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Wyoming Cowboys
Wyoming Cowboys
	2023–24 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team
University	University of Wyoming
Head coach	Sundance Wicks (1st season)
Conference	Mountain West
Location	Laramie, Wyoming
Arena	Arena-Auditorium ; (Capacity: 11,612)
Nickname	Official: Cowboys Unofficial: Pokes
Colors	Brown and gold;
Uniforms
Pre-tournament Helms champions
	1934
NCAA tournament champions
	1943
NCAA tournament Final Four
	1943
NCAA tournament Elite Eight
	1941, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen
	1952, 1953, 1967, 1987
NCAA tournament round of 32
	1981, 1982, 1987, 2002
NCAA tournament appearances
	1941, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2015, 2022
Conference tournament champions
	1987, 1988, 2015
Conference regular season champions
	1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1967, 1969, 1981, 1982, 1986, 2001, 2002

The University of Wyoming men's basketball program, which competes in the Mountain West Conference, with the schools first recorded game dating back to 1905. Wyoming won the 1943 NCAA championship under Hall of Fame coach Everett Shelton and behind star guard Ken Sailors, who pioneered the jump shot that is now the standard in basketball. Wyoming has made a total of 16 appearances in the NCAA tournament. Since the Mountain West was formed in 1999, Wyoming has won two conference titles, including an outright championship in 2002. Prior to that, Wyoming won five championships in the Western Athletic Conference, eight championships in the Skyline Conference, and one championship in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

History

The Wyoming basketball program began in 1904 when a group known as the "Laramie Town Team" challenged a team from the university to a basketball game; Wyoming won that game by a score of 17–5.^[2] The team became a powerhouse in the 1930s under coach Willard "Dutch" Witte, who led the 1934 Cowboy team to a 26–3 record. Wyoming was retroactively named the 1934 national champion by the Helms Foundation. Witte coached a total of nine seasons in Laramie and compiled a 134–51 record.

After Witte stepped down in 1939, Everett Shelton took over the team and went on to become the winningest coach in Wyoming history in his 19 years in Laramie. Although Shelton went just 6–10 in his first season, his teams would win 20 or more games seven times during his career. In 1943, the Cowboys went 31–2 and won the NCAA tournament. That team was led by Ken Sailors, who scored 16 points in the championship game victory over Georgetown on his way to being named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. In addition, Sailors was named college basketball's Player of the Year in 1943 and again in 1946 after returning from fighting in World War II. In all, the Cowboys made eight NCAA tournament appearances under Shelton, though they only won one game aside from the three-game run in 1943.

After Shelton retired in 1959, Wyoming basketball lay dormant for some time. Including Shelton's last four campaigns as head coach, the Cowboys endured nine consecutive losing seasons from 1956 to 1964. Coach Bill Strannigan, who succeeded Shelton, had just six winning seasons in 14 years as head coach and made one NCAA Tournament appearance in 1967 in which the Cowboys were handed a lopsided loss at the hands of eventual national champion UCLA and its All-American center Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Again from 1971 through 1978, the Cowboys had one winning season, a 17–10 campaign under Don DeVoe in 1976–77.

In 1978, Jim Brandenburg became the Cowboys' head coach and the program experienced a resurgence. In his nine seasons, Wyoming did not have a single losing season and made four NCAA Tournament appearances. In 1981, the Cowboys were 24–6 and reached the second round of the NCAA tournament. In addition to being the Cowboys' first tournament appearance since 1967, it was their first 20-win season since 1952–53 and first NCAA tournament victory since 1952. After guiding the Cowboys to the Sweet 16 in 1987, however, Brandenburg left the Cowboys to become the coach at conference rival San Diego State.^[3] He was replaced by Benny Dees, who went 26–6 in his first year with the Cowboys and returned them to the NCAA tournament in 1988 where they lost in the first round to Loyola Marymount.

Larry Shyatt went 19–9 in 1997–98, his only season in Laramie before becoming the head coach at Clemson University. After his departure, Steve McClain took over the head coaching job and had three consecutive 20-win seasons from 2001 to 2003, including conference titles in 2001 and 2002 and an NCAA tournament appearance in 2002. On March 22, 2007, Wyoming hired former Portland State head coach Heath Schroyer to become its next head coach. Shyatt was hired yet again as Wyoming's head coach after the 2010–11 season ended due to the firing of Heath Schroyer.^[4] The 2010–11 team's top two scorers left the program^[5] afterwards, with Desmar Jackson and Amath M'Baye transferring to Southern Illinois University^[6] and the University of Oklahoma,^[7] respectively.

The Cowboys went 21–12 in Shyatt's first season, for their first 20–win season in 9 years.^[8] They made the College Basketball Invitational each of the next three seasons,^[9]^[10]^[11] making the quarterfinals in 2012 and 2013. In the 2014–15 season, the Cowboys finished with a record of 25–10, won the Mountain West Conference tournament over San Diego State 45–43, and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.^[12] Larry Nance Jr. was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 27th pick in the 2015 NBA draft, becoming Wyoming's first player selected in the draft since Theo Ratliff in 1995. On March 21, 2016, Shyatt announced his resignation from the head coaching job,^[13] and Allen Edwards was announced as the 21st head coach in program history.

