Buffs look to bounce back in trip to Oregon

The Colorado women’s basketball team hasn’t been perfect this season, but the Buffaloes have been very good at responding after a defeat.

On Friday, the Buffs will try to bounce back from a loss when they visit Oregon in the first game of a weekend trip to the Pacific Northwest. They will visit Oregon State on Sunday.

CU (16-5, 7-3 Pac-12) sputtered throughout a 71-54 home loss to USC on Sunday and will need to knock off a talented Oregon squad to avoid losing backto-back games for the first time this season.

“I feel like we’re mature enough to really just come in and know what we did wrong, so I think going into Oregon I feel like we have a different focus and different mentality,” junior guard Tameiya Sadler said.

After each of the Buffs’ previous four losses, they won the next game. Three of those games were at home, however, and the other was at Chicago State, which is one of the worst teams in the country with a NET ranking of 359 (out of 361 teams).

This will be the toughest bounce-back game the Buffs have faced.

Oregon is unranked but has one of the most talented rosters in the Pac-12, including Grace Vanslooten, who has been the Pac-12 freshman of the week four times, including this week.

“They’re incredibly talented,” CU head coach JR Payne said. “They have lost a couple players to injury and things like that, but they’re very talented. Everyone that plays (for the Ducks) is really good.”

The Ducks are also very good at home (9-2), but they’ve lost three of their last four games overall.

For both teams, it’s a pivotal game. Going down the stretch