Leading scorer Alex LaPorta has helped the UMSL Tritons get off to an 8-1 start this season. (Photo courtesy: UMSL Athletics)

by Torrance Terrell
Staff Writer

The Great Lakes Valley Conference announced on Thursday, that both of the University of Missouri-St. Louis basketball games scheduled to be played at Lewis University this evening will be postponed due to COVID protocols within the Flyers’ program.

The women’s game was scheduled to be played at Lewis’ Neil Carey Arena in Romeoville, Ill., at 5:30 p.m., with the men’s game slated to begin around 7:30 p.m. Instead though, neither game will be played Thursday evening, but the league hopes to make up the games at a later date.

The Tritons will continue their road trip. They’ll still play their games scheduled for Saturday against Illinois-Springfield, and then play at Indianapolis on Monday, before returning home for a pair of important contests against Truman State, next Thursday, January 20.

The women’s game that evening will begin at 5:30 p.m., and then men’s game will tipoff at 7:30 p.m.