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FORT WAYNE - Fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn has said, at times, this season that his team was improving, even as the losses piled up. On Saturday, that growth was very evident, even though the final outcome was another Redhawk defeat.

Without question, 10th-year Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball coach Jon Coffman is going to be less sympathetic to his Southeast Missouri State counterpart, fourth-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn, at 6 p.m. on Saturday (ESPN+) when the two teams meet at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne.

One of the chief reasons behind the early optimism going into the new Southeast Missouri State men's basketball season was among the returnees and incoming transfers was a 6-9 sophomore forward who can shoot three-pointers and provide the occasional energy-infusing dunk...

There hasn’t been a great deal to cheer about throughout this men’s basketball season for the followers of the Southeast Missouri State men’s program. However, the Redhawks are coming off a victory over NAIA program Missouri Baptist, and they’ll host another NAIA program in Harris-Stowe on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Show Me Center (ESPN+), so a two-game win streak may be in the works. “We’ve got to reset mentally,” Korn said of returning to the Show Me Center recently after playing five road games in November. “We’ve got to get back in the gym and find something that we can hang our hats on with both sides of the ball.

Southeast Missouri State is Aquan Smart's third college basketball program but the 2023-24 season is the first time in his career he's spending a second season with a team. Not only that but they have been the best years, better than his freshman season at Maryland, and better than his sophomore season at Florida International...

With his team struggling mightily at the offensive end of the floor so far this season, fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn has pleaded with his players for one of them to step up and seize the ability to produce.

Following a recent 16-point loss at Chattanooga, which lowered his team’s record to 1-5 this season, fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn was relatively positive in his assessment of his squad, despite the contrarian statistical measures.

To win a college basketball game, a team certainly has to play well defensively in order to keep its opponent from outscoring them. However, if you can’t score the ball yourself, then it really puts pressure on a team to have to play close to near-perfect basketball at the defensive end of the court in order to prevail.

Fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn wasn’t thrilled with his team’s opening half performance in a 19-point loss to Evansville on Saturday, but despite numbers contrary to what most would think, he was fairly pleased with the Redhawk's performance in a 72-56 loss to Chattanooga in the finale of the Coke Zero Sugar Classic in Chattanooga on Sunday.

In every one of its five games this men’s basketball season, thus far, Southeast Missouri State has managed to dig itself a double-digit hole to climb out of, and Saturday’s 93-74 loss to Evansville in the Coke Zero Sugar Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn. was no different.

From a coaching perspective, fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn deserves a good amount of credit for his team’s dramatic rally for a victory against Central Arkansas earlier this week – as do the Redhawk players. However, sitting a long way down the Redhawk bench was a curly-haired coach that no one, besides Korn and the SEMO players, realized played a very significant role in the 70-68 win.

Following up, what fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn deemed the most disappointing – in many regards – performance of his team’s four years since he arrived in Cape Girardeau, the Redhawks bounced back with a very impressive 70-68 thrilling victory over Central Arkansas on Monday at the Show Me Center.

Fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn had some degree of positive expectations entering this season, most of which have not come to fruition as of yet.

The fans of Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball got to see the two extremes of the program on Wednesday at the Show Me Center.

Putting together an advance scout on any college basketball squad these days can prove to be a challenge, as every roster in the country is in some degree of flux due to the proclivity of student-athletes to transfer – sometimes multiple times. However, for the opponents of Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball, the task is made even more difficult because every one of the 14 Redhawk players is, so far, seemingly pretty close in ability and production.

INDIANAPOLIS - The positive of the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program is that it is finished for the 2023-24 season having to deal with “guarantee games” played on the road.

There are a number of things that fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn wants his student-athletes to get out of being a Redhawk, none more important than growing intellectually and maturing into successful adults. However, he also wants his players to gain experiences in life through their time in Cape Girardeau, and tonight will be the latest example of such.

One game does not a season make, so despite the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad getting beat 87-66 in its season-opening game on Monday at Grand Canyon, fourth-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn felt there were positive aspects for his team to build upon.

When Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball fans walk outside into 77-degree sunshine today, hoop season may be the furthest thing from their minds. However, the fact is, as strange as it may seem, basketball season is actually here.

