Colorado Buffaloes

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The University of Colorado is located in Boulder, Colorado. Basketball teams at the school are called Buffaloes. CU participates in the NCAA’s Division I as a member of the North Division of the Big 12 Conference. The school mascot is Ralphie the Buffalo and the school colors are Silver and Gold, but are usually represented by Black and Gold. There are three official fight songs: "Glory Colorado", "Go Colorado", and "Fight CU." Basketball games are played at the Coors Events Center.

In 1934, the University teams were officially nicknamed the "Buffaloes". Previous nicknames used by the press included the “Silver Helmets” and “Frontiersmen.” The final game of 1934, against DU, saw the first running of a buffalo in a Colorado football game. A buffalo calf was rented from a local ranch and ran along the sidelines.

Both men's and women's team are called the Buffaloes (Buffs for short) or Golden Buffaloes (acceptable, but rare). "Lady Buffs" referred to the womens teams beginning in the 1970s, but was officially dropped in 1993. The nickname was selected by the campus newspaper in a contest with a US$5 prize in 1934 won by Andrew Dickson of Boulder, Colorado.

Contrary to popular belief, the school's colors are silver and gold, not black and gold. Silver and gold were chosen to represent the state's mineral wealth, but the colors did not look good together on the uniforms, so black was substituted.

The year 1947 marked key point in race relations on campus. In this year, the Buffaloes joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, commonly know as the Big Six, then to be known as the Big Seven, and later the Big Eight. However, Missouri and Oklahoma had rules which would have allowed them to challenge teams with “colored” players. A student outcry, led by campus paper Silver and Gold, led to a movement against these Jim Crow restrictions which expanded to all the campuses of the Big 7 and eventually lead to their repeal.

The University of Colorado was a member of the Colorado Football Association in 1893. Next, they became a charter member of the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference in 1909 which changed its name a year later to Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference (RMFAC). Colorado then left the RMFAC to become a charter member of the Skyline Conference (aka Mountain States Conference) in 1938. They then joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, commonly know as the Big Six, in 1947 changing the common name to the Big Seven. In 1958 it became the Big Eight Conference. It remained the Big 8 until 1996 when four more universities were added to the conference and created the new Big 12 Conference.

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Men's Basketball

1906 Colorado Buffaloes Basketball Team

Coach	Years	Seasons	Won	Lost	Pct.	Conference Titles	NCAA¹	NIT¹
No coach	1902-06	5	18	15	.545
Frank R. Castleman	1907-12	6	32	22	.592
John McFadden	1913-14	2	12	7	.583
James N. Ashmore	1915-17	3	16	10	.615
Melbourne C. Evans	1918	1	9	2	.818
Joe Mills	1919-24	6	30	24	.556
Howard Beresford	1925-33	9	76	51	.598
Henry P. Iba	1934	1	9	8	.529
Earl Clark	1935	1	3	9	.250
Forrest B. Cox	1936-50	13	147	89	.623	0	3	2
H.B. Lee	1951-56	6	63	74	.459	2	2	0
Russell "Sox" Walseth	1957-76	20	261	245	.516	3	3	0
Bill Blair	1977-81	5	67	69	.493	0	0	0
Tom Apke	1982-86	5	59	81	.421	0	0	0
Tom Miller	1986-90	4	35	79	.307	0	0	0
Joe Harrington	1990-96	6	67	76	.469	0	0	2
Ricardo Patton	1996-	10	177	140	.558	0	2	3
Totals		104	1085	1034	.512

Data through 2005-06 season and taken from
2005 Big 12 Men's Basketball Media Guide

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Women's Basketball

Women's Basketball started at Colorado in 1975. The team has had six coaches and the current coach is Kathy McConnell-Miller.

Year	Coach	Big 12	Pct.	Overall	Pct.	Postseason
1975-1976	Carol Hochsprung	2-10 (IC)	.083	2-11	.154
1976-1977	Jerry Zancanelli	5-8 (IC)	.385	8-12	.400
1977-1978	Jerry Zancanelli	5-8 (IC)	.385	14-12	.538
1978-1979	Jerry Zancanelli	6-6 (IC)	.500	18-14	.563
1979-1980	Rene Portland	10-3 (3/IC)	.769	22-9	.710
1980-1981	Rene Portland	9-1 (1/IC)	.900	18-11	.621
1981-1982	Russell "Sox" Walseth	10-0 (1/IC)	1.000	28-5	.848
1982-1983	Russell "Sox" Walseth	8-2 (T1/IC)	.800	28-8	.778
1983-1984	Russell "Sox" Walseth	7-5 (BE)	.583	21-8	.724
1984-1985	Ceal Barry	3-11 (7/BE)	.214	10-18	.357
1985-1986	Ceal Barry	2-12 (8/BE)	.143	6-22	.214
1986-1987	Ceal Barry	9-5 (2/BE)	.643	21-9	.700
1987-1988	Ceal Barry	6-8 (6/BE)	.429	14-14	.500
1988-1989	Ceal Barry	8-6 (3/BE)	.571	21-11	.656	NCAA
1989-1990	Ceal Barry	14-0 (1/BE)	1.000	27-4	.871	NCAA
1990-1991	Ceal Barry	10-4 (3/BE)	.714	17-11	.607
1991-1992	Ceal Barry	8-6 (T4/BE)	.571	18-11	.631
1992-1993	Ceal Barry	11-3 (2/BE)	.786	22-9	.710	NCAA
1993-1994	Ceal Barry	12-2 (1/BE)	.857	27-4	.871	NCAA Regional
1994-1995	Ceal Barry	12-2 (1/BE)	.857	27-5	.844	NCAA Regional
1995-1996	Ceal Barry	14-0 (1/BE)	1.000	30-3	.909	NCAA Regional
1996-1997	Ceal Barry	9-5 (4/BE)	.643	26-9	.743	NCAA
1997-1998	Ceal Barry	12-4 (T2)	.750	23-9	.719	NCAA Regional
1998-1999	Ceal Barry	5-11 (8th)	.313	12-16	.429
1999-2000	Ceal Barry	7-9 (T8th)	.438	15-14	.517	WNIT
2000-2001	Ceal Barry	4-12 (10th)	.250	10-19	.345
2001-2002	Ceal Barry	11-5 (4th)	.688	22-9	.710	NCAA
2002-2003	Ceal Barry	11-5 (T3rd)	.688	24-10	.706	NCAA Regional
2003-2004	Ceal Barry	11-5 (4th)	.688	24-8	.750	NCAA Regional
2004-2005	Ceal Barry	11-5 (3rd)	.688	22-8	.733	NCAA
2005-2006	Ceal Barry	2-14 (T11th)	.125	9-19	.321
2006-2007	Kathy McConnell-Miller	6-10 (8th)	.375	13-17	.433
OVERALL		264-135	.662	586-333	.638
Big Eight Conference		190-69	.734
Big 12 Conference		74-70	.514