Southeast Womens Basketball

Within a month, Carrie Shephard will board a plane to fly halfway around the world in fulfillment of a lifelong dream to play professional basketball. Shephard, 25, a year removed from graduating with a master’s degree in educational administration from Southeast, is headed to Australia to play point guard for the Ballarat Rush in the NBL-1 League...

For the second consecutive year, Southeast Missouri State held an online awards celebration via Zoom Tuesday. The Redhawk women were ousted in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference playoffs earlier this month, one year after winning the OVC tourney and punching SEMO’s ticket to the ultimately COVID-aborted 2020 NCAA Tournament...

There will be no Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship repeat for Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball in 2021. No. 3 seed SEMO (15-11, 13-8) fell to no. 6 Murray State, 67-64, in first round OVC action Thursday in Evansville, Indiana, marking the first postseason victory for the Racers (16-10, 13-8) since the 2015-16 season...

No. 3-seed Southeast Missouri State (15-10, 13-7 Ohio Valley Conference) begins defense of its 2020 OVC tournament championship as Coach Rekha Patterson’s squad faces no. 6 Murray State (15-10, 12-8) Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in first-round action at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana...

Tesia Thompson and LaTrese Saine of the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team (15-10, 13-7 OVC) have been named to the All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team as the no. 3 Redhawks prepare to leave Wednesday to defend their OVC title in Evansville, Indiana...

For the sixth consecutive year, a SEMO team led by head coach Rekha Patterson is headed back to the Ohio Valley Conference annual tourney. For the second straight season, Southeast (15-10, 13-7 OVC) will go as the no. 3 seed and will face no. 6 Murray State (15-10, 12-8) in a 3:30 p.m. opening round game Thursday in Evansville, Indiana...

It’s not how a team starts, but how it finishes. Short-handed and bedeviled by injury, Southeast Missouri State (14-10, 12-7 Ohio Valley Conference) came out firing Thursday at Eastern Illinois, as it built a 9-0 lead and still led 25-19 at halftime.

Southeast (14-9, 12-6 Ohio Valley Conference) led wire-to-wire after building a big early lead and defeated Morehead State University on Senior Day at the Show Me Center Saturday, 61-52, but star player Tesia Thompson – the OVC’s second-leading scorer - missed most of the contest after being hurt in the first quarter...

Eastern Kentucky came out firing at the Show Me Center, putting up its most points all season, as the Colonels defeated Southeast, 82-72, at the Show Me Center Thursday. EKU (8-12, 7-9 Ohio Valley Conference) jumped out to a 9-0 lead and led the Redhawks by as much as 21 points in a game in which the OVC’s 8th-place team never trailed...

Behind a career-best 25 points, Southeast’s Taelour Pruitt came off the bench to lead SEMO (13-8, 11-5, Ohio Valley Conference) to a hard fought 73-68 overtime victory over Austin Peay Saturday in Clarksville, Tennessee. “I think you’re back,” said sophomore teammate Sophie Bussard to Pruitt as the Redhawks celebrated taking two of three in a road swing through Kentucky and the Volunteer State...

Southeast Missouri State lost a heartbreaker Friday 81-79 in women's basketball action at Murray State.

Southeast Missouri State had not played Belmont in more than 11 months, not since SEMO shocked the Bruins in the semifinals of the Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournament on March 6, 114-99 – a tourney Southeast would go on to win less than 24 hours later...

Buoyed by a 26-point performance from star guard Tesia Thompson, Southeast Missouri State (11-7, 9-4 Ohio Valley Conference) led wire-to-wire Saturday, winning 62-54 over Jacksonville State at the Show Me Center. Thompson, last week’s OVC player of the week and the no. 2 scorer in the conference, started fast by scoring 13 of the team’s 19 first quarter points...

Southeast Missouri State held off a furious fourth-quarter charge from visiting Tennessee Tech, prevailing 59-55 Thursday at the Show Me Center in women’s basketball action.

SPRINGFIELD — Pat Colon was getting recruited to play college basketball all over the country. Instead, she drove across town to see if there was a scholarship available.

When the game is on the line, you’re down by a basket and the time has nearly expired, any team would want the basketball in its best player’s hands.

Southeast Missouri State 5th-year senior LaTrese Saine had her best game as a college player Thursday, finishing with 27 points and 15 rebounds, as SEMO easily dispatched SIU-Edwardsville, 77-62.

Sophomore Roshala Scott hit on all cylinders Saturday, producing a career-high 15 points while adding a team-high six assists as visiting SEMO (8-5, 6-2, Ohio Valley Conference) defeated Eastern Kentucky University (6-8, 5-5) in women’s basketball action, 61-55, at McBrayer Arena...

