of many last spots within the NCAA Event subject as a twelfth seed and enjoying within the First 4 towards the Indiana Hoosiers.

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Colorado Buffaloes guard McKinley Wright IV defends towards Washington Huskies guard Quade Inexperienced throughout a recreation between the Colorado Buffaloes and the Washington Huskies on Jan. 20 at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle. (credit score: Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photos)

Colorado is 17-7 and 11-6 in Pac-12 Convention play. They may play their last three regular-season video games at house, beginning towards convention chief USC on Thursday night time at 7 p.m. Senior guard McKinley Wright believes all three video games towards USC, UCLA and Arizona State are winnable on their house courtroom.

“Two of those groups will for certain be within the NCAA Event so they’re assertion video games for us,” Wright stated. “I’m going to do no matter now we have to do to come back out with this victory.”

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“The match, that’s the place stars shine. I’ve been attempting to get there since I’ve been right here. I’ve been ready for that second,” he stated.

Joe Lunardi tasks the match subject for ESPN and has CU as a seventh seed enjoying the Drake Bulldogs.

Palm has Colorado State in a greater place than CU because the tenth seed in his match subject, enjoying the Florida Gators. Lunardi has the Rams because the final workforce within the 68-tournament subject because the twelfth seed enjoying the Minnesota Gophers within the First 4. The Rams (14-4, 11-3 in Mountain West), have 4 video games remaining towards Air Drive (Feb. 27, March 1), New Mexico and Nevada.

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If each the Rams and Buffs certainly are dancing in March, it is going to be CU’s first look since 2016 and CSU’s first look since 2013.