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Game Thread: New Mexico Highlands @ Wyo

BeaverPoke

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Game tomorrow: NMH Cowboys @ Wyo Cowboys

NMH is a D2 school that is 1-2 on the year.

Win over Eastern New Mexico University 85-77.
Then losses to West Texas A&M 89-74 and a loss at UNLV 107-45.

Wyoming really ought to win this game by 30+ in Laramie.

I see this game as just a "confidence" game. Get the win and get the experience and get some confidence for the young players.

7pm Mtn time tip at the AA.
 
Fun fact: Wyoming and New Mexico Highlands are two of only four teams in the NCAA that use Cowboys as their mascot.

Who can name the other two?
 
fromolwyoming said:
Okie State and NMSU (and NMSU has gotten in trouble for it a couple of times).

NMSU are the Aggies. I can't think of who the other Cowboys are besides OSU. UCSB are the Gauchos. Does that count?
 
I really think we need to use this game to work on a bunch of different offensive lineups. You never know if Shy is gonna hold back sets before the bigger games or conference play. Not sure if we have that luxury this year with so many new guys. I feel like we need to try all kinds of different approaches and feels.
 
LanderPoke said:
I don't think this is going to be a blowout. We better bring it


I agree that we need to bring it but not sure if it will be a blow out or not. This team can't take anyone for granted.

I think this team will get better the more games they play but realistically think this will probably be the team with Shyatt's worst overall record by the end of the year. Think we see this team make a big jump next year. I am going to just enjoy watching the young guys grow up this year.

Shyatt had a lot of young guys his first year back but also had Waddell and Washington on the low post with a freshman Nance who actually contributed more down low as a freshman than anyone we have on the team right now after going back and looking at the box scores. Granted it has only been two games so we could see some improvement in that area as the season goes on.

Another thing I noticed none of Shyatt's other teams ever lost by 15 points in OOC play any of the years except for once when we played at Ohio St. and that game was close most of the way until the 7 minute mark. So the fact we lost by 15 to a probably at best very mediocre team shows just how much youth we have on this team. Think it is going to take a whole year of this team playing D1 ball and another off season to see results but I do think it will pay off big time and we will see a major jump by next year because of the talent we have. We have the 4th youngest team in the nation based on the amount of freshman and sophomores we have on the team. I expect this team will be good next year and great the year after.


Would love to see Marshall play more this game and hopefully we do get a blow out.

Go Pokes!!!
 
UNLV just curb stomped this team 107-45 on Monday. If we don't crush them we're going to have a long season.
 
fromolwyoming said:
As the mascot? NMSU has Pistol Pete, just like us and Okie State.
Mascot as in team name, not as in the physical mascot. The other two are indeed McNeese State and Oklahoma State.
 
Well UNLV beat these guys by 62 points. With that said I think UNLV is going to be pretty tough this year. They beat S. Utah last night worse than Utah beat them not that you can really compare scores but they did win by 9 more points than Utah beat them by and UNLV freshman are damn good. Especially Derrick Jones.

I think Wyoming should win this game by at least 25 to 30 points hopefully , if not then we might be in for a longer year than I originally thought. Hope to see more minutes from Marshall. Hope he figured out Shyatts defense over the last couple of days.
 
DVDA said:
Cosmic Cowboy said:
Are these games gonna be streamed through the UW website?
http://www.gowyo.com/videos/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hey thanks! I watched a ton of games last year through that. Ugghhhh I'm gonna be a lot busier this year but I'm gonna try to see the team play as much as possible.
 
seattlecowboy said:
Well UNLV beat these guys by 62 points. With that said I think UNLV is going to be pretty tough this year. They beat S. Utah last night worse than Utah beat them not that you can really compare scores but they did win by 9 more points than Utah beat them by and UNLV freshman are damn good. Especially Derrick Jones.

I think Wyoming should win this game by at least 25 to 30 points hopefully , if not then we might be in for a longer year than I originally thought. Hope to see more minutes from Marshall. Hope he figured out Shyatts defense over the last couple of days.

His D must be non existent if he's seeing that little time based on that alone because its not like we locked down Indiana St. We gave them 70 points while they shot like shit! Mo must be in the doghouse for more then one reason I'm guessing. I hope he sees the court more since everyone on here has good things to say about him. I hope Shyatt figures out ways for us to actually set a defensive tone for the team. We didn't look that special defensively and we need our D to come alive to set up runs. As of right now I'm much higher on the offensive potential then the defensive. A lot has to do with our natural aggression I think. You gotta want to play D.
 
Did everyone forget there us a game? Can't be more than 25% full. Man. Both of these teams are cold at the start!
 
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