Defending MW Tournament champs were tabbed fifth in MWC women's hoops poll released Wednesday.
Cowgirls return four starters from last year's NCAA Tournament team.
Cowgirls won the Mountain West tournament last season to qualify the NCAA Tournament.
Women's team opens conference slate Dec. 28; men's team hosts Boise State on Jan. 1 in MW opener.
2021-22 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball Mountain West schedule
With women's track and field and swimming and diving leading the way, 195 University of Wyoming student-athletes were named to the Academic Al…
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Competing amid the coronavirus pandemic came with highs, lows and plenty of challenges for UW's athletic programs during the 2020-21 season.
Three-year contract for the Cowgirls' 62-year-old coach will expire following the 2021-22 season.
The collaboration comes in anticipation of UW's student-athletes eventually being able to profit off their names, images and likenesses.
Wyoming is in line to return more than 75% of its scoring and rebounding from its NCAA Tournament team.
Wyoming's NCAA Tournament experience was short-lived, but it's one the Cowgirls would've never gotten without their late-season run.
Wyoming shoots just 33% from the field in its season-ending loss.
Considered a heavy underdog, Wyoming is trying to end the tournament's bleak history for 14 seeds.
The Natrona County High grad and former Casper College guard has been a defensive specialist for Wyoming heading into the NCAA Tournament.
Wyoming has complemented stingy defense with more consistent scoring during its six-game winning streak.
Wyoming will go for its first-ever NCAA Tournament win early next week.
With UW's campus closed Monday because of the snowstorm currently sweeping the state, the event has been called off.Â
LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming on Monday will hold a pep rally to celebrate the women's basketball team's bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Rock Springs native had been on the Cowgirls' bench for 17 seasons before finally bringing a Mountain West tournament title home.
Wyoming downed Fresno State to complete its run to the program's first-ever Mountain West tournament championship.
A tournament title would send UW to the NCAA women's basketball tournament for the first time since 2008.
Cowgirls hold Boise State to 14 field goals, force 23 turnovers to advance to the tournament finals for the second time in three years.
Tournament-record 15 3-pointers have Wyoming a win away from a championship game appearance.
Wyoming dominates the Aggies inside to cruise to Monday's quarterfinals.
University of Wyoming junior Quinn Weidemann was named to the Mountain West all-defensive team Sunday.
Wyoming will start the postseason against Utah State in a rematch from more than three weeks ago.