Southeast Womens Basketball

Coming off a 28-point loss, a short-handed Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team picked up a bounce back victory Saturday. Tesia Thompson notched her fifth double-double of the season, and the Redhawks held on for a 52-42 win over Eastern Kentucky in Richmond, Kentucky...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team never led Thursday, suffering a 28-point defeat. Morehead State opened the scoring 33 seconds in and didn't relinquish that lead as Southeast fell 82-54 in Morehead, Kentucky. By the end of the first quarter, the Eagles held a 13-point lead and by halftime that advantage was 20 points. The Redhawks never got closer than 14 in the final two quarters...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team was unable to contain Macey Turley on Saturday, and it cost the Redhawks. Turley, a freshman, poured in a game-high 32 points, and the Racers led the entire fourth quarter in a 64-59 win over host Southeast at the Show Me Center...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team made its last three shots from the field, pulling away late to pick up its second conference win. The Redhawks outscored Austin Peay by 10 points in the final five minutes to turn a tie game into a 64-54 Ohio Valley Conference win Thursday at the Show Me Center...

When Jessie Harshberger knocked down a jumper from the right elbow early in the fourth quarter, the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team appeared in control once more with a double-digit lead. It was just a mirage. That Harshberger bucket seven seconds into the final period proved to the Redhawks' final field goal of the game as the offense went cold down the stretch. ...

It wasn't pretty, but the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team did enough to win its Ohio Valley Conference opener. The Redhawks overcame 17 turnovers and subpar free-throw shooting to defeat SIU Edwardsville 62-52 on Thursday in Edwardsville, Illinois. It's SEMO's first road win against SIUE in Rekha Patterson's four-year tenure...

Tesia Thompson recorded the fifth double-double of her young college career, but the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball faltered in the second half and fell 69-57 to Memphis on Monday in Memphis, Tennessee. Thompson, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee, finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds...

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball guards Adrianna Murphy and Carrie Shephard were named Ohio Valley Conference Player and Newcomer of the Week, respectively, the league announced Tuesday. Murphy, a senior, averaged 17 points, 8.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 4 steals in two wins last week to earn the Player of the Week award. The Fishers, Indiana, native had her first double-double of the season against Division II Illinois-Springfield, scoring 24 points and grabbing 11 rebounds...

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson had kept a low profile for most of the game, sitting on the bench next to her assistants, instead of pacing the sideline, but late in the third quarter, the fourth-year coach sprang out of her seat and clapped her hands emphatically in appreciation of her team's defense...

Both teams struggled to hold onto the ball Thursday, but Indiana State did enough to deal Southeast Missouri State women's basketball another loss. The Redhawks committed 35 turnovers in a 62-51 home defeat to the Sycamores on Thursday at the Show Me Center. ISU wasn't much better, but shot 40 percent from the field to overcome 28 turnovers...

Tesia Thompson scored 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds as the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team pulled away late and beat New Jersey Institute of Technology 68-58 in the NJIT Classic on Sunday in Newark, New Jersey. Thompson was one of four double-digit scorers for SEMO (2-4), which went 1-1 in the NJIT Classic. Adrianna Murphy added 14 points and four steals, and Carrie Shephard and Jocelyn Taylor both had 11 points. Taylor also had eight rebounds...

The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team fell into a double-digit halftime deficit and couldn’t recover in an 80-67 loss to North Alabama in both teams’ opening game in the NJIT Classic in Newark, New Jersey. UNA (6-0) led by 24 points with 4:38 left in the third quarter and did enough to hold on for the win...

Sophomore Tesia Thompson posted game-high totals of 24 points and 10 rebounds as the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team notched its first win of the season, an 81-71 victory over Western Illinois on Tuesday at the Show Me Center. Adrianna Murphy added 20 points for the Redhawks, who improved to 1-3 on the season...

The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team suffered a season-ending loss Thursday morning, falling to third-seeded Morehead State in straight sets in an Ohio Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinal in Clarksville, Tennessee. The third-seeded Redhawks lost 25-23, 25-10, 25-19, and ended the season with a 16-14 record...

Southeast Missourian A fast start wasn't enough to propel the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team to its first win of the season Wednesday. SEMO scored 15 of the game's first 18 points, but struggled to score for the rest of the contest and fell 60-40 to rival Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Illinois...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team looks for its first win of the season at noon today against rival Southern Illinois in Carbondale, Illinois. The Redhawks are 0-2 after losing to No. 6 Mississippi State and Bradley last week. Southern Illinois and Bradley are both members of the Missouri Valley Conference. Bradley was picked to finish sixth in the conference while Southern Illinois was tabbed for a fourth-place finish...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team coughed up a fourth-quarter lead in a 85-79 loss to Bradley on Saturday in Peoria, Illinois. With the loss SEMO drops to 0-2. The Redhawks lead 63-58 with 9 minutes, 13 seconds remaining in the game, but the Braves (1-0) responded with a 10-0 run to take the lead for good...

