This weekend's Ramada Plaza Hotel/Oasis Convention Center Thanksgiving Classic at The O', at a glance ...

*THE SCHEDULE: Drury (3-0) will play Concordia-St. Paul at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and Trevecca Nazarene at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. Maryville (     ) will play Trevecca Nazarene at 7:45 p.m. Friday and Concordia-St. Paul at 7:45 p.m. Saturday.

*THE PROMOTIONS: Friday marks the fourth annual "Free Friday" promotion, with all fans admitted for free to all four games that day (including the DU Panthers vs. Cameron at 3:15 p.m.). Saturday is the first "Santa Saturday," with Santa Claus appearing on the Panther Deck from 3 to 7 p.m. to accept wish lists and take pictures with our young fans. Dessert treats from Andy's Frozen Custard will be available for purchase at the south concession stand and the "Twelve Days of Christmas" prize giveaways will happen on Friday as well.

*RADIO/TV/INTERNET: Both Drury games can be heard on JOCK 98.7 FM (online at www.jock987.com). There will be no live streaming of the games this weekend.

*ABOUT THE LADY PANTHERS: Coach Molly Miller's Lady Panthers, who climbed three spots this week to No. 8 in the USA TODAY/WBCA Top 25 Coaches Poll, are off to a 3-0 start after picking up an 86-71 victory over Centrral Missouri Tuesday night. Drury trailed 20-8 until the final seconds of the first quarter, when junior Hannah Dressler launched a half-court heave that went in (and later that night, made ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 plays) to energize the Lady Panthers to outscore the Jennies 35-15 in the second period and seize command. Drury hit 14 of 16 shots in the second quarter and hit 52 percent for the game. Senior Brook Duncan, a transfer from Southwest Baptist, had her best game as a Lady Panther with team highs of 20 points and seven rebounds, while returning All-GLVC senior guard Annie Armstrong added 17 points and five assists as Drury picked up its third straight win against an MIAA foe to start this season. Armstrong averages 14.3 points to lead four Lady Panthers scoring in double-figures, while Duncan is averaging 14.0 points and 6.5 rebounds through two games (she missed the SBU contest with a concussion). Drury will be playing Trevecca Nazarene for the first time and is 1-0 against Concordia - a 100-73 Lady Panthers' victory on December 2, 2004 in a Florida event.

*SCOUTING CONCORDIA: The Golden Bears from St. Paul, Minnesota are members of the Northern Sun Conference. They are off to a 3-1 start, including a pair of wins in their own classic event last weekend over Jamestown (93-91 in overtime) and No. 8 Michigan Tech (86-77). In the latter, Concordia rallied from a 42-31 halftime deficit to charge back and outscore the perennial national power 55-35 in the second half on 16-of-26 shooting (62 percent). Anna Schmitt, a 5-7 freshman, had 22 points, six rebounds and six assists to lead the Golden Bears, who were preseason picks to finish ninth in the NSC. Lauren Shifflett, a 5-8 sophomore, averages 15.8 points to pace four Concordia players in double-figures, with Schmitt adding 13.3 points. Kyrah Fredenburg, a 5-11 sophomore, is averaging a team-high 10.0 rebounds for a squad that's pulling down 48 rebounds to just 40 per game by their opponents. Head coach Paul Fessler has guided Concordia to 10 NCAA-II tourney appearances in his first 15 years at the school.

*SCOUTING TREVECCA NAZARENE: The Trojans from Nashville, Tennessee are members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (GMAC) and have started the season 1-4, including an 80-71 home loss to Ohio Dominican on Tuesday. Sarah Raby, a 6-0 junior, averages 11.8 points and 5-6 senior Paige Baugher adds 10.8 points for Trevecca, which has shot just 35 percent from the field over its first five contests. Gary Van Atta is in his 11th season as coach of the Trojans, including back-to-back regular season championships in the GMAC in 2012-13 and 2013-14. The Trojans, a 17-10 overall finisher last season, are picked for third in the GMAC preseason poll this season.

*ABOUT MARYVILLE: Drury's "flip partner" in the Thanksgiving Classic is fellow GLVC member Maryville. The Saints of coach Chris Ellis are 3-0 on the season, and are led by the 16.0 points and 8.7 rebounds per game of 6-3 senior Alex Hillyer. Carly Frala is averaging 13.7 points for a Saints team with four players averaging in double-digits. Drury visits Maryville on Saturday, December 5 for its second GLVC game of the season, and will host the Saints at The O' on Thursday, February 18. Maryville was picked for a fifth-place finish in the GLVC West preseason poll of league coaches.

*ARMSTRONG CLIMBING CHARTS: DU senior guard Annie Armstrong, with 43 points through three games this year, now has 735 in her three seasons with the Lady Panthers after the Springfield Kickapoo HS product transferred back home from Eckerd (Fla.) College. Armstrong, who led the nation in free-throw percentage (.956 last season), is closing in on No. 15 Becky Flippin (773 points from 2005-08) on the DU career charts. 

*SUPER SUB: Sophomore guard Heather Harman has taken on a "super sub" role, averaging 11.7 points in three games off the bench to tie for third on the team in scoring - ironically, with junior guard Alice Heinzler, who was the Lady Panthers' top backcourt spark in a reserve role last season, but has moved into the starting lineup in 2015-16.

*LADY PANTHERS AT HOME: Drury has won 13 consecutive games at the O'Reilly Family Center, dating back to a 78-73 loss to Pitt State in the opening game of last year's Thanksgiving Classic. Drury is 29-2 over the last two-plus seasons (14-1 at home under coach Molly Miller) and 57-13 overall in the six-year-old arena on the DU campus.