The unveiling of the 2023-24 Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad took place on Monday at the Show Me Center, as the Redhawks took care of NCAA Division II program Henderson State 76-61 in an exhibition game.

A year ago, there was no more offensively productive men’s basketball squad in the Ohio Valley Conference than eventual OVC Tournament champion Southeast Missouri State. However, nearly 1,700 of those points, including the Redhawks’ top three scorers, are not back this season, which begs the question: Who will put up points this season for SEMO?

There are few things in life as useless as sports polls. Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz, whose team is ranked 20th in this week’s poll, doesn’t have a clue as to whether Tulane should be ranked 23rd (which it is) or 18th or 15th or ranked at all.

The men’s basketball programs throughout the Ohio Valley Conference will gather in Evansville today for the league’s annual Media Day festivities, and fourth-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn and fourth-year SEMO guard Dylan Branson will be in enjoyable, and familiar territory in the ‘Pocket City.’

In this era of college athletics where players transfer with abandon, it’s a difficult task for coaches to have to build team chemistry and instill a program culture on an annual basis. However, on the opening day of college basketball (practice) season on Monday, leadership, communication, and enthusiasm were in abundance within the Southeast Missouri State men’s squad.

At any given Cape Catfish game, you can find the architect of success for the franchise standing atop the hill glancing over a baseball diamond that he has carried in his heart since he was a boy.

The 2022-23 men’s basketball season at Southeast Missouri State was an historic one, in that, the Redhawks won the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, and thus, advanced to the NCAA Tournament for just the second time in the program’s NCAA Division I history.

There are several people that feel positively about Southeast Missouri State extending Redhawk men’s basketball coach Brad Korn through the 2026-27 season with a new contract on Wednesday.

Following a season-ending knee injury to Southeast Missouri State sophomore forward Kobe Clark last January, the Redhawks lost six games throughout the remainder of their season. Of those defeats, four were by six points or less, including a double-overtime loss at Lindenwood.

At the end of the day, it is difficult to find fault with the 2022-23 edition of the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball season. After all, it was an historic year that culminated in the 2023 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship, and the subsequent berth into the NCAA Tournament.

The numbers put up by Murray State freshman guard Braxton Stacker last season won’t set anyone’s heart aflutter. However, if you ask fourth-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn about Stacker, who transferred to the Redhawk program this spring and will be eligible this coming season, he can hardly contain his excitement.

If you speak to any of the employees within the Southeast Missouri State athletic department regarding its hiring process, the first thing that is mentioned is the quality of people.

The coaching staff for Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball finds itself in an advantageous position today.

It might be a good idea for New Madrid County Central senior-to-be, Jadis Jones, to hire not just a travel agent, but a business manager, as well.

SIKESTON — In the rolling hills of southeast Missouri, where the Mississippi River winds its way through sleepy towns and fertile farmland, a legend lives on. Lennies McFerren is a trailblazer, the first black high school basketball coach in southeast Missouri and across a wide stretch of land from St. Louis to Memphis when he took over the Charleston Bluejays program in 1977...

There rarely is a shortage of negativity in the daily news cycles, and intercollegiate athletics is never immune to such.

For the second time in three years, Southeast Missouri State has won the OVC Commissioner's Cup. The Redhawks won eight Ohio Valley Conference championships during the 2022-23 school year. The football team took a share of the championship after defeating rival Murray State 52-22. The Redhawks won the coin flip that determined whether SEMO or UT Martin would receive the automatic berth to the NCAA FCS Playoffs...

It was announced on Thursday that the SEMO men’s basketball team added three new players to the final roster for the 2023-24 season. These players include Rob Martin, Braxton Stacker and TJ Biel. Martin comes to SEMO as a sophomore after spending last season at Indiana State out of the Missouri Valley Conference. ...

After a breakout second season at Southeast Missouri State University, junior guard Phillip Russell entered the transfer portal and committed to the University of Texas-Arlington on Wednesday, per his social media. Russell, on the heels of his third overall season of college basketball after a freshman stint at Saint Louis University, helped to guide the Redhawks to their first Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship since 2000, leading the team in both points and steals to become a two-way leader.. ...

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...