Southeast Mens Basketball

Southeast Missouri State's rare run in the NCAA Tournament ended before it began in the First Four. The aftermath was met with Phillip Russell's announcement on social media to enter the transfer portal, compounding the natural departure of Chris Harris, who will likely go down as one of the greatest players in Redhawk history...

Southeast Missouri State guard Phillip Russell announced via Twitter on Monday that he has entered the transfer portal. Russell is coming off a season where he averaged 18.1 points per game and 5.1 assists a game leading the Redhawks to their first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament Championship since 2000...

The common themes enveloping Southeast Missouri State athletics in recent years have been two things: Elite student-athletes achieving greatness. Anyone that follows Redhawk athletics can point to the never-ending list of championships won throughout the athletic department, all of which took student-athletes who are certainly worthy of future consideration as SEMO Hall of Famers.

DAYTON, OHIO - Over the two-day stretch in Dayton you wouldn’t have a hard time seeing the support the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks had. That was true as Redhawk fans and alumni met at Warped Wing Brewing Company in Dayton to get set for the First Four matchup...

DAYTON, OHIO - A late comeback was not enough as the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks fell 75-71 to the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders on Tuesday at UD Arena. The Redhawks were led by Chris Harris who had 23 points in the loss. Harris was key in orchestrating a run that tied the game at 64 after the Redhawks trailed by 9 in the 2nd half...

As we’ve all been realizing, March Madness is a phenomenon that involved not just the Southeast Missouri State players but fans, band, administrators, and cheerleaders. Even the mascot, Rowdy the Redhawk had to enter the court and compete in a fierce dance battle against the mascot of the Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Izzy the Islander...

As the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks play on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, it will be in front of a national audience as March Madness tips off with the Redhawks First Four matchup against the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders at 5:40 p.m. Southeast president Dr. Carlos Vargas said seeing the run the Redhawks have made has been fun to watch...

DAYTON, OHIO - Experience in March can be crucial for a team hoping to make some noise. Southeast Missouri State Redhawks head coach Brad Korn has been a part of March Madness as a player, an assistant coach and now a head coach. Korn made his debut in the big dance in 2002 with the Southern Illinois Salukis where they made a Sweet 16 run with wins over Texas Tech and Georgia before losing to UConn...

2000 seems like such a long time ago, and not at the same time. A lot has changed between Southeast Missouri State’s first run in the NCAA Tournament and the second. For starters, they were the Indians in 2000 and are returning to March Madness as the Redhawks...

Southeast Missouri State is going dancing for the first time in 23 years, beginning on Tuesday night with a matchup against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in Dayton, Ohio. A lot has changed over those 23 years, including a full-fledged mascot change taking place back in 2004...

As the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program begins its historic quest tonight (5:40 p.m., TruTV) against Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the opening game of the 2023 NCAA Tournament at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio, the Redhawk followers probably won’t have much familiarity with the No. 16-seed Islanders (23-10), who won both the Southland Conference regular-season titles, as well as the league tournament.

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks did the unthinkable this past weekend. The Redhawks rallied out of the first round as the five seed and danced all the way to the Ohio Valley Conference championship game for the first time since 2000 before taking down second-seeded Tennessee Tech to claim a guaranteed bid to the 2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks didn't just win the Ohio Valley Conference championship on Saturday in Evansville; they concluded what may be the most dramatic trilogy in conference history. The Redhawks won the rubber match against Tennessee Tech in overtime 89-82 to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament...

Chris Harris scored 26 points, Phillip Russell added 21 — including the game’s last seven points — and No. 5 seed Southeast Missouri State beat Tennessee Tech 89-82 in overtime Saturday night to win the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

It's been 23 years since the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team played in the NCAA Tournament. Nobody in my sports staff at the Southeast Missourian was alive back then. I was a fourth-grader playing Pokemon Silver and waiting for the Xbox to hit the shelf...

It took two more games than originally imagined after the last home game of the season, but Southeast Missouri State reached the semifinal round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Evansville, Indiana. SEMO won the free throw battle 34-17 and eventually the game 91-83 over Tennessee State in the quarterfinal round of the tournament. ...

