2026–27 season
Northern Colorado
Bears · Big Sky
- Record
- 2–1
- Unranked in the AP poll
- Projected seed
- Out
- Outside the projected field
- Efficiency
- +3.6
- No. 119 in Division I
- Head coach
- Steve Smiley
- Since 2020–21
- Home
- Greeley, CO
- 5,864 mi from Detroit
- National titles
- 0
- Still chasing the first
Statistical profile
Percentiles compare this team with all 365 Division I teams. 100th is best in every row, including defense, where lower raw numbers are better: green bars are the top of the country, red the bottom, blue a style (pace, three-point rate) rather than a strength. Season totals include tournament games. Opponent-adjusted efficiency and schedule strength appear after 8 games; until then they swing too much to mean anything.
Efficiency
Scoring & shooting
Possessions
Defense & roster
Strengths and weaknesses
Flagged automatically when a stat sits in the top or bottom 15% of all 365 Division I teams.
- StrengthElite three-point shootingThree-point %: 45.3%97th
- WeaknessFew second chancesOffensive rebound %: 25.8%12th
Tournament history
Every NCAA tournament appearance since 2002, with who N Colorado beat and who ended the run.
Appearances
1
Record
0–1
Sweet 16s
0
Final Fours
0
Titles
0
- 201115Round of 64Lost to 2 San Diego St 68–50. Bracket
Roster
Season per-game stats for every player who appeared.
- Leading scorer
- Manning Shareef
- 11.3 ppg
- Tallest
- Egan Shields
- 6′10″
- Best at the line
- —
- —
- Longest in program
- Egan Shields
- 4 seasons
| Player | WT | Yrs | GP | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6Langston ReynoldsGuard · Denver, CO | 6′4″ | 215 | 1 | 3 | 27.7 | 10.0 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 18.5 |
| 42Andrew CrawfordGuard · Littleton, CO | 6′8″ | 190 | 1 | 3 | 24.3 | 11.0 | 7.7 | 1.7 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 21.6 |
| 4Hunter CaldwellCenter · Parker, CO | 6′10″ | 230 | 3 | 3 | 20.3 | 10.0 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 50.0 | 87.5 | 20.4 |
| 23Manning Shareef · Milwaukee, WI | 6′8″ | 225 | 1 | 3 | 19.3 | 11.3 | 5.0 | 1.7 | 42.9 | 90.0 | 20.6 |
| 11Vincent DelanoGuard · Phoenix, AZ | 6′2″ | 180 | 2 | 3 | 19.0 | 6.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 28.6 | 80.0 | 18.3 |
| 1Kaidon RayfieldForward · Oklahoma City, OK | 6′8″ | 205 | 1 | 3 | 17.7 | 5.7 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 19.1 |
| 22Jeremiah Hammond · Denver, CO | 6′3″ | 180 | 1 | 3 | 16.0 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 80.0 | 21.7 |
| 2Chiante' TrambleGuard · Edmond, OK | 6′2″ | 200 | 1 | 3 | 15.3 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 3.3 | 25.0 | 66.7 | 16.7 |
| 5Steven Ramirez Jr.Guard · Fort Worth, TX | 6′4″ | 205 | 2 | 3 | 11.0 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 16.9 |
| 9Campbell Blogg · Melbourne, VIC | 6′4″ | 195 | 1 | 3 | 11.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 22.3 |
| 15Drew Paine · Highlands Ranch, CO | 6′8″ | 220 | 1 | 2 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 |
| 10Tanner BraketaGuard · Arvada, CO | 6′1″ | 180 | 2 | 2 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 33.3 | 83.3 | 17.9 |
| 3Ariik MawienGuard · Anoka, MN | 6′4″ | 185 | 3 | 3 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 100.0 | 50.0 | 31.5 |
| 13Will Gordon · Clearwater, FL | 6′4″ | 185 | 1 | 2 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 17.7 |
| 33Egan ShieldsCenter · Ashland, OR | 6′10″ | 250 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Yrs = seasons with this program (transfers count from their arrival). Headshots appear once rights-cleared images are available.
Season schedule
Every game with consensus closing lines (median across sportsbooks) and against-the-spread results.
ATS overall
0–1
ATS as favorite
0–0
ATS as underdog
0–1
ATS neutral court
0–0
ATS vs. tournament teams
0–0
ATS vs. ranked teams
0–0
Over / under
1–0
| Date | Opponent | Result | Spread | Total | ATS | O/U |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2 | vsCOLColorado College | W117–64 | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 6 | @ARIArizona State | L63–90 | +19.5 | 143.75 | Miss | Over |
| Nov 10 | vsNORNorthern New Mexico | W102–52 | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 14 | vsS DSouth Dakota State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 18 | @BYU#23BYU7 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 21 | vsJUSJustice College | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 24 | NSE SE Louisiana | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 28 | @SANSan Diego | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 3 | vsIDAIdaho | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 5 | vsE WEastern Washington | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 14 | @STAStanford | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 18 | @CHACharleston13 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 20 | vsREGRegis (CO) | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 31 | @MONMontana | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 2 | @MONMontana State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 7 | @SOUSouthern Utah14 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 9 | @UTAUtah Tech | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 14 | vsIDAIdaho State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 16 | vsWEBWeber State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23 | @N ANorthern Arizona | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 25 | vsPORPortland State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 28 | @E WEastern Washington | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 30 | @IDAIdaho | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 4 | vsMONMontana State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 6 | vsMONMontana | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 11 | @WEBWeber State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 13 | @IDAIdaho State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 18 | vsUTAUtah Tech | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 20 | vsSOUSouthern Utah14 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 27 | @PORPortland State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Mar 1 | vsN ANorthern Arizona | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |