The 2021–22 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by Jeff Linder in his second 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 25–9, 13–5 in MWC play to finish in fourth place. They defeated UNLV in the quarterfinals of the MWC tournament before losing to Boise State in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a No. 12 seed in the East region, where they lost in the First Four to Indiana.

On February 14, 2022, the Cowboys were ranked No. 22 in the AP poll for the first time since 2015.

Previous season In a season limited due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Cowboys finished the 2020–21 season 14–11, 7–9 in Mountain West play to finish in eighth place in the conference. In the Mountain West tournament, they defeated San Jose State before losing to San Diego State in the quarterfinals.

Offseason

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Marcus Williams 1 G 6'2' 180 Freshman Dickinson, TX Transferred to Texas A&M Drew LaMont 2 F 6'8" 225 Junior Plantation, FL Transferred to Georgetown (KY) Kwane Marble II 3 G 6'6" 195 Sophomore Denver, CO Transferred to Loyola Marymount

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Deng Dut 2 G 6'4" 192 Junior Melbourne, Australia Junior college transferred from College of Southern Idaho Brendan Wenzel 5 G 6'7" 203 RS sophomore San Antonio, TX Transferred from Utah in December during the 2020–21 season. Under NCAA transfer rules, Wenzel had to sit out until December, and was eligible to start in January during the 2021–22 season.

2021 recruiting class

Roster

Statistics Player GP GS MPG FG% 3FG% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG Xavier DuSell 30 20 28.0 .356 .327 .767 2.3 1.0 .5 .1 7.5 Deng Dut 12 1 7.3 .100 .077 .750 .8 1.1 .3 .0 .7 Kenny Foster 9 0 10.7 .278 .154 1.000 2.0 .7 .4 .0 1.8 John Grigsby 7 0 1.8 .286 .167 .000 .3 .0 .0 .0 .7 Graham Ike 33 33 31.7 .510 .273 .716 9.6 1.3 .7 .3 19.5 Drake Jeffries 34 34 36.6 .435 .409 .811 5.4 .7 .6 .5 10.3 Hunter Maldonado 33 33 37.3 .495 .250 .711 5.7 6.3 1.2 .1 18.5 Eoin Nelson 8 0 2.5 1.000 .000 .000 .8 .0 .0 .0 1.0 Jeremiah Oden 34 32 26.6 .521 .306 .736 4.5 .4 .4 .8 7.8 Noah Reynolds 23 0 11.2 .373 .417 .565 1.0 .7 .2 .2 2.9 Hunter Thompson 34 3 11.2 .390 .373 .636 1.5 .3 .0 .1 2.7 Brendan Wenzel 34 14 23.0 .405 .358 .780 2.9 .5 .4 .1 5.2

Schedule and results

!colspan=9 style=|Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style=|Mountain West regular season

!colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament

!colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament

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