LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Derrious Gilmore scored a career-high 19 points, Leonard Washington chipped in with 16 and Wyoming cruised to a 62-42 season opening victory Saturday over visiting Western State (Colo.).
Gilmore was 7 of 11 from the field and had four rebounds, four assists and four steals while Washington added seven rebounds and three blocks to his stat line.
Western State took a 13-12 lead off a Bernard Webb dunk with 8:13 to play in the first half but Wyoming answered with a 12-3 run over the next 4:55 capped off by two made free throws by Larry Nance Jr. to make it 24-16.
The Mountaineers chipped away at Wyoming's lead to trail 28-24 at the half but the Cowboys outscored Western State 20-5 in the first 11:19 of the second half and never looked back.
Joseph Charles scored 17 points in 23 minutes off the bench in the loss for Western State.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Western St. (Colo.) (0-1) | 24 | 18 | 42 |
| Wyoming (1-0) « | 28 | 34 | 62 |
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| Western St. (Colo.) | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Joseph, C | 28 | 1-6 | 1-2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| T. Shepherd, G | 30 | 2-7 | 4-4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| J. Adams, G | 28 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| T. Boyd, G | 19 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| S. Aldridge, G | 11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Webb | 24 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| J. Charles | 23 | 6-8 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 |
| M. Vandahl | 19 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| G. Berling | 9 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Cooke | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| S. Johnston | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Donnell | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 13-42 | 11-16 | 32 | 4 | 21 | 42 | |
| 31% | 68.8% | ||||||
| Wyoming Cowboys | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| L. Nance Jr., F | 30 | 2-6 | 3-4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| L. Washington, F | 25 | 5-12 | 4-5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| D. Gilmore, G | 30 | 7-11 | 2-2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 19 |
| L. Martinez, G | 28 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| R. Grabau, G | 26 | 2-4 | 3-3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Cooke Jr. | 18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| J. Adams | 17 | 1-7 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| J. McManamen | 12 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| N. Sobey | 5 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| A. Haldorson | 4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Sellers | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Bentz | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-54 | 15-21 | 37 | 9 | 14 | 62 | |
| 35.2% | 71.4% | ||||||
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