The 2024–25 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cowboys, led by Sundance Wicks in his first season as head coach, played their home games for the 43rd season at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming. They participated in the Mountain West Conference for the 26th season.
Previous season The Cowboys finished the 2023–24 season 15–17, 8–10 in Mountain West play to finish in eighth place. They lost to Fresno State in the first round of the Mountain West tournament.
Offseason Head coach Jeff Linder resigned to join Texas Tech as an assistant coach. Assistant coach Ken DeWeese left the program to join the Colorado State coaching staff, and assistant coach Bryston Williams left the program to join the Drake coaching staff.
Former Wyoming assistant Sundance Wicks was hired as head coach after one season as head coach at Green Bay. Pat Monaghan and Nic Reynolds were hired as assistant coaches on Wicks' staff, also from Green Bay. Nick Whitmore and Shaun Vandiver were retained from Linder's staff.
Departures The Cowboys had 6 players enter the transfer portal at the conclusion of the 2023–24 season. They also had three players graduate and exhaust their eligibility.
Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Brendan Wenzel 1 G 6'7" 208 SR San Antonio, Texas Transferred to TCU Sam Griffin 3 G 6'3" 188 SR Miami, Florida Graduated Cam Manyawu 5 F 6'9" 228 FR Kansas City, Missouri Transferred to Drake Jonas Sirtautas 7 F 6'10" 185 FR Kaunas, Lithuania Transferred to Radford Kael Combs 11 G 6'4" 190 FR Nixa, Missouri Transferred to Drake Akuel Kot 13 G 6'2" 167 SR Amarillo, Texas Graduated Kenny Foster 22 G 6'5" 193 SR Aurora, Colorado Graduated Jacob Theodosiou 24 G 6'4" 188 FR Waterloo, Canada Transferred to Loyola (MD) Mason Walters 33 F 6'9" 221 GS Jamestown, North Dakota Graduated Caden Powell 44 F 6'10" 220 SO Waco, Texas Transferred to Rice
Incoming transfers Wyoming brought in 9 players via the transfer portal.
Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School A.J. Wills 3 G 6'2" 160 SO Richmond, Virginia Holy Cross Obi Agbim 5 G 6'3" 180 SR Aurora, Colorado Fort Lewis College Matija Belic 7 F 6'7" 205 JR Belgrade, Serbia UC Santa Barbara Cole Henry 8 F 6'9" 240 GS Oskaloosa, Iowa Northern Iowa Abou Magassa 9 F 6'7" 215 RFR Morsang-sur-Orge, France Saint Louis Dontaie Allen 11 G 6'6" 210 SR Falmouth, Kentucky Western Kentucky Scottie Ebube 12 C 6'10" 275 JR Mundelein, Illinois Southern Illinois Jordan Nesbitt 16 G 6'6" 210 SR St. Louis, Missouri Hampton Touko Tainamo 25 F 6'9" 220 SR Helsinki, Finland Denver
2024 recruiting class
Preseason
Mountain West Preseason Poll
Mountain West Preseason 1.Boise State276 (19) 2.New Mexico233 (1) 3.Nevada219 (1) 4.San Diego State213 (2) 5.UNLV178 (2) 6.Utah State169 (1) 7.Colorado State160 8.San Jose State88 9.Wyoming67 10.Fresno State62 11.Air Force51Reference: (#) first-place votes
Pre-Season All-Mountain West Team Player School Alvaro CardenasBoise State Nique CliffordColorado State Nick DavidsonNevada Tyson DegenhartBoise State Donovan DentNew Mexico Nelly Junior JosephNew Mexico Ian MartinezUtah State O'Mar StanleyBoise State Dedan Thomas Jr.UNLV Reese WatersSan Diego StateReference: Player of the Year: Tyson Degenhart, Boise State Newcomer of the Year: Kobe Sanders, Nevada Freshman of the Year: Pharaoh Compton, San Diego State
Roster
Schedule and results
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