UIndy Greyhounds (8-1, 6-0) at Missouri S&T (3-6, 2-4)
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2 pm ET, Rolla, Mo.
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ON TAP
Already with a share of the conference title in hand, the Greyhounds look to take the 2014 GLVC championship outright when they travel to Missouri S&T this Saturday for the regular season's final road game.

ABOUT MISSOURI S&T
S&T hopes to end a three-game losing streak this weekend.  The Miners started a promising 2-1 in GLVC play before consecutive losses to William Jewell, McKendree and Quincy dropped them in the conference standings.  The schedule has not helped matters, as six of their first nine games were on the road.

S&T tops the league in interceptions (11) and quarterback sacks (40), but ranks last in scoring offense (21.2 ppg) and total offense (317.6).

Defensive lineman Daleroy Davey is second in the conference and sixth in Division II with 11.5 sacks.  Will Brown's four INTs are tied for the GLVC lead.

HOUNDS vs. MINERS
Saturday's opponents have just two games of history, with UIndy coming out on top in both 2012 and '13.  Last season, the Greyhounds celebrated a soggy Homecoming with a 34-3 win at Key Stadium.  The score was tied 3-3 when a 38-minute lightning delay stopped play with 6:22 left in the second.

After earning an interception on the first snap after the stoppage, the Greyhounds ran off 31 unanswered points.  In all, the UIndy defense racked up five interceptions on the night, including three from cornerback Andre Smith.

The game also featured the emergence of Greyhound quarterback Connor Barthel.  After senior All-American Chris Mills sustained a shoulder injury late in the third quarter, Barthel stepped in and led the Hounds on three scoring drives, including one punctuated by his first career touchdown pass - a 13 yarder to Greg Johnson early in the fourth quarter.

#HASHTAG
This season, interact with your fellow Greyhound football fans on Twitter with game-specific hashtags.  Be sure to follow @UIndyAthletics and use the #UINDYvsMST to join the conversation.  Also, follow all the action in the Great Lakes Valley Conference on Twitter this weekend via #GLVCfb.

LAST WEEK
In the NCAA Division II Football Game of the Week, UIndy came out on top in an epic four-overtime battle with in-state rival Saint Joseph's, 36-33.  The Greyhounds overcame a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit to earn the win in front of 6,033 fans at Key Stadium and thousands more nation-wide watching on CBS Sports Network.

Senior Scott Miller sealed the win with a field goal on the final play of the marathon affair.  After the UIndy defense stopped the Pumas on the first possession of the fourth OT, Miller was true from 35 yards out, clinching the victory and upping the Greyhound win streak to seven.

THREE PEAT
Thursday's win and Saturday's William Jewell loss combined to ensure the Greyhounds at least a share of the 2014 GLVC title.  Up two games with just two to play, UIndy will clinch its third consecutive outright league championship with a win at Missouri S&T this week.

UIndy has yet to drop a conference game since the GLVC began sponsoring the sport in 2012.  It enters the week a perfect 21-0 in league play.

GLVC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Miller's game winner helped the Indianapolis native secure his first GLVC Special Teams Player of the Week nod of the season and third of his career.  He also had two more clutch kicks on the night, including a 33-yard field goal in the fourth quarter and a 24 yarder in the first overtime.  He was 3-for-3 on extra-point attempts on the night, with his only missed kick coming on a 54-yard FG try at the end of regulation.  In addition, Miller averaged 53.2 yards on four kickoffs and 37.5 yards on four punts, dropping two inside the 10.

Miller joins teammates John Strickland (defensive), Rob Dury (2 defensive) and Matt Ripp (offensive) as 2014 GLVC weekly award winners.  UIndy is the only league member to garner the award in all three weekly categories this season.

AN ARM & A LEG
Quarterback Connor Barthel was another Greyhound that had a noteworthy performance versus Saint Joseph's.  The junior signal caller accounted for 388 total yards of offense and four touchdowns on the night.  He completed 35-of-51 pass attempts for a career-high 339 yards and two TDs, while adding 49 rushing yards and a pair of rushing touchdowns  - both in overtime - on seven carries.

Barthel enters the week just 235 yards shy of becoming the eighth Greyhound ever to reach 4,000 passing yards in a career.

THE NIGHT WAS YOUNG
Senior wideout Logan Young had a career night versus the Pumas, notching his first career 100-yard receiving game.  A former standout at Delta High School in Muncie, Ind., Young amassed personal highs in receptions (9) and receiving yards (107) while adding the game-tying touchdown in the final minute of the fourth quarter.

BAIT N' TACKLE
Five Greyhounds racked up at least 10 tackles last week, with Koby Orris (15), Eddie Antonietti (13), Josh Bass (12), Jake Grossnickle (12) and Rob Dury (10) all reaching double digits.  Orris, Antonietti and Bass all notched career highs in the category, while Dury's total upped his season tally to a GLVC-high 104.  He is the first Greyhound with 100+ tackles in a season since 2012 and the first sophomore the reach the plateau since Max Davis in 2010.

REECE WHO?
For the second time this month, sophomore offensive lineman Hayden Janney showed up in the box score with a pass reception.  Late in the fourth quarter versus St. Joseph's, the 6-4, 303-pound tackle corralled a deflected pass and advanced it eight yards.  Two plays later, the Greyhounds found the end zone for the game-tying (and overtime-forcing) touchdown.
 
Janney also caught a pass at Quincy Oct. 4.  As noted by UIndyAthletics.com at the time, he was the first o-lineman to catch a pass for the Hounds since Andy Moore on Nov. 8, 2003.  Janney may well be the first-ever Greyhound offensive lineman to catch two passes in a season, but that accomplishment could not be confirmed.

REGIONAL CONCERNS
The Greyhounds remained at No. 5 in this week's NCAA D-II Super Region Four rankings.  UIndy is on pace for their third straight playoff berth, as just six teams from each region will advance to the 24-team NCAA D-II Championships next month.

A total of 42 teams make up Division II's fourth "super region," as members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC), the Lone Star Conference (LSC) and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) comprise the lot.

Undefeated Ferris State remained in the top spot, followed by a slew of one-loss squads.  Ohio Dominican moved up to No. 2, switching spots with Colorado State-Pueblo.  Colorado Mines remained in fourth, followed by UIndy, Michigan Tech and Ashland, et al.

The Greyhounds, who are unbeaten in Division II play, are the only GLVC team in the top 10.

POLL POSITION
Winners of its last seven games, the Hounds returned to the American Football Coaches Association Division II Poll.  UIndy broke in this week at No. 25 after a seven-week absence from the weekly poll.

Prior to this week, the Hounds were last ranked in the Sep. 8 edition of the AFCA poll, but a week-two loss at Saint Xavier knocked them out of the top 25.  UIndy has won every game since, however, to force its way back into the national rankings.

See below for UIndy's AFCA poll history.
 

	Pre	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	W11	FINAL
2012	RV	-	-	-	-	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	19	18	15
2013	19	14	12	22	21	T21	21	20	18	13	11	10	18
2014	18	15	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	25

_{RV = receiving votes}