LARAMIE -- The only good thing about Saturday's loss is that the Wyoming Cowgirls won't have much time to spend thinking about it.

UW fell behind early and never fully recovered, suffering a disappointing 74-59 home loss to St. Louis on Saturday.

UW tips off against the Zags at 7 p.m. tonight in Spokane, Wash.

LARAMIE -- The good news is the University of Wyoming women's basketball team doesn't have a lot of time to dwell on a disappointing 74-59 home loss to St. Louis this past Saturday at the Arena-Auditorium.

The University of Wyoming women’s basketball team had to once again rely on a second-half comeback.

But this time, a halftime deficit of 14 points came back to haunt the Cowgirls on Saturday night during a 74-59 home loss to the Saint Louis Billikens in the Arena-Auditorium.

LARAMIE -- The Wyoming Cowgirls looked primed for another big comeback.

Instead, they gift-wrapped a victory for the St. Louis Billikens.

Wyoming loses to St. Louis 74-59.

The Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team (6-4 overall) suffered a 74-59 loss against the Saint Louis Billikens (4-7 overall) on Saturday night in Laramie.

It’s been a little while away from home.  

It wasn't quite a basketball Odyssey.

But spending nearly a month away from home has a way of providing some valuable lessons.

Turn Kristen Scheffler loose on the perimeter.

Get out of Jade Kennedy's way in the paint.

Try to avoid having to come back from 23 points down on the road.

Maybe it was the new pregame warm-up.

Or Wyoming coach Joe Legerski might have followed up on his promise to move his halftime speech to before tipoff.

Whatever the Cowgirls did to get over their sluggish starts, it definitely worked in a 68-51 win over North Dakota State on Saturday at the Casper Events Center.

Kristen Scheffler didn't even need the whole minute.

The Wyoming guard drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing.

Buried another quick jumper from the top of the key.

One team will be trying to beat the other at its own game.

When the University of Wyoming Cowgirls and North Dakota State Bison take to the court at the Casper Events Center for the first billing of the Wyoming Shootout at 1 p.m. today, they may be looking at mirror images of themselves in the first ever meeting between the schools.