ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T men's basketball coach Jim Glash has announced that three players have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Miners in the 2015-16 season.

The three signed include two from the high school ranks -- Allen Billinger, a 5-11 guard from Carbondale High School in Carbondale, Ill., and Quinn Poythress, a 6-7 forward from Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau, Mo.  The third player signed by S&T is Rokas Paulauskas, a 6-8 forward from Telsiai, Lithuania who has played the last two seasons at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas.

Billinger had a decorated career at Carbondale, where he finished as the school's eighth-leading career scorer with 1,411 points which included 561 in the 2014-15 season, the 11^th-highest single season total in school history.  He made 115 three-point shots in his high school career and was also among the school's top free throw shooters at 74 percent over his four seasons with the Terriers.

A four-year starter, Billinger was named as the Southern Illinoisan's "Player of the Year" following a senior season in which he averaged 18 points, four rebounds and three steals per game while hitting nearly 80 percent of his free throw attempts.

He was named to the all-state and all-region team by the Southern Illinois Coaches Association in each of his last two seasons -- third team all-state in 2015 after being named honorable mention as a junior – and made numerous all-tournament teams throughout his career, including most valuable player honors in two tourneys during the past year.

In his final three years of high school, Billinger's team won 67 games after winning just seven during his freshman campaign. 

Poythress helped lead Notre Dame to a third place finish in the Missouri Class 4 state tournament during the 2014-15 season, as he averaged 20.5 points and seven rebounds per game for the 27-5 Bulldogs.  He earned all-state honors in Missouri Class 4 and also earned the most valuable award for Classes 3-5 at the BA Sports Extravaganza following the season as well as winning the slam dunk contest at the event.

He also played for the St. Louis Eagles AAU team, where he averaged a little over four points a game during the 2014 summer season on a team that included some the nation's top recruits in the high school classes of 2015 and 2016.

Paulauskas averaged 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game last season at Frank Phillips, where he shot 56.3 percent from the floor with 20 assists, 23 steals and 19 blocked shots.  In his freshman year, he averaged 4.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game with 16 assists, 12 steals and 17 blocked shots.  He was named to a pair of all-tournament teams during his junior college career.

As a high school senior, Paulauskas played at Hamilton Heights Academy in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he averaged 15.3 points, 11.6 rebounds and nearly two blocked shots per game.  He shot 61 percent from the floor in the 2012-13 season.