Southeast Womens Basketball

First-year head coach Briley Palmer earned her first Ohio Valley Conference win on Saturday afternoon as her Redhawks women’s basketball team defeated the SIUE Cougars 67-61. The Redhawks went down 4-0 early, but a 12-2 run put SEMO up 12-6 and forced the Cougar into a timeout. Offensive rebounds and fast-break offense, combined with holding SIUE to 21% shooting, gave the Redhawks a 20-10 lead after one quarter...

When Zoe Best was a high school basketball player at the St. Louis all-girls school, Incarnate Word Academy, she never lost a varsity game. The Red Knights girls basketball team has won 12 state championships since 2010, finished the previous four seasons undefeated, and is currently in a 124-game winning streak...

Southeast Missouri State opened the Ohio Valley Conference slate of the season with a 71-55 loss against Eastern Illinois on Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Show Me Center. Freshman Zoe Best led the Redhawks with 19 points on 7 of 18 shooting. Both Indiya Bowen and Skylar Barnes scored 10 points each for SEMO...

As we do with every sport in Southeast Missouri State athletics (outside of football), we bemoan the Redhawks' shortcomings in the non-conference portion of the season and renew hope in time for the Ohio Valley Conference slate of the schedule. "We played a tough non-con," SEMO men's basketball coach Brad Korn said. "We'll always probably play a tough non-con."...

Southeast Missouri State unleashed the deafening screech of elementary school children across the area during their Monday morning matinee with in-state rival, Missouri State. The advantage from the atmosphere wasn’t enough as the Redhawks fell to Bears 77-49 on Dec. 16, at the Show Me Center...

The Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team renewed their old rivalry with Murray State and fell 71-51 on Sunday, Dec. 8, in Murray, Kentucky. The Redhawks and Racers used to be Ohio Valley Conference rivals before Murray State moved to the Missouri Valley Conference in the 2022-23 season. Sunday was the first time the two teams met as non-conference opponents...

Transferring is a part of life in college football because not all places, and players, are created equal. Everyone who plays football or basketball at Southeast Missouri State does so because they are motivated by the opportunities that playing for the Redhawks presents them with...

Chloe Williams scored 22 points and Keslyn Secrist added 13 as the Indiana State Sycamores snatched victory from the talons of the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 68-65 on Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Show Me Center. Lexi McCully and Ainaya Williams each led the Redhawks with 12 points, followed by 11 points from Zoe Best and 10 from Indiya Bowen...

After stints at three colleges, SEMO women's basketball guard Lexi McCully is making her mark for the Redhawks. Overcoming challenges, she's now a key player under head coach Briley Palmer.

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Briley Palmer said she wanted to put her full attention on her team during a changing of the guard for Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball. Following a rocky 0-4 start, the Redhawks finally pulled through and got the win for their new head coach...

SEMO's Rob Martin and Teddy Washington Jr. shine with career-highs in points, but it's not enough as Chattanooga won 87-82 on Sunday. The Redhawks will aim to rebound against Central Arkansas this Thursday.

Evansville defeated SEMO women's basketball 70-55 on Thursday night, despite a strong 16-point performance from freshman Zoe Best. SEMO struggled with long-distance shooting, going 2 for 21 from 3-point range in the game.

The SEMO women's basketball team was outlasted by Dayton 75-70 in Briley Palmer's coaching debut on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Freshman Zoe Best shined, dropping 25 points in her collegiate debut.

With a new roster and a new head coach, the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team is starting from the ground floor, as they were picked to finish 11th in the 2024-25 Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Poll. The Redhawks enter the first season under head coach Briley Palmer, who was hired from Mineral Area College this past spring to replace Rekha Patterson, who is now an assistant coach at Central Florida...

KENNETT, Mo. - Grecian Steak House was the meeting center for a Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) football event on Wednesday, July 10. SEMO’s head football coach Tom Matukewicz wanted an event where he can promote the upcoming season and inform residents in ‘the bootheel’ about Redhawk football. Bud Hilburn, who graduated from Kennett High School and played football at SEMO, agreed to organize the event for his alma mater and former coach. ...

