ROLLA, Mo. -- Missouri S&T will welcome the students and staff from the local schools to Gibson Arena Tuesday morning as the women's basketball team hosts to Missouri Baptist on Education Day at Gibson Arena.  Tip-off is slated for 11:30 a.m.

The Miners and Spartans both enter today's game looking to end their pre-holiday schedules on the plus side of the ledger. Missouri S&T comes into the game with a 2-4 on the season and looks to halt a four-game losing streak, while Missouri Baptist is 3-7 prior to a Saturday game at Lyon College.

Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) leads the Miners in scoring with an average of 14.5 points per game, doing so while shooting 56.5 percent from the field and 46.7 percent from three-point range.  Raley's next three-point basket will be the 100^th of her career at Missouri S&T and will make her the ninth player in program history to reach that mark.

S&T also has two of the GLVC's top six shot blockers in Mykala Baylor (South Bend, Ind./Clay), who is second in the league with 14 blocks, while Alex Kerr (St. Louis, Mo./St. Joseph's Academy) has swatted away seven shots in her first six games in an S&T uniform.  Baylor is ranked 19^th in NCAA Division II in blocked shots with her 2.3 per game.

The Miners have already had nine players score in double figures in a game this season and three of them – Raley, Baylor and Kerr – have recorded double-doubles this season.
 
Missouri Baptist lost its last two contests prior to Saturday's game at Lyon, the latest setback being a 76-71 loss last Saturday to Central Baptist despite a 19-point effort from Kadesha Cooper.

Cooper leads the Spartans in the scoring column with an average of 12.7 points per game, while Alissa Rowden is also averaging 12.4 points per contest.  MBU's third-leading scorer, Rose Wassef, is the team's leader in three-point baskets with 17, but the Spartans are making just 27.1 percent of their three-point attempts as a team and only 40.8 percent of their shots overall.

Cooper and Le'ondra Wilson are the top rebounders for the Spartans with 4.1 per game apiece, while Izzy Farrell leads MBU in assists with 33 and steals with 17.

Missouri S&T has won three of the four meetings from Missouri Baptist, including a 70-47 victory two seasons ago in the last matchup between the teams.  Two current Miners played in that Nov. 19, 2016 contest at Gibson Arena -- Jordan Kabetske (Republic, Mo./Republic) and Maddie Raley (Haubstadt, Ind./Gibson Southern) -- while Megan Fassino is the only current member of the Spartans to appear in that game.