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The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks led wire-to-wire as they blew by the Morehead State Eagles 77-38 on Thursday at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. The Redhawks took care of business in every aspect of the game which was key to their success to open OVC Tournament play...

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...

With the recent changes to the transfer portal giving NCAA athletes the liberty to move more freely between universities, the transfer portal can make – or break – a team’s chances at contending. For the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks women’s basketball team, the transfer portal giveth as Rahmena Henderson and Kiyley Flowers have emerged as two of the Redhawks’ key go-to options as the season draws near its close...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks clinched a spot in the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament with a 63-59 win over the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Saturday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks got things going early as they turned defense into offense, jumping out to a 20-11 lead after the first quarter, and ending the quarter on a 13-0 run...

The SEMO Redhawks got a much-needed 62-57 home win over the Eastern Illinois Panthers (20-5) on Thursday at the Show Me Center. Sophomore Jaliyah Green led the way with a 21-point effort, including a pair of clutch free throws to seal the win for the Redhawks...

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...

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.”...

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.”...

A slow shooting night was the difference in SEMO’s 58-39 loss to the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans on Thursday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks jumped out to a 17-14 lead after the first quarter but after just four points in the second quarter, they trailed 30-21 heading into the locker room at halftime...

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...

Rahmena Henderson scored 19 points to lead the Redhawks past the Tigers of Tennessee State 77-59 on Thursday at the Show Me Center. 15 of Henderson’s points came on three-point baskets. As a team, the Redhawks shot a season-high 11-of-24 from the arc...

Lexi Rubel knows the Show Me Center well. For three years, she hoisted the Holiday Classic trophy with her Notre Dame teammates to kick off Christmas. “This is definitely a very familiar gym,” Rubel said. The Show Me Center was her home court away from home, but this visit was different. ...

Six games into the Ohio Valley Conference portion of the season, the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team needs two things going for them: improve on their three-point shooting and find a go-to scorer. The Redhawks finally won a game away from the friendly confines of the Show Me Center. ...

For the first time since joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 1991, Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team took on a conference opponent from the same state. The Redhawks introduced their newly minted rival, the Lindenwood Lions, to the Show Me Center with a 68-45 drubbing on Thursday, for their first OVC win of the season...

The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball squad will be in search of its initial Ohio Valley Conference victory today, as it hosts Lindenwood (1-14, 0-4) at the Show Me Center at 5 p.m. and a pair of Redhawk student-athletes could not only contribute to the success of their team ON the court, but they also possess the capability of capturing the action OFF it, as well.

Southeast Missouri State guard Sophie Bussard had quite a busy few days. The redshirt junior went to Saturday morning practice, then to graduation with her travel uniform on underneath her cap and gown. Once the ceremonies were over, Bussard went back from graduate to basketball player and was off to Evansville on Sunday and at home on Tuesday to help the Redhawks upset Illinois-Chicago 56-55...

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball dropped a road game at Missouri Valley Conference foe Evansville 64-53 on Sunday.

Southeast Missouri State sophomore center Halle Smith matched a career-high 18 points and had a game-high eight rebounds, as the Redhawks fell 88-51 at Kansas. Smith scored 16 of her points in the second half, finishing with 18 for the second time in her career.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball squad dropped a pair of games in the UCF Thanksgiving Classic in Orlando over the weekend. The Redhawks (2-4) opened play with a 66-49 loss to Rhode Island on Saturday, before falling to the host Knights 67-41 on Sunday...

Three Southeast Missouri State volleyball players finished in double-digits attacking as the No. 5-seed Redhawks fell to No. 6-seed Tennessee State in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship match on Saturday. The Redhawks (17-16) lost 21-25, 25-16, 25-22, 22-25, 10-15.

Southeast Missouri State fell in women's basketball action on Thursday 83-57 at Ole Miss in Oxford.

Four players finished in double-digits scoring as Southeast Missouri State opened its 2022-23 women's basketball season with a come-from-behind 60-48 win over NCAA Division III University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy on Monday at the Show Me Center.

With an enormous number of young people in the stands at the Show Me Center for today’s 2022-23 season-opening game for the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball squad, all of those young eyes will most assuredly be looking for long 3-pointers swishing the net and sweet passes that lead to Redhawk makes. What they probably won’t be focused on is whether or not SEMO “meets the standard.” That will be the job of eighth-year Redhawk coach Rekha Patterson. The Redhawks will host NCAA Division III University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy out of St. Louis today at 11 a.m. (ESPN+), and it is the annual “Classroom on the Court” game, where SEMO Athletics welcomes over 2,000 students from the Cape Girardeau area.

The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program recently named its three captains for the upcoming season and two of the players (senior forward Tamia Stallings and senior guard Kori Tomlin) may have caught some Redhawk fans by surprise, but for those that follow the program closely, the fact that redshirt junior guard Sophie Bussard was recognized isn’t a shock at all.

No one needs to remind eighth-year Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson about how the 2021-22 season unfolded.

It often gets lost in the box scores and league standings that the role of a college basketball coach is to guide the development of a young student-athlete as a person and a student, as much as, if not more so, than just an athlete. That is precisely how eighth-year Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson views her role, and that was evident this summer in how she handled Redhawk sophomore center, Dionna Reed.

It would be hard to pinpoint a specific area to explain how the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program fell from being one of the top programs in the Ohio Valley Conference to finishing the 2021-22 season in ninth place in the 10-team league. However, being a team that brought physicality to the post is among the many areas in which the Redhawks (6-23, 2-16 OVC) struggled.

Veteran Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson emphasizes with her players to play with pace and creativity, and no Redhawk player embraces those tenets to the degree that former SEMO guard Olivia “Liv” Hackmann has in her 28 years of life.

As the newly-hired director of operations for Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball, Renee Bellamy won’t have any on-the-floor coaching responsibilities, per NCAA rules, however, that doesn’t diminish her responsibility for helping the Redhawk program.

Southeast Missouri State added a touch of the Southeastern Conference to its women's basketball program, as the Redhawks added former Ole Miss graduate assistant Kelsey Johnson to the coaching staff.

The coming and goings of college basketball aren’t limited to just the men’s programs.

There is a heavy weight carried on your shoulders when your last name is Brune and you compete athletically at Southeast Missouri State.