With the departure of eight-year head coach Rekha Patterson, SEMO women’s basketball prepares to enter a new era this winter, the Briley Palmer era. Coach Palmer comes to the Redhawks by way of Mineral Area College where throughout four seasons compiled a 77-40 record and in 2024 spent 10 weeks in the NJCAA top 25 rankings...

With the hiring of former Mineral Area women’s basketball coach Briley Palmer to next lead the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team, the Cardinals had a big vacancy to fill. After a couple of weeks of searching, it was clear that South Pemiscot and Southeast alumna Carrie Shephard was the woman for the job...

The Southeast Missouri State Redhawks welcomed Briley Palmer as the ninth women’s basketball head coach in program history with an introductory press conference on Thursday morning at the Show Me Center. Brady Barke, SEMO vice president for intercollegiate athletics, opened the press conference detailing the process that took 12 days from posting the position to hiring Palmer...

Mineral Area College’s Briley Palmer has been hired to become the new head coach of the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team, as announced on Wednesday, May 15, by Brady Barke, SEMO vice president for intercollegiate athletics. Palmer agreed to a five-year contract which will run through April 30, 2029. She will be the ninth head coach in program history after Rekha Patterson resigned to join Central Florida as an assistant coach...

It was an offer she couldn’t refuse. After a 9-20 season in which the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball team was a game short of returning to the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, head coach Rekha Patterson was focused on reloading the roster in preparation for her 10th season with the Redhawks...

Southeast Missouri State announced on Friday the resignation of women’s head basketball coach Rekha Patterson on Friday. The Redhawks finished ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 9-20 record (6-12 conference) and were a game behind Tennessee State for the eighth and final spot in the OVC Tournament...

There was a column on Semoball not too long ago stressing the importance of corralling the area’s top talent to bring the Southeast Missouri State men’s basketball team back to conference contention. Redhawks head coach Brad Korn tried to recruit Cam Williams when he was a star senior at Cape Central last year. He chose to go the junior college route and now has Division I options in conferences rated much higher than the Ohio Valley Conference...

In a high-stakes season finale for both Redhawk basketball teams, Southeast Missouri State grabbed a split on Saturday night – but not in the way it may have hoped. With a tournament berth on the line, Southeast women’s basketball couldn’t come up with the plays late to knock off Southern Indiana with its season on the line...

Against two tough Morehead State squads, Southeast got a big split on Thursday, going on the road and grabbing a big win in the Bluegrass State. The Redhawk women inched closer to securing their spot in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament while the men officially dropped out of the race with a tough loss...

The SEMO women’s basketball team was defeated by the Trojans from Arkansas-Little Rock 61-48 on Thursday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks were led on offense by Indiya Bowen with 15 points and Alecia Doyle with 10. This loss drops SEMO to 5-10 in the Ohio Valley Conference which has them sitting in ninth place. Needing to reach eighth place for a spot in the tournament, head coach Rekha Patterson said the team needs to focus on themselves and the control they do have but also fight for it...

Making the trip to Edwardsville, Illinois, for the second half of a two-game road trip in the Land of Lincoln, Redhawk basketball nearly had a doubleheader sweep, but couldn’t wrap it up late. Both the men and women grabbed big early leads against the Cougars, dominating the first halves – but the second halves told two totally different tales...

Another road doubleheader ended in another pair of losses for Southeast Basketball. Both the women’s and men’s squads traveled for a road tilt at Eastern Illinois on Thursday night. When the early goings turned sour, they never sweetened as both squads lost by nearly 20 points...

On SEMO head coach Rekha Patterson’s birthday, the Redhawks gave her quite the present, a win. The SEMO Women’s basketball team defeated the Tennessee State Tigers (TSU) 48-47, on Saturday at the Show Me Center. Alecia Doyle and Indiya Bowen led the Redhawks on offense with 18 points apiece...

With both teams on two-game losing streaks, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks are preparing for a fierce doubleheader at Lindenwood on Tuesday night. Last time out against the Lions, the Show Me Center bore witness to a dominant win for the Redhawk women, routing the visitors en route to their second consecutive conference victory...