A six-hour bus ride to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains was initially unsuccessful for the visiting Southeast women’s basketball team as it fell Thursday to Morehead State, 58-57, in the first of a two-game Kentucky road trip. The one-point defeat snapped SEMO’s five-game win streak...

Redhawks senior Tesia Thompson confesses to on-court weariness but was nearly unstoppable Saturday in leading Southeast (7-4, 5-1 Ohio Valley Conference) to a wire-to-wire home victory over Austin Peay (7-4, 5-2), 74-61. The Redhawks’ fifth consecutive victory comes as the senior Thompson put on a scoring clinic before an announced crowd of 482 at the socially distanced Show Me Center...

Murray State is the top-scoring team in the Ohio Valley Conference but when the Racers score less than 60 points per game, they always lose.

It’s three wins in a row for Southeast Missouri State (5-4, 3-1 Ohio Valley Conference), as they defeated Tennessee State on the road in conference action on Saturday 64-45. Two of the three most recent Redhawk victories have come against the winless Tigers (0-7, 0-5).

Southeast Missouri State’s sophomore guard Sophie Bussard has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday. The honor marks the first career OVC weekly award for Bussard. She led the Redhawks with 37 points (18.5ppg) in 75 minutes this past week, helping SEMO earn victories against Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State...

Anyone casually looking at the score of Saturday’s Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball contest, a 34-point victory over still-winless Tennessee State, might think Redhawk coach Rekha Patterson would be elated at the result.

Tesia Thompson had a double-double and Sophie Bussard scored a career-high 15 points as Southeast Missouri State (3-4, 1-1 Ohio Valley Conference) continued its recent dominance over Tennessee Tech with a convincing 79-70 win Wednesday in women’s basketball action in Cookeville, Tennessee...

Southeast Missouri State opened Ohio Valley Conference play Friday with a tough three-point loss at home to Ohio Valley Conference preseason favorite UT-Martin, 61-58, at the Show Me Center.

CARBONDALE, Ill. - Southern Illinois continued its historic dominance over Southeast Missouri State in women’s basketball, as the host Salukis easily outdistanced the Redhawks Sunday, 67-51.

Redhawks coach Rekha Patterson keeps repeating “different year, different team,” and prima facie evidence was presented Friday of that reality as Southeast (2-2) defeated visiting Western Illinois by double digits, 67-57, in non-conference action before 367 socially distanced fans at the Show Me Center...

When you get right down to it, any competitive sporting event comes down to mathematics. The ledger wasn’t in Southeast Missouri State’s favor Sunday and it was the long-range shot that ultimately felled the Redhawks. Visiting Eastern Michigan University (3-1) landed 10 three-pointers to just four for Southeast, a 30-12 swing, and that was more than enough for the Eagles to prevail over the Redhawk women, as EMU won by 14 at the Show Me Center, 63-49...

Southeast Missouri State got into the win column Tuesday with a wire-to-wire victory over the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy (UHSP), 75-44, at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks started the game fast, jumping out to an early 10-0 lead and led by as much as 37 in overwhelming UHSP, a tiny 698-student school that used to be known as St. Louis College of Pharmacy...

Southeast Missouri State drew one of the highest-ranked teams in the nation for its pre-Thanksgiving opener Wednesday and fell to No. 5 Louisville, 74-53, at the Show Me Center.

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...

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...

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...

A year ago, the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program played games in eight states outside of Missouri. That means a whole lot of time spent on a bus for the Redhawk players, and if they are inclined to learn about the world, sharing a row with junior guard Taelour Pruitt wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Depending on who you are, some people want to deal with Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball coach Rekha Patterson, while others don’t.

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Halle Smith has a natural curiosity when it comes to solving problems. The Belle High School senior aspires to study psychology in college with the goal of becoming a psychiatrist one day.

The Holt High School girl’s basketball program increased its victory total this past season to 18 wins from 10 wins in the 2018-19 season and an obvious reason as to why was the improved play of junior forward Jaliyah Green.

Athletic leaders throughout our country are taking this time to post their thoughts on the racial strife that has simmered for centuries throughout this country, and ignited on occasion, in wake of the tragic death of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program is going to celebrate its most successful season at the NCAA Division I level in a “virtual” manner Thursday. However, make no mistake about it, what the Redhawks accomplished during the 2019-20 season was very, very real.

When Southeast Missouri State athletic director Brady Barke was asked last month what it took to build a successful sport at his institution, he was very specific about the core of what was needed.