ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's men's basketball team will have a busy holiday weekend in front of it, as the Miners will play three games over a span of four days that includes an exhibition game with an NCAA Division I opponent and a matchup against a top-10 team in NCAA Division II.

The Miners will open up their week of play Wednesday night when they face Bradley in an exhibition game in Peoria, Ill., at 7 p.m.  The following day, the team will board an airplane to head to Riverside, Calif., for two games in the California Baptist Thanksgiving Classic that will take place Friday and Saturday.

Missouri S&T will face the host, seventh-ranked California Baptist, in its first contest on Friday at 9 p.m. (Central time), then wrap up the weekend by facing another Pacific West Conference opponent in Academy of Art the following night at 7 p.m. (Central time).

After losses in their first two games of the season, the Miners used a big second half Saturday to break into the win column for the first time with a 79-60 win over Robert Morris-Peoria.  Leading by two at the half, the Miners outscored the Eagles 43-26 over the final 20 minutes thanks in large part to the play of Sebastian Ferenc (Zgierz, Poland/), who had 15 points and eight rebounds in the second half.

Ferenc finished the game with his first double-double as a Miner with 28 points and 14 rebounds and enters play this week leading the Miners with averages of 18 points and 10.5 rebounds per game.  Ferenc is also shooting 56 percent from the field and had five blocked shots in his first two games at S&T.

He is one of five Miners averaging in double figures on the season along with Chris Harris (Antioch, IL/Lake Forest Academy), who is scoring 17 points per game after posting 18 on Saturday, while Allante Pickens has scored 15 per game and Ervin Sarajlic (St. Louis, MO/Oakville) and Dulan Scott (Chicago, IL/Farragut Academy) are both at or just above the 11-point per game mark.

Sarajlic, who is averaging 9.7 rebounds per contest, also leads the Miners in assists with 12 on the year, while Harris has a team-high seven steals.
 
ABOUT BRADLEY: Bradley comes into Wednesday's game at 4-1 on the season after winning two of three games in the Bahamas over the weekend.  Following a one-point loss Friday to Vermont, the Braves beat UT-San Antonio and Weber State in close contests to win the consolation bracket of the tournament.

Darrell Brown had 23 points in Sunday's 70-64 win over Weber State and enters the week as the Braves' leading scorer with an average of 14 points per game.  Brown has also made seven of his 13 three-point attempts and is tied for the team lead in assists with 14 along with Dwayne Lauter-Ogunieye.

Donte Thomas is also averaging in double figures for Bradley at 11.2 points per contest and is the team's top rebounder with eight per game.

As a team, Bradley is shooting 42.9 percent from three-point range and has held its five five opponents to an average of 60.8 points per game, largely due to teams shooting only 38.7 percent from the floor and under 30 percent from three-point land.

Bradley's 4-1 start is its best in in four seasons and it has not been 5-1 to start a year since the 2012-13 campaign.

ABOUT CALIFORNIA BAPTIST: The Lancers, ranked seventh in this week's NABC/Division II rankings, are 4-0 on the season heading into Tuesday's home game with Western New Mexico.  CBU knocked off UC San Diego 78-73 on Saturday as Cory Lange scored a game-high 26 points to lead the Lancers to the win.

California Baptist, who is averaging 91.5 points per game on the season, has five players averaging in double figures and is led by Kalidou Diouf with an average of 18 per game.  Gabe Taylor is scoring 14.5 points a game and like Diouf, is shooting better than 65 percent from the field.  CBU is also getting 13 points per game from Lange, who has a team-high nine three-point baskets.

Diouf leads the Lancers with seven rebonds per game, while Jason Todd is the leader in assists with 16.  CBU is outrebounding its opponts by an average of over 14 boards per contest and is the second-best free throw shooting team in the nation at 86 percent.

ABOUT ACADEMY OF ART: Academy of Art, who will face Saint Martin's Friday prior to Saturday's matchup with S&T, is seeking its first win of the season as it enters the weekend at 0-4.

Kendall Brown leads the Urban Knights in scoring with an average of 14.8 points per game, while Zuri Williams has averaged 11 per game and is shooting 57.9 percent from three-point range.  Williams has made 11 of his 19 three-point attempts, but the remainder of the ArtU roster has gone 15-of-63 (24 percent) from long range.

Cameron Niven leads the team in rebounds with six per game -- ArtU has given up 5.5 more rebounds per game than its foes -- as the team has averaged 70.3 points a game.