2016–17 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team


The 2016–17 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Allen Edwards in his first year. They played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming as a member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 23–15, 8–10 in Mountain West play to finish in seventh place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West Tournament to Air Force. They were invited to the College Basketball Invitational where they defeated Eastern Washington, UMKC and Utah Valley to advance to the best-of-three finals series against Coastal Carolina. They defeated Coastal Carolina 2 games to 1 to become CBI champions. They become the second consecutive Mountain West team to win the CBI after Nevada in 2016.

Previous season

The Cowboys finished the season 14–18, 7–11 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for eighth place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West Tournament to Utah State. On March 21, head coach Larry Shyatt resigned.

Departures

Incoming transfers

Incoming Recruits

2017 Recruiting Class

Roster

Statistics

PlayerGPGSMPGFG%3FG%FT%RPGAPGBPGSPGPPG
Louis Adams341614.6.434.277.7562.61.00.20.47.6
Alexander Aka Gorski331521.5.399.344.7782.31.50.00.57.7
Sam Averbuck605.3.167.0001.0000.30.70.00.00.7
Jonathan Barnes1555.4.545.000.6361.10.00.10.11.3
Hayden Dalton38327.0.431.347.8348.32.60.90.412.2
Alan Herndon383831.1.466.379.6296.01.31.90.611.1
Justin James37626.2.462.419.7625.02.20.50.816.0
Cody Kelley34112.6.392.385.5421.31.50.00.63.4
Jeremy Lieberman373722.6.418.293.7652.02.50.10.94.8
Morris Marshall1416.2.318.375.7781.10.30.10.11.7
Jason McManamen383831.9.356.331.7123.02.40.00.611.3
Andrew Moemeka2647.8.667.000.5002.50.20.40.51.7
Jordan Naughton372612.5.602.000.5542.80.20.50.14.4

Schedule and results

!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West regular season
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| Mountain West Tournament
!colspan=9 style="background:#492f24; color:#ffc425;"| CBI