Like any pure shooter, Bianca Smith knows what it takes to snap a cold spell: You station yourself in the gym and shoot shots by the hundreds, or by the thousands, if that's what's required.

Smith also knows what it takes to maintain a hot hand: The above prescription doesn't change.

So Monday morning, with Saturday night's record-tying performance at Missouri still warm to the touch and fresh in her memory, Smith was back in the University of Colorado's Coors Events Center launching three-pointer after three-pointer after three-pointer.

"I just want to continue doing what I'm doing . . . and I plan on that happening," she said. "I'll put up as many shots as it takes."

Smith is every coach's dream, and CU's Kathy McConnell-Miller already says when Smith's eligibility is done (she's a junior), there will be a place on the Buffaloes women's staff for her.

"It's great when your best player is your hardest worker, and vice versa," said McConnell-Miller. "She's immersed in the game; she knows it, knows everything about it."

But when CU's season started, Smith didn't know how she might adjust to a change of position. McConnell-Miller was asking her to move from shooting guard to power forward, and the transition initially didn't sit well with the 5-foot-9 Smith, who wasn't accustomed to the position and wasn't sure what McConnell-Miller expected of her.

A heart-to-heart between player and coach took care of that.

"I called her in and told her I didn't need her to post up, I needed her to stretch the defense," McConnell-Miller recalled. "The turning point was when she said, 'If that's what Coach wants, that's what I'll do.'

"When we got that settled, everything was OK. She's a pleaser; she wants to do whatever makes the staff happy."

Canning a school-record tying seven three-pointers in Saturday night's 61-56 win at Missouri - the Buffaloes' first Big 12 Conference win of the season - made everyone happy.

Smith, a junior, finished with 25 points - one shy of her career best. In her two most recent games, she is 12-of-19 (63 percent) from behind the three-point arc, a huge improvement from the 12-for-49 slump she suffered through to begin the season.

Seems much of that inaccuracy had to do with her position change.

"At the beginning of the season, it was my biggest issue," she said. "I had played power forward in high school, but it was against girls who were 5-10, 5-11. It wasn't against people like (Oklahoma's 6-4) Ashley Paris.

"That's a whole different thing altogether."

Smith and the Buffs, who entertain Texas Tech on Wednesday at the Events Center (7 p.m., FSN Rocky Mountain), opened conference play 0-4. Their first four opponents - Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas and Oklahoma - all were nationally ranked, prompting some (not the Buffs, though) to count four losses before any of the games tipped off.

"We knew that, but we went into the conference expecting to win those four," Smith said. "I don't care who we were playing; we didn't expect to concede anything.

"We're still a really young team, and we learned a lot through those first four. We know we've got to play all 40 minutes and stay positive, no matter what."