ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's men's basketball team returns to the floor and to Great Lakes Valley Conference play Sunday when it travels to Kansas City, Mo., to resume its schedule against Rockhurst in a 3 p.m. contest.

The Miners, 5-5 on the season, are playing for the first time since beating Culver-Stockton 76-66 on Dec. 20 and will seek to extend its winning streak to four games on Sunday; S&T last had a four-game winning streak at the start of the 2016-17 season.  It will bring a team to Kansas City Sunday that has four players averaging in double figures on the season, led by Julien Smith's (Fort Worth, TX/Northwest) 19.6 points per game.

Smith, the third-leading scorer in the GLVC as play around the conference resumes this week, also ranks among the league leaders in free throw shooting at 85.3 percent and three-pointers per game (3.4 per game with a total of 34) while shooting 43 percent from beyond the arc on the year.

He is joined in the double figure column by Kaden Froebe (Lincoln, IL/Lincoln) at 11.3 points per game, Alex Strating (Wassenaar, Netherlands/American School of the Hague) with his mark of 10.3 points per contest and Ryan Parker (Bloomington, IN/Bloomington South), who is scoring 10 per game.  Strating ranks second in the GLVC in field goal percentage at 64.3 percent, while the Miners also have two of the top 10 players in the conference in steals in Dylan Singleton (Lincoln, IL/Lincoln) and Kevin Legardy (Las Vegas, NV/Canyon Springs).  Singleton has 17 steals on the year and Legardy has recorded 16, while also leading S&T with 28 assists.

The Miners have one additional player in the top 10 in the conference statistically in Mahamadou Kaba-Camera (Conakry, Guinea/Balboa City (San Diego, CA)), who has 12 blocked shots on the season to rank sixth, while Parker is right behind him with 11.

Sunday's game begins a busy January stretch for the Miners as they will play eight games in a span of 21 days.

ABOUT ROCKHURST: The Hawks come into Sunday's game with a three-game winning streak of its own after they opened the year with losses in their first nine games, with all three wins coming against teams outside of NCAA Division II.  The Hawks knocked off Avila 92-56 in their most recent contest on Dec. 17 behind 22 points from Jake Auer, who went six-of-11 from three-point range in that victory.

Auer leads the Hawks in scoring with an average of 15.8 points per game and has been one of the GLVC's top three-point shooters, as he has connected on 45 treys this season and has made 40.5 percent of his three-point attempts.  He is among three double figure scorers for the Hawks this season, as NIck Volz is scoring 14.4 points per game and Rich Byhre is averaging 11.8 per game.

A fourth player, Damari Nixon, scored 12 points in his first appearance of the season against Avila after transferring from Kankakee Community College.

Volz is Rockhurst's top rebounder with 7.2 per game and is shooting 57.6 percent from the field, while also leading the Hawks with 41 assists.