2015 NCAA Tourney Round of 64 Wyo vs UNI

[Wyo2dal]

Was one hell of a season and they never gave up. [emoji35] about some of the calls but not an excuse. Adams wasn't there for us if he had been with the Hankerson performance we win this.

They didn't out shoot by much but we failed to take care of the ball and we shot like pure shit from the line and they shot 90%

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

Now is a good time to crawl under the covers/a rock, or just go do something positive with the rest of your day. Loved this Cowboy team. Great year fellas!!! Thanks so much for your efforts.

 

[joshvanklomp]

It's too bad that one of the few games we got production out of Cooke and Hankerson, we didn't get the same out of Nance and Adams until later in the game.

 

[joshvanklomp]

Good to see the young guys get some play time.

 

[Cuttslam]

I'm sorry but UNI is not a 5 seed. They got hosed on that, definitely a 3 seed. NCAA always fuck the little guys.

 

[LanderPoke]

Great season, Cowboys! It's been a fun year.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

In year 3 of Ben Jacobson's tenure, UNI made the NCAA. In year 4, they went to the sweet 16. They then went 4 years of CIT, NIT, or no post season play before this year.

Shyatt has gone CBI, CBI, CBI, NCAA. We will take a step back just as UNI did, but the foundation is being built. We are damn lucky to have Shyatt. Kudos to him and these young men.

Building a program takes time and I think Shyatt has us on the right track.

Great season! It has been so nice to be excited about something WYO (revenue) sports related.

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

I'm sorry but UNI is not a 5 seed. They got hosed on that, definitely a 3 seed. NCAA always fuck the little guys.

They sure looked like a 3 seed to me. Hats off to them.

 

[kansasCowboy]

Now is a good time to crawl under the covers/a rock, or just go do something positive with the rest of your day. Loved this Cowboy team. Great year fellas!!! Thanks so much for your efforts.

Nothing to be ashamed of here. I've loved the ride this year! Here's to more. See you all for football! Hoping Bohl has us going to a bowl game this year. We've got the coaches, we just need to players. It's coming.

 

[Panther-state]

Just wanted to say good game from the Cowboys. Every comparison between these two teams was well deserved, the Cowboys never ever quit and really had UNI fans sweating it out even more with that impressive run by Nance. He is the real deal and deserves every bit of coverage that Tuttle does.

The athleticism with your team is very obvious and very impressive. If you guys had a bit more depth and production on the bench you guys would be right where this Panther team was. I'll be looking for Adams name all over ESPN next season and Nance's in the NBA. You guys were 100% right about Adams being the most athletic player on the court, even though the production didn't stay with him all game long.

These teams need to play each other regularly. That game never felt like a blowout, Panthers had to fight for every single point today.

 

[CowboyNV]

Now is a good time to crawl under the covers/a rock, or just go do something positive with the rest of your day. Loved this Cowboy team. Great year fellas!!! Thanks so much for your efforts.

Nothing to be ashamed of here. I've loved the ride this year! Here's to more. See you all for football! Hoping Bohl has us going to a bowl game this year. We've got the coaches, we just need to players. It's coming.

+1 I'm going to miss these seniors. It's been a lot of fun. Now on to spring ball. Go Cowboys.

 

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

Just wanted to say good game from the Cowboys. Every comparison between these two teams was well deserved, the Cowboys never ever quit and really had UNI fans sweating it out even more with that impressive run by Nance. He is the real deal and deserves every bit of coverage that Tuttle does.

The athleticism with your team is very obvious and very impressive. If you guys had a bit more depth and production on the bench you guys would be right where this Panther team was. I'll be looking for Adams name all over ESPN next season and Nance's in the NBA. You guys were 100% right about Adams being the most athletic player on the court, even though the production didn't stay with him all game long.

These teams need to play each other regularly. That game never felt like a blowout, Panthers had to fight for every single point today.

Thanks for the love. Today the panthers were better. Washburn is a grown ass man. He is a hell of a player. Good luck he rest of the way. I can't speak for all of WyoNation but I will be rooting for the panthers from here on out.

