Missouri S&T Miners (1-3, 0-0 GLVC) at  21 UIndy Greyhounds (3-1, 0-0)
Saturday, Oct. 5, 6 PM, Indianapolis, Ind.
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ON TAP
The Greyhounds open conference play when the Missouri S&T Miners come to town for a homecoming clash Satruday, Oct. 5.

HOUNDS ON TV
Produced by WebStream Productions, four of UIndy's six home games, including Saturday's Missouri S&T contest, will air on WRTV 6.2 HTSN.  Those four match-ups will also be replayed on HTSN, with each game being re-aired the following Sunday at both 11 AM and 4 PM.  Click here to find where to tune into HTSN in your area.

All six of UIndy's home football games will be available online for free via video stream, with the four WebStream games streaming live on the RTV6 app and on theIndyChannel.com.

HOUNDS ON THE RADIO
In addition to the aforementioned television broadcast, the Greyhounds can be heard on the radio at WICR 88.7 FM.  You can also catch the an audio stream on the Internet at wicr.uindy.edu/audio.

ABOUT MISSOURI S&T
Led by first-year head coach Tyler Fenwick, the Miners bring a 1-3 record into Key Stadium Saturday.  Fenwick spent the previous six seasons as the offensive coordinator at Missouri Western State University; the Griffins made the NCAA Division II playoffs all six years while compiling a 53-18 (.746) record in that span.

UIndy will be the third ranked team the Miners have faced this season; S&T is 0-2 in the previous two such contests, including a double-overtime loss to No. 20 Chadron in week one and a lopsided 63-3 defeat at sixth-ranked Missouri Western, Fenwick's former team, the following week

Two Saturdays ago, the Miners recorded their first victory of the season -- a 27-14 home win against Wisconsin-LaCrosse.  Sophomore running back Zenel Hudson recorded a gaudy 222 rushing yards in the win, good for the highest total in the GLVC this season.

GREYHOUNDS vs. MINERS
Last year's 54-35 win in Rolla, Mo., marked the first-ever match-up between the Hounds and Miners.  S&T went on to finish the season 10-1, with the UIndy loss being their only blemish.

After trailing 14-7, UIndy exploded for 40 unanswered points, including 26 in the second quarter alone.  The Greyhounds rode the efforts of Klay Fiechter, who finished with an impressive 272 all-purpose yards and a career-high-tying four touchdowns.  One hundred and ninety of his yards came on the ground, including a 78-yard scoring scamper in the third quarter.

LAST TIME OUT
The Hounds recorded their second non-conference region win with a 17-14 triumph at former-GLIAC-rival Hillsdale last week.  UIndy scored the first 17 points of the game and eventually held on for the win.

The Greyhound defense surrendered just nine first downs and one offensive touchdown all game.  Hillsdale's first-down total matched the lowest allowed by UIndy since 2007 when Findlay moved the chains just seven times in a 34-3 Greyhound win.

TO THE VINCENT GO THE SPOILS
By spearheading UIndy's defense attack last weekend, senior Vince Maida was dubbed the GLVC Defensive Player of the Week Monday.  The four-year starting defensive end racked up a personal-best 2.5 sacks.  All three sacks helped end Hillsdale drives, with the first setting up a 3rd & 11 situation that led to a Greyhound interception.

Maida's accolade marked the third time in four weeks that a Greyhound received a weekly award from the conference.  Fiechter (offensive, 9/9) and senior Todd Hacker (defensive, 9-16) have also earned recognition this season.

Maida's 4.5 sacks on the season are good for tops in the GLVC.

HAPPY HOMECOMING
UIndy has enjoyed recent success in its annual homecoming game.  The Greyhounds have won each of their last two and eight of their last nine homecoming tilts.  UIndy averaged 50.5 points on its last two homecoming dates, including a 56-0 rout of in-state Saint Joseph's last season.

Click here to view the universities official homecoming page.

POLL POSITION
UIndy inched up one spot to No. 21 in this week's American Football Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Poll.  The Hounds have appeared in all five editions of the coaches' poll this season and have been ranked for eight consecutive polls dating back to 2012.

INTERCEPT COURSE
Six different Greyhound defenders have combined for seven interceptions this year, good for 11th in the nation.  Junior Koby Orris, who had a pick last week at Hillsdale, is the only Hound with two interceptions to date.

RANK & FILE
UIndy also ranks highly among its Division II peers in fewest penalties per game (T-5th, 3.5), time of possession (34:10, 8th), 3rd-down conversion percentage (13th, .492) and passing yards allowed per game (20th, 174.3).

THE BIG 4-0
In just his 61st game as an NCAA head coach, Bob Bartolomeo picked up career win No. 40 last Saturday.  Coach "Bart" has won twice as many games as he has lost in his three-plus seasons at UIndy -- 26-13 (.667) --  while sporting a nearly-identical 40-20-1 (.664) career mark.

Before getting the head job at UIndy in 2010, Bartolomeo spent two seasons as the head man at cross-town Butler in 1990 and '91, winning Coach of the Year honors from the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference the latter season.

HISTORIC NIGHT?
Senior running back and return man Klay Fiechter is on the verge of breaking one of the longest-standing marks in the UIndy record book.  The versatile back enters play Saturday with 30 career rushing touchdowns, tied with Jim Ware (1959-62) for the most in school history.

In addition, Fiechter's 3,087 career rushing yards are a mere 95 short of second place (Craig Jenkins, 2004-08) on the program's all-time list.

NOT YOUR RUN-OF-THE-MILL QB
Senior quarterback Chris Mills now holds nearly every major passing record in the UIndy career annals.  The Lafayette, Ind., native sports career statistics of 689 completions, 8619 passing yards and 72 passing touchdowns, all good for program benchmarks.

After snapping the school record for career passing yards last week and career completions the week before, Mills is just 17 passing attempts shy of breaking a third UIndy career record in as many weeks.

HOMELAND SECURITY
The Greyhounds have won each of their last eight games at Key Stadium, including all six home games in 2012.  They are a combined 13-1 at Key over the last three  seasons, with their only loss coming to eventual national-runner-up Wayne State in the 2011 home finale.

STAY CLASSY
With 26 victories to its credit, this year's senior class needs three more wins to set a new school record for wins in a four-year period. The current mark of 28 is shared by the 1983-86 and the 1984-87 groups. Three other classes have won 27 games in four consecutive years, including last year's senior class.