Facing the No. 6 team in the nation, Southeast Missouri State women's basketball was simply out-matched Tuesday in the season opener. Mississippi State, which reached the national championship game last season, cruised to an 88-53 win over SEMO in Starkville, Mississippi...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team opens the season with perhaps its toughest games on the schedule as the Redhawks play a Power Five conference team in the opener for the second straight year. Last season it was Louisville of the Atlantic Coast Conference. This time, it's the Southeastern Conference's Mississippi State. The Bulldogs advanced to the NCAA championship game last year before losing to Notre Dame and are ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press Top 25...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team completed exhibition play with an 82-50 victory over Lindenwood-Belleville on Tuesday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks scored the first eight points of the contest and led throughout, moving to 2-0 in exhibition play...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team beat Division II program Southwest Baptist 85-78 on Saturday in exhibition action at the Show Me Center. Preseason All-Ohio Valley Conference guard Ledarrius Brewer scored 25 points and was 10-of-11 from the free throw line...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team was picked to finish ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference, the league announced Tuesday at its media day. In the coaches and communication directors poll, SEMO finished ahead of Morehead State, UT Martin and SIU Edwardsville in the 12-team conference. Belmont was tabbed as the preseason favorites with eight first-place votes and 227 points...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team was picked to finish ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference, and the women's team was picked to finish sixth in the preseason OVC media poll, the league announced Friday. The media panel, made up of 12 voters from around the conference, tabbed Belmont's Dylan Windler and Darby Maggard as the OVC Preseason Players of the Year on the men's and women's side, respectively...

With the first official practice of the season less than 24 hours away, Rekha Patterson could hardly sleep Monday, she was so excited. It felt so much like Christmas Eve to the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach she tweeted out those exact words...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team announced Wednesday its 31-game schedule for the upcoming season. SEMO's 2018-19 slate will include 14 home games and non-conference matchups against in-state foe Saint Louis and ACC member Florida State...

Southeast Missouri State announced Tuesday that it has agreed to a two-year contract extension with women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson, extending her deal through the 2021-22 season. Patterson has been at the helm of the Redhawks for three seasons, earning berths in the Ohio Valley Conference in each of those years. SEMO had not made the OVC tournament for six years prior to Patterson's hiring...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball has welcomed a transfer signing into the fold, the program announced via Twitter on Monday. The Redhawks announced Celeste Akoro will be transferring in following one season at Virginia Tech. The 6-foot-2 forward did not appear in any games as a freshman with the Hokies and will have to sit out the 2018-19 season, per NCAA transfer rules...

The third-seeded Kennett Indians struck for three runs in the third inning Saturday and beat seventh-seeded Dexter 5-2 in a consolation semifinal of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament at Cape Central High School. The Indians will face Notre Dame in the fifth-place game at 2:15 p.m. Monday. Dexter (3-12) will meet New Madrid County Central for seventh place at noon Monday. Both games will be played at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Is the glass half full or half empty? The 2017-18 season was that kind of campaign for a Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team with rising expectations. Offseason personnel losses left the squad looking a little different than perhaps what was anticipated, and as the team battled to a 14-17 record, it found itself on the end of more than one tough loss -- seven of its losses came by five points or less, and SEMO never suffered a defeat of worse than 11 points in Ohio Valley Conference play, where it finished 9-9, finished seventh in the standings and made a third consecutive trip to the OVC Tournament.. ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Southeast Missouri State women's basketball out-rebounded, out-shot and virtually out-played UT Martin in every facet of Wednesday's Ohio Valley Conference quarterfinal in Evansville's Ford Center. But the seventh-seeded Redhawks -- mired in a litany of close losses this season -- found themselves on the tough end of a season-ending 63-60 defeat to UT Martin, despite strong efforts from seniors Ashton Luttrull (20 points, 7-for-13 shooting) and Deja Jones (14 points, 11 rebounds) and a near triple-double from Adrianna Murphy (seven points, eight rebounds, eight assists).. ...

Southeast Missouri State men's basketball guard Denzel Mahoney earned first team All-Ohio Valley Conference honors, freshman Ledarrius Brewer was named to the OVC All-Newcomer team, and two Southeast women's players earned Player of the Year awards, the league announced Tuesday...

