College Sports

Defending Ohio Valley Conference tournament champion SEMO tips off its 2020 campaign Wednesday in a socially distanced Show Me Center against one of the best major college women’s teams in the country. Southeast will face No. 5 Louisville at 2 p.m. The Redhawks lost their scheduled opener against Missouri Baptist on November 28 due to the pandemic...

Former Southeast Missouri State great Trevor Ezell never had plans to be a coach. Yet after a year and a half away from SEMO, he returns to the baseball program as staff as the Director of Offensive Player Development, beginning the first step of his new career...

Three Rivers softball coach Jeff Null isn’t quite sure who his No. 2 pitcher is going to be. The Raiders went 14-2 during the fall with four different pitchers battling for the second spot, including East Carter alumna Makenna Moore. “It was a pretty good fall. Everybody played quite a bit. Everybody played pretty well,” Null said. “Not every school got to play, so I think that gave us a little bit of an advantage there.”...

This time last year, Three Rivers women’s basketball was already 5-1 with another eight games scheduled before heading home for the Christmas break. These days, they are still more than two months away from their first regular-season game. During the summer, the NJCAA implemented several one-time-only rules due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The theme of Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner Beth DeBauche’s recent virtual press conference to cap off the league’s Basketball Media Day was numerous small steps leading to big rewards in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team hasn’t had a winning season since 2013-14. Given the Redhawks’ performance in recent years, it wouldn’t be beyond the pale to assume that the reason why someone were to take a head coaching job here would be because of strictly the opportunity to be a head coach...

Southeast Missouri head coach Brad Korn is a few weeks away from his first season with the Redhawks tipping off. While there are still many unknowns about this unconventional season, Korn is fully aware going in who is the focal point of his system talent will be...

Southeast Missouri State University’s women’s basketball team, Ohio Valley Conference tournament champions after a program record 25-win finish last year, isn’t sure just who it is yet as a new year looms. So says Southeast’s sixth-year head coach Rekha Patterson, in an OVC press availability Monday...

Kolten Poorman’s dream came true in the span of three days. The Three Rivers freshman infielder went from being uncertain about his recruiting future to signing with the University of Missouri just a few days later. “It was a great three days,” Poorman said. “All the credit goes to my Lord and Savior. Without him none of this is possible.”...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s and women’s basketball schedule has been released on Thursday. The men’s basketball season tips off in a multi-team event at Kansas City on Friday, Nov. 27, against Northern Colorado, followed by a matchup on Saturday against either UMKC or Avila College...

Villanova head coach Jay Wright brought up an interesting topic on the “College Hoops Today” Podcast with Jon Rothstein in terms of what the COVID-19 pandemic has forced on the college basketball landscape. "We're going to deal with the fact that any player that plays this year as a senior can come back and play another year,” Wright said. ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. — Seventh-year Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz wasn’t glad that his team dropped its 2020-21 season-opening game Friday 20-17 to rival Southern Illinois. However, he was happy that the Redhawks ended up playing the game at all, which wasn’t a certainty earlier this autumn.

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Seventh-year Southeast Missouri State football coach Tom Matukewicz entered Friday’s game at Southern Illinois not knowing much about his team after not playing a game for 334 days.

There are a lot of unknowns regarding how the Southeast Missouri State football team will perform in its only game of this calendar year. But what should not be questioned is the amount of experience that the Redhawk defensive secondary brings to the field.

The start of the college basketball season is 26 days away. Normally Thanksgiving isn’t normally known for using a turkey leg to christen the ship where two blue chip programs opening the season in glorious battle. This is no normal season. It’s evident enough in the apparent lack of schedules across the board. Some teams and conferences have already released them but for the rest, it leaves to be desired...

The handful of fans that can attend the Southeast Missouri State football game at Southern Illinois more than likely won’t be focused on the play of Redhawk inside linebacker Mike Matthews. However, the SEMO coaches certainly will be due to the sophomore’s playing a critical role in how successful the Redhawk defense executes.

It’s game week for the Southeast Missouri State football program, but according to seventh-year coach Tom Matukewicz, he doesn’t feel like he has just wrapped up a typical fall training camp.

Like every other aspect of this global society, the 2020 college football season has followed a predictable path of unpredictability.