The final weekend in the 2026 Wyoming High School basketball season is here. The 3A and 4A girls’ basketball state championships are in Casper, where two teams will win a state title during the second weekend in March. The Class 3A and 4A girls’ games will be at the Ford Wyoming Center (FWC) and Casper College (CC). Both defending champions can defend their title after qualifying for the state tournament. The defending champions in Class 3A are the Douglas Bearcats, who have officially won seven in a row. The Cheyenne Central Indians will try to repeat in 4A.

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Day one action in 3A is at the Ford Wyoming Center. Day two is at Casper College. The consolation and third-place games are at Casper College. The championship is at the Ford Wyoming Center on Saturday, March 14. It is the first of the four big school state championship games.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12:

Final Score: (2W) Lander 52 (3E) Burns 43 – The Tigers’ 13-point lead was trimmed to 2 in the 4th quarter, but Lander answered with a 7-0 run to regain control of the game. Then a 10-0 run over the last 3 minutes helped them pull away. Goklish had 13 points to lead 3 Tigers in double figures. Barrett scored a game-high 24 points for the Broncs.

Final Score: (4W) Lovell 57 (1E) Wheatland 48 – The Bulldogs pulled away with a 15-7 third quarter. Ali Walker and Brooklin Clark combined for 36 points and 13 rebounds. Anderson had 19 pts to lead 3 Bulldogs in double figures. Lovell shot 51 percent, including 62.5 percent in the 2nd half. They also had 12 second-chance points.

Final Score: (2E) Douglas 39 (3W) Pinedale 37 – The Bearcats built a 9-point lead in the 2nd half and held off a Wranglers comeback. Pinedale had a chance to tie the game with 5.1 seconds left, but missed a free throw. Douglas makes 1-2 FTs, and the Wranglers didn’t get a shot off in the last 2.1 seconds. Leah Ewing led Douglas with 12 points. Sarah Smith added 9 points & 15 rebounds. Alyxis White scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Wranglers.

Final Score: (1W) Cody 82 (4E) Buffalo 43 – The Fillies used a 23-point 2nd quarter to pull away, and then added 26 in the 3rd quarter. Grace Hays scored 24 points to lead five Fillies in double figures. Cody scored 18 points off turnovers and had 17 second-chance points. The Fillies shot 55 percent and held the Bison to 29 percent from the floor. Karly Davis scored 22 points to lead Buffalo.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13:

Game 5: Burns vs. Wheatland, 9 a.m. (CC) – loser out

Game 6: Pinedale vs. Buffalo, 10:30 a.m. (CC) – loser out

Game 7: Lander vs. Lovell, 3:30 p.m. (CC) – semifinal

Game 8: Douglas vs. Cody, 5 p.m. (CC) – semifinal

SATURDAY, MARCH 14:

Game 9: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 9 a.m. (CC) – Consolation Trophy Game

Game 10: Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8, 10:30 a.m. (CC) – 3rd Place Game

Game 11: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 2:30 p.m. (FWC) – Championship Game

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Day one action in 4A is at Casper College. Day two is at the Ford Wyoming Center. Day three is trophy day, and for 4A, all the games are at the Ford Wyoming Center. The championship is at the Ford Wyoming Center on Saturday, March 14. It is the third of the four big school state championship games.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12:

Final Score: (2E) Cheyenne Central 57 (3W) Evanston 42 – Central jumped out to a 9-0 lead and never trailed. Evanston pulled within 10 in the 4th quarter, but was outscored 10-5 the rest of the game. Wade & Needham scored 10 points each for the Indians, who scored 30 points off 29 Evanston turnovers. Hiatt had 21 points for the Red Devils.

Final Score: (1W) Green River 45 (4E) Sheridan 38 – OT – The Wolves survive the Broncs. They outscored them 10-3 in the extra session. Isa Vasco scored 23 points to lead all scorers. She scored the last 13 points of the game for GR and had the tying 3-pointer with 10.8 seconds left in regulation. Bilyeu & Erramouspe had 11 pts each for Sheridan.

Final Score: (3E) Thunder Basin 44 (2W) Star Valley 39 – OT – The Bolts outscored the Lady Braves 13-8 in OT. Addy Rouse led 3 TB players in double figures with 18 points. TB was 11-13 at the FT line in OT. The Bolts scored 15 points off 18 SV turnovers. Ambrey Nelson paced the Braves with 9 points and 10 rebounds.

