Texas Basketball: 5 takeaways post-NIT Quarterfinal victory vs. Colorado

2. Tyler Bey is the future for the Buffs

The only player that really showed up consistently for Colorado in this defeat for that ended its season is the rising star sophomore wing Tyler Bey. Averaging 13.5 points per game and 10 boards this season, Bey did nearly everything he could to carry this very young Buffs squad as far as he could.

Colorado was actually one of the better PAC-12 teams this season. The PAC-12 was pretty bad, and only had two teams make it to the point of the Round of 64 in the NCAA Tournament. Since the Arizona State Sun Devils were ousted by the St. John’s Red Storm in a play-in game for the “Big Dance”, the Washington Huskies and Oregon Ducks were the only teams from the conference in the Round of 64.

Moreover, the PAC-12 Champion Ducks are still in the tourney at this point. Oregon will face the one-seed Virginia Cavaliers in the Sweet 16 on March 28 to try and continue this miraculous run that began before the PAC-12 Tournament. Yet, Colorado and Oregon will continue to be two of the teams to watch in the PAC-12 for the next two or three seasons.

In this matchup against Texas basketball individually, Colorado got a team-high 18 points, game-high 13 rebounds, one block, and one steal out of Bey. He also played some heavy minutes here, 34, and hit nearly 50 percent of his 15 looks from the field and both of his from the free-throw line.