In Edwards' first season, the Cowboys went 23–15 and won the CBI tournament, defeating Coastal Carolina in the championship.^[14] Edwards again won 20 games in his second season. In 2019, Justin James was drafted 40th overall by the Sacramento Kings, becoming the second Cowboy in the decade to be taken in the NBA draft.^[15] On December 9, 2019, the program retired Fennis Dembo's no. 34 jersey.^[16] Following two disappointing campaigns where the Cowboys failed to win 10 games each year, Edwards was let go as head coach.^[17] Jeff Linder was hired as the 22nd head coach in program history on March 17, 2020.^[18]

In Linder's first season with the Cowboys, he led the team to a 14–11 year despite inheriting a team with only 6 conference wins the two seasons prior. This included a 6–1 non-conference record highlighted by a road win against eventual Elite Eight participant Oregon State. The team's season ended in the Mountain West tournament quarterfinals 69–66 to eventual champion San Diego State.

Head coaching records


Coach	Tenure	Seasons	Record	Win Pct.
W. Yates	1904–1906	2	4–2	.667
Lt. Coburn	1906–1908	2	5–7	.417
Elmer Hoefer	1908–1909	1	3–3	.500
Harold I. Dean	1909–1912	3	9–13	.409
Leon Exelby	1912–1913	1	2–5	.286
Ralph Thacker	1913–1915	2	3–7	.300
John J. Corbett	1915–1924	9	39–41	.488
Stewart Clark	1924–1928	4	44–26	.629
George McLaren	1928–1930	2	29–12	.707
Willard Witte	1930–1939	9	135–52	.722
Everett Shelton	1939–1959	19	328–201	.620
Bill Strannigan	1959–1973	14	179–187	.489
George Radovich	1973–1976	3	24–55	.304
Don DeVoe	1976–1978	2	29–25	.537
Jim Brandenburg	1978–1987	9	176–97	.645
Benny Dees	1987–1993	6	104–77	.575
Joby Wright	1993–1997	4	53–60	.469
Larry Shyatt	1997–1998	1	19–9	.679
Steve McClain	1998–2007	9	157–115	.577
Heath Schroyer	2007–2011	4	49–68	.419
Larry Shyatt	2011–2016	5	98–69	.587
Allen Edwards	2016–2020	4	60–76	.441
Jeff Linder	2020–2024	4	63–59	.516
Totals	22 coaches	118 seasons	1,612–1,266	.560

Postseason

NCAA tournament results

The Cowboys have appeared in the NCAA tournament 16 times, with a combined record of 9–21. They were national champions in 1943.

Year	Seed	Round	Opponent	Result
1941		Elite Eight Regional 3rd Place	Arkansas Creighton	L 40–52 L 44–45
1943		Elite Eight Final Four Championship	Oklahoma Texas Georgetown	W 55–50 W 58–54 W 46–34
1947		Elite Eight Regional 3rd Place	Texas Oregon State	L 40–42 L 46–63
1948		Elite Eight Regional 3rd Place	Kansas State Washington	L 48–58 L 47–57
1949		Elite Eight Regional 3rd Place	#2 Oklahoma A&M Arkansas	L 39–40 L 48–61
1952		Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight	Oklahoma City Santa Clara	W 54–48 L 53–56
1953		Round of 22 Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place	Bye # 16 Santa Clara #14 Seattle	— L 52–67 L 64–80
1958		Round of 24	#18 Seattle	L 51–88
1967		Round of 23 Sweet Sixteen Regional 3rd Place	Bye #1 UCLA #10 Texas Western	— L 60–109 L 67–69
1981	5 W	Round of 48 Round of 32	(12) Howard (4) #19 Illinois	W 78–43 L 65–67
1982	8 W	Round of 48 Round of 32	(9) USC (1) #6 Georgetown	W 61–58 L 43–51
1987	12 W	Round of 64 Round of 32 Sweet Sixteen	(5) Virginia (4) #4UCLA (1) #1 UNLV	W 64–60 W 78–68 L 78–92
1988	7 W	Round of 64	(10) #15 Loyola Marymount	L 115–119
2002	11 W	Round of 64 Round of 32	(6) Gonzaga (3) #7 Arizona	W 73–66 L 60–68
2015	12 E	Round of 64	(5) #11 Northern Iowa	L 54–71
2022	12 E	First Four	(12) Indiana	L 58–66

NIT results

The Cowboys have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) eight times, with a combined record of 7–8.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1968	First Round	Villanova	L 66–77
1969	First Round	Army	L 49–51
1986	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship	Texas A&M Loyola Marymount Clemson Florida Ohio State	W 79–70 W 99–90 W 62–57 W 67–58 L 63–73
1991	First Round Second Round	Butler Colorado	W 63–61 L 75–83
1998	First Round	Gonzaga	L 55–69
1999	First Round Second Round	USC Oregon	W 81–77 L 72–93
2001	First Round	Pepperdine	L 69–72
2003	First Round Second Round	Eastern Washington North Carolina	W 78–71 L 74–90

CBI results

The Cowboys have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) five times, with a combined record of 7–5. They were champions in 2017.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2009	First Round	Northeastern	L 62–64
2012	First Round Quarterfinals	North Dakota State Washington State	W 76–75 L 41–61
2013	First Round Quarterfinals	Lehigh Western Michigan	W 67–66 L 67–75 ^OT
2014	First Round	Texas A&M	L 43–59
2017	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals–Game 1 Finals–Game 2 Finals–Game 3	Eastern Washington UMKC Utah Valley Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina	W 91–81 W 72–61 W 74–68 L 81–91 W 81–57 W 83–59

National Campus Basketball Tournament results

The Cowboys appeared in the only National Campus Basketball Tournament, with a record of 1–2.^[19]

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1951	Quarterfinals Semifinals 3rd Place Game	Duquesne Bradley Utah	W 78–61 L 63–77 L 52–55

Records vs. Mountain West opponents

As of March 11, 2022

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