Going on the road for another conference doubleheader matchup, both Southeast Missouri State Redhawk basketball squads had opportunities to win late but came up short in the end. For the women, it was long stretches of offensive ineptitude that kept the Redhawks off the scoreboard and the W column...

Coming off a doubleheader loss on Thursday night, Southeast Missouri State men’s and women’s basketball teams look to make the most of their tight turnaround before taking on two more road duels with the Little Rock Trojans on Saturday. With another tough tilt in Little Rock, Arkansas, the women’s game is set for a 1 p.m. tip while the men are set to follow at 3 p.m...

Matching up with two tough Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks teams on the road, both the Southeast Missouri State men and women came up short in a Thursday night doubleheader. With a chance for both teams to make a statement, neither could come up with the firepower...

With two win streaks on the line, the Southeast Missouri State Redhawk basketball teams are gearing up for a critical doubleheader at Tennessee-Martin on Thursday night with big Ohio Valley Conference implications. Once again facing a conference doubleheader, the women’s 5:30 p.m. game followed by a men’s 7:30 p.m. game see both teams’ one-game winning streaks on the line...

The SEMO Women’s basketball team defeated the SIUE Cougars 86-72 on Saturday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks had five players score in double-figures and leading the pack was junior forward Jaliyah Green with 22 points. Junior Kiyley Flowers proved to be a major difference maker in the game as the guard had 15 points, six assists, five rebounds and five steals. Flowers said she was doing whatever she could to help the team...

As Saturday’s matchup between the Redhawks women’s basketball team and SIUE draws closer, both teams are near the bottom of the conference and could each use the win. SEMO, at 2-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference are coming off a loss at Tennessee Tech, meanwhile, the Cougars are 0-5 in the OVC with a recent loss to Morehead State...

After spending a year in Cape Girardeau, the one thing that has pleasantly surprised me about this place is how many athletes currently competing at Southeast Missouri State who have aspirations for a career in journalism. Chandler Davis plays on the SEMO women’s basketball team and recently covered the football team as a reporter for the student newspaper, the Southeast Arrow. ...

Early in the 2023-24 women’s basketball season, the Redhawks are currently 5-11 and 2-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference. While this certainly does not look like a major success, SEMO is just three games out from first-place Southern Indiana. Much of the success of the Redhawks comes from junior forward Jaliyah Green who leads the team in points per game (14.3), defensive rebounds per game (3.3) and three-point percentage (30.3%). ...

Southeast Missouri State's Parker Feuerborn set a new school record in the weight throw as the Redhawks placed first on both the men's and women's side in their home opener on Saturday, Jan. 13. Feuerborn, a graduate student who transferred from St. Thomas University leading up to the 2023 track season, initially broke the record last year. Now, he raised the ball with a throw of 73' 4.75" for a new personal best...

The SEMO women’s basketball team defeated the Lindenwood Lions score on Thursday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks (5-10, 2-2 OVC) used tough defense and excellent shooting to defeat the in-state rivals. SEMO was led by junior Jaliyah Green who scored 16 points in the victory behind 54% shooting. Alecia Doyle, Kiyley Flowers and Amiyah Buchanan scored in double figures as well. Green said her teammates' ability to make shots helped her become open for her shots...

The Western Illinois men’s basketball team makes no pretense about what its plans are for its opposition.

Some timely buckets down the stretch led the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks to a 72-66 road win over the Western Illinois Leathernecks. In the win, the Redhawks managed to survive allowing 41 free throws to the Leathernecks.

The SEMO women’s basketball was defeated by the Morehead State Eagles, 64-61 on Sunday at the Show Me Center. With the loss, the Redhawks fall to an 0-2 record in the Ohio Valley Conference. SEMO came out hot in the first quarter, strong defense and points in the paint gave them an early 13-4 lead at the first media timeout. MSU stepped up on both ends of the court, going on a 5-3 run to close the gap 16-9 after the first quarter...

The SEMO women’s basketball team was defeated by the Southern Indiana (USI) Screaming Eagles 75-37 on Friday at the Show Me Center. The Redhawks were without starting forward Amiyah Buchanan and the superior size of USI made it seemingly impossible for SEMO to get anything going in the paint...