 

[LanderPoke]

Just wanted to say good game from the Cowboys. Every comparison between these two teams was well deserved, the Cowboys never ever quit and really had UNI fans sweating it out even more with that impressive run by Nance. He is the real deal and deserves every bit of coverage that Tuttle does.

The athleticism with your team is very obvious and very impressive. If you guys had a bit more depth and production on the bench you guys would be right where this Panther team was. I'll be looking for Adams name all over ESPN next season and Nance's in the NBA. You guys were 100% right about Adams being the most athletic player on the court, even though the production didn't stay with him all game long.

These teams need to play each other regularly. That game never felt like a blowout, Panthers had to fight for every single point today.

Best of luck to you Panthers in the tourney

 

[Panther-state]

In year 3 of Ben Jacobson's tenure, UNI made the NCAA. In year 4, they went to the sweet 16. They then went 4 years of CIT, NIT, or no post season play before this year.

Shyatt has gone CBI, CBI, CBI, NCAA. We will take a step back just as UNI did, but the foundation is being built. We are damn lucky to have Shyatt. Kudos to him and these young men.

Building a program takes time and I think Shyatt has us on the right track.

Great season! It has been so nice to be excited about something WYO (revenue) sports related.

I completely agree that Shyatt has you guys on the upswing. Anyone who thinks players like Nance or Adams are the pinnacle of talent for this program will be sorely disappointed. You guys will continue to grow and find yourselves near the top of the MWC and hopefully in the field of 68, year after year. Panther fans are confident we are going to be at that point too, even after the expected drop off next year.

As for the 4 years off for UNI, those all coincided with Doug McDermott's decision to decommitt from UNI when his dad was hired at Creighton. We couldn't redshirt Tuttle or Singleton, and the kid we brought in as a "replacement" ended up not buying in to the system and was basically told to look elsewhere (Chris Oliveira who now is the top player for Eastern Illinois). I've already gone too far into boring details now, but essentially Panther fans feel like our "drought" was largely due to that whole situation. Hopefully the underclassmen and coaching staff can utilize a strong March to build on some already exciting recruitment classes and get us back to an annual NCAA team.

 

[nashvillepoke]

We got our heads handed to us today. Hats off to UNI, they play tenacious defense. This kind of game out of Wyoming is what had me worried. They struggled all year to put a complete game together, whcich kills you in the post season. It is really unfortunate because there is a heck of a lot of talent on this team. I may be shot for saying this, but I personally think we are more complete next year, what i saw all year was the team waiting for Nance to make something happen instead kf going through 2nd and 3rd options

 

[ragtimejoe1]

I completely agree that Shyatt has you guys on the upswing. Anyone who thinks players like Nance or Adams are the pinnacle of talent for this program will be sorely disappointed. You guys will continue to grow and find yourselves near the top of the MWC and hopefully in the field of 68, year after year. Panther fans are confident we are going to be at that point too, even after the expected drop off next year.

As for the 4 years off for UNI, those all coincided with Doug McDermott's decision to decommitt from UNI when his dad was hired at Creighton. We couldn't redshirt Tuttle or Singleton, and the kid we brought in as a "replacement" ended up not buying in to the system and was basically told to look elsewhere (Chris Oliveira who now is the top player for Eastern Illinois). I've already gone too far into boring details now, but essentially Panther fans feel like our "drought" was largely due to that whole situation. Hopefully the underclassmen and coaching staff can utilize a strong March to build on some already exciting recruitment classes and get us back to an annual NCAA team.

Interesting. I think your team this year is where we hope we are going. I think your program is a great example of patience and perseverance which is what WYO requires right now.

You guys are a dang good team this year and very well coached. I will enjoy watching you play in the coming rounds. Congrats on a great season, the current win, and good luck in your next games.