A big second half was key in the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks’ 84-65 win over the Lindenwood Lions on Wednesday in the first round of the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. It was a slow start offensively for both sides as SEMO went down 7-0 four minutes into the game...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s and women’s basketball teams have reached the end of their respective regular seasons and earned their way into the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Evansville, Indiana, which begins on Wednesday, March 1.

The SEMO Women's basketball team locked up the four seed in the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tourney with a 67-62 win over the Lindenwood Lions on Thursday in St. Charles. Jaliyah Green and Sophie Bussard led the way combining for 36 of the 67 points with 18 points each...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks used a 20-point night from Chris Harris to beat the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 85-80 on Saturday at the Show Me Center. With 17.7 seconds remaining in regulation, USI's Tyler Henry collapsed on the bench during a timeout. Both teams agreed to end the game and deem SEMO the winner...

Dylan Branson had his best shooting performance of the season on Thursday in Southeast Missouri State’s 78-64 win over Eastern Illinois in the Show Me Center. The sophomore guard from St. Louis scored 12 points and made four shots from the three-point line, a career high. He has scored double digits seven times this season, five of which came at home...

Southeast Missouri State guards Chris Harris and Phillip Russell get much of the attention and credit. It’s rightfully so. Russell leads the OVC in scoring with 19 points per game. Harris, averaging 13.8 points, can potentially score his 1,000th career point this week. Even Israel Barns is averaging double-digits at 10.1 PPG...

Birds of a feather may flock together but they don’t rebound together. Rebounding made the difference between the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team defeating Morehead State 69-55 and the men’s basketball team losing 65-59 at the Show Me Center on Saturday...

Every basketball team has an energy guy. It’s never one of the featured players, never the leading scorer, neither Batman nor Robin. The energy guy is always in the background ready for his turn to steal the show. For Southeast Missouri State, redshirt freshman Adam Larson is that guy...

Southeast Missouri State fell on the road to Tennessee State 85-65 on Thursday at Gentry Center in Nashville. “We didn’t get any of the defensive effort required to win any basketball game, let alone a late February road game,” SEMO head coach Brad Korn said. “We went extremely cold offensively in the second half and we just had zero defensive intensity.”...

Southeast Missouri State has six games remaining in the regular season, starting with Thursday’s road contest at Tennessee State at 7 p.m. After their rematch with the Tigers, the Redhawks will close out the home slate of their schedule with three straight games, two of which are against OVC title contenders...

The Lindenwood (2-18) women won their first conference game in their short history in the Ohio Valley Conference on Saturday, defeating Tennessee-Martin (9-13) 84-75. “This win feels amazing," Lindenwood coach Katie Falco said. "We have continued to believe that our time would come! We have responded so gracefully to the endless adversity we have faced.”...

As Phillip Russell goes, Southeast Missouri State goes. The sophomore point guard scored 37 points with 10 assists for a double-double to lead the Redhawks (13-11, 8-3 OVC) past the Little Rock Trojans (7-17, 3-8 OVC) 99-98 on Thursday in the Show Me Center...

Southeast Missouri defeated Eastern Illinois 79-68 to remain in first place in the Ohio Valley Conference on Saturday in Charleston, Ill. Five teams entered Saturday tied for first place in the conference. After Tennessee Tech fell to Little Rock and Southern Indiana lost to UT Martin, only UTM, SEMO (12-11, 7-3), and Morehead State remain in the race for the regular season conference title...

In a town like Cape Girardeau, support at high school games comes standard, but support for the college teams must be earned. And recently, the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team has been earning their support. Scheduling-wise, it was a rough start to the season. The Redhawks didn’t have a home game against a Division I opponent until Dec. 7 against Purdue Fort Wayne and by then they were marred in an eight-game losing streak...

It’s not how the Redhawks started the game, but how they finished it. Southeast Missouri State started Thursday’s tilt down 17-1 but ended with a 92-75 win over Tennessee State in the Show Me Center. With the win, the Redhawks returned their record to .500 (11-11, 6-3 OVC) and remain tied for first in the Ohio Valley Conference with UT Martin, Morehead State, Tennessee Tech, and Southern Indiana...

