LARAMIE, Wyo. (Nov. 8, 2021) – The Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team officially tips off the 2021-22 season with their first regular season contest of the season Tuesday morning as UW welcomes CSU Pueblo to the Arena-Auditorium for an 11 a.m., Education Day contest.
Tuesday's game will be broadcast live on the Mountain West Network and can be heard across all 25 stations on the Cowgirl Radio Network. Keith Kelley will be on the call.
A LOOK AT THE COWGIRLS
UW is coming off its second exhibition victory Friday night as the Cowgirls bested UCCS, 66-39 in their final tune-up before the regular season. Allyson Fertig led all scorers with 17 points on the night. Fertig shot 7-of-13 from the floor in the win and also grabbed six rebounds.
McKinley Bradshaw and Quinn Weidemann added 11 and 10 points, respectively in the exhibition and Tommi Olson dished-out seven assists, grabbed six boards and collected a steal on the night. As a team, Wyoming held the Mountain Lions to just 26.6 percent shooting from the floor and 1-of-18 from 3-point range.
Tuesday's contest will be the first of 13 regular-season home games for the Cowgirls. Four of those contests will come in the non-conference while the Mountain West-opener will be January 3 against Boise State.
SCOUTING CSU PUEBLO
CSU Pueblo went 3-13 last season during its RMAC-only schedule, but returns a ton of talent from last season's squad, as well as brining in former Northern Colorado product, and 2020-21 Big Sky Most Valuable Player, Alisha Davis.
The ThunderWolves return their top-six leading scorers from last season. Sydni Williams led the squad with 12.8 points per game and grabbed 6.6 rebounds per in 2020-21. JaNaiya Davis, who averaged 11.3 per game, led CSU Pueblo with 89 assists and 48 steals last year. The ThuderWolves also return leading-rebounder Aubriana Noti, who pulled down nearly seven boards per game last season.
Last year at UNC, Davis was the only player in the Big Sky to average a double-double, as she led the league in both scoring (17.1) and rebounding (10.1). She also led the conference in blocks, double-doubles, field goals made and free-throw attempts.
Head Coach Tommie Johnson is entering his third season as the head man with the ThunderWolves.
SERIES AGAINST CSU PUEBLO
Tuesday will be the first-ever meeting between the Cowgirls and ThunderWolves. The two were supposed to play a game last season, but it was cancelled due to Covid-19 protocols at Pueblo.
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