We played Tennessee in football last year, now we will play them in basketball this year in Knoxville.
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http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/06/07/sports/uwsports/b6506ad7a3cf52d3872575ce00016984.txt
By ERIC SCHMOLDT
Star-Tribune staff writer
Sunday, June 7, 2009 2:05 AM MDT
Wyoming got the best of Tennessee on the football field.
Now the Cowboys will try to duplicate the feat on the hardwood.
Neither UW nor Tennessee has released its men's basketball schedules yet, but Cowboys coach Heath Schroyer confirmed Saturday that the Volunteers are on his 2009-10 schedule and the game will take place in December in Knoxville.
"I really like playing a top-25 team in the preseason," Schroyer said. "It's great for our guys and [Tennessee is] obviously going to be really good."
The Volunteers went 21-13 last season and lost to Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. They went 10-5 at Thompson-Boling Arena with three of those losses coming at the hands of NCAA Tournament teams.
Tennessee has averaged more than 24 victories per season, won a Southeastern Conference title and attained a No. 1 national ranking in its first four seasons under coach Bruce Pearl.
"It will help our RPI and it helps strength of schedule," Schroyer said. "And it's a part of the country that a lot of our kids have never been to. It's a big game for us and we'll go out there and play the best we can and prepare well."
The Cowboys know what can happen if they're not prepared for a team of that caliber.
They were handed the program's worst loss of the modern era at UCLA last season, a 113-62 thrashing that abruptly shifted the momentum UW had built with a 9-1 start to the year.
The Pokes finished with a 17-13 record and lost in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational. They had the 112th-toughest schedule out of 343 Division I teams and closed out the year ranked No. 100 in the Ratings Percentage Index.
UW typically releases its official schedule in August, but Schroyer confirmed a handful of other nonconference opponents:
w Boise State, Akron and Loyola Marymount are each contractually obligated to travel to Laramie.
w The Pokes will return a trip to Northern Iowa, which played in the Wyoming Shootout in Casper last year.
w And UW will host a four-team tournament in Laramie that includes Pepperdine.
Schroyer could not confirm the Cowboys' opponent in this year's Wyoming Shootout, but other sources close to the program have said the men's team will take on Northern Colorado.
n POKES SEEK CASPER CAMPERS: Schroyer and his staff are still accepting entrants to a shooting camp that is scheduled to take place on June 24th and 25th in Casper.
The camp, which will also focus on fundamentals and costs $80, includes a morning session for elementary school-aged participants and an afternoon session for boys in grades six through 12.
For more information, contact the men's basketball office at (307) 766-5114.
* Contact sports reporter Eric Schmoldt at (307) 266-0578 or [email protected].
Here's the CST link:
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/06/07/sports/uwsports/b6506ad7a3cf52d3872575ce00016984.txt
By ERIC SCHMOLDT
Star-Tribune staff writer
Sunday, June 7, 2009 2:05 AM MDT
Wyoming got the best of Tennessee on the football field.
Now the Cowboys will try to duplicate the feat on the hardwood.
Neither UW nor Tennessee has released its men's basketball schedules yet, but Cowboys coach Heath Schroyer confirmed Saturday that the Volunteers are on his 2009-10 schedule and the game will take place in December in Knoxville.
"I really like playing a top-25 team in the preseason," Schroyer said. "It's great for our guys and [Tennessee is] obviously going to be really good."
The Volunteers went 21-13 last season and lost to Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. They went 10-5 at Thompson-Boling Arena with three of those losses coming at the hands of NCAA Tournament teams.
Tennessee has averaged more than 24 victories per season, won a Southeastern Conference title and attained a No. 1 national ranking in its first four seasons under coach Bruce Pearl.
"It will help our RPI and it helps strength of schedule," Schroyer said. "And it's a part of the country that a lot of our kids have never been to. It's a big game for us and we'll go out there and play the best we can and prepare well."
The Cowboys know what can happen if they're not prepared for a team of that caliber.
They were handed the program's worst loss of the modern era at UCLA last season, a 113-62 thrashing that abruptly shifted the momentum UW had built with a 9-1 start to the year.
The Pokes finished with a 17-13 record and lost in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational. They had the 112th-toughest schedule out of 343 Division I teams and closed out the year ranked No. 100 in the Ratings Percentage Index.
UW typically releases its official schedule in August, but Schroyer confirmed a handful of other nonconference opponents:
w Boise State, Akron and Loyola Marymount are each contractually obligated to travel to Laramie.
w The Pokes will return a trip to Northern Iowa, which played in the Wyoming Shootout in Casper last year.
w And UW will host a four-team tournament in Laramie that includes Pepperdine.
Schroyer could not confirm the Cowboys' opponent in this year's Wyoming Shootout, but other sources close to the program have said the men's team will take on Northern Colorado.
n POKES SEEK CASPER CAMPERS: Schroyer and his staff are still accepting entrants to a shooting camp that is scheduled to take place on June 24th and 25th in Casper.
The camp, which will also focus on fundamentals and costs $80, includes a morning session for elementary school-aged participants and an afternoon session for boys in grades six through 12.
For more information, contact the men's basketball office at (307) 766-5114.
* Contact sports reporter Eric Schmoldt at (307) 266-0578 or [email protected].
