The 2018–19 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by Allen Edwards in his third year as head coach at Wyoming. The Cowboys played their home games at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming as members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 8–24, 4–14 in Mountain West play to finish in tenth place. They lost in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to New Mexico.
Previous season The Cowboys finished the 2017–18 season 20–13, 10–8 in Mountain West play to finish in sixth place. They defeated San Jose State in the first round of the Mountain West tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to New Mexico. They did not compete in a post-season tournament.
Offseason Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Andrew Moemeka 2 F 6'8" 210 RS sophomore Lake City, FL Transferred to Palm Beach Atlantic Alexander Aka Gorski 3 F 6'5" 205 Senior Lund, Sweden Graduated Alan Herndon 5 F 6'9" 210 RS senior Colorado Springs, CO Graduated Cody Kelley 10 G 5'11" 180 RS sophomore Gillette, WY Graduate transferred to South Dakota Sam Averbuck 13 F 6'4" 185 RS sophomore Santa Rosa, CA Walk–on; graduate transferred to Dominican University of California Brodricks Jones 15 F 6'10" 220 RS sophomore Los Angeles, CA Transferred to Georgetown College Hayden Dalton 20 F 6'8" 185 Senior Parker, CO Graduated Louis Adams 24 G 6'4" 185 Senior Chicago, IL Graduated Anthony Mack 25 G 6'6" 218 Freshman Las Vegas, NV Transferred to Miami (FL) Source
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Jake Hendricks 0 G 6'5" 180 Junior Smithfield, UT Junior college transfer from College of Southern Idaho A.J. Banks 2 G 6'2" 175 Junior Las Vegas, NV Junior college transfer from Pratt Community College Lwal Dung 34 F 6'7" 180 Junior Adelaide, Australia Junior college transfer from Neosho County CC
2018 recruiting class
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Roster
Statistics Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG BPG SPG PPG A.J. Banks 32 18 23.4 .504 .324 .737 2.9 1.5 0.4 0.9 5.2 Lwal Dung 4 0 9.3 .600 .000 .333 1.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 1.8 Haize Fronstrom 12 0 4.5 .500 .429 1.000 0.7 0.2 0.0 0.1 1.3 Jake Hendricks 23 20 36.0 .398 .406 .636 2.9 1.0 0.0 1.0 10.8 KC Henry 4 0 1.5 .000 .000 .000 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Justin James 32 32 38.2 .409 .296 .741 8.5 4.4 0.6 1.5 22.1 Tariq Johnson 9 0 7.9 .231 .286 .625 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.4 Hunter Maldonado 8 5 32.5 .420 .333 .625 6.8 2.3 0.5 1.1 13.8 Austin Mueller 8 8 29.5 .345 .222 .750 3.6 0.6 0.6 1.0 3.9 Jordan Naughton 22 10 15.3 .484 .000 .727 2.0 0.4 0.5 0.2 4.5 Brandon Porter 31 1 9.3 .370 .349 .667 1.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 2.5 Nyaires Redding 9 9 28.7 .357 .222 .852 2.2 1.9 0.1 0.6 6.3 TJ Taylor 31 22 26.7 .439 .309 .756 3.1 0.7 0.4 0.5 6.6 Hunter Thompson 27 22 28.1 .427 .375 .707 2.9 0.8 0.5 0.2 8.8 Trace Young 20 13 23.8 .394 .370 .471 3.4 0.8 0.5 0.8 6.8
Schedule and results
!colspan=9 style=| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=9 style=| Mountain West regular season
!colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament
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