LARAMIE, Wyo. – It was a tough first leg of the trip out west for the Bellarmine men's basketball team. Without a pair of key contributors, they were handed a 92-55 loss by Wyoming Thursday evening at Arena-Auditorium.
 
Jack Karasinski (16.9 PPG) missed his fourth straight game while nursing an injury. Dylan Branson (8.6 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 2.5 APG) was also unavailable. Kenyon Goodin was inserted into the starting lineup for Branson, who had been starting in place of Karasinski.
 
In his third start of the year, Goodin set a career high with 13 points to lead the Knights, connecting on 4-of-6 field goals. Bellarmine, though, could not get things going enough offensively to keep up with the hot-shooting Cowboys.
 
Wyoming raced out to a 26-7 lead before the Knights could even get settled in. UW would go on to lead by as many as 40 in the second half as they coasted to the win while shooting 65.5 percent and nailing half of their threes (14-for-28). Scorers were assisted on 21 of their 36 field goals.
 
Not only were shots falling for the Cowboys, but they doubled up the Knights on the glass, 34-17.
 
Wyoming fifth-year senior Obi Agbim set a new career high with 28 points. The former juco and Division II guard went 10-for-13 from the field and hit 8-of-10 from beyond the arc.
 
For the Knights, Billy Smith was held to just five points, snapping a string of nine straight games in double figures. Ben Johnson was the team's second-leading scorer with nine points and Tyler Doyle added seven.
 
As a team, the Knights shot 38.8 percent from the field and went 5-for-21 (23.8 percent) from three.
 
The mountain tour concludes for the Knights Saturday in Boulder as they take on Colorado at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and ESPN 680.
 
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