Derrick White stuffs the sheet, Colorado starts a streak

PALO WHITEO – The Colorado Buffaloes have themselves a conference winning streak. Once unthinkable while they sat at 0-7, Colorado has rattled off three straight. Thursday on the Farm, the Buffaloes knocked off the Stanford Cardinal 81-74.

Even 23 turnovers from Colorado didn’t stop them as good shooting and great rebounding ended a 10 game road conference losing streak. Derrick White once again led the Buffaloes, and did so in a fashion where he led the team in every single major stat, he finished with 19 points, eight assists, eight rebounds, four blocks, and two steals on one of his best nights of his college career.

Xavier Johnson had a nice night, scoring 19, Bryce Peters added on 13 of his own on three-of-four shooting and Wes Gordon was effective in limited minutes due to foul trouble.

White’s perfect four-for-four, 11 point first half surged the Buffaloes out to a 10 point halftime lead. CU was able to out-rebound and out-shoot Stanford easily in the first half which was what led to their 41-31 lead.

In the second half, it was more Colorado and it looked like the Buffaloes were on their way to an easy Pac-12 win, but with just less than four minutes left a 6-0 Stanford run cut into Colorado’s lead and the visitors held at only 70-61.

Stanford couldn’t capitalize on their momentum and Colorado hung on for a 81-74 victory despite the Cardinal’s efforts to make it close.