It’s said that misery loves company.

Perhaps that is the case within the locker room of the Colorado men’s basketball team, as the Buffaloes continue to stumble through their return season in the Big 12 Conference.

In the league standings, however, the Buffs are all alone in the cold, unforgiving environs of the basement.

Cheers finally rippled through the CU Events Center on Tuesday night, but it only added to the embarrassment of an 0-7 start within the league that matches the worst conference start in 15 seasons under head coach Tad Boyle, while also tying the longest losing streak of Boyle’s tenure.

The most damning aspect of Tuesday’s defeat, an 83-67 setback against BYU, was how the Events Center turned into East Provo. Buffs fans, understandably, streamed for the exits as the Cougars dominated the second half. Meanwhile, the BYU faithful flowed closer to the floor and loudly celebrated a road win.

The apathy spurred by an 0-7 Big 12 mark won’t be easy to fix on Saturday as CU visits Arizona (1 p.m., ESPN+), where it has lost 14 consecutive games. The scores from those 14 defeats rarely were close.

“Next game. What do we have to do to beat Arizona at Arizona?” Boyle said. “One thing I’m going to challenge our guys — you want a chance to do something that’s never been done? We’ll have an opportunity to do that on Saturday. Now, will we embrace that opportunity? Will we take it on as a challenge? Or will we say, ‘Previous teams can’t do it, we can’t do it.’ If that’s our attitude, this season, we’re not going to get that first conference win.”

Once again, the Buffs will hit the reset button without some lone, glaring deficiency to fix. CU right now is lagging in all facets.

On Tuesday, the Cougars shot a ridiculous .679 (19-for-28) in the second half. During a span from the end of the first half and into the second half, the Buffs went without a field goal for 13 minutes, 34 seconds. CU tied a season-low with eight assists, matching a mark set just two games earlier against Cincinnati. Turnovers, as always, played their part, with the Buffs committing seven in the game’s first 10 minutes before finishing with 16.

The Events Center, where the Buffs lost one game last year, usually has provided a significant home-court advantage throughout Boyle’s tenure. Yet Tuesday’s defeat gave CU its first four-game home losing streak since it lost the final five home games of the 2008-09 season, when the Jeff Bzdelik-led Buffs finished 1-15 in the Big 12.

The Buffs don’t have a go-to player on offense and lack a lockdown, one-on-one defender. With the schedule set to take a more demanding turn — CU plays three of its next four on the road, and the February slate features four games against top-10 teams — at some point soon it might no longer be a question of when the Buffs get their first Big 12 win. It might become a matter of “if.”

“This team is a collective team,” Boyle said. “We don’t have one guy that can carry this team. Offensively or defensively. So we have to rely on each other. We’re playing nine, 10, 11 guys. I have confidence in all of those guys. The problem is, you don’t know which guys are going to show up.

“I don’t look at one guy and say if we don’t have him, we’re in trouble. But if we collectively don’t compete defensively, and collectively don’t move the ball and share the ball offensively, this team has no chance to win. Zero. Because we don’t have that dude.”