Wyoming
(PHOTOS) Rebels get revenge against Cowboys; win 68–57
LARAMIE, Wyo. — What goes around comes around. After the Pokes went into UNLV territory and won on the road just a few weeks ago, the Rebels did the very same today in the Dome of Doom in Laramie, Wyoming. Cowboy star Obi Agbim led the way once again with 14 points.
Despite the disparate final box score of 68–57, the first half was neck and neck. The Cowboys, despite losing the jump ball, would put up the first points of the night courtesy of Abou Magassa off a Cole Henry assist. UNLV’s Jeremiah Cherry would respond with an identical play.
The rest of the first half would look much the same. Another Magassa bucket would turn into a UNLV score. A UNLV alley-oop would lead to a Henry layup.
That Henry play would also be the first time Agbim was involved in scoring — four minutes into regulation. Finally waking up, Agbim would then grab two rebounds in the span of a minute and would later score his first points with a jump shot with 13:52 left in the half. By then, however, he was already 1–3 shooting.
Wyoming would regain a lead about nine minutes into the game with a Henry hookshot. Henry was the second highest scorer of the night for the Cowboys with 10 points and a career-tying six assists.
UNLV would start showing signs of being the better team with about three minutes left in the half, when it went on a 5–0 run to take a 28–22 lead. The Cowboys would grab just 1 more point before halftime, but the Rebels would get an easy layup with just five seconds left.
Almost immediately into the second half — more specifically a 3-point pull-up jump shot by UNLV’s Julian Rishwain to take an 8-point lead — the Rebels would begin their steady ascent into dominance.
The Rebels would get away with 4 more points before Magassa would come back with another layup. The freshman Frenchman who won the Mountain West Conference’s Freshman of the Week award a few weeks ago was a perfect 4–4 from the field tonight.
Wyoming’s next points would be Magassa’s last. His 2-point hook shot would close the UNLV lead to 10. At this point, Wyoming’s mission was to at least stay within that range. The closest they would get for the rest of the game to catching up with the rebels was 7 points.
Wyoming and UNLV would trade buckets for the rest of the game until the Rebels would eventually take the win 68–57. The Rebels held the Cowboys to a season-low four 3-pointers made out of 21 total attempts. The Pokes were 42.37% from the rest of the field.
Behind Agbim and Henry, Magassa would be the third-highest scorer with 9 points. Most of the Cowboys’ bench would make at least 2 points besides three players: Dontaie Allen, Oleg Kojenets and A.J. Wills. They played 17 minutes, four minutes and 16 minutes, respectively. Allen scored 10 points against the Utah State Aggies just four days ago.
The Pokes’ home stint is up, and they are going to hit the road first to New Mexico, where they’ll face the conference-leader Lobos on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Mountain Time.
CASPER, Wyo. — High school athletics in Wyoming could see some drastic changes in the coming years following legislative changes to the state’s education budget, the Wyoming High School Activities Association recently announced in a statement.
According to the WHSAA, Wyoming school districts are facing a projected $3.9 million shortfall in activities funding, forcing officials to consider significant cuts to high school sports and extracurricular programs.
The WHSAA shared details regarding a new “silo” funding model implemented by the Legislature, stating that the recalibrated block grant model reduced funding for student activities and extra-duty responsibilities from $46.3 million to $42.4 million, an approximately 8.4% decrease statewide.
WHSAA Commissioner Trevor Wilson said the restructuring also restricts district access to an additional $76.2 million in previously flexible funding.
“A significant portion of the [April 28 WHSAA Board of Directors] meeting was dedicated to discussing the projected funding shortfall,” Wilson wrote.
The WHSAA is weighing several strategies to address rising costs with fewer resources. Proposed changes include eliminating regional tournaments and reducing the number of teams qualifying for state events from eight to four; limiting wrestling to two classes and restricting track and field state participants to the top 16 marks; making cuts to soccer, indoor track and field, Nordic and Alpine skiing, swimming and diving, spring golf and tennis; and reducing in-person speech and debate events by half and centrally locating All-State Music events to minimize travel. The board also recommended increasing gate admission or implementing student participation fees to offset costs.
While the WHSAA release states that no plans have been finalized and the various changes are currently just possibilities, Natrona County School District 1 Board of Trustees member Mary Schmidt criticized the WHSAA’s handling of the news at Monday’s board meeting.