 

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

We got our heads handed to us today. Hats off to UNI, they play tenacious defense. This kind of game out of Wyoming is what had me worried. They struggled all year to put a complete game together, whcich kills you in the post season. It is really unfortunate because there is a heck of a lot of talent on this team. I may be shot for saying this, but I personally think we are more complete next year, what i saw all year was the team waiting for Nance to make something happen instead kf going through 2nd and 3rd options

I don't think we see a huge drop off next year. We will be different as we won't have nance, a legit NBA talent, we just reload and restructure our attack. I think we actually get better on perimeter D as we have some monster athletes coming in

 

[nashvillepoke]

We got our heads handed to us today. Hats off to UNI, they play tenacious defense. This kind of game out of Wyoming is what had me worried. They struggled all year to put a complete game together, whcich kills you in the post season. It is really unfortunate because there is a heck of a lot of talent on this team. I may be shot for saying this, but I personally think we are more complete next year, what i saw all year was the team waiting for Nance to make something happen instead kf going through 2nd and 3rd options

I don't think we see a huge drop off next year. We will be different as we won't have nance, a legit NBA talent, we just reload and restructure our attack. I think we actually get better on perimeter D as we have some monster athletes coming in

i think we are more of a 4 out 1 in next year. I think Grabau is a bigger lose in terms of leadership.

 

[NowherePoke]

We got our heads handed to us today. Hats off to UNI, they play tenacious defense. This kind of game out of Wyoming is what had me worried. They struggled all year to put a complete game together, whcich kills you in the post season. It is really unfortunate because there is a heck of a lot of talent on this team. I may be shot for saying this, but I personally think we are more complete next year, what i saw all year was the team waiting for Nance to make something happen instead kf going through 2nd and 3rd options

I won't shoot you, but I will disagree. I don't say that in a negative way regarding our players for next year, but there are two things that are very difficult to duplicate:

1. Larry Nance, Jr. - Big men are very difficult to recruit and develop at our level. To find a player of his size (6'8", 235), athletic ability (insert dunk reel here), skill set (inside, outside, FT shooting, defense), and demeanor (the only thing more impressive than his on-court abilities is the way he has represented this program off the court). He will be missed greatly. Players like him don't come along anywhere very often, but especially at UW.

2. Experience - Look how much experience there was on both teams today. Neither of these teams were even close to sniffing the NCAA a year ago, but here they are a year later (obviously UNI still going). Did either team bring in a stud recruit to lead them? Nope, just experience. UNI's top 6 scorers are the exact same as a year ago and some of them have been contributors the last 3 years. The Pokes obviously returned 4 starters, 5 of their top 7 and a core group that was together for a full 3 years (all 5 starters were in at least their 3rd year in the program).


Eventually, we can duplicate the experience, but it can't happen in one year. Nance, if history is any indication, will take much longer to duplicate.

Can't say enough good things about this senior class and the effort they put in.

 

[nashvillepoke]

We got our heads handed to us today. Hats off to UNI, they play tenacious defense. This kind of game out of Wyoming is what had me worried. They struggled all year to put a complete game together, whcich kills you in the post season. It is really unfortunate because there is a heck of a lot of talent on this team. I may be shot for saying this, but I personally think we are more complete next year, what i saw all year was the team waiting for Nance to make something happen instead kf going through 2nd and 3rd options

I won't shoot you, but I will disagree. I don't say that in a negative way regarding our players for next year, but there are two things that are very difficult to duplicate:

1. Larry Nance, Jr. - Big men are very difficult to recruit and develop at our level. To find a player of his size (6'8", 235), athletic ability (insert dunk reel here), skill set (inside, outside, FT shooting, defense), and demeanor (the only thing more impressive than his on-court abilities is the way he has represented this program off the court). He will be missed greatly. Players like him don't come along anywhere very often, but especially at UW.

2. Experience - Look how much experience there was on both teams today. Neither of these teams were even close to sniffing the NCAA a year ago, but here they are a year later (obviously UNI still going). Did either team bring in a stud recruit to lead them? Nope, just experience. UNI's top 6 scorers are the exact same as a year ago and some of them have been contributors the last 3 years. The Pokes obviously returned 4 starters, 5 of their top 7 and a core group that was together for a full 3 years (all 5 starters were in at least their 3rd year in the program).


Eventually, we can duplicate the experience, but it can't happen in one year. Nance, if history is any indication, will take much longer to duplicate.

Can't say enough good things about this senior class and the effort they put in.

i don't disagree with anything you pointed out. I think Nance was a great person on and off the court. I just think too often the rest of the team waited for him to make things happen, which caused a lot of over reliance on Nance