Cats Close Out Road Trip at Colorado

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Arizona Wildcats will play their first Sunday conference game of the season when they take on Colorado at the CU Events Center this weekend. The Cats and Buffs will tip off at 6:05 p.m., on ESPNU.

The Wildcats will then return home to Tucson to host California and Stanford next weekend.

Arizona at Colorado
Sunday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. (MST)
TV: ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein and Caron Butler)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Jeff Dean)
Twitter: @APlayersProgram
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OFF THE TOP

The Arizona Wildcats will finish their two-game road trip to the Mountain schools with a Sunday night matchup at Colorado. Arizona has won six of the past seven matchups with the Buffaloes and 12 of the past 14. Colorado has won two of the past three in Boulder.
Arizona's bench had a season-high 29 points last game against Utah. Reserve Alex Barcello had 12 points, while Ira Lee scored 11 points and tied his career high with eight rebounds. Freshman Devonaire Doutrive also added six points, six rebounds and four assists off the bench.
Dylan Smith had a season-high 16 points against Utah on Thursday. He's averaging 10.8 points per game over his last five and has knocked in his last 12 attempts from the free throw line. In conference games only, Smith is shooting .423 from 3-point range, which is tied for eighth-best in the league.
Arizona has posted single-digit turnover games in five of its last six games. The Wildcats turned it over just seven times Thursday at Utah. Arizona is averaging 11.4 turnovers per game, which is second in the conference. The Wildcats lead the Pac-12 in turnover margin at +3.6 and rank 24th in the country.
Since the Pac-12 expanded to 12 teams prior to the 2011-12 season, Arizona is 43-26 in conference road games, which is the best mark in the conference. Arizona and Oregon are the only league teams with marks above .500 in conference road games.
Redshirt junior center Chase Jeter is sixth in the conference in field goal percentage at .589. He is 103 of 175 from the floor this year.
Sophomore Brandon Randolph is averaging 13.6 points per game. He averaged 3.7 last year.