Miners Start Title Defense Season with 68-56 Victory over KWC

OWENSBORO, KY — Missouri S&T Men’s Basketball opened their 2025–26 campaign on a high note, defeating the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers 68–56 in Saturday’s season opener. Zac Brown (Collinsville, OK/Collinsville) scored the Miners’ first four points of the game, knocking down a pair of shots in the paint and contributing a block and a rebound in the opening minutes. Kentucky Wesleyan then took their largest lead of the game, going ahead 11–8 at the 13:47 mark. S&T responded with seven quick points in under a minute, getting a triple and a paint bucket from Andrew Young (Ballwin, MO/Marquette) to take a…