ROLLA, Mo. – After opening its Great Lakes Valley Conference schedule in victorious fashion Monday night, Missouri S&T's men's basketball team will head back on the road this weekend for two more conference clashes as it takes on Quincy and Upper Iowa in a weekend road trip.

The Miners, 4-0 and ranked fifth in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches' poll, will face Quincy at 7:30 p.m., Thursday at QU's Pepsi Arena, then heads north for a 1 p.m. matchup Saturday afternoon against Upper Iowa in Fayette, Iowa.

S&T had five players score in double figures and shot a season-best 57.1 percent from the field as it defeated Lincoln 99-87 Monday in Jefferson City.  Cameron Stovall (St. Louis, MO/Vashon) recorded his second double-double in as many games with 20 points and 10 rebounds, becoming the third player in the GLVC this season to have multiple double-double outings.

Stovall and Alex Benassi (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit), who finished Monday's game with 15 points, share the team's scoring lead as each is averaging 16.3 points per game.  Andrew Young (Ballwin, MO/Marquette) is also scoring in double figures with a mark of 12.7 per contest and is second in rebounding with 6.7 per game to Stovall's nine per contest.

As a team, the Miners lead the GLVC in scoring margin as they are outscoring their foes by an average of 21 points per game – all four S&T wins have come by double figure margins – as well as pacing the league in assists and steals per game and ranking second in rebounding margin behind Illinois Springfield heading into play on Thursday.

ABOUT QUINCY: The Hawks, picked to finish near the bottom of the GLVC in the pre-season poll, come into Thursday's game at 3-3 with the three setbacks coming by a combined seven points.  Quincy has wins over Cedarville and Pittsburg State on its resume this season, while one of the losses was a one-point setback to then nationally-ranked Findlay.

Quincy fell short in its conference opener Monday as it lost 96-92 in overtime to Upper Iowa, despite getting a career-high 29 points from Camren Kincaid.  The Hawks shot 53.6 percent in the game and hit 11 three-pointers, four by Kincaid and three more by Max Booher, last season's GLVC Freshman of the Year.

Kincaid and Booher are among four double figure scorers for Quincy, who is led in that department by Tiernan Stynes at 16.3 points per game.  Booher checks in at 14.8 points a game and has made 41.5 percent of his three-point shots, while Ethyn Brown is scoring 14 points a game and Kincaid is at 12.3 per contest.  The Hawks are averaging 83 points per game, a mark that ranks third in the conference.

ABOUT UPPER IOWA: The Peacocks got 31 points from the GLVC's third-leading scorer, Kyle Hrncir, as they held off Quincy in that overtime contest on Monday.  He had eight of Upper Iowa's 16 points in the overtime period as the Peacocks won their conference opener and improved to 5-1 on the season.

Hrncir, a second-team All-GLVC selection last season, is averaging 20.8 points per game as well as a GLVC-leading 10 rebounds a contest; he has four double-doubles this season which ranks sixth in NCAA Division II.  He is joined by three others in double figures in the scoring column, including Trey Lewis at 13.5 points per game, Tate Petersen at 13.2 per game and Jack Miller with an even 10 per contest.

Petersen is the top three-point shooter in the GLVC by percentage, as he has connected on 53.1 percent of his attempts from long range with 17 successful treys.  The Peacocks have made 60 three-pointers in their first six games, which is tied for the league lead with Illinois Springfield and leads the conference in scoring at 88.2 points per game.