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(LEBANON, Ill., Feb. 6)--The McKendree University men's basketball team has a busy weekend on tap when its hosts Drury University and Missouri S & T in Great Lakes Valley Conference play at the Harry M. Statham Sports Center. 

Both games can be seen live on the Bearcat Sports Network at www.mckbearcats.com/watchlive. Scott Cummings will have the call of Thursday's game, while Joe Zydlo will return as the lead broadcaster for Saturday's contest. Kent Zimmerman will provide the color commentary both days. 

Drury, which won the NCAA Division II national championship a year ago, will come to town for a 7:30 p.m. game on Thursday, while Missouri S & T will be the Bearcats' opponent for Senior Day on Saturday. McKendree will honor senior players Clinton Happe (Evansville, IN/F.J. Reitz) and Will Kirksey (St. Louis, MO/Lafayette), along with senior student coaches Shay Kellerman and Caleb Batson, prior to Saturday's 3 p.m. tip-off. 

McKendree will be playing its fourth consecutive game against an opponent either ranked or receiving votes in the NABC/NCAA Division II poll when Drury takes the floor. The Bearcats are currently 8-10 overall and 2-8 in GLVC play. McKendree is in the hunt for one of 12 berths in the GLVC Tournament, which begins with first-round play on March 2 at campus sites. The Bearcats last played on Saturday, when they held a one-point lead at the half at the University of Southern Indiana before the 15th-ranked Screaming Eagles rallied for a 90-74 win. Logan Carson (DuQuoin, IL/DuQuoin) notched his second straight 20-point scoring effort by leading the Bearcats with 22 points at USI. Matt Holmes (Houston, TX/Marshall) registered 18 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Clinton Happe (Evansville, IN/F.J. Reitz) scored 13 points playing in his hometown of Evansville, Ind., for the final time. In three games on the Southern Indiana floor, Happe averaged 17.7 points per contest. 

Happe, who now has 1,066 career points, has moved into 40th place on the Bearcats' all-time scoring list. He leads McKendree in scoring at 16.3 points per game and is the top free throw shooter in the GLVC at 87.6 percent. Junior forward Arthur Williams (Cairo, IL/Cairo) still paces the Bearcats in rebounding at 7.9 per game and sits seventh in the conference in that category. 

Following this weekend's play, McKendree will have just one home game left on its 2013-14 regular-season schedule. The Bearcats have rescheduled their make-up date with Maryville University for Monday, Feb. 17. That contest will tip off at 7:30 p.m.

ABOUT DRURY: The Panthers enter Thursday's game with an overall record of 18-1. Drury sits atop the GLVC West Division standings at 10-1, which is tied with the University of Wisconsin-Parkside for the best record in the league. The Panthers ended the 2012-13 season on a 23-game win streak in claiming its first-ever NCAA Division II title, then opened this season with 11 straight victories before dropping its only contest of the year to then-No. 2 Bellarmine University 85-77 back on Jan. 9. Since the loss to Bellarmine, Drury has reeled off seven consecutive wins. 

Drury is led by the one-two punch of sophomore guard Kameron Bundy and junior forward Cameron Adams. Bundy leads the team in scoring at 18.1 points per game and also paces the Panthers in assists (71) and steals (31). Adams is right behind Bundy in the scoring column at 17.7 points per outing and leads Drury in rebounding at 5.9 caroms a game. As a team, the Panthers lead the GLVC in field goal percentage at nearly 52.9 percent, and also tops the league in three-point field goal percentage at 43.9 percent. 

Steven Hesser is in his 10th season as the head coach at Drury. In that time, Hesser has collected 213 wins. He was named the NABC Division II National Coach of the Year in 2012-13 after leading the Panthers to their national title.

McKendree and Drury have not met on the basketball court since the 1992-93 season, when the Panthers swept the regular-season series from the Bearcats. Drury notched a 91-76 win on Jan. 26, 1993 in Springfield, Mo., before hanging on to post an 84-79 triumph on Feb. 15, 1993 in Lebanon. 

ABOUT MISSOURI S & T: The Miners bring a 9-10 overall record and 4-7 GLVC mark into the weekend. Missouri S & T will be at the University of Illinois Springfield for a conference game on Thursday before making the trip to the Statham Center for Saturday's contest with the Bearcats. The Miners currently sit in a tie for fifth place in the GLVC West standings. Missouri S & T had a four-game win streak stopped last week with a pair of losses against divisional foes, falling 109-105 in overtime at Quincy University before suffering a 93-77 setback on Truman State University . 

Senior guard/forward Bryce Foster is currently second in the GLVC in scoring at 21.9 points per game. Foster is shooting nearly 50 percent from the field and 81 percent from the charity stripe. Senior guard Mudiaga Eruteya is second on the squad in scoring at 17.9 points per outing and tops the Miners in rebounding at 8.2 boards a game, a figure which is tied for fourth in the GLVC. 

Jim Glash is in his fifth season as the head coach at Missouri S & T. The nine victories amassed by the Miners marks the most victories by the program under Glash, who came to Missouri S & T after spending nine seasons as the head coach at Olney Central College. 

Saturday's game will mark the first meeting on the basketball court between McKendree and Missouri S & T since Harry Statham's inaugural season as the Bearcats' head coach back in 1966-67. The host Miners -- known back then as the University of Missouri-Rolla -- claimed a 99-71 win.