LAS VEGAS — Conference tournament title game appearances have been a rarity for the Colorado Buffaloes.
Conference tourney titles have been even more rare.
But Tad Boyle‘s Buffs (22-7) will add one more appearance to the list Saturday at T-Mobile Arena — and hopefully one more title as well — in the 8:30 p.m. (MT) Pac-12 championship game against Oregon State (16-12).
Saturday’s game will be only the third time the CU men have ever played in a conference tourney title game, with Boyle’s teams accounting for two of them.
The first came in 1990, when Tom Miller’s CU squad fell to Oklahoma, 92-80, in the Big Eight championship game. The second came nine years ago, when Boyle’s team ran off four straight wins to capture the first-ever Pac-12 tourney title, capped by a 53-51 win over Arizona.
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