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CU Buffs enjoy second chance at Big 12 tournament – Boulder Daily Camera

Pabio October 30, 2024

The Colorado women’s soccer team didn’t win. But they didn’t really lose either.

One of the biggest benefits of the transition to the Big 12 Conference is the addition of a league tournament to the ledger. This is a second chance for teams in the Buffaloes’ position – struggling, with their NCAA Tournament chances dwindling, but a few more quality wins left before they change their fortunes.

In a competition that can no longer end without a winner – the Buffs are 0-2-4 during a six-game winless streak, with scoreless draws in three of the last four games – CU will have the best goalie in the league in his corner. in Jordan Nytes.

On Tuesday, Nytes won Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Year honors for the second time in three seasons, leading CU’s all-conference selections with a first-team spot alongside teammate Faith Leyba.

Juliauna Hayward, sophomore midfielder and Legacy graduate, was a second-team selection, and forward Jace Holley was an All-Freshman honoree.

In another Tuesday update, the Big 12 also announced that the ninth-seeded Buffs’ kickoff time against eight-seeded Utah on Wednesday had been moved up to 10 a.m. 45MT (ESPN+). The entire first-round schedule was changed in an effort to have games played before the weather at Kansas City.

“She’s the best goalie in the league. And one of the best goalies in the country,” CU head coach Danny Sanchez said of Nytes. “It gives us confidence. But a shootout is literally a shootout. You never know.

The Buffs are of course hoping to take care of business before a potential shootout, but to do that they’ll have to score a goal. That hasn’t happened in more than four games, as the Buffs endured a scoreless drought 377 minutes, 22 seconds into the rematch against Utah, which ended the regular season with a tie scoreless at Prentup Field on Friday.

Nytes, who was the co-winner of the Big 12 Goalie of the Year at Oklahoma State in 2022, is a big reason why the Buffs have only two losses during the six-game streak matches without a win. With goals difficult to achieve, Nytes had to be precise and responded. The scoreless tie with Utah was Nytes’ 11th shutout of the season, tying the second-highest season total in team history. She won Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week five times this season.

“There’s definitely more pressure, knowing we’re about to score a bunch of goals,” Nytes said. “We just have to make sure we stay really tight defensively. The margin of error is significantly smaller. We must do everything possible to give our attackers and midfielders the best chances to score. Definitely pressure, but I like pressure. I think it makes me play better. I kind of try to give that confidence to the back line and just try to move everyone forward from there.

Sanchez has coached in conference tournaments before, during stints at Wyoming and Metro State, but noted that his team’s bubble status makes the situation completely different. In the Mountain West tournament, it was essentially a win-or-go-home competition in a single-bid league. And Sanchez’s Metro State teams typically had Division II tournament bids locked in before league tournaments.

Thanks to the late slide, the Buffs (10-3-5, 4-2-5 Big 12) slipped to No. 62 in the RPI, with the ledger’s best win coming more than a month ago at No. 30. RPI Oklahoma State.

“It’s a second chance at life. Like I told the team, it’s really like the NCAA Tournament,” Sanchez said. “Maybe the results weren’t what we wanted, but now someone is going to have to beat us. And that’s only happened three times in 18 games this year. We have another opportunity, another life, and we can’t wait for Wednesday.

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