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Opponent: Missouri Southern
Time: Thursday, February 18; 7:30 PM
Location: Meyer Sports Center; Bolivar, Mo.

Bolivar, Mo. - Southwest Baptist continues their three game homestand to close out the home portion of their schedule.

The Coaches and the All-Time Series
SBU head coach Clark Sheehy begins his second season on the SBU bench after coming off of a 11-18 (6-13 MIAA) record last season. Coach Sheehy holds a career coaching record of 193-119 across ten seasons while coaching six different All-Americans and over 20 athletes that have moved on to play professional basketball.

Jeff Boschee enters his 2nd season as the head coach at Missouri Southern. Boschee holds a career coaching record of 20-11 after spending the previous four seasons as an assistant and associate head coach at Southern.

Missouri Southern leads the all-time series against Southwest Baptist 50-42. The Lions claimed an 80-63 victory over the Bearcats earlier this season in Joplin.

Scouting the Bearcats
The Bearcats are coming off of a big 76-70 victory over Central Missouri, and are now 10-14 (5-13 MIAA) on the season. The Bearcats are led in scoring and rebounding by Logan Hovey who averages 15.4 ppg and 7.6 rpg, while Brian Patterson averages 12.3 ppg and 5.0 rpg. Cartier Dean averages 8.2 ppg, while Kai Woodfall averages 8.0 ppg and Kalehl Brown 7.5 ppg.

Scouting the Lions
Missouri Southern enters the game at Southwest Baptist 8-6 (5-3 MIAA) on the season. MSSU has dropped two straight, most recently to Fort Hays State 84-83 in overtime. Taevaunn Prince is the leading scorer for MSSU, averaging 25.6 ppg and 10.9 rpg. Charlie Brown is also in double-figures at 14.4 ppg, while Austin Wright averages 12.1 ppg.