ROLLA, Mo. – After winning its first game following the holiday break, Missouri S&T's men's basketball team will play host to Indianapolis in a Great Lakes Valley Conference contest Thursday night at Gibson Arena before heading back to the road to face off with Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday afternoon.

With the scheduled women's game being canceled on Thursday, the game between the Miners and UIndy has been moved up to a 6 p.m. start at Gibson Arena.  Saturday's game between S&T and UMSL in St. Louis will get underway at 3 p.m.

A pair of winning streaks will be on the line Thursday at S&T, as the Miners have won four games in succession and the Greyhounds have won five in a row.  The two teams are among eight in the GLVC that have a current winning streak of four games or better heading into play Thursday evening.

The Miners had one of their best outings of the season Sunday in an 82-62 win over Rockhurst in Kansas City, as they shot 50 percent in the game and committed just four turnovers, while holding the host Hawks to 32.2 percent shooting from the floor.  The win moved the Miners to 6-5 overall and 2-2 in the GLVC.

Julien Smith (Fort Worth, TX/Northwest) picked up right where he left off as he poured in 24 points to lead the Miners on Sunday and will bring a scoring average of 20 points per game into Thursday's contest.  He is currently ranked second in the conference in scoring behind Lindenwood's Jacoby Ross (20.8 per game) and leads the GLVC with 3.5 three-point baskets per game as he has connected 39 times at a clip of 42.9 percent.

Kaden Froebe (Lincoln, IL/Lincoln) and Alex Strating (Wassenaar, Netherlands/American School of the Hague) are also scoring in double figures for S&T, with Froebe averaging 11.3 points per contest and Strating coming in at 10 per game.  Froebe is also tied for the team lead in assists with Kevin Legardy (Las Vegas, NV/Canyon Springs) with 29 and has a team-high 18 steals, while Strating ranks second in the GLVC in field goal percentage at 62.7 percent.

Froebe also leads S&T with an average of 6.7 rebounds per game, which ranks eighth in the GLVC and is among three Miners that rank in the top 10 in the GLVC in steals along with Legardy and Dylan Singleton (Lincoln, IL/Lincoln).  Meanwhile, Mahamadou Kaba-Camera (Conakry, Guinea/Balboa City (San Diego, CA)) is eighth in the conference in blocked shots with 13.

ABOUT INDIANAPOLIS: The Greyhounds bring an 9-3 record into the game and have won their last five contests, including a 63-56 victory Tuesday over McKendree in Indianapolis.  UIndy is 3-1 in the GLVC, with the other conference wins coming over Southern Indiana and one over Illinois Springfield that started its current winning streak on Dec. 4.
 
Jesse Bingham leads a trio of Greyhounds averaging in double figures with a mark of 15 points per game -- tied for 11th in the conference -- and is shooting 49.6 percent from the field on the season.  Cory Miller Jr., is scoring 14.2 per game after posting a game-high 23 points in the win over McKendree, while Kendrick Tchoua is averaging 11.8 points per contest. Dee Montgomery is just below the double figure mark at 9.1 per game and leads UIndy with 41 assists and 20 three-point baskets.

The Greyhounds are shooting 46.2 percent as a team with four regulars over 50 percent,  led by Tchoua's mark of 58.7 percent and have made 33.6 percent of their tries from three-point range; Bingham is at 44.7 percent and Miller at 40 percent on the year.  Defensively, UIndy has held its foes to 39.5 percent from the field, 29.3 percent from three-point range and to just 62.3 points per game on the season.

Prior to Tuesday's contest, UIndy had shot at least 50 percent from the field in each of its previous three games and has held all three foes below 40 percent during that stretch.

ABOUT MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS: The Tritons will also bring a winning streak of four games into the weekend as they improved to 9-2 overall and 3-1 in the GLVC following a 76-62 win Tuesday over Maryville.  Yaakema Rose poured in 26 points to pace UMSL to the victory and is one of three double-figure scorers for the Tritons heading into Saturday's game with his average of 12.5 points per game.

Rose is also the Tritons' leader in assists with 35 and steals with 29, which is tied for the most in the GLVC.  The Tritons are led in scoring by Marty Jackson with an average of 16.6 points per game and Jose Grubbs with his mark of 13.2 per contest and both players are shooting better than 50 percent from the field, as Jackson is at 58.7 percent and Grubbs is at 50.5.

That trio also ranks as UMSL's top three rebounders on the year, with Jackson leading the way with his 6.1 per game.  Jackson has also recorded 17 of the Tritons' 31 blocked shots this season.

Missouri-St. Louis – who had its scheduled game with Rockhurst on Thursday canceled on account of health and safety protocols in the Hawks' program – has suffered its only two losses this season at the hands of nationally-ranked teams.  UMSL lost in November to current No. 2 Northwest Missouri State and in overtime in December at Truman State when the Bulldogs hit a half-court shot at the buzzer for a one-point win.