Colorado meet BYU in the women’s Big 12 semifinal in Mansfield, Texas, on 11 November. The university’s preview, published on 10 November, records six consecutive Colorado wins and a seven-game unbeaten run for BYU ahead of the meeting.
Colorado reached this stage by coming from behind to beat Kansas 2–1. The 9 November match report documents Reagan Kotschau’s winner with one minute and seven seconds remaining after Hope Leyba had equalised. BYU advanced on penalties following a 1–1 draw with West Virginia, according to Colorado’s preview.
The Buffaloes scored seventeen goals and conceded three during their six-match winning sequence, producing a goal difference of fourteen over that stretch. It is evidence of strong recent results, rather than a guarantee in a single knockout fixture. A place in the final requires winning this next contest, not simply maintaining a favourable league-points average.
BYU finished the conference’s regular season two points ahead of Colorado. That relatively narrow gap provides context for a semifinal reached through different routes: Colorado found a late winner in normal time, while BYU needed a shootout. This is a dated preview of the scheduled match. It does not announce an outcome before the teams have played.
Prentup Field entrance at Colorado in 2016; archival photograph, not the semifinal venue in Texas. Photographer/creator: Xnatedawgx. Image source · CC BY-SA 4.0. 2016-04-12 13:22:00.
