Southeast Mens Basketball

CHARLESTON, ILL. – Life happens fast, and no group realizes that more so than the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program.

Sometimes in the struggles of life, there is simply no better place to be than at home. It can be that way for all of us, and the adage is true for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team.

There hasn’t been much positive news emanating out the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program of late.

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball program is not only battling opposition on the court this season, but this week, it is also fighting a losing battle against COVID-19.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program is having a difficult time this season catching a break.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad entered this season with five different options for post play.

A year ago, there was so much to like about the direction of the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program.

Southeast Missouri State junior guard Eric Reed Jr. and freshman guard Phillip Russell were recognized by the Ohio Valley Conference on Monday, as Reed Jr. was named as the OVC Player of the Week and Russell was honored as the Freshman of the Week.

Since the arrival of Eric Reed Jr. in Cape Girardeau prior to the 2020-21 season, the followers of the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program have come to learn that they don’t have to worry about the shooting of junior guard from Baton Rouge. However, after watching his offensive performances in December, there was reason for some concern.

Murray State (11-2, 1-0) raced to a 106-81 win over Southeast Missouri State (5-9, 0-1) Thursday in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both men's basketball teams.

It would be inaccurate to state that the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team lost its fourth straight game on Tuesday (and eighth in 11 games against NCAA Division I competition) because it is a bad team. The Redhawks (5-8) aren’t a bad team, they are a solid team, with solid players, who are playing poorly.

Just like analyzing an investment in Bitcoin, there are two ways you can form an opinion on the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad. In reference to the crypto asset, Bitcoin has essentially chopped sideways for 18 consecutive days. However, from a macro level, it is up 99.37 percent over the past year.

The story was the same on Saturday for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad.

Though the Pepperdine men’s basketball squad is a mere 4-8 so far this season, Southeast Missouri State is going to face a BIG test against the Waves, literally, when it travels to Malibu, Calif. today for a 7 p.m. tip-off.

CARBONDALE, Ill. – The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball squad is going to depart for a six-day excursion to California on Friday and while it is on the West Coast, the Redhawks are sure to discover some beautiful weather and magnificent scenery along the Pacific shoreline. However, of more importance is that SEMO finds an ability to play defense at a high level for an entire game.

Having too much talent is never a problem in athletics but having an abundance of ability in similar players can sometimes be a conundrum for a basketball coach.

FORT WAYNE. Ind. - Two men’s basketball squads met each other Saturday at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. and they were heading in different directions when the game began. And based on how their inconsistent seasons have unfolded thus far, no one knows where their next steps will take them.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – It has been a challenge for second-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn to get a true assessment of his team through 10 games this season. After all, Korn has rarely had his entire roster available for any specific game due to illnesses and injuries.

There are college basketball programs that want to achieve success by outscoring their opposition, and then there are teams that want to keep opponents from outscoring them in order to win.

There was any number of reasons that the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team could have pointed to on Wednesday to excuse a loss to visiting Evansville.

Final exams don’t start for another week for the students at Southeast Missouri State, however, the Redhawks’ men’s basketball squad is going to face a daunting test sooner, rather than later, when they host Evansville tonight at the Show Me Center at 6:30 p.m.

Eric Reed Jr. set a season-high mark in scoring as Southeast Missouri State earned a double-digit win over Webster. Reed scored a team-high 26 points — the junior guard's highest output so far this season — and three other Redhawks scored in double figures en route to a 76-64 win against the Gorloks on Saturday at the Show Me Center...

SAN ANTONIO — The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team dropped both remaining games in the Incarnate Word Thanksgiving Classic this weekend. The Redhawks were beat 74-68 by Portland on Saturday and 75-68 by Montana on Sunday. Despite the team going 0-2 over the weekend, freshman guard Phillip Russell had a solid weekend...

SAN ANTONIO — Southeast Missouri State junior guard Chris Harris knows how to end a game dramatically. Tied with Incarnate Word at 76, Harris hit his only 3-point basket of the game at the final buzzer to lift the Redhawks past the Cardinals 79-76 on the opening day of the Incarnate Word Thanksgiving Classic...

Perhaps Southeast Missouri State was too comfortable against its NAIA guest. Moments after putting down a two-handed flush in transition, Nygal Russell missed his second dunk attempt. Phillip Russell playfully moved his shoulders and looked toward his bench after a layup, only to surrender a 3-pointer seconds later...

It was already decided, but Southeast Missouri State's last-minute sequence best conveyed Friday's 72-60 loss to Arkansas State. A pair of layups and a wide-open 3-pointer — all three shots part of the same SEMO offensive trip — didn't fall through the cylinder...

