ROLLA, Mo. – With just three games remaining in its Great Lakes Valley Conference season, Missouri S&T's men's basketball team heads to the road for the final time in conference play this week looking to put itself into the field for the Deaconess GLVC Tournament.

The Miners will look to get this done in the Kansas City metropolitan area this weekend, beginning with Thursday's 5:15 p.m. game at Rockhurst. S&T will play its final conference road contest Saturday against William Jewell in Liberty, Mo., with a 3 p.m. tip-off before it comes home to face Drury in the regular season finale Feb. 27.

Missouri S&T, 10-13 overall and 5-10 in the GLVC, comes into Thursday's game among the 12 teams that would qualify for the conference tournament if the season ended today, but still needs a win or two to punch their ticket for the event. It will face two teams this week that it knocked off at home last month, beginning with a Hawk squad it beat 83-74 on Jan. 18.

In that first meeting, the Miners got a game-high 29 points from Bryce Foster (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central) and 17 more from Nusrath Khan (Morton Grove, Ill./Maine East) whole holding the Hawks to 38.3 percent shooting. Brandon McCann, the Hawks' leading scorer on the season with an average of 17.3 points per game – good for seventh in the GLVC – led Rockhurst with 26 points in that contest.

Rockhurst (6-16, 2-13 GLVC) snapped a nine-game losing streak Saturday with an 88-83 win over McKendree as McCann scored 23 points and Russell Burns, who averages 10.3 points a contest, added 20. The Hawks are shooting 38.5 percent from three-point range (McCann and Liam Duffy lead the way with 54 treys apiece) and are 13^th in NCAA Division II in free throw shooting at 77.2 percent, but are hitting only 42.1 percent of their shots from the field overall.

Foster continues to lead the Miners in scoring with his average of 21.6 points a game, the second-best mark in the GLVC and 15^th-best in Division II. Mudiaga Eruteya (Chicago, Ill./Notre Dame) is averaging 17.2 points a contest and leads S&T in rebounding with 7.6 a game, assists with 111 and steals with 55; he leads the GLVC in steals and ranks fourth in assists per game.

S&T is also getting 14.1 points a game from Khan, who is shooting 41.7 percent from three-point range and is third in the league in steals with 44.

William Jewell is also 10-13 on the season and is 6-9 in conference play heading into Thursday's home game with second-ranked Drury. The Cardinals have won their last two games which includes an 87-65 victory Saturday over Illinois Springfield behind 22 points from Clint McCullough, who had 25 points in the first meeting with S&T this year that the Miners won 96-82 on Jan. 16.

The Cardinals have five players averaging in double figures, led by D'Vante Mosby's 12.7 points a game and Devonte Bell's 12.4 a contest and also have one the national leaders in assists in Dwight Sistrunk, whose average of 6.4 assists a game ranks 12^th. Sistrunk had eight assists and 16 points in the first meeting against the Miners.

Missouri S&T got 24 points from Foster and 20 from Zachary Ellis (St. Louis, Mo./Whitfield School) in that January matchup against William Jewell.

Game Notes: Miners vs. Rockhurst

Game Notes: Miners vs. William Jewell

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