LARAMIE, Wyo. (Oct. 23, 2025) – The Wyoming Cowboys will host the College of Idaho Yotes on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in an exhibition contest in the Arena-Auditorium. The game is free for fans to attend and will be open seating, as it is the only home exhibition for the Brown and Gold.
Wyoming will celebrate the partnership between UW Athletics and the Jae Foundation during the contest. The Jae Foundation is a leading non-profit focused on mental health awareness and suicide prevention. The Jae Foundation, founded in memory of Jae Bob Bing, focuses on educating the Wyoming and Idaho communities about mental health and suicide prevention, particularly among young people.
The game will be available on the 26 stations of The Cowboy Sports Network with Keith Kelley on the call, Kevin McKinney on color. No stream will be available for the contest.
About The Teams
The Cowboys played an exhibition contest last Saturday in Gillette defeating Northern Colorado 69-65 in front of a capacity crowd in the Pronghorn Center. It was the first of two exhibitions before the Cowboys start the season on November 3 against Northern State.
Head coach
Sundance Wicks enters his second season with the Cowboys. He returns two regulars from the lineup last season along with a redshirt. Wicks welcomes 12 newcomers to the roster with seven transfers and five incoming freshmen. The seven transfers to the program come from three levels of college basketball with four Division I transfers along with two from Division II and one from Junior college.
College of Idaho is the defending NAIA National Champions and a ranked first in the Preseason NAIA Poll. College of Idaho has won 25-straight games. Head coach Colby Blaine and the Yotes have won three national titles.
About The Players
The Cowboys were led at the exhibition contest by
Leland Walker with 20 points. The Florida Atlantic transfer has scored 1,125 career points and has 375 assists in his career.
Khaden Bennett and Nasir "Naz" Meyer also scored in double-figures. Meyer led the team with eight rebounds.
The Yote are led by Samaje Morgan who collected First Team All-American honors last season. He was also named the Most Valuable Player of the National Tournament. Dougie Peoples added 9.6 points per game last season and hit 65 three pointers.
About The Jae Foundation
The Jae Foundation is a leading non-profit focused on mental health awareness and suicide prevention. The Jae Foundation, founded in memory of Jae Bob Bing, focuses on educating the Wyoming and Idaho communities about mental health and suicide prevention, particularly among young people. A signature part of their approach involves donating cowboy boots, which serve as conversation starters about real-life issues. Wyoming Athletics and student-athletes are proud to be ambassadors to the Jae Foundation.
The Power of Jae Boots
Some call them Cowboy Boots, some call them Magic Boots – here at the Foundation, we call them Jae Boots. The Foundation was created with the idea that if Jae's friend Jason had just slowed down and bought his buddy Jae a pair of Cowboy Boots (something Jae loved dearly), had a real conversation about mental health, depression and suicide, and made two commitments, things could have been different.
In a world full of technology and distractions the idea was simple. What if we took an hour out of our day to slow down and share Jae's story, gift someone a pair of Cowboy Boots, and Check-In and see how they are ACTUALLY doing. Love them up and make some commitments. Once someone gets their Jae Boots, they serve as a reminder to check-in on those around us, be bold enough to have conversations around mental health, and even give us the strength to put our boots on and ask for help if needed.
Creating Boot-Check moments is why the Foundation exists, and the Boot is the ultimate tool to create those moments. We have heard and seen countless stories of how something so simple can do such amazing things. Some call that simple thing a Cowboy Boot, some call it a Magic Boot – here at the Foundation, we call it a Jae Boot.
