Jabari Walker brings shattering end to CU Buffs’ third win in Costa Rica

The Colorado men’s hoops squad received a tougher combat from a squad of all-stars during its 3rd accumulation crippled successful Costa Rica, though the Buffaloes yet pulled distant for the victory.

But that isn’t what anyone volition remember.

The crippled was forced to extremity aboriginal erstwhile Buffs sophomore Jabari Walker shattered a backboard connected a dunk effort with astir 2 minutes, 20 seconds remaining successful the 3rd quarter. With nary backup hoop available, the crippled was called with the Buffs starring 68-54.

Given each the Buffs’ games were scheduled successful the aforesaid arena, it remains unclear if a caller hoop volition beryllium acceptable for the scheduled finale of CU’s travel astatine 8 p.m. MT Monday night.

Walker took a walk from Luke O’Brien and barreled down the lane for a wide-open dunk effort that helium really missed. The backboard instantly crystallized and, aft a precise little infinitesimal of hesitation, solid rained down. Walker was capable to hop retired of the mode and seemingly avoided immoderate damage, arsenic helium soon was laughing with his teammates and posing for pictures aft his once-in-a-lifetime hoops destruction.

It was an abrupt and wholly unexpected extremity to what, to that point, had been the astir competitory lucifer of the travel truthful acold for the Buffs. The all-star squad, Seleccion de Baloncesto, was blistery aboriginal and held a two-point pb aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th until 7 consecutive points from CU sophomore Tristan da Silva started the Buffs connected a 12-2 tally that gave them the pb for good.

The Buffs led 50-37 astatine halftime and pushed the pb to 17 points aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th earlier the abrupt extremity of the contest.

Da Silva enjoyed his champion crippled of the travel truthful far, knocking down a brace of 3-pointers and going 6-for-6 astatine the escaped propulsion enactment portion starring CU with 12 points. Freshman defender KJ Simpson enjoyed different coagulated all-around game, flying astir the tribunal defensively earlier finishing with 11 points. Evan Battey scored 7 of his 9 points successful the archetypal 4th portion guards Keeshawn Barthelemy and Julian Hammond chipped successful with 8 points apiece.