Wyoming Cowboys Basketball are 7-0

The University of Wyoming Cowboys Basketball team have not scored a lot of points in their 7-0 run. What they have done is play defense. Real, tough, defense. Senior forward Larry Nance Jr. finished with a game-high 17 points against Denver on Tuesday, but it was another defensive team effort that propelled the University of Wyoming men's basketball team to a dominant 68-42 win over the Pioneers in the Arena-Auditorium. The Cowboys moved to a perfect 7-0 on the season by outscoring DU (3-3) by 19 in the second half and held their fifth opponent this season to less than 50 points."We took some difficult shots to start the game, and got ourselves in a hole," UW head coach Larry Shyatt said. "We were down 9-2 early, but from that point on that's as good as I've seen a Wyoming team play during my four years here. I thought once we hunkered down, once we got control of the game and established Nance's presence inside it started to change everything." Did you hear that compliment? What the coach said about his team? Wyoming trailed by five points midway through the first, but rallied to end the half on an 18-4 run for a seven-point lead into halftime. The Cowboys opened the second half with a 9-0 spurt thanks to Nance and senior guard, and home grown product, Charles Hankerson Jr. and never looked back from there, extending the advantage to as many as 27 points with three minutes left. The Pokes held the Pioneers to one field goal the last seven minutes of the first half and one basket the first six minutes of the second half. The Cowboys face their first road game of the season at SMU on Friday at 5 p.m. MT.