The\u00a0Cowboys (18-6)\u00a0take on Air Force (11-11) at the AA tonight (6pm tip-off) in search\u00a0of their 19th win of the season. It is a critical home game that Wyoming must win to keep their name\u00a0in the NCAA bubble talk. With\u00a0conference play\u00a0rapidly heading down the front stretch, let’s take a look at a couple of stats that jumped out at me that have helped and hurt the Pokes so far this season.<\/p>\n
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+3.3 : Team Turover Margin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Cowboys lead the MW in turnover margin thanks to their stingy defense and the improved play of PG JayDee Luster who leads the conference in assist to turnover ratio at 2.4. This is a boost from last year where Wyoming was just under +1 for the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n .582 : Leonard Washington’s Shooting\u00a0%<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The USC transfer leads the league in FG percentage and is a full 8 percent ahead of\u00a0 the next best shooting rate held by New Mexico’s Drew Gordon. Washington has only attempted 196 shots though ranking\u00a03rd on the team behind Cruz and Martinez. It may be wise to get Washington more looks in the games ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n .339 : Team Three Point Shooting %<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Cowboys have improved\u00a0their three-point\u00a0shooting from last year (up to 33% from 28%) but rank 7th in the MW only ahead of Air Force. A lot of the teams offensive struggles at time can be attributed to shot selection. While I like the confidence of the shooters to keep shooting sometimes it would be better to get to the basket more than settling\u00a0for an outside shot. Once Shyatt\u00a0builds a squad with a better outside-inside balance, with the coaching staff’s commitment to team defense the sky really is the limit.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Cowboys (18-6)\u00a0take on Air Force (11-11) at the AA tonight (6pm tip-off) in search\u00a0of their 19th win of the season. It is a critical home game that Wyoming must win to keep their name\u00a0in the NCAA bubble talk. With\u00a0conference play\u00a0rapidly heading down the front stretch, let’s take a look at a couple of stats that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[70,198,221,222,219,151,220],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-tough","tag-jaydee-luster","tag-leonard-washington","tag-stats","tag-three-point-shooting","tag-turnovers","tag-wyoming-basketball","tag-wyoming-basketball-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}