Box Score QUINCY, Ill. – Following Thursday's overtime loss at Truman State, Missouri S&T head men's basketball coach Jim Glash mentioned on his post-game show something he has been telling people all season, that the next opponent for the Miners – Quincy University – was a dangerous opponent for S&T, even with its record of 7-13 heading into the contest.

On Saturday, the Hawks, perhaps the most snakebit team in the Great Lakes Valley Conference this season, overcame a Miner rally from a 16-point deficit that gave S&T a short-lived lead and pulled away late for a 93-77 victory Saturday at Pepsi Arena.

Quincy shot a blazing 59.3 percent from the field and forced the Miners into their third-worst shooting performance of the year in the process.   A trio of Hawks did the Miners in, led by Chris Babbitt – who used to play alongside S&T's Bryce Foster (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central) at Hazelwood Central High School – with a game-high 31 points.  Quincy also got 18 points from Dalton Hoover and 16 more from Evan McGaughey as those three connected on 27 of their 36 field goal attempts in the game.

The Miners held just two leads in the opening half of the contest, one at 2-0 after Foster scored on the opening possession of the game and the other at 19-18 after another Foster basket at the 12:07 mark of the first half.  The latter lead prompted a timeout from Quincy, after which the Hawks scored eight consecutive points to take the lead.

Quincy would build that lead to 10 in the opening half before a 6-1 spurt by the Miners that ended with Michael Nesbitt (Evansville, Ind./LaLumiere School)'s three-pointer with 4:05 left in the half, but that margin in half.  The Hawks would extend that lead back to eight by halftime at 44-36, then posted the first eight points of the second half to double the margin in the first 1:32.

Trailing by 15 after a three-point play by Babbitt, the Miners rattled off 10 straight points to get the lead knocked down to five, then after the Hawks extended it back to nine, S&T ran off another 11 straight and took its first lead of the second half on a jumper by Foster with 8:47 to play.

Babbitt answered back with a lay-in to tie the score at 63, which sparked a 10-0 Hawk run during which Babbitt scored six of the points.  After Foster stopped the run with a basket, Quincy moved the lead back into double figures as the Miners got within 10 only once in the final 5:38.

The Hawks (8-13, 3-8 GLVC), a team that has suffered five losses this season by three points or less and also lost a sixth game in overtime, outscored the Miners 32-14 after the Foster jumper that gave S&T its two-point lead.

Foster led the Miners, who made only 38 percent of their shots overall and only six-of-32 from three-point land.  Mudiaga Eruteya (Chicago, Ill./Notre Dame) was the only other Miner in double figures with 10 points.  The Hawks had a 10-rebound advantage over S&T as well.

The Miners, 9-10 overall and 4-7 in the GLVC, will resume their four-game stretch away from home Thursday when its plays at Illinois Springfield in a 7:30 p.m. contest.