Derin Saran paid an official visit to UW. He has been mentioned here before. 6'4 PG that played for our new Assistant Coach this past season at a prep school in North Carolina. Originally from Turkey

LARAMIE, Wyo. (May 24,2023) – Season Tickets for the 2023-24 season for Cowboy and Cowgirl basketball are now on sale. Season-ticket holders who are looking to renew their season tickets from last year and fans looking to purchase new season tickets are now able to buy tickets through the University of Wyoming Athletics Ticket Office.



How to Order Tickets
Current UW season-ticket holders may login to their online account and renew by Clicking Here. New season-ticket buyers may go to www.GoWyo.com/tickets

Fans who have questions regarding UW Athletic ticketing may also: email tickets@uwyo.edu; call 307-766-7220; or stop by the UW Athletics Ticket Office on the west side of the Arena-Auditorium located on Willett Drive.



Ticket Pricing
With season-ticket prices as low as $250 for Cowboy games and $130 for Cowgirl games for adults, Purchasing season tickets for the 2023-24 season will save fans a considerable amount versus purchasing single-game tickets.

The schedules for Cowboy and Cowgirl basketball will be released at a later date.

Just curious on what this will look like especially the loge suites.

I shared my thoughts.

Feel free to share you thoughts on each of the Cowboy positions.

Laramie, Wyo. (May 2, 2023) -- The NCAA released the most recent Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) data on Tuesday, and University of Wyoming Athletics teams once again achieved exceptional APR scores.



The most recent Division I APR data is part of the annual NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program. University of Wyoming Athletics teams received outstanding scores both for the most recent single year measured (2021-22) and for the most recent four-year period that includes the 2018-19 through 2021-22 academic years.



Nine UW Teams Earn Perfect Single-Year APR Scores of 1,000

The APR is the NCAA’s annual benchmark of academic achievement for Division I programs. A perfect score is 1,000. Nine of Wyoming’s 15 Cowboy and Cowgirl teams recorded perfect single-year APR scores of 1,000, including: men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s soccer, women’s tennis, women’s track and field and women’s volleyball. For the purposes of the NCAA Division I APR calculations, indoor and outdoor track teams are combined into one team.



All Wyoming Teams Far Exceed NCAA Benchmark Score of 930

All of the University of Wyoming’s athletics teams once again far exceeded the 930 minimum four-year average benchmark set by the NCAA to qualify for competition at Division I Championships.



“Our student-athletes continue to excel academically, and we are extremely proud of their achievements,” said Tom Burman, University of Wyoming Athletics Director. “While these achievements begin and end with our student-athletes, there are a lot of other people who contribute to this success. Our Office of Academic Support in athletics is here to serve our student-athletes and help them navigate their academic pursuits. Our coaching staffs do an excellent job in both recruiting outstanding student-athletes and helping them balance their athletic and academic demands. And we are extremely grateful to the UW faculty for all they do in helping our student-athletes achieve their academic goals.”



Five Teams Achieve Perfect Multiyear Scores of 1,000

A total of five Wyoming Athletics teams also recorded a perfect multiyear score of 1,000 for the four-year period from 2018-19 through 2021-22. Those five teams are: women’s cross country, men’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s track and field and women’s volleyball.



For the 11th consecutive year, the Wyoming men’s golf team recorded a perfect multiyear score of 1,000. It was the third consecutive reporting period that both women’s cross country and men’s cross country achieved a perfect multiyear score of 1,000 and the women’s track and field and women’s volleyball teams earned perfect multi-year scores for the second consecutive reporting period.



Following closely behind the five UW programs that recorded perfect multiyear APR scores of 1,000 are all of Wyoming’s 10 other programs that posted multiyear scores well over the 930 benchmark. Those sports are: women’s basketball (996), women’s soccer (996), women’s golf (993), men’s track and field (993), women’s tennis (992), women’s swimming and diving (991), men’s swimming and diving (978), football (974), wrestling (971), and men’s basketball (959).



This year’s NCAA release does not include penalties, loss of access to postseason competition or public recognition of high-achieving teams as those elements of the NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program remain suspended through spring 2023. Therefore, teams with APRs below 930 will not be subject to penalties or loss of access to postseason competition.



How the APR is Calculated

The APR scores are based on two factors: the retention rate of scholarship student-athletes and the academic eligibility of scholarship student-athletes.



The APR is calculated as follows:

•Each student-athlete receiving athletically-related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.



•A team’s total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s Academic Progress Rate.



•In addition to a team’s current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability.



•Teams must earn a four-year average APR of 930 to compete in NCAA Division I Championships.



The NCAA’s APR data calculation was first implemented in the 2003-04 academic year.

Im not a fan of this time of year. Nothing going with UW sports, Im not a big baseball or NBA fan. Thank God for Golf and Fishing! Not that I want the summer rushing by, but Im ready for Football season!!

Not sure if he’s eligible for the coming season or not.

and signed with Duke today, Loyalty. LOL

“Ride rough-shod“over the rodeo coach, why can’t he “rein-in” the football coach?

Rodeo Coach resigns

Go Pokes

Going to be a good trip. Going to head to Buffalo to catch the MNF game between Bills and Broncos on the 13th, then head to Myrtle Beach for Pokes basketball the rest of the week.! GO POKES

Laramie, Wyo. (May 12, 2023) -- The University of Wyoming Athletics Department will honor the most recent group of student-athlete graduates on Friday, May 12 at its Spring Stole Ceremony. The by-invitation event will be held for the graduates, their families and friends at the UniWyo Federal Credit Union Sports Complex, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.



A total of 100 Cowboy and Cowgirl student-athletes are scheduled to graduate, with either their undergraduate or graduate degrees.



All 17 of Wyoming’s NCAA-sanctioned sports, along with members of UW’s Spirit Team and Rodeo team and a group of UW Athletics’ graduate assistants will be represented in this spring’s group of graduates.



University of Wyoming Director of Athletics Tom Burman will be addressing the graduates on Friday, as will UW Assistant A.D. for Academic Services Mattison Maisel. Cameron Murphy, a member of the men’s swimming and diving team and this past year’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) President, will speak on behalf of this year’s student-athlete graduates.



“We are extremely proud to honor our most recent graduating student-athletes with this stole ceremony,” said Burman. “This is a special time of year for these young men and women as they reach their goal of achieving a college degree. It is rewarding to share in this celebration with them and their families.



“In addition to the large number of student-athletes receiving their bachelor’s degrees this weekend, many of our student-athletes who received extra years of eligibility due to COVID interrupting their college careers took advantage of that extra time to pursue graduate degrees. You will see several members of this graduating class of student-athletes receiving their graduate degrees this weekend. We as an athletics department are extremely proud of all our student-athletes’ academic accomplishments in addition to their athletic accomplishments. We wish them all the best in their futures and hope they will return often to the University of Wyoming and continue to be part of our athletics program as alumni.”



The tradition of presenting UW student-athlete graduates with graduation stoles at a special reception began with the spring semester of 2014 and has been held every semester since. The graduation stoles are provided to wear along with the graduation stole from each student-athlete’s college during graduation.



The UW Athletics’ graduation stole is white with the familiar Steamboat Bucking Horse and Rider emblem on the right-hand side of the stole and a “W Club” emblem on the left. Each graduating student-athlete will also receive a free “W Club” membership for the coming year. The “W Club” is the official organization for former Cowboy and Cowgirl student-athletes and coaches.



The 2023 spring commencement ceremonies are scheduled for Saturday, May 13. Three ceremonies for various colleges will take place in the Arena-Auditorium at 8:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. The College of Law ceremony will take place in the Buchanan Center for Performing Arts at 10 a.m. Detailed information on the 2023 University of Wyoming commencement ceremonies may be found at: http://www.uwyo.edu/commencement/

LARAMIE, Wyo. (May 12,2023) – Local youth will have a chance to learn from the best of the best when the University of Wyoming men's basketball team hosts its 2023 summer camps. The Cowboys will provide instruction at two separate camps in June.

Head coach Jeff Linder along with his staff and Cowboy players will host their overnight camp on June 11-14 for boys' grades 7-12, commuter campers both boys and girls can also participate in grades K-12. The skills camp will be held June 5-7 running from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for all boys and girls in grades K-12. All camps will be held in the Arena-Auditorium, UniWyo Sports Complex and War Memorial Fieldhouse in Laramie.


More information, including registration forms, can be found online at CowboyBasketballCamps.com or via email at uwmbb@uwyo.edu. Registration must be completed online.


Cowboy Basketball Camps are open to any and all entrants, limited only by number, age, grade level, and/or gender.

Is there a date when a player has to commit to team, coming out of the portal, to be able to play this fall?

In laymen's terms, when does this dang thing end for eligibility to play this fall?

Laramie, Wyo. (May 8, 2023) -- The next time the Wyoming Cowboys take the field , they will be back on their home turf at Jonah Field at War Memorial Stadium, hosting Texas Tech on a new FieldTurf Vertex CORE surface on Sept. 2, 2023. Wyoming's new field will maintain its iconic Mountain design in the end zones.



The installation of the Vertex CORE system, a leading synthetic turf solution, represents War Memorial Stadium’s second consecutive FieldTurf surface, following an initial collaboration in 2013. The success of the first installation led to Wyoming choosing FieldTurf, a Tarkett Sports company, for its indoor practice facility in 2018. Sitting at an elevation of 7,220 feet, the Cowboys boast the country’s highest NCAA Division I football stadium, where they have won 66 percent of their home games in the stadium’s history.



The stadium’s new Vertex CORE was designed to deliver the perfect combination of performance and beauty. Equipped with two legendary FieldTurf fibers, the Classic HD slit-film fiber and the CORE monofilament super fiber, the system delivers leading agility, durability, and aesthetics. Vertex CORE demonstrates FieldTurf’s unwavering dedication to quality and strives to Change The Game.



