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KIRKSVILLE, Mo.—The Truman State Men's Basketball team has now won three in a row with victories last week over Southern Indiana, William Jewell and at Drury. The successful week moved the Bulldogs up a spot as they are now 12th in the NABC poll this week. The season continues this week as they host Missouri S&T as well as Maryville, looking for payback against the lone team to defeat them this season in the latter.

Against the Screaming Eagles, Truman got off to a slow start but rallied in the second half to win the game. Elijah Hazekamp scored 16 points to lead the way while Cade McKnight scored 15 and Masen Miller and Dylan Peeters each had 13. Hazekamp also led the way with seven rebounds while Peeters grabbed four. Against the Cardinals Alex McQuinn, Turner Scott and McKnight each had 15 points to tie for the team lead--for McQuinn it was a career high. In a crucial game at Drury McKnight had 17, while Masen Miller drained five threes and finished with 16 points. Conely Garrison came into the game leading the GLVC with 25.8 points a game for Drury, but the Bulldogs held him to just three points.

At 17.9 points per game, McKnight now is tied for sixth in the GLVC in points per game; with Julien Smith of Missouri S&T. He has broken the 20 point barrier twice this season with 26 against UMSL (one shy of his career high) and 25 against Quincy. He's very close to the 900 point mark for his career at 891 entering Thursday night's game.

Peeters remains second in the conference in rebounds per game with 9.7, trailing only Josh Price of Southern Indiana. He's also third on the team with 13.2 points per game and leads with ten blocks. His double-double count is at six, tied with Jared Vitztum of Fort Hays State for the most in the nation.

Scott is averaging a career high 11.6 points per game, and needs just 124 more to reach 1,000. He leads the GLVC in assists with 6.0 per game, and has now tied Jimmy Gooden for fifth place in program history with 356. Cory Myers is in fourth place with 471. With 20 three pointers, he is second on the team trailing only Masen Miller's 29. Miller leads the GLVC in threes made and in threes made per game.

Elijah Hazekamp has shown his range from outside the arc so far this season as he is third on the team with 16 three point buckets. He scored in double figures five times so far this season and is second on the team with 6.4 rebounds per game.

As a team, Truman ranks second in scoring with 80 points per game and fifth in scoring defense at 71.2 allowed per game. The +8.8 difference is second only to Southwest Baptist.

Miners Scouting Report

Bill Walker is in his second season leading the Miners, and has led his team to victories over William Jewell and Drury so far this season. Freshman guard Julien Smith is tied for sixth in the conference in points per game and Kaden Froebe leads the conference in steals per game with 2.7.

The Miners are averaging 75.3 points per game and allowing 82.5.

Saints Scouting Report

Owen Long is second in the conference with 23 points per game, and Daniel Farris is second in the conference with 5.6 assists per game. They are averaging 72 points per game as a team and allowing 76.6.

The Saints beat S&T in the season opener, then downed Illinois Springfield before defeating Truman in the first matchup this season. But they are currently riding a three game losing streak with losses to Lewis, Drury and UIS.

Series Histories

The Bulldogs have a long running series with the Miners, dating all the way back to 1923. Over nearly a century, the two schools have met 149 times to date. The Bulldogs own a decisive edge in the series, with 100 wins to 49 for S&T. The two have met 10 times as members of the GLVC, with Truman taking nine of those meetings. Currently Truman is on a six game winning streak. 

Truman dropped the first meeting to Maryville this season, making the all time series 10-4 in favor of the Bulldogs. The two met three times before both were members of the GLVC, and Maryville took two of them. Truman won the first seven matchups between the two as GLVC opponents but the last four matchups have been split evenly.

Coming Up

The Bulldogs will continue their homestand as they host Lindenwood and UMSL next week. Thursday the Lions will come to Kirksville for a 7:30 tip off and UMSL will come in for a 2 o'clock start on Saturday.