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Colorado Buffaloes women's basketball

Field	Value
name	Colorado Buffaloes
current	2025–26 Colorado Buffaloes women's basketball team
logo	Colorado Buffaloes wordmark black.svg
logo_size	200
university	University of Colorado Boulder
conference	Big 12
location	Boulder, Colorado
firstseason
coach	JR Payne
tenure	10th
arena	CU Events Center
capacity	11,064
nickname	Buffaloes
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h_shorts	CFB87C
h_pattern_s	_blanksides2
a_body	CFB87C
a_pattern_b	_thingreysides
a_shorts	CFB87C
bestfinish	8
NCAAeliteeight	1993, 1995, 2002
NCAAsweetsixteen	1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2023, 2024
NCAAsecondround	1996, 1988, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2023, 2024
NCAAtourneys	1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2022, 2023, 2024
AIAWtourneys	1981, 1982
conference_tournament	1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997
conference_season	1989, 1995

The Colorado Buffaloes women's basketball team represents the University of Colorado Boulder and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I.

Conferences

Colorado plays in the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to the 2011–12 season, they played in the Big 12 Conference. The Buffaloes joined the Big 12 in 1997 when the Big 12 was formed, following the merger of the Big Eight Conference with several former members of the Southwest Conference. Colorado is scheduled to rejoin the Big 12 Conference beginning in 2024.

Coaches

Colorado's head women's basketball coach is JR Payne. Payne was hired prior to the 2016–17 season. She replaced Linda Lappe, who was fired at the end of the 2015–16 season with a 7–23 record.

On March 28, 2016, JR Payne became head coach at Colorado. The eighth head coach in program history, Payne replaced Linda Lappe, who was fired after only managing only a career 33–57 (.367) record in Pac-12 play. JR Payne inherited a program that only finished 7–23 (2–16 Pac-12) in Lappe's final season. JR Payne's 2018–19 Colorado team began Pac-12 conference play with 11 straight losses, the worst start to conference play in program history. JR Payne's 2018–19 Buffs lost on the road to #4/#4 ranked Oregon 102–43, the 59 point loss was the worst loss in 35 years, and 4th worst in program history. The Buffs home win against USC on February 10, 2019 allowed CU to prevent from having both the first 12 game losing streak in program history, and the first winless conference season in program history.

Roster

JR Payne ()
Toriano Towns ()
Alex Earl ()
Taelor Karr ()
Matt Hower ()
Shelley Sheetz ()

Year by year results

Conference tournament winners noted with (W)

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NCAA tournament results

The Buffaloes have appeared in 15 NCAA Tournaments, with a record of 21–15.

References

(July 27, 2023). "Colorado To Join Big 12 Conference In 2024-25". University of Colorado Athletics.
"CU Buffs women dominated by Oregon Ducks".
"CU Buffs women dominated by Oregon Ducks".
"Hollingshed, Robinson Lead Buffs To First Pac-12 Win".

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