Missouri S&T Men’s Basketball Notes www.minerathletics.com Facebook.com/MinerSports Twitter.com/MinerSports John Kean, Sports Information Director Office : (573) 341-4140 Cell: (573) 233-6891 E-mail: [email protected] 2015-16 Schedule/Results Missouri S&T Miners vs. Southeast Missouri State (0-0 overall, 0-0 GLVC) • • • Sat., Nov. 7, 2015 Show Me Center Cape Girardeau, Mo. 2 p.m. Date Opponent Time/Score Nov. 7 at Southeast Mo. St. (Exhib.) 2 p.m. Nov. 13 at Ashland 6:30 p.m. Nov. 14 Lake Erie (1) 12 p.m. Nov. 17 MISSOURI BAPTIST 7 p.m. Nov. 21 CENTRAL MISSOURI 7 p.m. Nov. 27 at St. Mary’s 3 p.m. Nov. 28 Angelo State (2) 12:45 p.m. Dec. 3 MARYVILLE* 7:30 p.m. Missouri S&T Southeast Missouri State Ranking: Not ranked Ranking: Not ranked Dec. 5 at Missouri-St. Louis* 3 p.m. 2014-15 Records: 9-17, 2-16 GLVC 2014-15 Records: 13-17, 7-9 OVC Dec. 8 BLACKBURN 5:30 p.m. Head Coach: Jim Glash (49-108, 7th year) Head Coach: Rick Ray (0-0, 1st year) Dec. 12 DRURY* 3 p.m. Dec. 20 WILLIAM WOODS 3 p.m. Dec. 31 PRINCIPIA 2 p.m. MISSOURI S&T PROBABLE STARTERS: Jan. 7 at Wisconsin-Parkside* 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at Lewis* 3 p.m. Jan. 14 SAINT JOSEPH’S* 7:30 p.m. No. Name Ht. Year PPG RPG AST STL Hometown Jan. 16 INDIANAPOLIS* 3 p.m. 12 Desmond Buerge 6-5 Sr. 13.3 5.0 24 43 Carthage, Mo. Jan. 21 at William Jewell* 7:30 p.m. 13 Danylo Zuikov 6-1 Jr. 6.1 2.5 101 24 Kiev, Ukraine Jan. 23 at Rockhurst* 3 p.m. Jan. 28 TRUMAN STATE* 7:30 p.m. 14 Juwan Miller 5-11 So. 9.5 3.0 50 33 Kitchener, Ont. Jan. 30 QUINCY* 3 p.m. 15 Rokas Paulauskas 6-8 Jr. 9.3 6.3 20 23 Talsiai, Lithuania Feb. 4 BELLARMINE* 7:30 p.m. 23 B.J. McLaughlin 6-5 Jr. 8.0 2.9 14 13 Florissant, Mo. Feb. 6 SOUTHERN INDIANA* 3 p.m. *Statistics from 2014-15 season; Paulauskas’ stats from Frank Phillips College. Feb. 11 at McKendree* 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at Illinois Springfield* 3 p.m. Feb. 18 MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS* 7:30 p.m. Today’s Starting Five: Feb. 20 at Maryville* 3 p.m. Feb. 25 at Drury* 7:45 p.m. Feb. 28 GLVC Tournament starts • Missouri S&T plays its only exhibition game of the 2015-16 season Saturday when it travels to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to face Southeast Missouri State of the Ohio Valley Conference. The Miners and All times Central Redhawks have a long history as they played together in the then Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic *Great Lakes Valley Conference game (1) at Ashland, Ohio Association from 1935-91. The schools have had 135 regular season meetings and Saturday’s (2) at San Antonio, Texas game is the fourth pre-season exhibition game between the two. • The Miners were 9-17 in the 2014-15 season, but lost 15 of their final 16 games after an 8-2 start. Game Coverage S&T’s struggles began at the time of Juwan Miller’s season-ending injury, as he missed the last 15 Audio: KTTR Radio (99.7 FM, Rolla) Web: www.minerathletics.com (audio link) games of the year. Missouri S&T was picked to finish seventh in the West Division of the Great Video: www.minerathletics.com (video link) Lakes Valley Conference. Live Stats: www.minerathletics.com (Live stats link) • Southeast Missouri State, who was picked fourth in the Ohio Valley Conference’s West Division, posted a 12-17 record last season. The Redhawks, under the direction of former Mississippi State head coach Rick Ray, return two starters in pre-season All-OVC selection Antonius Cleveland and Isiah Jones; Cleveland is the top returning scorer for Southeast this season as he averaged 10.8 points a game a year ago. • Zach Ellis, the only four-year senior on the Miner roster this year, enters the 2015-16 season just 281 points away from 1,000 for his career. The 1,000-point mark has been reached previously by 23 Miners, the most recent being Bryce Foster late in the 2012-13 season. Ellis is also 25 steals away from reaching 10th place on S&T’s all-time list. Meanwhile, Danylo Zuikov comes into the year needing just eight three-point baskets to reach 100 for his career and can reach the top 10 on the S&T career list with 39 treys this season. • Missouri S&T will open its 2015-16 regular season schedule on Nov. 13 in Ashland, Ohio against Ashland University, the pre-season favorite in the South Division of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. S&T will play Lake Erie the following day in Ashland before hosting Missouri Baptist in its home opener Nov. 17. 