Southeast Womens Basketball

Despite standout performances from Lexi McCully and Ainay Williams, SEMO women's basketball fell to Tennessee Tech 79-66. The Redhawks have now dropped five straight games.

The first three-game homestand of 2025 at Southeast Missouri State featured a rarity in college basketball. Reinforcements. Thursday-Tuesday, Jan. 9-14, weren’t merely Da’Kariya Jackson’s first three games of the season. They were her first as a Redhawk...

Chrishawn Coleman scored 26 points to lead the Morehead State Eagles over the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 64-61 on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Show Me Center.  A last-second rebound and layup by Maia Rosarion gave the Eagles the go-ahead basket. A free throw afterward put her at the 20-point mark on the day. She also grabbed 15 rebounds for the double-double as the Eagles outrebounded the Redhawks 34-30...

The SEMO women’s basketball team was defeated by the Southern Indiana (USI) Screaming Eagles 93-69 on Thursday at the Show Me Center. The Screaming Eagles were picked to finish first in the Ohio Valley Conference and looked every bit like a team who could repeat their 2023-2024 regular season and tournament title...

MARTIN, TN — If any local athlete had a 2024 to remember, it was Notre Dame Regional High School alum Lexi Rubel. In her only year spent playing college basketball with her sister, Tori Rubel, the UT Martin Skyhawks returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014...

SEMO women's basketball extended its winning streak to three after edging Tennessee State 75-68 on Thursday night. Indiya Bowen shined with 25 points, while freshman Zoe Best added 18.

The SEMO Women’s basketball team defeated the NAIA William Woods Owls 102-50 on Tuesday afternoon at the Show Me Center. Four different Redhawks scored in double figures, and SEMO scored 100 or more points for the first time since the 2017 season. The Redhawks were led on offense by Skylar Barnes and Zoe Best who each finished with 22 points. Barnes said she took what the defense gave her and attacked the basket when she had open opportunities...

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...