Final Score: (1E) Cheyenne East 63 (4W) Natrona County 22 – The Thunderbirds used a 21-point 2nd quarter to pull away. East had 6 players score between 9 and 12 points. They scored 23 points off 24 NC turnovers, and East shot 54 percent for the game.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13:

Game 5: Evaston vs. Sheridan, 9 a.m. (FWC) – loser out

Game 6: Star Valley vs. Natrona County, 10:30 a.m. (FWC) – loser out

Game 7: Cheyenne Central vs. Green River, 3:30 p.m. (FWC) – semifinal

Game 8: Thunder Basin vs. Cheyenne East, 5 p.m. (FWC) – semifinal

SATURDAY, MARCH 14:

Game 9: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 9 a.m. (FWC) – Consolation Trophy Game

Game 10: Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8, 10:30 a.m. (FWC) – 3rd Place Game

Game 11: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 5:30 p.m. (FWC) – Championship Game

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – The Wyoming Department of Transportation is warning residents about a texting scam, known as “smishing,” in which fraudulent messages claim to be from the “Wyoming DMV.”

The texts have demanded payment for traffic tickets, personal information, and have threatened recipients with driver’s license suspensions, additional fines and legal action. Some messages include suspicious web links.

WYDOT said it does not send text messages or seek personal information this way. The agency also noted it does not collect ticket fees and does not refer to itself as “The DMV.”

Residents who receive a message of this type are urged not to open it and not to share any personal information. The scam texts can be reported to the Federal Trade Commission through a link on WYDOT’s website.

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A thunderous comeback made for a thrilling opener of the opening game of the 2026 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Men’s Basketball Championship, but the No. 9 Wyoming Cowboys fell just short of the No. 8 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels, who held on to advance to the quarterfinals, 73-70.

UNLV got out to a 13-point lead by halftime thanks to a dismal shooting half by Wyoming, which shot 12-38 from the field and 2-17 from 3. Wyoming came roaring back in the second half and took the lead at one point, but the Runnin’ Rebels found a way.

“I thought our late-game execution, which has been pretty good for the most part for a lot of this year. We’ve won a lot of close games. We’re 3-0 in overtime. We’ve won a lot of close games, so our late-game execution really was at a high level,” UNLV coach Josh Pastner said. “Obviously, this isn’t a plays game. It’s a players’ game. The guys next to me (Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn and Kimani Hamilton) got the job done, made big shots, and that’s just the bottom line.”

Which was particularly impressive given UNLV star Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn went scoreless in the second period after dropping 15 points in the first. The scoring load and playmaking had to come from elsewhere after Wyoming guard Damarion Dennis locked Gibbs-Lawhorn down.

Down the stretch, that came mostly from Kimani Hamilton, who Gibbs-Lawhorn told to take over late.

A wild turnaround jumper by Hamilton, along with some massive free throws in the pressure cooker — including two with two seconds left to take an insurmountable three-point lead — kept UNLV just out of reach of Wyoming.

“Earlier in the year, things just happened to go my way, but there are multiple people on this team that can do the same thing, if not better than I can,” Gibbs-Lawson said. “When you have Kimani playing more than 30 minutes a game, it’s going to be hard to beat us with how locked in we’ve been defensively. Walter Brown, Tyrin Jones, they made some big plays, blocks and steals tonight.

“(If) We continue playing how we played defensively, then I think we have a good shot at this thing.”

But perhaps no play was bigger than Tyrin Jones’s final of six blocks on the night: up a point with less than 10 seconds left, Wyoming missed a jumper and got an offensive rebound. On the putback, Jones rose to the rafters for a block on Damarion Dennis, who had a double-double and led the comeback effort. In the moment, the crowd pleaded for a goaltending call, but he got to the ball just in time.

To go with seven points and five rebounds, his six blocks were tied for the fourth-most in an MW tournament game.

“I was debating if I could try to have him pump fake twice, but he got it up quick,” Jones said. “I got just enough and I was thankful to get it out of the sky, then it ended up in our hands. … I just knew my timing was going to be enough just to get it right at that top, peak moment.”

The Runnin’ Rebels will meet No. 1 Utah State in the quarterfinals on Thursday.