BOULDER, Colo. – With Thursday's 94-82 win at Utah, the Arizona Wildcats will carry a nine-game winning streak into the second half of its Mountain road trip. Saturday's noon game against Colorado comes on a quick turnaround for UA who played in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. on Thursday.
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UA heads into Saturday afternoon on the heels of its 94-82 win at Utah, which gave the program its ninth consecutive victory.
Deandre Ayton scored 24 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the victory. It was Ayton's 11
th double-double of the season and fifth game of at least 20 points and 10 rebounds. Sophomore
Rawle Alkins supported the winning effort with 22 points and seven rebounds of his own.
The Wildcats' 94 points in the victory against Utah marked their highest scoring game against Utah since going for 102 points on Jan. 20, 1977, a span of 23 head-to-head meetings with the Utes.
Arizona has an all-time record of 3-8 in Boulder, Colo. with a mark of 2-3 since the Buffaloes joined the Conference of Champions. The Wildcats' three Pac-12 losses inside Coors Event Center are tied for the team's most at any Pac-12 venue since 2011.
Senior
Parker Jackson-Cartwright turned in one of his best offensive performances of his career in Salt Lake City on Thursday night. PJC's 19 points were one shy of his career high as he connected on all eight of his free throw attempts. The Los Angeles native scored 13 points in the first half, which eclipsed the highest scoring first half of his career of 12 points versus Boise State as sophomore.
Arizona boasts a record of 63-22 (.741) in day games since the 2009-10 season. That mark includes six wins in the Wildcats' last seven games to tip off before 5 p.m. locally.
After suffering the three-point loss to Colorado inside the Coors Event Center on Feb. 24, 2016, Arizona has won three consecutive games against the Colorado Buffaloes by an average margin of victory of 9.0 points per game. UA has won nine of its last ten games in the head-to-head series going back to the 2013 Pac-12 Tournament.
Parker Jackson-Cartwright tallied 13 assists to just two turnovers in a pair of victories over the Buffaloes last season.
The Wildcats enter Saturday's game with the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week in freshman
Deandre Ayton. Ayton took home his second weekly honor from the conference after going for 23 points, 19 rebounds, three assists and three blocks in his team's win over No. 3 Arizona State.
Allonzo Trier led the Wildcats in assists with five in the six-point win at Utah. Trier has now tallied four or more assists in five of his last six games with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.89 in those six appearances.
Senior
Dusan Ristic grabbed nine rebounds in his last game to push his career total to 495.
Through the first 15 games of the season, sophomore
Allonzo Trier has upped his scoring output after halftime. Trier is averaging 8.4 points in the first half of games and 11.4 after halftime.
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