The Colorado women’s soccer team put together one of its best all-around performances this year on the biggest stage of the season.

The biggest stage so far, at any rate. Thanks to that performance, the Buffaloes are moving onward and upward.

CU survived early pressure from Xavier to dominate the rest of the way, recording a 4-1 victory in an NCAA Tournament second-round match on Thursday in East Lansing, Michigan. The Buffs earned the third Sweet 16 trip in program history and the second in 14 seasons under head coach Danny Sanchez, but it’s the first time CU has advanced this far since Sanchez’s second season in Boulder in 2013.

The 12th-ranked, third-seeded Buffs will stay in East Lansing to play the winner of Thursday night’s second-round game between the second-seeded Michigan Stat

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