ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — After a hot shooting night led to a win on Thursday, Henderson State will look to go 2-0 this week when it hosts Arkansas-Monticello at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Duke Wells Center.

REDDIES REPORT
- The Reddies (15-6, 10-5) could not miss Thursday on the road in Magnolia and shot 58.8% from the floor to run past Southern Arkansas 95-80. HSU was 8-of-11 from 3-point range in the game's final 20 minutes and shot just under 70% from the field in the second half. It was Henderson's best shooting game of the year against an NCAA DII team.

- Thursday's win kept Henderson in a tie for second-place in the GAC standings alongside East Central. Both schools trail first place Southeastern Oklahoma State and Southern Nazarene by a single game with seven conference contests remaining in the regular season. The top eight schools in the league standings at season's end will earn bids to the GAC Tournament in Bartlesville, Oklahoma March 5-8.

- Anthony Lupardus was terrific against the Muleriders and finished with a team-high 18 points. The senior from Kansas City, Missouri hit five of his eight 3-point attempts and is now shooting 48.9% from beyond the arc this season — a percentage which would rank Top-10 in the country if he had taken enough threes to qualify (46-for-94). A willing team player, Thursday was the first GAC contest, and just the third contest overall this season, in which Lupardus took 10 or more shots. 

- HSU has been fantastic at home this season and enters Saturday's contest 10-0 in the Duke Wells Center on the year with seven of those victories coming in conference play. The Reddies have just four home conference games remaining and all four come against teams with losing records in the GAC.

- Arkansas-Monticello has made life difficult for Henderson in the past several years. The Reddies have not beaten UAM since 2016 and have lost seven-straight meetings with the Weevils. HSU has defeated every other GAC opponent twice since it last beat Monticello. 

SCOUTING ARKANSAS-MONTICELLO
- UAM comes into Saturday's game 15-9 overall and 7-8 in GAC action. The Weevils opened the conference season 5-1 but have gone just 2-6 in their last eight league games and have dropped seven of their last nine overall. UAM is second in the conference in scoring offense (85.3 points per game) and third in team field goal percentage (47.2%).

- Monticello has five players who average double figures and is led by point guard KJ Lesure, who is averaging 18.4 points and 6.3 assists per game this year. Austin Hardy, who averages just under 12 points per game, had one of his best games of the season in the first matchup with HSU. Hardy poured in 23 points on 8-of-15 shooting and also grabbed 11 rebounds.

- The Weevils completed a comeback for the ages in the first meeting with Henderson this year. The Reddies led by as many as 19 in the first half on the road in Monticello and were up 16 points at halftime, but UAM out-scored HSU 60-40 in the second period to defeat the Reddies 86-82.