BU's first true road game at Wyoming December 3

Bradley travels to Wyoming on December 3 as part of the Mountain West/Missouri Valley Conference Challenge.

If Wyoming's situation is briefly described it will sound eerily familiar...
Wyoming is coming off a couple bad seasons, it's a hard place to recruit to but they had decent talent and maybe if they were all returning - they might have been very good this year.
BUT, fans grumbled and didn't want to wait, they fired their coach, hired a new guy who quickly signed a bunch of little known players who were still available late, but they had several of their best players and best incoming recruits - bolt and head elsewhere...so nobody knows what to expect this year.
Sounds familiar..........right?

Wyoming has had back-to-back 20 loss seasons and has changed coaches....
New head coach Larry Shyatt takes over a team that loses their two top players from a squad that was the worst in the MWC, 8-21 overall and 3-13 in the Mountain West, and RPI 264, SOS 112 - both are also worsts in the MWC.
But they did kinda kill Indiana State at Terre Haute last year 81-51!
They hired Shyatt through a Parker Search ...

Wyoming's best scorer Desmar Jackson (14.6 ppg) has bolted and transferred to SIU, and after sitting out a year will be a Saluki in 2012.
http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041311aad.html

Arguably their 2nd best player Amath M'Baye (12 ppg, 6 rpg) also has left Wyoming and transferred to Oklahoma.
3rd best player, wing Fernando Cruz (10 ppg) is their best returning player...and is doing well (11 ppg) for the Mexican team at the World University Games.
One other contributor also bolted and transferred to Eastern Michigan.

They also have six incoming new players, mostly high school recruits who are not expected to make much impact in Shyatt's first, hastily put-together recruiting class.
One of them is Larry Nance, Jr. - who Bradley was recruiting --

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=229960#post229960

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=229336#post229336

Backup forward Afam Muojeke - just coming off knee surgery - was re-injured in January, and his future is uncertain....with Shyatt recently saying he was unsure if Muojeke would play this year or ever....so that's a bunch of talent lost and they just don't have that much coming in.

The talent they have had the past few years they haven't done much with lately. They also have tried building their team with transfers and jucos to a large degree recently, also.
If there's any place harder to recruit players to it might just be the boonies of Wyoming! New head coach Larry Shyatt does have his work cut out for him.
They win better at home as they have not won a road game in two years.

BTW -- 60 year old Larry Shyatt is a graduate of the College of Wooster - who are one of our exhibition opponents!

But remember - the Mountain West loses two of their strongest members, BYU & Utah, so still the conference is wide open behind SDSU.

This is definitely a winnable game for BU -- as Wyoming may be worse off with their coaching change and personnel changes and have had way more fallout than BU has had.

BTW- here's their basketball message board:
http://www.wyonation.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=44025f849373d1db66577a36ba51e6b6

One thread there confirms that their "Night of Madness" - open 1st practice is 7PM on Friday, October 14.
http://www.wyonation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4814



Want to see which schools generate the most revenue? Of course football determines most of this list..but there's a few mid-majors...Bradley must have just missed this list - ;)...but Wyoming does barely make it.

