What did Wyoming's postgame locker room sounds like after a season-ending loss to Wichita State tonight in the NIT?
โEvery guy had to say something that they learned about themselves or about this team or about the process, because this is a waste, as coaches, itโs a waste if our guys arenโt learning more about themselves.
"This is a journey of self. Self awareness. Who am I? More importantly, who am I not? What am I not going to compromise? What are the hard things that I had to grow through and that I had to go through and grow through to get to this point right now?
"Reflect. Reflect on your journey. Reflecting on this season is going to be awesome for me, just from where we were last year to our growth points this year.
"What an honor and privilege to be able to coach the University of Wyoming, but to also coach those men in that locker room.โ
-Sundance Wicks
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- TOP 100 NET
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In their first-ever college postseason action, freshmen Gavin Gores (15 points) and Naz Meyer (14) led the Cowboys in scoring.
"Guys like Naz and Gavin, we got them because they had an opportunity to come play as freshmen, and they had the opportunity to come develop and fail and grow and learn and succeed and repeat over and over and over again.
"I missed that part of coaching. I think a lot of coaches miss that part of coaching, the idea that you can go actually watch a young man come in here in the middle of the summer like Gavin and have a breakdown four weeks into the summer because he's such a high achiever, such a high achiever, that he's, like, 'This is hard.'
"As a coach, you get to watch him go through that moment, and then you get to see him go out there with 1:45 (left in a postseason game) and I get to call a play for Gavin to go score and put us up two. I got to watch that in the summer. I got to see that. I got a front seat to that entire process.
I get a front seat to Naz Meyer coming in every day, win or lose, every practice, whether it was good or bad, watching film for an hour and kicking him out of my office because he cares so much about his development and the growth and learning and then watching his other teammates on film and watching how he can make us better, which in turn, makes him better. I got a front seat to that development.
I'm going to be pissed off if coaches come in here and take these guys that we spent a lot of time on, but I'm never going to be able to sit there and say we didn't give everything we possibly could to these guys to become the best version of themselves.
When they go have success, whether it's at Wyoming or
somewhere else or professionally, we know that we
invested the right amount of time and the quality of care in these guys, and we'll always hang our hat on that at
Wyoming. That's just the way we do it."
-Sundance Wicks
Time to start paying attention to the job Sundance Wicks is doing at Wyoming.
Cowboys handle South Dakota State with ease tonight at the Sanford Pentagon, and are now 9-2, including a very competitive game in Lubbock versus Texas Tech.
This Wyoming team is tough to defend as it has a lot of scoring options.
Cowboys will threaten at the top of the Mountain West and kick off that campaign this Saturday in Laramie v Grand Canyon.
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Meyer is the Freshman of the Week because he helped Wyoming to a 2-0 record to start the season and averaged 18.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 46 minutes of action on the hardwood ๐
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Charlie Kirk reminded us that a life of courage and virtue isnโt easyโbut itโs worth living. His example should inspire us all to stand boldly for whatโs right.
Charlie Kirk will never get to see his daughter grow up. And she he will be without her dad, never being able to feel his embrace again - this is so heartbreaking I'm tearing up writing this. The left needs to be held accountable!!! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ก