BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Senior Rosco Allen matched his career-high with 25 points for Stanford, but it wasn't enough as the Cardinal dropped a 91-75 decision to a hot-shooting Colorado team Wednesday night at the Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colo.
Allen matched is 25 points scored against Arkansas in the come-from-behind victory over the Razorbacks on Nov. 27 in Brooklyn.
Colorado shot 68 percent (13-of-19) from three-point range and 49 percent overall for the game. George King and Josh Fortune combined to hit 10 of Colorado's 13 3-pointers in the contest. King finished with 23 points and Fortune added a season-high 21 as Colorado (16-5, 5-3 Pac-12) knocked off Stanford (11-8, 4-4) for the second time this season.
"This team has a chance to be really, really good offensively if we continue to play like that," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said. "We've got very capable shooters as you saw tonight."
Stanford freshman Marcus Sheffield added 12 points and junior Marcus Allen contributed 10 points to round out the Cardinal's double-figure scorers in the game.
Josh Scott contributed 14 points and eight rebounds. More than anything, he was the reason the perimeter was so wide open, with Stanford congesting the lane to limit his production. Colorado was more accurate from three-point range (13-of-19) than from inside the line (14-of-36).
"Josh is one of the best players in the Pac-12, if not in the country," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "So you have to have an emphasis to somehow slow him down."
King hit all five of his attempts from beyond the arc, while Fortune was 5 of 7.
"When he has the ball down low and kicks it out, it makes our jobs real easy," King said.
Colorado's lead, that stretched to as many as 23 points in the second half, was trimmed to 64-54 courtesy of a 13-0 run by Stanford. Scott settled down the Buffaloes with a three-point play. Four straight free throws by Dominique Collier and the team was rolling again.
"We gave ourselves us a chance," Dawkins said. "We had some momentum and had a little rhythm going and they were able to stabilize themselves."
Stanford returns to action on Saturday (Jan. 30) in Salt Lake City, Utah against Utah at 2 p.m. PT. The game will be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network.