Tristan da Silva grabbed a season-high 11 rebounds and scored 19 of his season-high 27 points in the second half as the Colorado Buffaloes beat the Stanford Cardinal 81-71 in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday night.
KJ Simpson scored 22 points, J’Vonne Hadley contributed 15 points and Eddie Lampkin Jr. added 11 points for Colorado. The Buffaloes (20-9, 11-7 Pac-12) have won four in a row and finished the regular season 16-1 at home.
Maxime Raynaud had 26 points and 12 rebounds, Michael Jones scored 13 points, Kanaan Carlyle finished with 12 points and Brandon Angel added 10 points for Stanford, which has lost six in a row.
The Cardinal (12-17, 7-12) led 24-19 midway through the first half when Colorado surged ahead. Lampkin made three layups, Hadley dunked and Simpson hit a jumper to put the Buffaloes in front 31-27.
Carlyle briefly stopped the momentum with a 3-pointer but Colorado scored the next 11 points to take a 42-30 lead.
Raynaud scored the last five points of the first half to help Stanford get within 44-37 at intermission.
Raynaud made it 45-42 with a 3-pointer early in the second half but the Buffaloes expanded their lead. Simpson, Lampkin and Hadley made layups and da Silva drained one from deep to make it 54-44 with 16:28 remaining.
Carlyle’s layup got the Cardinal back within eight but another run by Colorado, this one a 13-2 spurt, made it 70-51 with 9:57 left.
Raynaud made two free throws but da Silva answered with the Buffaloes’ 10th 3-pointer of the night to stretch the lead to 76-56 with 7:43 left.
Stanford responded with a 9-2 run over the next four minutes to get within 13 but never really threatened to make it close the rest of the way.
da Silva put an exclamation point on his final game at the CU Events Center when he hit a long 3-pointer that made it 81-65 with 2:54 left.
–Field Level Media