Tag Archive: conference

TCU Tops Cowgirls

  Unfortunately for the Cowgirls, the Horned Frogs were too much to handle Wednesday night, giving Wyoming arguably their toughest loss of the season, going down 68-47 to an impressive TCU team. Senior guard Aubrey Vandiver gave Wyoming their first lead at 7-6 with a fade away jumper on the baseline before TCU went on…

Cowgirls Prepare for TCU Tonight at Home

The Cowgirl basketball team is coming off a successful winter break. They went 6-1, including a 40-point win against conference rival Colorado State, with their only loss being against Wisconsin at home. Their other five victories were against Westminster (Utah), Washington State, Montana, Utah State, and New Mexico. They also beat Montana-Western in an exhibition…

ASUW Begins Spring with 6 Empty Chairs, Only 2 Execs

ASUW is starting the spring semester with several empty offices and a few new, big projects. The office is seeking applicants for ASUW directors of policy planning, marketing and public relations and diversity and student outreach. Last semester ended with the resignations of CJ Young, director of policy planning, Tyler Neasloney, director of marketing and…

Staff Sets Sights on Rest of Basketball Season

Fresh off of Francisco Cruz’s buzzer beater and the Cowgirls’ dominant performances against CSU and New Mexico The Branding Iron staff took the chance to toss their conference expectations out for the men and women representing Wyoming Basketball this season. Mike Morris: The Cowboys picked up their most significant win of the season – and…

Cowboys Win on Buzzer-beater From Cruz

For 39 minutes and 53 seconds, the Wyoming Cowboys and New Mexico Lobos walked a perilous tightrope of plot twists and lead changes. As the ball careened off the rim once, and then again, hope faded to an imperceptible glimmer for Wyoming, and it appeared all but certain that the Cowboys and fourth-year head coach…

Cowgirls Look to Bolster Record Over Break

The Cowgirl basketball team will work to better their record with six home games and two conference games over Christmas break. Their home slate begins Saturday, when they will host the University of Idaho Vandals at 12 p.m. in the Arena-Auditorium. They host three more games, Westminster (Utah) on Dec. 11, Wisconsin on Dec. 15…

Cowgirls fall to No. 15 Rams, look forward to BYU, Utah

The Cowgirl basketball team will work to better their record with six home games and two conference games over Christmas break. codyconnorMore Posts

Remember the Mountain

At one point, it was conceivable that the Mountain West Conference could contain Utah, BYU, TCU, Boise State, Nevada, San Diego State and Air Force; seven teams that could compete with the top-six of any conference.  Now the Mountain West is hemorrhaging talent and making the Big 12’s debacle from this summer look like a…

Pride all that’s left for Wyo. in rivalry

Rivalry. The venerated tradition of college football; a game between two celebrated foes, where emotions run high as the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, and where the significance of the matchup is transcended only by each team’s inexorable will to win. All of the antecedent circumstances surrounding Saturday’s Border War matchup between Wyoming and Colorado State would…

Cowboy football looking to avenge loss, win in Vegas

Here’s some things UNLV and Wyoming have in common going into Saturday’s game: Five-game losing streaks, struggling defenses, incomplete performances, basement conference standing, and indubitably disappointing seasons. The parallels between the Rebels and Cowboys are many, but perhaps the most pronounced similarity between the two slumping teams is their shared conviction to avoid a last-place…