ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T will play in a Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament game for the first time since the 2016-17 season Monday night as the Miners will travel to the state of Indiana to take on the University of Indianapolis in a first round matchup at 7 p.m., Eastern time.

The Miners, seeded 11^th for the tournament, comes into the game on a high note after knocking off a Lewis team that was holding the top seed for the event entering play on Saturday; S&T's 80-61 win moved the Miners to 11-16 overall and to a final mark of 7-13 in the GLVC.  They will face an Indianapolis team that recorded two wins over them this season, including one 11 days earlier in the Indiana capitol city.

The winner of Monday's contest will face the winner of the Truman State-Rockhurst matchup on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Edwardsville, Ill.

Missouri S&T had one of its most complete efforts of the season to beat Lewis on Saturday, as they shot 57.7 percent from the field in the second half and held the Flyers to just 33.3 percent shooting overall and to a four-of-22 mark from three-point range.  Julien Smith (Fort Worth, TX/Northwest) led four players in double figures with 22 points and comes into Monday's game ranked third in the GLVC in scoring with an average of 19.2 points per contest.

Smith also ranks second in the conference in three-pointers made per game with 3.2 and is the top 10 in the league in free throw percentage at 83.5 percent.  Meanwhile, Kaden Froebe (Lincoln, IL/Lincoln) posted his fourth double-double of the season on Saturday with 13 points and 13 rebounds; he is averaging 11.3 points per game and has moved into the top 10 in the GLVC in rebounding with a team-high 6.6 per game.

Alex Strating (Wassenaar, Netherlands/American School of the Hague) is also scoring in double figures with his average of 10.4 points per game and leads the GLVC in field goal percentage at 63 percent, while Mahamadou Kaba-Camera (Conakry, Guinea/Balboa City (San Diego, CA)) has recorded 31 blocked shots and ranks sixth in the conference in that category.  Both players were also in double figures in the scoring column on Saturday as Strating had 17 points and Kaba-Camera finished with 11.

ABOUT INDIANAPOLIS: The Greyhounds come into Monday's game at 16-10 overall and finished 10-8 in the GLVC following a 75-69 loss Saturday at Maryville that snapped a three-game winning streak, despite getting 22 points from Cory Miller, Jr.  UIndy won four of its last six games in the regular season and won its last three home games by an average of 27.7 points per game.

UIndy has three double figure scorers in Miller with an average of 15.6 points per game, Jesse Bingham at 15.2 per contest – they rank eighth and ninth, respectively, in the GLVC in scoring -- and Kendrick Tchoua at 10.8 per game. Bingham had 22 points to pace the Greyhounds in their win Thursday at Lindenwood and led them in scoring in both of their wins over the Miners this season, scoring 26 in the game in Rolla and 23 in the return matchup in Indianapolis.

Tchoua is eighth in the GLVC in rebounding with a team-best 6.7 per game and also ranks fifth in the conference in field goal percentage as he is shooting 60.1 percent from the floor.  Dee Montgomery leads the Greyhounds with 82 assists.