Cowgirls Continue Road Swing Friday at Santa Clara

LARAMIE – The Wyoming Cowgirls continue their week on the road with the second of three consecutive road contests Friday night, as they travel to face Santa Clara at 7 p.m.

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Friday’s game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and can be heard across the Cowgirl Radio Network with David Settle on the call.

ABOUT THE COWGIRLS
Wyoming (1-2) is coming off a 64-44 loss Tuesday night in its first road game of the season. The Cowgirls fell at UT Arlington after giving up 10-of-15 from 3-point range on the night. Madi Symons was a bright spot for UW as she scored a career-high 10 points. Symons also grabbed seven rebounds and tied her career-best in assists with four in the loss. Malene Pedersen also scored in double figures, as she put in a team-high 11.

Pedersen has now reached double figures in 23 consecutive games dating back to last season. Entering the week, the streak was tied for the seventh-longest active streak in Division I and was 16 games longer than any other active streak in the Mountain West. Pedersen now has 72 career double-figure scoring games. Pedersen was 1-for-1 from beyond-the-arc against the Lady Mavs and is shooting 66.7-percent from beyond-the-arc. That mark leads the league and ranks sixth in the country.

Wyoming continues to be led by Pedersen in most statistical categories as she leads the Cowgirls in scoring (13.3 PPG), rebounding (5.7 RPG) and assists (3.3 APG). Payton Muma’s two steals a contest leads UW. Logann Alvar and Muma are second and third, respectively on the team in scoring, averaging 9.3 and 7.7 points per game. Henna Sandvik and Symons average 6.7 a contest each. Symons is second on the squad pulling down 4.3 rebounds per game.

SCOUTING SANTA CLARA
Santa Clara is potent offensively on the young season, averaging 83.7 points per game on 42.4-percent field goal shooting and 32-percent from 3-point range. The Broncos make 10 3-pointers per game. Santa Clara is allowing 64.3 points per game, 36.3-percent from the floor defensively, but allows 42.3-percent from 3-point range. The Broncos average over 20 assists per game and commit just 11 turnovers a contest. Santa Clara has a plus-1.4 margin in rebounding and is averaging nine steals and seven blocks per game and is forcing its opponents into 18.3 turnovers a game. The Broncos won their home opener Tuesday night over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

The Broncos have a balanced attack, amazingly having four players averaging 12 points per game or more. Sophie Glancey leads the way with 13.3 points per game, Fresno State transfer Kylee Fox is averaging 12.7 a contest, Maia Jones averages 12.7 per game while Ashley Hawkins and Ava Schmidt average 12.3 and 12 points per game, respectively. Hawkins leads the team with six rebounds per contest and is averaging a team-best 5.7 assists per game. Fox and Schmidt lead Santa Clara with six made 3-pointers each. Glancey, meanwhile, is averaging 2.7 blocks a game.

SERIES HISTORY AGAINST SANTA CLARA
Wyoming lost the lone other meeting with the Broncos. That game was also played at Santa Clara.

From Bison to Triceratops - All of Wyoming's Official Things

Every state in our nation has chosen things that represent the state in one way or another to be official state things. Like a flower, or animal. Wyoming is no different.

The Equality State, or the Cowboy State, depending on which state slogan you want to go with, has a state flower. But did you know we also have a state tree and a state fish? Yes, we even have a state code.

To be an official thing, a member of the state legislature must write and submit a bill to the legislature declaring that a thing will be the official state thing. Then the legislature votes to pass the bill, or not, if it passes, the governor signs the bill into law and we have a new official state thing.

Here is what we have so far, all of Wyoming's official things. Now you can win big on Wyo Trivia Night if that's a thing that exists.

Gallery Credit: Ben Kuhns

- From Bison to Triceratops - All of Wyoming's Official Things