On Saturday, the Rawlins boys basketball team won the state basketball championship. Just a few months ago, the Outlaws finished a winless football season.
Turns out that such a jump is more common than I thought. With Rawlins this year, now 12 groups have pulled that off, and one school has done it twice…
Other teams to jump from a winless football season to a championship basketball season in the same school year?
Wyoming Indian, 2019-20
Campbell County, 2017-18
Burlington, 2015-16 (Huskies’ transition from 11-man to six-man, so there’s a pretty big asterisk here)
Lander, 2007-08
Wyoming Indian, 1990-91
Meeteetse, 1986-87
Kelly Walsh, 1974-75
Burns, 1971-72
Goshen Hole, 1966-67
Albin, 1953-54
Laramie, 1922-23
–patrick