Deja Jones can pull a car. At least, that's what her Southeast Missouri State women's basketball teammates say about her. Hyperbole, perhaps, but when it comes to banging in the paint in the Ohio Valley Conference the past four years for Southeast, the senior has been a sturdy presence...

The struggles of Southeast Missouri State women's basketball went on long enough that three consecutive trips to the Ohio Valley Conference -- what the Redhawks are embarking on this week -- aren't enough to consider the postseason old hat just yet...

On a day designed for seniors, it was the freshmen who, in many ways, stole the show. Saturday marked Senior Day for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team, and while the four Redhawks playing their final home game were recognized before the game, a pair of freshmen proved the future is bright for SEMO...

It was the finish that hurt, but it was the start that did the damage. The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team allowed visiting UT Martin to inflict that damage from outside the 3-point line early in the game, and that proved to be too much to over come, as the Redhawks fell to the Skyhawks 69-68 on Senior Day on Saturday afternoon at the Show Me Center...

If the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball is looking to be playing its best basketball heading into the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, Thursday night was a good way to keep the positive momentum going. momentary The Redhawks got off to a momentary slow start but settled in and used a second-quarter swing to take a lead and roll to victory, 66-52, on the road at Eastern Kentucky...

Kaley Leyhue still has the letters. Every single one. The Southeast Missouri State senior is proud to be a college basketball player, and she honors her lifelong dream and reminds herself of the hard work it took to get here with her collection of recruiting letters...

The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team has been in its fair share of close games this season. In fact, virtually every Ohio Valley Conference contest this season has been there for the taking going into the game’s final five minutes. The Redhawks ability to come out on the better side of those final minutes has been a mixed bag...

A month ago, the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team watched a seven-point fourth-quarter lead dissolve on the road at SIU Edwardsville, undone by a program with a tradition of winning. On Saturday afternoon, the Redhawks proved that they’re closer to breaking into that realm...

On Valentine's Day, Ashton Luttrull slung an arrow that sailed as true as Cupid's. Tied at 48-all with 0.6 seconds remaining in the game, Luttrull received an inbounds play and knocked down a turnaround 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift Southeast Missouri State women's basketball to a critical 51-48 home victory over Eastern Illinois on Wednesday night at the Show Me Center...

With the calendar flipped to Feb. 14 and love in the air, the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team donned pink on Wednesday. But it was not a mere tribute to Valentine's Day. Instead, the fashion choice was made to recognize breast cancer survivors and raise awareness for advances in fighting the disease...

Basketball is supposed to be fun. Not so fun? Surgery. Chronic pain. Losing. Southeast Missouri State senior Ashton Luttrull has been through all of that. Now the elder statesmen of the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team -- predating any of the coaches or current players -- and with just weeks remaining in her career, the Lewistown, Missouri, native seems to have rediscovered the joy that sent her down her sometimes bumpy path...

MARTIN, Tenn. — The formula for failure was a straight forward one for the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team. Turnovers and poor free-throw shooting don’t tend to mix with victory on the road, and the Redhawks struggled with both as they fell to UT Martin 72-65 on Saturday afternoon at the Elam Center in Martin, Tennessee...

A three-point lead in overtime was never safe and sound for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team on Thursday night. Miranda Crockett hit a go-ahead jumper right in front of the basket with 30 seconds remaining, as the Morehead State Eagles went on a 6-1 run in the final minute of overtime to claim a 60-58 win over the Redhawks at Ellis Johnson Arena in Morehead, Kentucky...

In the aftermath and frustration, the analysis was straightforward. The Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team didn’t win the effort battle, and the result was it didn’t win the game. The Redhawks were significantly out-done on the boards, struggled for stretches offensively and had no answer for Brianne Alexander as Austin Peay stole home court away from SEMO with a 61-50 win in Ohio Valley Conference play Saturday afternoon at the Show Me Center...

This wasn't always Mandy Madden's path, as she stands in the Show Me Center getting ready to begin practice Friday ahead of a Saturday home game against Austin Peay. Playing Division I women's college basketball? That was hardly a thought even a few years ago...

Last year, a season sweep of Murray State was a big part of the reason the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team made the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. It's too early to know how the postseason picture will play out this year, but it's likely the Redhawks again have done themselves a big favor by repeating the first part of the equation...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team has a chance to gain some ground on conference foes over the next two games, starting Thursday. Southeast hosts Murray State at 5:15 p.m. Thursday and will go for the season sweep, having already beaten the Racers on Jan. 4...

Against the best defense in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team was always going to need to figure out how to generate points. But on Saturday evening, it was Jacksonville State that got extra opportunities to score...