Tristan da Silva scored 22 points and made all 10 of his foul shots, Cody Williams had 21 points and Colorado bounced back from a loss at Colorado State to defeat Pepperdine 91-66 on Sunday at Boulder, Colo.
KJ Simpson had 15 points, Julian Hammond III added 10 points and Eddie Lampkin pulled down 10 rebounds for Colorado (6-2), which has won all five of its home games.
Houston Mallette scored 15 points, Michael Ajayi contributed 13 and Nils Cooper had 10 for Pepperdine (4-6).
The Waves were close in the first six minutes of the game, trailing by just five before Colorado began to build a big lead.
Hammond hit a 3-pointer and a layup off a turnover to quickly put the Buffaloes ahead 22-12 and prompt a Pepperdine timeout, but it didn't stop the surge.
Another turnover led to a layup by Williams, Hammond fed Williams for an alley-oop and Hammond made another layup before Cooper's jumper broke the 11-0 Colorado run as the Buffaloes led 28-14.
Malik Moore hit two free throws to make it 30-16 midway through the first half, but Williams had another layup, J'Vonne Hadley converted a three-point play and da Silva sank a pair of foul shots to give the Buffaloes a 40-18 lead.
Moore stopped the run with a jumper, but da Silva scored four straight points and Luke O'Brien made a layup before a 3-pointer from da Silva increased the lead to 49-20 with 2:14 left in the first half.
The Waves cut into the lead with an 8-3 run to get within 52-28 at intermission.
Colorado put it away early in the second half. Williams hit a 3-pointer just six seconds out of halftime, Simpson hit another shot from deep, Williams made another layup and da Silva drained a pair of free throws. That gave the Buffaloes a 64-30 advantage, their biggest lead of the game.
The Waves outscored Colorado 13-5 to cut the deficit to 26 but never threatened to make it close the rest of the way.
--Field Level Media
Pepperdine | Colorado | |
Houston Mallette 15 | Scoring | Tristan Da Silva 22 |
Houston Mallette 3 | Assists | Julian Hammond III 4 |
Michael Ajayi 6 | Rebounds | Eddie Lampkin Jr. 10 |
Michael Ajayi 4 | Free Throws Made | Tristan Da Silva 10 |
Michael Ajayi 2 | Steals | J'Vonne Hadley 2 |
Nils Cooper 3 | Blocks | Bangot Dak 1 |
Team | Points | FG% | 3PM-3PA | FTM-FTA | Assists | Rebounds | Blocks | Steals | Turnovers |
Pepperdine | 66 | 37.5 | 7-19 | 11-17 | 9 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
Colorado | 91 | 57.4 | 7-13 | 22-28 | 22 | 35 | 3 | 7 | 13 |