MISSOURI S&T WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GAME DAY INFORMATION
DATE	OPPONENT	TIME	LOCATION	WEBCAST	LIVE STATS
Friday, Nov. 9	Blackburn	7 p.m.	Gibson Arena -  Rolla, Mo.	GLVC Network	Live Stats
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2018-19 Record: Missouri S&T is presently 0-0 overall and 0-0 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) for the 2018-19 season.  The Miners, who registered a 92-54 home exhibition victory over the Webster (Mo.) Gorloks  this last Saturday (Nov. 3) at Gibson Arena in Rolla, Mo., are 0-0 at home, 0-0 on the road, and 0-0 at neutral sites to date this season.

Last Week's Action: The Miners started the 2018-19 campaign with a 92-54 exhibition win against Webster this past Saturday (Nov. 3) afternoon in Gibson Arena as five S&T players tallied double-figure points.  Sophomore guard Marta Durk (O'Fallon, Ill./O'Fallon Township) led the way with a game-high 17 points while freshman guard Michaela Davis (Keokuk, Iowa/Keokuk) netted 15 and senior forward Bria Pierce (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North) tossed in 14 points.  A pair of juniors, guard Jordan Kabetske (Republic, Mo./Republic) and forward Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) each contributed 10 points.  Pierce along with junior center Mykala Baylor (South Bend, Ind./Clay) and freshman center Alex Kerr (St. Louis, Mo./St. Joseph's Academy) grabbed a team-leading seven rebounds apiece.  
 
S&T Head Coach – Alan Eads (Missouri, 1973), 17th season, 202-233 (.464).  The school's all-time winningest coach, Eads has led the Miners to two NCAA Division II Tournament appearances during his tenure at S&T.  Eads became the program's all-time leader in wins on Jan 29, 2011 as a result of  the Miners recording a 65-63 overtime win over Maryville. Eads currently third among active coaches in the GLVC in wins at his or her institution.  The Miners have made nine appearances in the GLVC Tournament under Eads, including trips to the semifinals in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
   Missouri S&T had its best season in school history during the 2007-08 season when it made its first trip to the NCAA Division II Tournament in 12 years.  Under Eads' tuleage, the Lady Miners posted a record of 24-7 on the year, breaking the school record for victories in a year, and reached the championship game of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional before falling to eventual national champion Northern Kentucky.  S&T finished in second place in the GLVC West Division with a 15-4 record and won its opening round game in the conference tournament over Bellarmine before falling to NKU in the semifinals.  Missouri S&T earned the No. 3 seed to the regional tournament, then knocked off Michigan Tech for its first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament and Quincy in the semifinal round to reach the title game in Springfield, Mo.  Since joining the GLVC in the 2005-06 season, the Miners have posted a record of 74-42. They were 17-11 in each of their first two seasons as a member of the league and made the conference tournament both times.
   Eads came to Missouri S&T after serving as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State University for the previous eight seasons.  While at Southeast, Eads served as the team's chief recruiter and worked primarily with the post players and the team defense. 
   Eads has also built an impressive resume as a head coach, leading Moberly Area Community College to a record of 199-37 over a span of eight years from 1986-94. He took the Lady Greyhounds to the NJCAA national tournament on five occasions, including a third place finish in 1986-87 and fifth place showings in 1987-88 and 1993-94.  Moberly had two 30-win seasons under Eads and also had seasons with 29, 28 and 26 wins during his tenure.  Eads was inducted in 2008 into the institution's Athletic Hall of Fame.  He was named as the Region XVI "Coach of the Year" on five occasions and also led the Lady Greyhounds to five region titles, all of which eventually led to berths in the national tournament. Moberly was the region runner-up on three other occasions and won the regular season title in all eight seasons Eads spent there.  He was also chosen after the 1990-91 season to serve as an assistant coach for the South team in the United States Olympic Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., as that team would go on to win the gold medal during the 1991 festival.
   Eads served as the head coach at Moberly High School from 1979-83, where he led his teams to two district titles and two trips to the Missouri state tournament.       
 
