Jade Masogayo was riding a nice wave of success when she and her Colorado teammates went to Ames, Iowa, last Saturday.

So were the Buffaloes as a unit, as a matter of fact.

The momentum was abruptly halted in an 86-56 loss to Iowa State, but Masogayo and the Buffs are looking to bounce back on Wednesday. CU will visit Utah in yet another challenging Big 12 road game.

“Yeah, I think we’ll be fine,” Masogayo said. “Just get back in the gym, practice, do what we need to do and clean it up for Utah.”

A week ago, Masogayo had one of the best games of her career, with 19 points and a career-high 14 rebounds during a 56-47 win against Arizona. That made her performance at Iowa State somewhat shocking, as she finished scoreless on 0-for-3 shooting with only three rebounds.

“My perspective is nobody’s perfect,” she said. “No one’s gonna have a perfect game. These things happen. It’s basketball at the end of the day, and so I’m not really tripping about it. It’s really just the next play mentality for me.”

That perspective puts Masogayo’s growth on display. During her three-year college career — she played two years at Missouri State before coming to CU this year — she’s had a lot of good games. But, there was a time when a bad game would become two or three.

“I really just try and kind of let (a bad game) go because in the past, I used to really dwell on bad games like that, and that would really affect the next game,” she said. “I feel like I’ve really changed, and I’ve seen a lot of growth in that aspect of myself. So really I’m just focusing on the next game.”

The ISU game aside, Masogayo has established herself as one of the better post players in the Big 12. She’s averaging 13.1 points and 5.9 rebounds during conference play — posting better numbers now than she did in nonconference games (10.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg).

“It’s been really fun,” CU head coach JR Payne of watching Masogayo’s development. “Mostly because we’ve been telling her that since she got here, how good she could be or how good she is. It’s been really fun to see her really living up to that vision that everybody around her — it’s not just her coaches, her teammates feel the same way — it’s been really cool to see her living up to that vision and really starting to believe it herself.”

Masogayo, who averaged 8.4 points and 4.5 rebounds at Missouri State last year, now understands she’s one of the key players CU leans on every game, especially as it tries to bounce back from Saturday.

“A hundred percent, yeah,” she said.

“I feel like I have a certain role on this team, and there’s always that, ‘You just gotta do this. You gotta do this.’ Obviously, I just want to do good for this team and provide as much as I can. That’s always the goal of mine.”Very little went right for Masogayo or the Buffs in Ames, but they were playing well before that, so the message this week has been to flush it and move on.

“I’ve been working on Utah for the past two days,” Payne said. “So I think for me, it’s pour into your work and try to figure out, one, what’s your next opponent, what can you do against them? And two, what are the areas that we need to try to attack over the next couple days of prep?”

Poor execution on some of the basics — even a clean catch of a pass here and there — were among the issues against Iowa State. CU will have to be sharp, Payne said, against a Utah team that is a veteran and talented group.

The Utes have many of the same top players CU has seen the past couple of years when both teams were in the Pac 12 — such as Gianna Kneepkens, Kennady McQueen, Jenna Johnson and Ines Vieira — so Payne knows it won’t be easy in Salt Lake City.

Masogayo and her teammates, however, will look to turn the page and get back on track.

“I feel like we generally felt that way throughout the entire season, really,” Masogayo said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had that type of perspective (of dwelling on games). So it’s not really hard for us (to move forward), I would say.”