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Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Postgame Notes Following a 56-33 win over Colorado on November 22, 2014, in Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyo. Team Notes: • Wyoming moves to 43-36 in the all-time series with Colorado, including 27-11 in Laramie. The Pokes have won five straight in Laramie. • The 56-33 win by UW was the largest in the series since the Pokes won 100-68 in 1987. • Colorado’s 33 points were the fewest for a Wyoming opponent since the Cowboys held Air Force to 29 points on Feb. 20, 1982, the first game in the Arena-Auditorium. • Saturday’s attendance was 9,066. It was the largest crowd since 9,573 against #15/14 San Diego State in 2013. • The Cowboys are now 26-3 under head coach Larry Shyatt during the month of November, including 22-0 in the Arena-Auditorium. • Wyoming shot 52.4 (22-of-42) percent from the field. Wyoming has shot over 50 percent from the field in all three games this season. • Wyoming dished out a season-high 22 assists. UW has 21 or more assists in ever game this season. Wyoming recorded an assist on all 22 made field goals during the game. • Wyoming recorded 13 fouls on the night. It was the second-lowest total of the season. UW ranked 3rd in the MW and 26th in the nation in fouls per game last year. • Wyoming recorded nine steals on the afternoon. It was a season-high. • The Pokes scored 22 points off turnovers. It was a season-high and trhe most since 27 against Western State last season. • Colorado scored nine points in the second half. It was the fewest allowed in a half since San Jose State scored nine in the second half on Feb. 15, 2014. UW also limited #15/14 San Diego State to nine points in the first half on Jan. 19, 2013. The Buffs were 2-of-20 from the field for 10 percent in the second half. • UW recorded five blocks on the afternoon, a season-high. • CU’s 24 points in the first half were a season low for a Wyoming opponent. • Wyoming used the starting lineup of senior guard Riley Grabau, senior forward Derek Cooke Jr., junior guard Josh Adams, senior guard Charles Hankerson Jr. and senior forward Larry Nance. Wyoming is 3-0 when using that starting lineup this season. • 11 of 11 available Cowboys played, including eight for 10 or more minutes Individual Notes: • Senior forward Larry Nance Jr. passed Reggie Slater for fifth on the all-time blocks list after recoding four against CU. He has 103 in his career. • Senior guard Riley Grabau now has 113 made three pointers in his career. He is three behind Luke Martinez for tenth all-time. • Nance recorded 10 points for UW for his 41st game in double figures. • Nance was disruptive defensively with a season-high four blocks and three steals. • Senior guard Charles Hankerson Jr. recorded 10 points for UW for his third straight game in double-figures and fifth of his career. • Junior guard Josh Adams led all scorers with 14 points for his 34th game in double-figures in his career. • Adams also dished out a season-high seven assists.
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Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Postgame Quotes Wyoming Head Coach Larry Shyatt Opening statement….. “That was huge. We’ve been hoping for two years we could get 8-9 thousand people back in here and have them have some fun. The next goal was to get them here to watch us and not our opponent. We need them every night now. Pretty tough facility. It adds to your defense and adds to your passion. Kudos to our fans that showed up tonight. We really appreciate that. Can’t say enough about these guys. At halftime we talked about defense, rhythm and using physicality. We really didn’t make a whole lot of offensive adjustments, except we knew they would go to some trapping at some point so spacing was important. A lot of things went right, but the most impressive thing was a defensive efficiency rating of 0.3. That means every time they touched the ball they made 0.3 points. That is incredible because I have the utmost respect for their players and coaches, but also how they play. I thought our guys did a great job of changing up their rhythm.” On the start of the second half…. “You can’t have runs in basketball unless you get stops. You want to go on an 8-0 or 10-0 run, that side is just as important. I thought every guy we put in the game had their skull cap on from a defensive standpoint. And then it got a little easier when we spread it out a little, because we could space the floor.” On the physicality of the offense… “22 assists on 22 baskets is pretty good against a team who played two very good ball clubs, Auburn and Drexel, and was holding opponents to something like 26 percent from the field and 21 percent from three. Not to take anything away from our offense, but you throw some 33s on a score sheet this season and you are going to get some wins. Colorado Head Coach Tad Boyle Opening statement... “First of all, my hats goes off to Wyoming tonight. It