Southeast Mens Basketball

A last-second 3-pointer from sophomore guard Alex Caldwell was off-target for Southeast Missouri State, as the Redhawks fell 61-59 at Eastern Illinois in men’s basketball action. With the loss, Southeast (4-17, 0-8 Ohio Valley Conference) remains the lone winless program in the conference.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad has followed a familiar script throughout most of its games this season.

When a men’s basketball program has lost 11 consecutive games against NCAA Division I competition, it takes a bit of research to find any nugget of positivity. However, something that is clearly a plus within the Southeast Missouri State program this season has been the continued development of sophomore forward Sage Tolbert.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad did on Saturday what it has shown the ability to do – at times – this season, which is play competitive basketball.

Rick Ray's squad can't seem to buy a break. Ahead by a basket with seven-tenths of a second left in the game, Murray State hit two free throws as time expired to send the contest into a decisive five-minute overtime period at the Show Me Center. The Racers (12-5, 5-0, Ohio Valley Conference) outscored Southeast 18-13 in the extra period en route to a 96-91 victory...

After allowing Austin Peay to get off to a scorching offensive start in Thursday’s Ohio Valley Conference women’s basketball game at the Show Me Center, Southeast Missouri State locked down the visiting Governors defensively in the second quarter and ultimately prevailed easily 81-43.

Let’s start with this: The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team has not quit on this season. That much was obvious in Saturday’s 75-73 loss at the Show Me Center to Tennessee State.

Carlos Marshall Jr. had 21 points, including a put-back layup with 6.6 seconds to play, as Tennessee State narrowly beat Southeast Missouri 75-73 on Saturday.

There were no unrealistic expectations as it related to the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad and its opening Ohio Valley Conference schedule.

Southeast lost to Belmont for the ninth consecutive time Thursday, 89-64, at the Show Me Center. The defeat is the third straight Ohio Valley Conference loss for the Redhawks (4-12, 0-3). Southeast battled Belmont (11-5, 2-1) to a four-point halftime deficit, trailing the Bruins 40-36...

A struggling season for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad continued Saturday in an 81-59 loss at Murray State.

A college basketball game is scheduled for 40 minutes; however, it hasn’t taken that long for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team to find ways to lose games during its recent stretch of struggling play.

It’s nice for a basketball team to play good defense and force its opponent into missing a shot but if the defensive team doesn’t grab the rebound to close out that possession, all the effort in the world can be for naught.

The most misconstrued achievement in sports very well may be the proverbial “20-win season” in college basketball being a measuring stick for success.

Four decades of watching college basketball and two decades of covering the sport have taught me this much about non-conference play: • Ignore it Teams at all levels pad their win-loss record with over-matched opponents, so as the calendar turns, no coach truly knows what he/she has on their hands.

It was obvious from the opening possession of Sunday’s Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball win against Missouri Baptist (74-59) what veteran Redhawk coach Rick Ray wanted to get accomplished and that was to get sophomore forward Sage Tolbert in some semblance of offensive rhythm.

CARBONDALE, Ill. - There is offensive ineptitude within the sport of basketball and then there is what the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program is putting on display of late.

With 1:07 remaining in the first half of its game Tuesday at No. 5-ranked Ohio State, the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad trailed just 31-26.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann was interested to see how his team would bounce back after suffering its first loss of the season on Sunday at Minnesota. Holtmann was not impressed, however, after his Buckeyes committed 13 first-half turnovers and led struggling Southeast Missouri State by just nine points at halftime...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad faces a daunting task tonight in visiting No. 5 Ohio State (9-1) in Columbus. However, in many regards, this game is completely irrelevant from a big-picture perspective, and veteran Redhawk coach Rick Ray acknowledges such.

The young Dutch boy that plugged a hole in the dike to save his community had it easy in comparison to veteran Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team did a lot of things well in its recent outing, a 78-73 loss at Drake, which is a Missouri Valley Conference program that is currently 8-2.

Southeast Missouri State sophomore guard Alex Caldwell scored a season-high 18 points and buried a career-best six 3-pointers, but it wasn't enough, as the Redhawks (3-6) fell at Drake Saturday 78-73.

There is a seismic misperception floating throughout the minds of young basketball players that veteran Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray would like to clarify.

Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray spent the past four days frustrated by his team’s anemic offensive perimeter play. So it wasn’t shocking to see the fifth-year coach replace his entire starting five less than two minutes into its game with Denver Saturday after watching his players take – and miss –a trio of 3-pointers.

The negative impact of Southeast Missouri State having to play without junior guard Chris Harris continued Friday, as the Redhawks fell in the Cable Car Classic at Santa Clara, Calif. 87-75 to the host Broncos.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad headed out West for a three-day tournament at Santa Clara, Calif. and for its opening game, at least, the Redhawks appeared to have failed to pack their offensive punch. Southeast struggled to make shots, particularly in the second half, as it fell to Cal State-Fullerton 64-57 in the opening game of the Cable Car Classic Wednesday.

Southeast Missouri State came from behind in the final minute, with an Alex Caldwell 3-pointer ultimately sending the Redhawks to a 72-71 win over Missouri S&T on Friday at the Show Me Center. The Division II Miners had taken a 71-69 lead with 34 seconds left on a Dulan Scott jumper before Caldwell, who finished with 12 points, hit his game-winner with 17 seconds left...

The Citadel was cutting up the Southeast Missouri State defense Tuesday for much of its 74-69 men’s basketball victory over the Redhawks.

There is a multitude of ways in which a basketball team can be successful.

As Southeast Missouri State and The Citadel walked to the center-circle for the opening tip of their men’s basketball game Tuesday at the Show Me Center, it had to be painfully obvious to the 700-and-change in attendance what the Redhawks’ game plan for the night should have been.

Southeast Missouri State hadn’t played a basketball game in nine days.

The Southeast Missouri State men’ basketball program played SEC foe Vanderbilt with little fear to a tight game until the final minutes before falling on the road to start this season.

Some in the world of college basketball recruiting are curious how Southeast Missouri State was able to sign Chicago-land prep standout Ramean Hinton recently.

Nine games into the 2018-19 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball season, the Redhawks had won five games.

On the night of Dec. 27, 2018, the Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball team sat in the O’Hare Airport in Chicago passing time. The Mastodons’ flight to North Dakota had been canceled due to a blizzard sweeping across the northern plains. As it turned out, it would be one of seven canceled flights the group would endure during its 2018-19 season.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - There was a stark difference between the play of the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad in its Wednesday game at Vanderbilt when reserve guards Chris Harris and Nygal Russell were in the game and when they weren’t.

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball squad opens its 2019-20 season today at Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. Here is a look at the Redhawks and what you need to know about each of them.

Rick Ray knows exactly what those words mean when he reads them and he knows I do too when I type them.

The Southeast Missouri State men' basketball squad opens its 2019-20 season today at Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. The Redhawks are coming off a 10-21 (5-13 Ohio Valley Conference) season and were picked to finish last by the media in a preseason poll in the 12-team conference...

Fifth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray has enacted standards when it comes to the performance of his student-athletes and those expectations are considered even in games that don’t count.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The numbers don’t lie when recounting how the 2018-19 men’s basketball season went awry for Southeast Missouri State.

After living nearly 53 years in northern Indiana, I had been a Missouri resident this past summer for just a few weeks when I received an email asking me if I would be willing to participate as a voter in polls ranking (i.e. passing judgment) on MSHSAA athletic teams.

After watching Alex Caldwell have a more than solid freshman season for his Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad, fifth-year Redhawk coach Rick Ray didn’t hesitate in going out and signing a very similar player in Dequarius “DQ” Nicholas last spring.

There wasn’t a team in the Ohio Valley Conference last season that grabbed fewer rebounds than Southeast Missouri State.

When Southeast Missouri State forward Sage Tolbert put up seven points and five rebounds in his first collegiate game ever, and it was on the road at A-10 program Saint Louis, that was an early indication that he just may have some ability as a basketball player.

It’s easy to read the statistics from the 2018-19 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad and realize the Redhawks have players who can shoot the ball from the perimeter.

None of the current Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball players were even alive when fifth-year Redhawk coach Rick Ray ran his first “3-man close-out” drill as a coach back in 1995. Having that amount of experience in the profession has led Ray to have a full comprehension of his professional situation.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team opened its 2019-20 season Wednesday with an early morning practice. Sort of.