It remains to be seen as to whether or not any local boy’s basketball talent ultimately ends up playing college basketball in the Show Me Center for Southeast Missouri State in the future. However, the Redhawk coaching staff is certainly making a concerted effort to try and secure the services of those players who have the ability to do so.

There’s a relatively new vibe inside the Show Me Center. 2,632 fans came to the 7,000-seat arena to watch the Redhawks defeat Tennessee tech in a double-overtime thriller this past weekend to move into a six-team tie for first place in the Ohio Valley Conference...

The analysis of Southeast Missouri State’s men’s basketball squad losing 80-60 to UT Martin on Thursday at the Show Me Center is as follows: * The Redhawks allowed the Skyhawks to shoot 56 percent from the floor * SEMO got obliterated on the glass 38-24 * And the hosts couldn’t buy a basket in shooting 32 percent overall and missing 19 of 22 3-pointers

A lot can change in two weeks and the perspective of people evaluating the play of Southeast Missouri State sophomore guard Phillip Russell is evidence of that. Following a road loss at UT Martin 14 days ago, a game in which Russell picked up his Ohio Valley Conference-leading eighth technical foul and had had 14 fouls called on him in a three-game stretch.

With two key players absent from the lineup due to illness and injury, something that the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program refers to as “just another day,” the Redhawks did what they have always done this year in their game at Ohio Valley Conference power, Morehead State, which is playing really hard and score the ball with proficiency.

Any basketball team can have a good game and appear to be a solid squad. However, when you start to string together an extended series of good outings, then it becomes who a team is.

Southeast Missouri State University and former men’s basketball coach Rick Ray finalized a settlement on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The settlement will pay Ray nearly $300,000. “Sad me and my family even had to go through all of this but hopefully it helps the next man,” Ray wrote on Twitter. “Fight for what is right. Easy to do if you operate with integrity.”...

Throughout his first two seasons with the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program, now-sophomore forward Dylan Branson played a lot of basketball for the Redhawks.

After losing nine of 10 games and leading the Ohio Valley Conference in technical fouls – by a lot – third-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn had a simplistic message for his team as it battled Little Rock on the road Saturday.

The harsh reality in assessing the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program in its Ohio Valley Conference game today at Little Rock is such: * The Redhawks will more than likely be very competitive * Having lost 7 of 9 road tests this season, the probability of a win isn’t great, and * The Redhawks will more than likely receive a technical foul (or multiple ones) at some point in the game

There was no shortage of statistical areas to explain how Southeast Missouri State dropped its ninth men’s basketball game in the past 10 outings on Thursday.

The levels of frustration felt by those within the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program over the past three months have been immense, regardless of who the person was or what they felt they could do to rectify the struggling situation.

It took until the final hours of the calendar year, but the patience of third-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn was finally rewarded.

There are two indisputable facts when analyzing the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball season thus far: * The Redhawks have been depleted by injury and/or illness since before the season even began, and * SEMO has rarely lacked grit and heart Both were evident in a heartbreaking 70-68 loss to rival Southern Illinois at the Show Me Center on Wednesday.

When you are the coach of a struggling men’s basketball squad, time for melancholy sort of goes out the window.

You would be hard-pressed to find an abundance of positive aspects for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad in its 106-75 loss at Iowa in Iowa City on Saturday. However, the improving play by graduate student guard Chris Harris was – for the third straight game – definitely a positive. Harris led SEMO (5-7) on Saturday with 19 points, as he buried 8 of 13 shots, including half of his four 3-pointers.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad led Arkansas State in Jonesboro on Wednesday for 71 percent of the 40 minutes of action. However, the remaining minutes were abysmal enough at both ends of the court by the Redhawks that the Red Wolves earned a 68-61 win.

The last time that the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad took the court, it was more of a task for third-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn to figure out WHO was actually available to play, as opposed to trying to figure out HOW to win the game.

Christmas music echoed throughout the Show Me Center throughout the men’s basketball game on Wednesday between Southeast Missouri State and Purdue Fort Wayne, and you could forgive third-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn if he would have muttered: “All I want for Christmas is a healthy roster.”