wasn’t even close. It was an old-fashion butt whipping. They whipped us in every conceivable way. Our guys got down because we couldn’t make a shot and it bled over to our defense. We gave up 57 percent in the second half and 52 percent for the game, while we made two shots in the second half. They were better than us tonight in every way. I can say we were bad, but Wyoming had a lot to do with that. For us to beat good teams, we are going to have to play better than we did tonight. It’s embarrassing.” On the start to the second half… “When they start the second half like that, you know teams in their own building and the crowd was great, you knew they were going to make a run. They were going to make a couple threes. They shot the ball well from three. We were late all night getting to their guys. We wanted to pressure the ball and get into their guys a little bit. You let them move and run their offense side-to-side and you are eventually going to break down and we did. Mentally we weren’t very tough tonight. You don’t get beat like that on the road if you are mentally tough.” On if he was pleased going into halftime… “Yes, with the way we shot the ball, but we couldn’t make a pass. They are such a better passing team than we are. I mean they had 22 assists and eight turnovers and we had six assists and 12 turnovers. Passing was our Achilles’ heel last year as a team and it reared its head today. We want to try and do everything off the dribble and you can’t do that. You have to be able to move the ball.”
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Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Postgame Quotes Wyoming Head Coach Larry Shyatt Opening statement….. “That was huge. We’ve been hoping for two years we could get 8-9 thousand people back in here and have them have some fun. The next goal was to get them here to watch us and not our opponent. We need them every night now. Pretty tough facility. It adds to your defense and adds to your passion. Kudos to our fans that showed up tonight. We really appreciate that. Can’t say enough about these guys. At halftime we talked about defense, rhythm and using physicality. We really didn’t make a whole lot of offensive adjustments, except we knew they would go to some trapping at some point so spacing was important. A lot of things went right, but the most impressive thing was a defensive efficiency rating of 0.3. That means every time they touched the ball they made 0.3 points. That is incredible because I have the utmost respect for their players and coaches, but also how they play. I thought our guys did a great job of changing up their rhythm.” On the start of the second half…. “You can’t have runs in basketball unless you get stops. You want to go on an 8-0 or 10-0 run, that side is just as important. I thought every guy we put in the game had their skull cap on from a defensive standpoint. And then it got a little easier when we spread it out a little, because we could space the floor.” On the physicality of the offense… “22 assists on 22 baskets is pretty good against a team who played two very good ball clubs, Auburn and Drexel, and was holding opponents to something like 26 percent from the field and 21 percent from three. Not to take anything away from our offense, but you throw some 33s on a score sheet this season and you are going to get some wins. Colorado Head Coach Tad Boyle Opening statement... “First of all, my hats goes off to Wyoming tonight. It wasn’t even close. It was an old-fashion butt whipping. They whipped us in every conceivable way. Our guys got down because we couldn’t make a shot and it bled over to our defense. We gave up 57 percent in the second half and 52 percent for the game, while we made two shots in the second half. They were better than us tonight in every way. I can say we were bad, but Wyoming had a lot to do with that. For us to beat good teams, we are going to have to play better than we did tonight. It’s embarrassing.” On the start to the second half… “When they start the second half like that, you know teams in their own building and the crowd was great, you knew they were going to make a run. They were going to make a couple threes. They shot the ball well from three. We were late all night getting to their guys. We wanted to pressure the ball and get into their guys a little bit. You let them move and run their offense side-to-side and you are eventually going to break down and we did. Mentally we weren’t very tough tonight. You don’t get beat like that on the road if you are mentally tough.” On if he was pleased going into halftime… “Yes, with the way we shot the ball, but we couldn’t make a pass. They are such a better passing team than we are. I mean they had 22 assists and eight turnovers and we had six assists and 12 turnovers. Passing was our Achilles’ heel last year as a team and it reared its head today. We want to try and do everything off the dribble and you can’t do that. You have to be able to move the ball.”
