There are a whole bunch of lost points for Colorado to recover from last year’s high-scoring squad.

But the Buffaloes lost the bulk of their rebounding total, too.

With opening night for the 15th season under head coach Tad Boyle closing in for the CU men’s basketball team, plenty of questions remain for a new-look team that makes its season debut on Monday at home against Eastern Washington (7 p.m., ESPN+).

Boyle said he’s still uncertain who will fill the starting lineup and the top spots off the bench, although he also indicated he hopes to play up to 10 players in the opener. On a team with an abundance of question marks, Boyle expects to base the bulk of his personnel decisions on defense and rebounding, as he has throughout his CU tenure.

“I think this is a team, that we’ve got a lot of different guys that can start a game,” Boyle said following Friday’s practice. “To me, the question is who is going to finish the game. To me, that’s what I’m battling and considering, the finishers and not the starters. Quite frankly, I don’t think it matters. We don’t have that one dude, when he’s on the floor his team wins. We’ve had that in the past. We don’t have that with this team. The strength of this team is our depth, our ability to play together. It’s going to be different guys on different nights.”

While Colorado lost nearly 89% of the production that led to the second-highest point total in program history (2,935) there is a confidence the versatile Buffs will score enough points to compete. Boyle might be a little less confident in filling the holes on the glass.

The Buffs weren’t a dominating rebounding team last season, but collectively they were solid, finishing with an average rebound margin of plus-6.7. However, after losing the top six rebounders to either the NBA draft or the transfer portal, the Buffs said farewell to 86.3% of the team’s individual rebounding total.

“Yet to be seen,” Boyle said when asked who will fill that void. “I’ve got the stats in practice, but I want to see when the lights come on. Who defends and who rebounds is who’ll play. We don’t have that one guy. But Elijah (Malone) has done a good job. Trevor Baskin has done a good job. Bangot (Dak) has done a good job. Sebastian Rancik has done a good job defensively on the boards, not offensively.

“When you talk about rebounding, you’ve got defensive rebounding, we should have five guys doing that. Offensive rebounding, we don’t have that guy. Elijah’s probably the closest one right now, and he’s not great. So we’ve got to become a better offensive-rebounding team. You’re going to have to find different ways to win games throughout however many games we play, and there’s going to be some nights we have to offensive rebound to win a game because we can’t make a shot. So if you can’t make a shot, well, get a second shot. The only way you do that is if you have guys crashing the glass and being hungry.”

CU’s two sophomore forwards, the 6-foot-11 Dak and 6-foot-8 Assane Diop, have the potential to become plus-rebounders, as does the Buffs’ three graduate transfers — Malone, who averaged 7.3 rebounds in a four-year NAIA career; Baskin, who averaged 8.3 rebounds at Division II Colorado Mesa last year; and Andrej Jakimovski, who averaged a career-high 5.6 rebounds last year at Washington State.

“I’m not going to lie. I don’t see no loss (on the glass),” Diop said. “I feel like we’ll fill up all the spots that we lost last year. This year, I feel like we have great rebounders, like last year. I feel like a lot of people think we’re not going to be good. I can’t wait to surprise them.”