Isaiah Johnson has turned heads during his first month with the Colorado men’s basketball team.

Now he gets his first taste of the hoops version of the Rocky Mountain Showdown.

CU visits Colorado on Saturday afternoon (3 p.m., CBS Sports Network) in the first and only true road game for the Buffaloes during nonconference play. Johnson is one of four true freshmen in the Buffs’ rotation who have yet to face a raucous opposing crowd and one of them, Josiah Sanders, is from Colorado and well-versed in the CU-CSU rivalry, given his father attended CSU.

For Johnson and the rest of CU’s newcomers, this week has presented a crash course in the history of the matchup, as junior forward Bangot Dak is the only Buffs player who was on the roster when CU last visited Fort Collins two years ago (alt

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