SEMO could absorb Youngstown State's first blow. The second haymaker is what brought the Redhawks to their knees. In a physical, stop-and-go Show Me Center opener that featured a combined 56 fouls, SEMO couldn't get back on its feet in a 97-79 loss to the Penguins. ...

SPRINGFIELD — Leave it up to Eric Reed to keep Missouri State at arm's length. Southeast Missouri State's trusty sharpshooter nailed a 3-pointer with 11 seconds and to help the Redhawks hold off the Bears 99-94 in Tuesday's season opener, their first win at JHQ Arena in six years...

__College Basketball__ __Men__ SEMO 99, Missouri St. 94 __Women__ SEMO 68, University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy 45

For the first time in six seasons, Ohio Valley Conference coaches and media members believe SEMO has an upper-tier men’s basketball team. The Redhawks were picked fourth in the OVC preseason poll released Tuesday behind favorite Belmont, Morehead State and Murray State...

When Brad Korn was handed the keys to Southeast Missouri State’s struggling men’s basketball program 18 months ago, he was met with even tougher circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded the young head coach’s pursuit of turning the Redhawks into a winner...

As it turns out, about a lot of things in life, your parents were correct when they advised us all as youth that we are known by the company that we keep. That is applicable in social circles, education, business, and politics. And it is true in intercollegiate athletics, as well.

The new Southeast Missouri Preparatory school — formed by former Portageville basketball standout and SEMO basketball star Roy Booker — announced the release of its men’s basketball schedule and the rosters for “both” teams the school will utilize during the 2021-22 basketball season...

Second-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn has achieved a lot in his first 17 months on the job and he added to that Monday by successfully putting together a very challenging, but realistic 2021-22 schedule.

There are few businesses anywhere in the world that haven’t had to think differently over the past couple of years in this ever-changing environment that we are all immersed in, more than likely, forever. And Semoball.com is not immune to that. The website devoted to providing sports fans thorough coverage of sports throughout Southeast Missouri is still going to make that its mission on a daily basis, however, the internal pieces are going to be doing some shifting moving forward.

When you’re a talented athlete, who also happens to attend one of the more prestigious college prep schools in the country, you’re going to have options on which path you follow in life.

Second-year Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball coach Brad Korn is admittedly “a big theme guy, a big quote guy,” and he tapped into that trait prior to this summer in giving his student-athletes a mantra to pursue through their activities this off-season both on and off the court.

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program wasted no time last season in sending a message to the college basketball world that it was a new era for the Redhawks.

Brad Korn took over the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program 15 months ago, yet, due to a problematic global pandemic, his first opportunity to leave Cape Girardeau and go evaluate prospects – in person – was last weekend, and Korn and his SEMO coaching staff didn’t waste any time.

Chris Harris wasted no time in letting Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball fans know that he was all business on the basketball court. In his very first game in a Redhawk uniform in November 2019, he sank 6 of 9 shots to lead SEMO with 15 points on the road at Southeastern Conference foe Vanderbilt.

Southeast Missouri State Athletics recently recognized several of its athletes with the annual “HAWKSPYs” ceremony at the Show Me Center.

You don’t have to mention to a Southeast Missouri State athletics follower the damage that student-athletes transferring can wreak.

Of the four prospects that recently signed with the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program, two have never played a game past high school, while another has never played at the NCAA Division I level. That lack of experience may prove shocking to each of their athletic systems, in fact, second-year Redhawk coach Brad Korn wants it to be.

Phillip Russell knew there was something unique about the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program a year-and-a-half ago when he first signed to play for the Redhawks.

SIKESTON — Over 3,000 wins congregated inside the Sikeston Field House on Saturday night for a Historic Basketball Celebration. The event honored legendary coaches and players from the past and present while also unveiling Erwin Porter’s new book, “Bootheel Basketball: A Half Century of Supremacy.”...

College basketball fans are under the impression that “March Madness” begins tonight in Indiana, where that thing referred to as the “First Four” is played leading up to the REAL start of the NCAA Tournament, which will be Friday. However, truth be told, there has been “Madness” surrounding the sport for several weeks and it will continue until the last of the NCAA Division I men’s college basketball head coaching opportunities is filled.

As the sun rose on March 4, 2020, the dawn marked a new beginning not just to another day, but also a fresh start for the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program. The previous day, fifth-year coach Rick Ray had been let go and Redhawk basketball was in flux that morning.

No. 7-seed Southeast Missouri State went cold offensively at an inopportune time Wednesday, as it fell to No. 2-seed Morehead State 61-54 in the opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Evansville, Ind.

There has been a recurring theme of disrespect surrounding the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball program from the start of the 2020-21 season and it continues to this day, as the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament gets underway in Evansville, Ind.