The 2015–16 Wyoming Cowboys basketball teamThe university uses "Cowgirls" as its women's athletic nickname. represented the University of Wyoming during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Larry Shyatt in his sixth and final year, including his first tenure in 1998. Shyatt resigned at the end of the year to take a job in the NBA. They played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming. The Cowboys were a member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 14–18, 7–11 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for eighth place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to Utah State.

On March 21, head coach Larry Shyatt resigned.

Previous season The Cowboys finished the season 25–10, 11–7 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They defeated Utah State, Boise State and San Diego State to become champions of the Mountain West tournament. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they lost in the second round to Northern Iowa.

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Riley Grabau 2 G 6'2" 165 Senior Boulder, CO Graduated Charles Hankerson, Jr. 3 G 6'4" 230 Senior Miami, FL Graduated Derek Cooke, Jr. 11 F 6'9" 220 Senior Washington, D.C. Graduated Jack Bentz 13 G 6'1" 180 Senior Chagrins Falls, OH Graduated Larry Nance Jr. 22 F 6'8" 230 Senior Akron, OH Graduated/2015 NBA draft Tyrell Williams 44 F 6'8" 225 Freshman Miami, FL Transferred to Western Nebraska CC

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Hayden Dalton 20 F 6'8" 185 Sophomore Parker, CO Junior college transfer from Central Wyoming College Morris Marshall 25 G 6'4" 185 Junior Lake City, FL Junior college transfer from Santa Fe College

Incoming Recruits

2016 Recruiting Class

Roster

Statistics Source: Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Josh Adams 30 30 36.9 .441 .378 .827 5.5 4.2 1.5 0.6 24.7 Alexander Aka Gorski 31 10 18.8 .383 .370 .705 2.0 1.1 0.2 0.0 5.6 Jonathan Barnes 28 23 10.4 .462 – .474 1.7 0.2 0.1 0.2 1.9 Hayden Dalton 28 1 14.7 .438 .303 .786 3.3 1.0 0.3 0.5 3.8 Alan Herndon 31 30 28.5 .517 .304 .597 4.8 1.2 0.5 0.8 7.8 Justin James 30 3 16.4 .418 .358 .565 1.9 0.8 0.3 0.3 5.2 Jeremy Lieberman 31 22 20.9 .342 .351 .773 2.1 1.2 0.4 0.0 4.0 Morris Marshall 8 0 3.0 .286 .000 1.000 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 Jason McManamen 31 31 35.0 .459 .440 .755 3.0 1.5 0.4 0.1 14.4 Jordan Naughton 23 0 11.3 .800 – .488 1.9 0.0 0.2 0.3 3.0 Trey Washington III 26 5 18.9 .313 .231 .611 2.0 1.2 0.4 0.0 2.8

Schedule and results

!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Exhibition

!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West regular season

!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West tournament

References