The 2016–17 Wyoming Cowboys basketball teamThe university uses "Cowgirls" as its women's athletic nickname. represented the University of Wyoming during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Allen Edwards in his first year. They played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming as a member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 23–15, 8–10 in Mountain West play to finish in seventh place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to Air Force. They were invited to the College Basketball Invitational, where they defeated Eastern Washington, UMKC and Utah Valley to advance to the best-of-three finals series against Coastal Carolina. They defeated Coastal Carolina 2 games to 1 to become CBI champions. They become the second consecutive Mountain West team to win the CBI after Nevada in 2016.
Previous season The Cowboys 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.
Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Austin Conway 2 G 5'8" 175 RS freshman Aurora, CO Would play football at Wyoming Josh Adams 14 G 6'2" 190 Senior Parker, CO Graduated Trey Washington III 55 G 5'11" 185 RS sophomore Dallas, TX Transferred to Texas A&M–Commerce
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous school Nyaires Redding 0 G 6'2" 166 Junior Solon, OH Transferred from Washington State. Under NCAA transfer rules, Redding sat out the 2016–17 season. Had two years of eligibility remaining. Was a walk-on at Wyoming. Brodricks Jones 15 F 6'10" 220 Sophomore Los Angeles, CA Transferred from UTEP. Under NCAA transfer rules, Jones sat out the 2016–17 season. Had three years of eligibility remaining. Louis Adams 24 G 6'4" 185 Junior Chicago, IL Junior college transfer from Odessa College
Incoming recruits
2017 recruiting class
Roster
Statistics
Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG BPG SPG PPG Louis Adams 34 16 14.6 .434 .277 .756 2.6 1.0 0.2 0.4 7.6 Alexander Aka Gorski 33 15 21.5 .399 .344 .778 2.3 1.5 0.0 0.5 7.7 Sam Averbuck 6 0 5.3 .167 .000 1.000 0.3 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.7 Jonathan Barnes 15 5 5.4 .545 .000 .636 1.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.3 Hayden Dalton 38 3 27.0 .431 .347 .834 8.3 2.6 0.9 0.4 12.2 Alan Herndon 38 38 31.1 .466 .379 .629 6.0 1.3 1.9 0.6 11.1 Justin James 37 6 26.2 .462 .419 .762 5.0 2.2 0.5 0.8 16.0 Cody Kelley 34 1 12.6 .392 .385 .542 1.3 1.5 0.0 0.6 3.4 Jeremy Lieberman 37 37 22.6 .418 .293 .765 2.0 2.5 0.1 0.9 4.8 Morris Marshall 14 1 6.2 .318 .375 .778 1.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 1.7 Jason McManamen 38 38 31.9 .356 .331 .712 3.0 2.4 0.0 0.6 11.3 Andrew Moemeka 26 4 7.8 .667 .000 .500 2.5 0.2 0.4 0.5 1.7 Jordan Naughton 37 26 12.5 .602 .000 .554 2.8 0.2 0.5 0.1 4.4
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
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| CBI
References