2015-16 MISSOURI S&T MEN’S BASKETBALL 2 2015-16 MISSOURI S&T MEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER NO. NAME POS. HT. WT. YR. HOMETOWN/PREVIOUS SCHOOL 2 Ervin Sarajlic F 6-5 205 So. St. Louis, Mo./Oakville HS 10 Brooks Gerrity G 6-2 170 Fr.-R Chesterfield, Mo./Marquette HS 12 Desmond Buerge G 6-5 185 Sr. Carthage, Mo./Cameron University 13 Danylo Zuikov G 6-1 175 Jr. Kiev, Ukraine/LaLumiere School 14 Juwan Miller G 5-11 165 So. Kitchener, Ont./Huron Heights HS 15 Rokas Paulauskas F 6-8 230 Jr. Telsiai, Lithuania/Frank Phillips College 20 Telloy Simon G 6-3 170 Fr. Kitchener, Ont./St. Mary’s HS 21 Quinn Poythress F 6-7 210 Fr. Jackson, Mo./Notre Dame Regional HS 22 Zach Ellis G 6-0 180 Sr. St. Louis, Mo./Whitfield School 23 B.J. McLaughlin F 6-5 190 Sr. Florissant, Mo./Moberly Area CC 25 Jay Corwin F 6-6 210 Jr. Independence, Mo./Crowder College 31 Allen Billinger G 5-11 160 Fr. Murphysboro, Ill./Carbondale HS 40 Tyler Anderson F 6-4 210 Jr. Lee’s Summit, Mo./Lee’s Summit North HS 44 Luke Schnieders F 6-8 170 Fr. O’Fallon, Mo./St. Dominic HS HEAD COACH: Jim Glash ASSISTANT COACHES: Marques Baldwin, Tyrone Davidson MINER TIDBITS: #2 Ervin Sarajlic: Second season in the Miner program...averaged #22 Zach Ellis: Only four-year senior on the 2015-16 S&T roster... 4.3 points and 1.4 rebounds in his freshman year before missing the was the Miners’ second-leading scorer as a junior at 12 points a final seven games due to an injury...scored a season-best nine points game...had 15 double figure games a year ago and has 34 in his on three occasions. career, with a high of 29 vs. Ozark Christian...averaged 8.6 points as a freshman and 7.8 as a sophomore. #10 Brooks Gerrity: Was redshirted last season...avearged 16.2 points and connected on 36.4 percent of his three-point attempts as a #23 B.J. McLaughlin: Averaged eight points a game in his first high school senior...averaged nearly 13 points in his junior year. season at S&T...shot 85.7 percent at the free throw line and also had eight blocks...scored a career-high 17 against William Jewell and #12 Desmond Buerge: Led the Miners in scoring in the 2014-15 finished with eight double figure scoring efforts...played one season season at 13.3 points per game...also led S&T in steals with 43... at UT-Martin and one at Moberly Area Community College before registered a career-high 23 points at Rockhurst and was in double joining the Miners. figures 19 times...played eight games at Cameron in 2013-14; averaged 8.2 per game in 2012-13 at MSU-West Plains. #25 Jay Corwin: Newcomer to the S&T program...scored more than 1,000 points at Blue Springs High School and averaged 17 points as #13 Danylo Zuikov: Led the GLVC in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.16- a senior...attended Crowder College after graduation; school does not to-1 last season...finished third in the GLVC with 101 assists, which sponsor a men’s basketball program. included an S&T single-game record 13 vs. McKendree...scored 6.1 points per game and led the Miners with 37 three-point baskets... #31 Allen Billinger: Newcomer who averaged better than 18 points a averaged 7.2 points a game in his freshman season in 2013-14. game as a high school senior and posted 561 points, the 11th-highest in a year at Carbondale High School...named as the region’s player of #14 Juwan Miller: Averaged 9.5 points, three rebounds and 4.5 the year following the 2014-15 season. assists per game in the first 11 contests before suffering a season- ending injury...had 33 steals in those 11 games which led the GLVC #40 Tyler Anderson: Third year in the S&T program...scored a at the time of the injury...had a season-high 20 points vs. William career-best six points in last year’s finale at Drury and had eight Woods and was in double figures six times. rebounds vs. Ozark Christian. #15 Rokas Paulauskas: Transfer from Frank Phillips College, where #44 Luke Schnieders: Newcomer to the Miners who averaged 9.1 he averaged 9.3 points and 6.3 rebounds a game a year ago...had points as a high school senior and named as his league’s defensive marks of 4.4 points and 5.6 rebounds as a freshman...averaged a player of the year...recorded 122 blocked shots in 27 games last year.