This Week's Opponent
     *Blackburn: The Beavers, who compete at the NCAA Division III level and are located in Carlinville, Ill., open their 2018-19 season this Friday (Nov. 9) at Missouri S&T in what represents an exhibition game. Blackburn, which is under the direction of second-year head coach Jim Chandler, welcomes back six of its top seven scorers from last season's 2-23 squad.  The Beavers, who were 0-16 in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) this past 2016-17 campaign, return all five starters from a season ago led by sophomore guards Kate Smith (9.7 ppg., 3.8 rpg.) and Jenna Dudra (8.8 ppg.,4.3 rpg.).  Dudra achieved 2016-17 SLIAC All-Defensive Team recognition as a result of finishing second in the conference with 77 steals (3.2 spg.) to go with 15 blocked shots (0.6 bpg.).  BC was chosen to finish eighth in the 2017-18 SLIAC Women's Basketball Coaches Preseason Poll.   All-Time Series - S&T leads 1-0-0  -- 1-0-0 Home, 0-0-0 Away; Last Meeting - W 100-36 (11/19/08 at Missouri S&T).
   
Season Openers: Missouri S&T sports a 30-14 record (.682 win pct.) in its season openers since 1974-75 and has won its last 16 openers to date, which includes a 93-84 home victory over LeMoyne-Owen (Tenn.) in S&T's Lady Miner Classic a season ago (Nov. 10).  The Miners claimed a 68-66 win at Tarleton State (Texas) in their 2016-17 opener (Nov. 11) and posted an 81-49 home decision against Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) in the 2015-16 season opener (Nov. 13).  The last time S&T suffered a season-opening setback was in the 2001-02 campaign (Nov. 16) as a result of an 83-58 loss at Quincy (Ill.). 

Home Openers: The Miners have compiled a 34-9 mark (.791 win pct.) in home-opening contests dating back to the 1974-75 campaign.  S&T registered a 93-84 triumph against LeMoyne-Owen in its 2017-18 home opener (Nov. 10) to extend its current home-opening winning streak to five straight.  The Miners notched a 73-66 win over Lincoln in the 2016-17 campaign (Nov. 16), which was preceeded by an 81-49 victory versus Hannibal-LaGrange in 2015-16 (Nov. 13).  The last time S&T dropped its home opener occurred in the 2012-13 season (Nov. 16) with a 49-42 setback to St. Mary's (Texas).  
 
Solid Nucleus Returns: The Miners return seven letter winners from last season's team, which includes three of S&T's top points leaders in junior forward Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) (13. 4 ppg.), senior forward Bria Pierce (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North) (8.8 ppg.) and junior guard Jordan Kabetske (Republic, Mo./Republic) (8.5 ppg.). The Miners' top returning rebounders are Bria Pierce  (6.4 rpg.), junior forward Ashley Harvey (Raytown, Mo./Raytown)(4.4 rpg.) and Maddie Raley (4.2 rpg.).  S&T will be returning 57.5 percent (1,005-1,749 of its scoring output and 56.5 percent (515-911) of its rebounding production from the 2017-18 campaign.
  
2017-18 Season: The Miners registered a 9-17 overall record for the 2017-18 season, which included a 4-14 mark in the GLVC's West Division.  S&T was 7-6 at home, 2-9 on the road, and 0-2 at neutral sites. 

NCAA II Statistics: Both NCAA Division II team and individual national statistical leaders for this 2018-19 season can be accessed at this link - NCAA Statistics. 

2018-19 GLVC Preseason Poll: S&T was selected to finish 14th place in the 2018-19 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Coaches Preseason Poll, which was released Oct. 17 by the Conference office.  The Miners accumulated 39 points in the poll as voted on by the league coaches.   Lewis was picked to win the conference title with 175 points and seven first-place votes.  Drury registered a second-place 174 points to go with six first-place votes while the one remaining first-place vote went to Southern Indiana, which accumulated a third-place 155 points.   

New GLVC Format: The GLVC regular season will no longer include the three-division format which were adopted last season with 15 teams.  The top eight teams with the most points derived from the GLVC Point Rating System at the end of the 2018-19 regular season will earn a berth to the GLVC Basketball Championship Tournament to be held on March 7-10 at the Vadalabene Center in Edwardsville, Ill., on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.  
 
GLVC Standings/Schedule: Fans can view the complete 2018-19 GLVC Women's Basketball Standings at this link - GLVC Standings.  The composite 2018-19 conference women's basketball schedule can be accessed at this link - GLVC Schedule and the GLVC statistics at this link - GLVC Statistics.

Follow The GLVC: Fans can follow @GLVCsports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using hashtag #GLVCwbb.  Complete coverage of all 2018-19 conference games can be accessed on GLVCSN.com.

Up Next: Missouri S&T continues non-conference action on its home court next Monday, Nov. 12, as the Miners go up against the Avila University (Mo.) Eagles in a 7 p.m. (CT) tilt at Gibson Arena.  The contest represents the second game of S&T's season-opening four-game home stand.