The Top 100 Revenue Schools in the NCAA
1. Texas – $143.5 million; 3.7% growth from 2008-09
2. Alabama – $129.3 million; 24.4% growth
3. Ohio State – $123.2 million; 2.8% growth
4. Florida – $116.5 million; 7.6% growth
5. LSU – $109.9 million; 9.9% growth
6. Michigan – $106.6 million; 12.1% growth
7. Penn State – $106.6 million; 11.1% growth
8. Tennessee – $100.7 million; 8.9% growth
9. Oklahoma – $98.6 million; 21.1% growth
10. Wisconsin – $93.9 million; 4.5% growth
11. Auburn – $92.6 million; 6.4% growth
12. Notre Dame – $90.8 million; 12.1% growth
13. Iowa – $88.5 million; 11.3% growth
14. Georgia – $88.0 million; 8.0% growth
15. Virginia – $81.8 million; 21.9% growth
16. Stanford – $81.7 million; 9.4% growth
17. Michigan State – $80.0 million; 5.9% growth
18. South Carolina – $80.0 million; 4.9% growth
19. Kentucky – $79.7 million; 10.6% growth
20. Arkansas – $78.1 million; 22.0% growth
21. USC – $75.7 million; 5.5% decline
22. Oregon – $75.4 million; 25.1% growth
23. Florida State – $75.2 million; 1.1$ growth
24. Minnesota – $73.6 million; 4.7% growth
25. Nebraska – $73.5 million; 1.9% decline
26. Kansas – $71.8 million; 1.8% growth
27. Texas A&M – $71.8 million; 1.4% decline
28. California – $69.0 million; 5.9% decline
29. Indiana – $68.7 million; 13.5% growth
30. Duke – $68.5 million; 3.6% decline
31. North Carolina – $67.6 million; 3.6% decline
32. Oklahoma State – $65.5 million; 8.7% decline
33. Boston College – $64.5 million; 0.5% growth
34. Washington – $64.0 million; 5.7% growth
35. Louisville – $63.5 million; 9.4% growth
36. West Virginia – $62.0 million; 11.4% growth
37. UCLA – $61.8 million; 6.5% decline
38. Purdue – $61.5 million; 2.7% growth
39. UNLV – $61.2 million; 84.6% growth
40. Connecticut – $58.5 million; 0.0% growth
41. Virginia Tech – $58.1 million; 10.0% growth
42. Clemson – $57.6 million; 4.3% decline
43. Arizona State – $57.0 million; 7.1% growth
44. Arizona – $56.4 million; 8.8% growth
45. Miami (Fla) – $56.1 million; 9.5% decline
46. Missouri – $55.7 million; 3.6% decline
47. Rutgers – $55.6 million; 2.3% growth
48. Baylor – $54.1 million; 11.1% growth
49. Illinois – $53.5 million; 3.8% decline
50. TCU – $52.4 million; 12.8% growth
51. Kansas State – $52.4 million; 10.6% growth
52. Maryland – $52.0 million; 13.3% decline
53. Oregon State – $51.6 million; 2.9% growth
54. North Carolina State – $50.3 million; 8.3% growth
55. Vanderbilt – $50.0 million; 9.5% growth
56. Colorado – $49.4 million; 0.9% decline
57. Syracuse – $49.3 million; 5.2% decline
58. Pittsburgh – $49.2 million; 7.4% growth
59. Northwestern – $48.9 million; 0.7% growth
60. Texas Tech – $48.1 million; 3.1% growth
61. Georgia Tech – $47.0 million; 2.2% decline
62. Iowa State – $46.8 million; 2.3% growth
63. Mississippi – $43.9 million; 6.3% growth
64. Wake Forest – $42.2 million; 5.4% decline
65. BYU – $41.0 million; 15.1% growth
66. Washington State – $39.3 million; 2.8% growth
67. South Florida – $39.1 million; 3.5% growth
68. Mississippi State – $38.1 million; 4.4% growth
69. Cincinnati – $37.1 million; 5.9% growth
70. Memphis – $37.0 million; 10.3% growth
71. Yale – $36.5 million; 84.1% growth
72. SMU – $36.0 million; 1.8% growth
73. Central Florida – $35.7 million; 19.0% growth
74. St. John’s – $32.1 million; 8.0% growth
75. San Diego State – $32.1 million; 6.9% decline
76. Utah – $31.8 million; 0.3% growth
77. Delaware – $31.8 million; 4.6% growth
78. Houston – $31.5 million; 6.6% growth
79. Hawaii – $31.1 million; 1.9% growth
80. East Carolina – $30.8 million; 1.0% growth
81. New Mexico – $30.3 million; 5.4% decline
82. Pennsylvania – $30.4 million; 12.9% growth
83. Rice – $29.4 million; 4.0% decline
84. Georgetown – $29.4 million; 1.4% growth
85. James Madison – $29.1 million; 2.3% decline
86. Temple – $28.8 million; 7.1% growth
87. Villanova – $27.7 million; 7.9% growth
88. Wyoming – $27.0 million; 9.4% growth
89. Old Dominion – $26.7 million; 1.8% decline
90. Liberty – $26.4 million; 11.6% growth
91. Tulsa – $26.3 million; 3.1% decline
92. Fresno State – $26.0 million; 9.5% decline
93. Miami (Ohio) – $26.0 million; 5.2% growth
94. New Hampshire – $26.0 million; 3.2% growth
95. Boston University – $25.7 million; 5.8% growth
96. Boise State – $25.1 million; 21.9% growth
97. UAB – $25.1 million; 10.8% growth
98. Central Michigan – $24.5 million; 9.0% growth
99. Ohio – $23.9 million; 9.2% growth
100. Massachusetts – $23.8 million; 0.8% growth