Like many of his teammates, Andrej Jakimovski is trying to shake off a slump before the season spirals too far out of control.

Unlike his teammates, Jakimovski has accomplished something his teammates haven’t as the Colorado men’s basketball team attempts to end a losing streak reaching historic proportions.

Jakimovski has won at Arizona. Twice.

It will be a tall task for Jakimovski to pick up another Arizona “W” when the Buffaloes visit the Wildcats on Saturday afternoon. Arizona is surging. The Buffaloes are slumping. And they’ve lost 14 consecutive games in Tucson, dating back to 1965.

CU is hoping to avoid a low point of the 15 seasons under head coach Tad Boyle. Jakimovski won at UA’s McKale Center the past two years at Washington State, and he’s hoping that energy permeates into a CU rotation desperately in need of a spark.

“They were saying Colorado has never won there,” Jakimovski said. “We’ve got a chance to make history. There were a lot of good teams in the past here. A lot of good players, great teams, but they never won there. We have an opportunity. If we have a good game and we stick together, we’ve got a chance. I believe in that. That’s how we did it at Washington State. We just stick together, we knew what they were doing on offense, and we kind of focus on their strengths. Force them to make tough shots.

“They’re getting energy from the crowd. They get going from the crowd. We have to stop that. One possession at a time, play for 40 minutes. We have an opportunity, that’s it.”

As Pac-12 rivals, CU went 0-12 at the McKale Center. The average margin of defeat in those losses was 15.6. Even excluding last year’s ridiculous 47-point defeat in Tucson — when the Buffs were missing eventual first-round NBA draft picks Tristan da Silva and Cody Williams — the margin of defeat in the other 11 losses still was 12.7.

To put it succinctly, the deck is stacked against the Buffs ending an historic run of futility.

CU brings a Big 12 mark of 0-7 to Arizona. The Buffs haven’t started 0-8 in league play since the 1992-93 season, and they’ve never lost eight games in a row under Boyle. The last time CU lost eight consecutive games was at the end of the 2008-09 season, when it lost its final 12 games.In order to avoid that dubious history, the Buffs will have to cool an Arizona team that has done a much better job of assimilating to the Big 12 than the Buffs. Arizona is coming off a 14-point win on Tuesday at Oklahoma State, where CU lost handily a week ago.

Arizona has two other Big 12 road wins to its credit, sweeping its two-game swing at West Virginia and Cincinnati in early January, and CU’s struggling defense will be challenged to slow a Wildcats attack that has posted a Big 12-best .484 field goal percentage in conference play.

“They’ve got a home court advantage as good as anybody in the league,” Boyle said. “The collective pride defensively, this (CU) team doesn’t have it. I know what I see on film. I know what I see in the games. It’s not there. Now, it’s there maybe in stretches. I thought the first 15 minutes of the (BYU) game, I thought we defended our tails off.”