The nationally 21st-ranked Drury Lady Panthers will wrap up a four-game Great Lakes Valley Conference road swing later this week by visiting Maryville (5:15 p.m. Thursday) and Missouri-St. Louis (1 p.m. Saturday) in St. Louis.

Coach Molly Miller's Lady Panthers (12-3, 6-1 in the GLVC) had a nine-game winning streak snapped with last Saturday's 80-64 loss at William Jewell, a setback that dropped Drury seven spots to No. 21 in the USA TODAY Sports/WBCA Top 25 national poll released on Tuesday.

The Lady Panthers will look to bounce back against a Maryville team that's 10-6 overall and 4-3 in the GLVC after posting a 57-48 home victory over UMSL on Monday. 

Drury will then play UMSL on Saturday; the Tritons are 7-8 overall and 3-4 in the GLVC entering Thursday's home game vs. Missouri S&T.

Maryville, which bounced DU from the GLVC Championships post-season tourney (56-55) last March in Evansville in their last meeting, is 5-1 this season at home. The Saints, coached by Chris Ellis, are led by senior guard Shelby Miller and her 15.8 points per game. Miller, averaging 19.6 points in league play, has also made a team-high 38 3-pointers. Alex Hillyer, a 6-3 junior, adds 12.5 points and 5.8 rebounds, and Jordynn Martin, a 5-9 junior, is adding 11.9 points per game. Maryville receives 9.1 points and a team-high 8.8 rebounds from Jade Rogers, a 6-0 junior.

Drury leads the all-time series with Maryville 8-3 after last season's split, which included an 89-83 win for the Lady Panthers at the O'Reilly Family Event Center.

Annie Armstrong leads three Lady Panthers scoring in double-figures with 14.1 points per game. Sanayika Shields adds 12.4 points and a team-high 9.1 rebounds, while Addy Roller contributes 10.9 points per game.

Thursday's game can be heard on JOCK 98.7 FM (www.jock987.com) and viewed at a free, live webcast at www.maryvillesaints.com/watch.

LADY PANTHERS NOTES

*Shields now has 482 career rebounds, ranking her ninth on the all-time DU charts. She needs 31 rebounds to surpass Abby Bracker (512 from 2009-13) for eighth place on the list. She's posted six points-rebounds, double-doubles this season.

*Armstrong has made 53 of 55 free throws this season, her .964 percentage tops in the nation in NCAA-II. She's made 103 of 110 free throws (.936) since transferring to Drury at the start of her sophomore season from Eckerd College.

*Roller ranks ninth nationally (and first in the GLVC) with her 2.62 assist/turnover ratio. As a team, the Lady Panthers are fourth nationally in fewest turnovers per game (11.1) and No. 1 in free-throw percentage (.815).

*While 21st in this week's USA TODAY Sports national poll, the Lady Panthers are No. 15 in the latest Massey Ratings, a computer ranking system that factors in strength of schedule, etc., having fallen nine spots after the loss at William Jewell.

*The Lady Panthers, after this St. Louis swing, will play seven of their final nine games at the O'Reilly Family Event Center, where they are a combined 20-2 the past two seasons and lead the GLVC in attendance with 1,778 fans per game, well ahead of runner-up Quincy (568 per game).