Southeast Mens Basketball

Redhawks end season with 86-83 loss to last-place Gamecocks (03/02/08)
With little on the line, Southeast Missouri State and Jacksonville State played an entertaining men's basketball game Saturday night. But the result was all too familiar for the Redhawks over the past two months. Another loss. JSU finished strong and beat the host Redhawks 86-83 in the final game of the season for both teams...

Disappointing season ends tonight (03/01/08)
Southeast Missouri State senior center Mike Rembert never envisioned his final college basketball season ending this way. Especially not after the Redhawks won their first six Ohio Valley Conference games to lead the standings nearly one-third of the way through the OVC schedule...

Redhawks officially fall short of OVC tournament (02/29/08)
It's now official. Southeast Missouri State's major collapse in men's basketball will leave the Redhawks out of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. The Redhawks were eliminated with Thursday night's 68-62 loss to visiting Samford. "We wanted to make the tournament, but things didn't go our way," said junior forward Jaycen Herring, who led the Redhawks with 18 points...

Redhawks must beat Samford to keep tourney hopes alive (02/28/08)
A win tonight won't get the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team into the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. But a loss will assure the Redhawks of not making the field. It's safe to say the stakes can't be any higher when Samford visits the Show Me Center for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff...

Redhawks find same woes away from OVC (02/24/08)
YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Teams mired in month-long slumps find ways to lose, despite what the statistics say. Southeast Missouri State held Eastern Michigan to one field goal in the last 9 minutes, 38 seconds of the second half. The Redhawks hit five 3-pointers in the final 61 seconds and led 31-21 late in the first half...

Southeast men get break from conference play (02/23/08)
The most important games of the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball season will take place next week. Today, the Redhawks hope to gain some momentum for their key stretch run when they visit Eastern Michigan. The 3 p.m. contest in Ypsilanti, Mich., is part of the ESPNU BracketBusters series, in which all 11 Ohio Valley Conference squads participate...

Southeast rules Hill ineligible (02/20/08)
Southeast Missouri State sophomore Johnny Hill may have played his last game this season for the men's basketball team. The 6-foot-4 guard has been ruled ineligible as university athletic officials conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Hill's high school career at Vashon High School in St. Louis...

Skyhawks' second-half run adds to Southeast's misery (02/17/08)
MARTIN, Tenn. -- The Tennessee-Martin men's basketball team continued its dreamlike season. At the same time, Southeast Missouri State's nightmare of a finish just kept getting worse. UT-Martin, picked to repeat its last-place Ohio Valley Conference showing from a year ago, notched its fifth straight win Saturday night, 98-85 over visiting Southeast...

Southeast men try to halt slide (02/16/08)
So much for taking momentum to Tennessee-Martin. That was the plan for the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team entering Thursday's home game against Eastern Illinois. The Redhawks hoped to pick up a much-needed win before visiting one of the Ohio Valley Conference's hottest squads...

Redhawks fall into ninth (02/15/08)
Eastern Illinois entered Thursday night's game 10th in the 11-team Ohio Valley Conference and already eliminated from contention for an OVC tournament berth. But the Panthers looked like the league's best men's basketball squad against reeling Southeast Missouri State...

Redhawks begin their final push to secure a berth in the OVC tourney (02/14/08)
The struggling Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team should have a good chance, on paper at least, to get healthy tonight. But the way things have been going for the Redhawks, they can't take anything for granted. The Redhawks need a win in the worst way when Eastern Illinois visits the Show Me Center for a 7:30 p.m. Ohio Valley Conference matchup...

Redhawks' bubble may not burst (02/12/08)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team hopes to get back on track with what appears to be a favorable closing schedule. Southeast, in a major struggle to make the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, plays three of its final four league games at home...

Redhawks stall in overtime (02/10/08)
RICHMOND, Ky. -- Adam Leonard, one of the Ohio Valley Conference's better 3-point shooters, struggled from beyond the arc for most of Saturday night's men's basketball game. But Leonard came through when it counted the most to help hand Southeast Missouri State another loss...

Southeast men try to escape downward spiral (02/09/08)
RICHMOND, Ky. -- The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team's funk rolled on Thursday night at the hands of a hot Morehead State squad. The Redhawks go up against another team on fire today as they close out a two-game road trip with a 6 p.m. tipoff against Eastern Kentucky...

Redhawks drop into eighth-place tie with loss (02/08/08)
MOREHEAD, Ky. -- With his team reeling, Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Scott Edgar made a significant change to the Redhawks' starting lineup. For the first time all season, sophomore point guard Roderick Pearson began a game on the bench, with junior college transfer Hank Harris getting his first Southeast start...

Southeast will try to exact revenge against Morehead State (02/07/08)
To say that Morehead State caused Southeast Missouri State's current funk would be an overstatement. But the Eagles didn't help things. On Jan. 24 at the Show Me Center, MSU built a 20-point second-half lead and held on for an 82-78 victory. That was Southeast's fifth straight loss in what has become a dismal 1-7 stretch for the Redhawks, who have tumbled since starting Ohio Valley Conference play with six consecutive wins...

Redhawks' mystery opponent identified (02/05/08)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team will travel to Eastern Michigan on Feb. 23 as part of the sixth annual O'Reilly ESPNU BracketBusters, with a 3 p.m. tipoff. All of the BracketBusters pairings were announced Monday evening. One hundred squads are involved, including all 11 from the Ohio Valley Conference...

Redhawks suffer their seventh loss in eight games (02/03/08)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team appeared to recapture its swagger with Tuesday's triple-overtime win over Ohio Valley Conference leader Austin Peay. But Tennessee-Martin knock-ed the Redhawks back down in a big way Saturday night...

Redhawks will try to slow UTM's Hudson (02/02/08)
As if things haven't been eventful enough for the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team over the past week, now comes the nation's No. 2 scorer. Lester Hudson will bring his 26.4 average to the Show Me Center tonight when Southeast hosts Tennessee-Martin in a 7:30 p.m. tipoff...

Harris' big finale cramps Govs' style (01/30/08)
The white salt from dried sweat highlighted Hank Harris' face after Southeast Missouri State's thrilling 121-116 victory against Austin Peay on Tuesday night. Harris backs up Roderick Pearson at point guard, but Harris was called upon to play the vast majority of the game after Pearson spent most of the game on the bench in foul trouble...

Redhawks down Austin Peay in triple overtime (01/30/08)
Southeast Missouri State's basketball players said they were enjoying themselves so much, they hardly seemed flustered when the game dragged on past the three-hour mark. Three overtimes? So what. "It's probably the most exciting game I've ever been in," junior wing Jaycen Herring said...

Redhawks try to end six-game skid vs. AP (01/29/08)
Three times over the past two seasons, Southeast Missouri State has come agonizingly close to beating the Ohio Valley Conference's top men's basketball team. The Redhawks hope to finally get over the hump tonight, and in the process end their six-game losing streak...

Southeast drops thriller (01/27/08)
MURRAY, Ky. -- The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team got back to the type of play that marked its 6-0 Ohio Valley Conference start. But all the Redhawks had to show for their best performance in a while was their sixth straight loss. Murray State junior guard Tyler Holloway hit two free throws with 5.8 seconds left for the winning margin as the host Racers squeezed out an 86-85 victory...

Redhawks unfazed by coach Edgar's absence (01/27/08)
MURRAY, Ky. -- Not that the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team wants to play without its head coach every game. But the Redhawks said once Saturday's contest at Murray State began, they didn't focus much on the fact Scott Edgar wasn't on their bench...