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Cowboys Open Season Hosting Regis on Tuesday Evening

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Nick Seeman Assistant Athletic Director, Communications, University of Wyoming Athletics

The Wyoming Cowboys will officially open up the 2026-27 campaign on Tuesday evening hosting Regis in the Arena-Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. It marks the third season under head coach Sundance Wicks, as UW was 2-1 in exhibition play during the month of October. UW is 13-0 under Wicks in non-conference home games.

The contest will be streamed live on MW+. Fans can watch non-televised Wyoming Athletics all season long on the MW+ with all UW home games and all MW conference games on the state-of-the-art app. Fans will also find replays of games, Ragtime Replays featuring great contests in Wyoming history along with other exclusive content. 

Fans can listen to the contest, as well as follow stats on GoWyo.com. The game will be broadcast live on radio over the 26 affiliate stations of the Cowboy Sports Network with Keith Kelley on the call and Kevin McKinney on Color. 

About The Teams

Wyoming went 2-1 in exhibition contests with wins over Northern Colorado and College of Idaho along with a neutral site loss to TCU in Midland, Texas. The Pokes were picked fifth in the Mountain West Preseason Poll by members of the media throughout the league. New Mexico was picked to win the league followed by Grand Canyon, Nevada and UNLV. Wyoming returns over 45% of its scoring and 40% of its rebounding from four returners.

Regis head coach Rex Walters enters his second season with the Rangers. Regis was 2-24 overall last season and went 1-19 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Walters is a veteran head coach with 12 years at Florida Atlantic, San Francisco and Regis along with time in the NBA. The Rangers were picked to finish 15th in the RMAC Preseason Poll. 

About The Players

Guard Nasir (Naz) Meyer was named Preseason All-MW. Meyer appeared in 31 games with 23 starts during his freshman campaign for Wyoming. Meyer ended his first season with the Brown and Gold as the team’s second-leading scorer, netting 12.9 points per game while shooting 46.3% from the field and 35.2% from deep. Meyer also tied for a team-high 4.9 rebounds per game and dished out 2.4 assists per game.

Regis returners from last year’s squad are junior guard Logan Flores-Peoples, one of three players to appear in all 26 games, senior forward Matt Yost, who started 19 games, led the team with 24 steals, and ranked second with 5.4 rebounds per game, and senior forward Quinn Lambert, who missed most of last season due to injury. Sophomore guard Logan Boyer and 5th year forward Fallou Cisse joined the team at semester last year, but did not see any playing time. The 13 new faces include nine incoming freshmen, and four transfers.

About The Series

Wyoming leads the all-time series against Regis 8-2 with the first meeting coming in 1928. UW defeated Regis 70-35 on December 7, 2014 in the last meeting, which came in the Arena-Auditorium.

Up Next

The Pokes remain home hosting Idaho State on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. in a contest on MW+. 

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