“I take some issues with this, [including] the sheer fact that we as Board of Trustees members have not talked about that at all,” Schmidt said. “It is not our intent and it has not been brought to us to cut our athletics or activities budget for the upcoming school year. … I take issue with them picking sports and getting the community upset and ginning them up to be upset that this is all going to be cut when that hasn’t been discussed.”
Later in the meeting, Superintendent Angela Hensley clarified that Natrona County School District 1’s athletics and activities budget saw a reduction of roughly $550,000 in the coming year’s budget, but said the local school district does not plan to cut any sports.
“Thank you, Trustee Schmidt, for saying this, because I think people are wondering — we are not planning to cut athletics and activities for next year,” Hensley said. “We do have to take a look at our entire budget as we have talked about, as we learn more about these new rules that come in.”
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Republished with permission from Wyoming News Now, a TV news outlet covering the Cheyenne and Casper areas.
Cheyenne City Council has introduced a temporary moratorium, or pause, on new data center construction.
“The end goal is to actually have regulations in place, to have really heavy public involvement with this with data centers,” said Councilman Mark Moody.
The proposed ordinance is not a permanent ban on data centers and would not affect data centers currently under construction.
Councilman Moody says this is a bipartisan issue.
“I just want to make this clear, I’m not against data centers. We do need them from a national security perspective,” he said.
He said there needs to be more public input and regulations regarding data centers in Cheyenne.
The ordinance would require city staff to study data center impacts such as electricity usage, electricity tariffs, closed-loop cooling systems, groundwater impacts, agricultural impacts, and land value.
Cheyenne LEADS, the economic development corporation for Cheyenne and Laramie County, reported in November 2025 that there are 12 operational data centers in Wyoming, five under construction and plans for 43 data centers announced across the state.
“There needs to be more public input with this, and also to see how many we can sustain here in this community, cause there are talks of 43, and then another day 70. How many can we sustain here?” said Councilman Moody.
The proposed moratorium will now go to the Public Services Committee on Monday, May 18 at noon in the Municipal Building.
Sheridan will play in the North Regional Tournament at Gillette, while the South Regional Tournament will be played at Rock Springs.
North Regional Tournament at Gillette:
Checking record vs. highest team in the quadrant not involved in the tie, Thunder Basin gets the #1 Northeast seed over Campbell County, because the Lady Bolts went 3-1 vs. Sheridan, whereas the Lady Camels went 2-2.
Friday, May 15th:
(#1 NE) Thunder Basin vs. (#4 NW) Jackson – 11am
(#2 NW) Natrona County vs. (#3 NE) Sheridan – 11am
(#2 NE) Campbell County vs. (#3 NW) Kelly Walsh – 1pm
(#1 NW) Cody vs. (#4 NE) Worland – 1pm
Semi-Finals:
Thunder Basin/Jackson winner vs. Natrona County/Sheridan winner – 3pm Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
Campbell County/Kelly Walsh winner vs. Cody/Worland winner – 5pm Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
Consolation Round:
Thunder Basin/Jackson loser vs. Natrona County/Sheridan loser – 3pm LOSER OUT!
Campbell County/Kelly Walsh loser vs. Cody/Worland loser – 5pm LOSER OUT!
Saturday, May 16th:
TBA vs. TBA – 10am LOSER OUT! Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
TBA vs. TBA – 10am LOSER OUT! Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
2 10am winners vs. each other – 1pm 3rd Place
TBA vs. TBA – 1pm 1st Place
South Regional Tournament at Rock Springs:
Friday, May 15th:
(#1 SW) Laramie vs. (#4 SE) Torrington – 11am
(#2 SE) Cheyenne East vs. (#3 SW) Green River – 11am
(#2 SW) Rock Springs vs. (#3 SE) Wheatland – 1pm
(#1 SE) Cheyenne Central vs. (#4 SW) Cheyenne South – 1pm
Semi-Finals:
Laramie/Torrington winner vs. Cheyenne East/Green River winner – 3pm Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
Rock Springs/Wheatland winner vs. Cheyenne Central/Cheyenne South winner – 5pm Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
Consolation Round:
Laramie/Torrington loser vs. Cheyenne East/Green River loser – 3pm LOSER OUT!
Rock Springs/Wheatland loser vs. Cheyenne Central/Cheyenne South loser – 5pm LOSER OUT!
Saturday, May 16th:
TBA vs. TBA – 10am LOSER OUT! Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
TBA vs. TBA – 10am LOSER OUT! Winner qualifies for the state tournament.
2 10am winners vs. each other – 1pm 3rd Place
TBA vs. TBA – 1pm 1st Place
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