“We are very proud of the branding opportunity that Jonah Field has provided us over the last decade,” said Tom Burman, University of Wyoming Director of Athletics. “We are looking forward to seeing the upgraded field installed this summer. Our relationship with FieldTurf has been a great partnership through the years, and we are pleased to continue that relationship with this new field in War Memorial Stadium.”



“We thank the University of Wyoming for once again choosing us to replace the turf at War Memorial Stadium and are excited to install our industry-leading Vertex CORE product,” said Jed Easterbrook, Tarkett Sports Regional Vice President, Rocky Mountains. “The Cowboys have been a great partner for Tarkett Sports surfacing with Beynon Indoor Track, Renner Tennis, and FieldTurf in their sports facilities.”



Last season, playing in the NCAA Mountain West Conference, with the country’s fourth least experienced roster, Wyoming showed its tenacity and grit by finishing second in the Mountain Division and enjoying its fifth bowl-game appearance in the last seven seasons.



“When we were looking to upgrade our field, FieldTurf once again provided us with the top-of-the-line product that we were looking for,” said Craig Bohl, University of Wyoming Head Coach. “It is important to our program to have a high-quality field to play on and practice on. Having FieldTurf in both War Memorial Stadium and in our Indoor Practice Facility offers us that quality. We appreciate the product and the service that FieldTurf provides us.”



In addition to the Cowboys, other Mountain West schools that play and/or practice on FieldTurf include Boise State University, United States Air Force Academy, University of New Mexico, Utah State University and San Diego University.



Other top Division-I NCAA programs that play on FieldTurf include Illinois, Kansas State, Arizona, Washington State, Oregon State, West Virginia, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Texas, Iowa, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Louisville, to name a few.




“One of the greatest endorsements our clients can provide is when they decide to continue the relationship with us for new projects and installations,” said Eric Daliere, President – Tarkett North America & Tarkett Sports. “We’re extremely proud to be part of the Cowboys’ success story and thank the team and school for their trust.”



In addition to the FieldTurf installation at Wyoming and its presence across the Mountain West conference, Tarkett Sports is firmly rooted in the region with offices in Denver and Salt Lake City. By consistently having team members on the ground, FieldTurf is able to better engage and serve current and future clients alike.

PROVEN SAFETY
Vertex CORE is designed using FieldTurf’s heavyweight 3-layer infill technology, which has showcased a significantly lower incidence of injuries per research by Michael C. Meyers, a Professor in the Department of Sport Science and Physical Education at Idaho State University.

About FieldTurf
FieldTurf is a world leader in artificial turf with over 25,000 installations worldwide. Trusted at every level, FieldTurf is at the surface of elite football programs across the country.

In the NFL, FieldTurf is the trusted choice of 11 teams. The Falcons, Giants, Jets, Lions, Panthers, Patriots, and Seahawks both play and practice on FieldTurf while the Buccaneers, Eagles, Packers, Steelers, practice on FieldTurf.

In the NCAA, over 1500 programs trust FieldTurf of which includes powerhouse football programs Michigan, Notre Dame, Utah and Oregon to name a few.

FieldTurf is a part of Tarkett Sports, a world leader in athletic surfacing, offering a comprehensive portfolio of sports flooring solutions through its brands: FieldTurf, FieldTurf Landscape, Beynon Sports, Renner Sports, GrassMaster, Tarkett Sports Indoor and Tarkett Sports Construction. With a wide range of products including artificial, hybrid and residential turf, running tracks, tennis courts and indoor athletic surfaces, the Tarkett Sports family offers the ultimate surface experience.

Hopefully he quickly lands on another team. There was some draft and udfa talk by the Bills to find a back up center. I wonder if...

first time in program history!

Associate Head Coach- Head Freshmen Coach


Go Pokes

I mentioned in the spring game thread that a kid from LHS had a good spring game. There was an article about him in today's Wyoming Trib.

Link

Cook is ranked in the Top 150 (143) of 247’s final Top 150 for the Class of 2023.


Top 150

LARAMIE, Wyo. (May 2,2023) – University of Wyoming head men’s basketball coach Jeff Linder announced a portion of the Cowboy basketball recruiting class on Tuesday. The group of eight newcomers features five transfers and three freshmen. Wyoming has two scholarships remaining for next season.



The signing class features transfers from two NCAA-Division I programs, an All-American from Division II and an NAIA National Player of the Year. The freshman class features two players from Missouri and one from Florida.



“It has been a very productive two months and really liking where we are at right now with this group of signees alongside our returners that have been working hard in the weight room and on the court this offseason thus far,” UW head coach Jeff Linder said. “I’m excited about this class and for us to go out and sign and good mixture of transfer and freshmen.”

Probably no one cares, but here it is, Jake Kyman to Eadtern Washington.

Wyoming that he would come back next year if he could get $300,000 in NIL money.

Could this be true? And if so, wonder if Gonzaga will come up with a deal like that?

This whole transfer portal and NIL has ruined college sports for me.

Undrafted Free Agent