1942–43 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team

Schedule

Roster

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Regular season

In the fourth game of the season, the Cowboys lost to Duquesne. It would be the last game the Cowboys lost to a college team during the season. Their only other loss was to the Denver Legion team. The Cowboys outscored their opponents by an average of over twenty points per game and was the first Wyoming team to score over 100 points in a game, by beating Regis 101–45.

Postseason

NCAA tournament

Main article: 1943 NCAA basketball tournament

• West regional (Kansas City)
  • Wyoming 53, Oklahoma 50
  • Wyoming 58, Texas 54 (National semifinal)
• Championship (New York)
  • Wyoming 46, Georgetown 34 :Source:

Red Cross game

St. John's won the eight-team National Invitation Tournament the night before, also at Madison Square Garden, and claimed it was better than Wyoming and that the NIT was a better event than the eight-team NCAA tournament. Ev Shelton talked Ned Irish, the promoter at Madison Square Garden, into hosting a showdown game, with proceeds going to the Red Cross. Two days after winning the NCAA Championship at Madison Square Garden, Wyoming met St. John's in a Red Cross benefit game for the war effort, and the Cowboys won in overtime, 52–47.

Awards and honors

• First team from the Rocky Mountains to win an NCAA championship
• Only Wyoming basketball team to win an NCAA championship
• Defeated NIT champion St. John's in Red Cross benefit game
• Ken Sailors, First-team All-America selection
• Ken Sailors, NCAA Men's MOP Award

References

References

1. "Cowboys" is specific to men's sports at Wyoming; women's teams and athletes are "Cowgirls".
2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714143204/http://www.mylosingseason.com/2007/01/sailors-ferrin-mikan-and-great-santini.html My Losing Season: Wyoming @ Utah: Sailors, Ferrin, Mikan and The Great Santini]
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20. (April 2, 1943). "Champ of champs, new Wyoming title". Spokane Daily Chronicle.
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