The frustrations continue to pile on for the Colorado men’s basketball team. But at least the program will soon experience a lift from the ongoing doldrums at the box office.

On Wednesday, CU announced the Feb. 24 home date against Kansas has sold out, which will at least breathe life into attendance figures that have been as sub-par as the results on the floor.

Ranked 11th in this week’s Associated Press Top 25, it will be the Jayhawks’ first visit to Boulder since Dec. 7, 2013, the “Askia Booker Game” when the former Buff guard’s long-range, running 3-pointer toppled sixth-ranked Kansas. After CU’s visit to KU on Feb. 11, the matchup in Boulder will be the 166th meeting between the teams, the most the Buffs have played against any opponent.

Other than the Booker game, the programs have met one other time since the Buffs’ previous stint in the Big 12, with the Jayhawks winning at home in a nonconference battle early in the 2019-20 season. Kansas was supposed to make a return trip to CU, but after the game was pushed ahead past the fan-less 2020-21 season, KU’s scheduled matchup at CU in December of 2021 ultimately was canceled due to COVID concerns.

It is CU’s first sellout since Feb. 26, 2022, when the Buffs defeated a second-ranked Arizona squad in Evan Battey’s final regular-season home game.

The sellout will provide a boost to attendance numbers that are down dramatically, as CU fell to 0-9 in the Big 12 with Tuesday’s home loss against Arizona State. Through 13 home games, the Buffs have averaged 6,657 fans per game.

Obviously the KU date and other upcoming Big 12 showdowns — CU hosts No. 6 Houston on Feb. 8 and Baylor two days before hosting Kansas — will move the attendance needle, but the current pace would surpass the 2022-23 average of 6,752 as the lowest in 15 seasons under Tad Boyle (not including the fan-less COVID season of 2020-21). The next-lowest mark was an average of 6,900 in Boyle’s first CU season of 2010-11.

Auto rollover

CU athletic director Rick George confirmed to BuffZone the automatic rollover clause in Boyle’s contract was renewed once again, with Boyle retaining what essentially has turned into a perpetual five-year contract.

Per the terms of the contract, either side of the agreement — Boyle and his representatives, and the university — can opt out of the automatic one-year extension if notice is given ahead of Dec. 31 each year.

This has become a matter of routine over Boyle’s 15-year tenure, as the rollover has never been declined by either side.

Boyle is the program’s all-time leader in wins with 307, but he is in the midst of what is shaping up to be by far his worst season at CU. Not only did Tuesday’s loss give the Buffs their first 0-9 conference start since 1986-87, but at 9-11 overall and with a brutal February schedule ahead, the Buffs will likely surpass the 16-18 mark in 2014-15 as the worst record of Boyle’s tenure.

The current nine-game losing streak also is Boyle’s longest at CU.

Notable

The Buffs were off on Wednesday and resume practice on Thursday ahead of a road date on Sunday at TCU (2 p.m., ESPN+). … Since drawing a season-high attendance 9,157 for the Big 12 opener against Iowa State on Dec. 30, CU’s attendance dropped in the next three games — 6,975 for West Virginia, 6,576 for Cincinnati, and 6,166 for a BYU game with a 9 p.m. tipoff. Tuesday’s attendance against ASU was up slightly at 6,189.