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Southeast Missouri State University defeated Eastern Illinois University 72-57 on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball schedule was released Tuesday, and it includes 15 games at the Show Me Center, seven of which are of the non-conference variety. "Our 2016-17 non-conference schedule will definitely prepare us for the tough battles we will face during OVC play," second-year coach Rekha Patterson said in a press release. ...

Just days from now -- months after wrapping up his basketball-playing career at Southeast Missouri State -- Isiah Jones will cross the Atlantic Ocean to begin a new life as professional basketball player in Cyprus. But before he left the place he's called home for the past two years, the man they call "Hoopie" wanted to try to make a difference in Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State put 29 student-athletes on the list of Ohio Valley Conference Medal of Honor recipients, besting its previous high of 27 a year ago. Each award winner carried a 4.0 GPA for the 2015-16 school year. The Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to student-athletes who achieve the highest GPA in an OVC-sponsored sport...

A white piece of paper with the words "Be great or go be somewhere else because being average or giving less than your best should feel weird in a championship culture," typed across it sits on the edge of Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson's desk...

Southeast Missouri State athletics recently wrapped up another year of competition. Like many other years, it ended with a Redhawks track & field athlete competing at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships, but this year Southeast's baseball team was also still competing in June in an NCAA Regional...

Southeast women's basketball A local addition to the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball program became official Tuesday. Former South Pemiscot star and Missouri transfer Carrie Shephard signed to play for the Redhawks and second-year coach Rekha Patterson...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team announced the signing of junior college transfer Amanda Madden, a 6-foot-1 forward, on Tuesday. Madden started 29 games and averaged 9.7 points and 5.3 rebounds for a Hutchinson Community College squad that finished with a 27-4 record this past season...

Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Rick Ray and women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson each added a high school senior to their rosters for next season. Guard Tahj Eaddy and guard/forward Jessie Harshberger each signed their National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, the first day of the spring signing period, which ends May 18...

SIU Edwardsville defeated the Redhawks 80-76 in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

The Jackson native and the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team faces SIU Edwardsville in the first round of the OVC tournament today.

If Southeast Missouri State freshman guard Corneisha Henderson was exhausted when she arrived at the Show Me Center for a 6 a.m. practice Monday, she didn't show it. Henderson came in clapping her hands and told her teammates she hadn't been able to sleep the night before because of her excitement that the team was going to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, according to senior forward Connor King...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team will enter this week's Ohio Valley Conference tournament this week in Nashville, Tennessee, as the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 SIU Edwardsville in the first round. The Redhawks, who dropped their final two conference games to finish the regular season at 15-14 overall and 8-8 in the OVC, will face the Cougars at 2 p.m. Thursday at Municipal Auditorium...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson wanted to see how her team would respond in its regular-season finale against Austin Peay on Saturday on the heels of a lackluster performance in its home finale loss to SIU Edwardsville a few days before...

The Redhawks were outscored 27-5 in the second quarter en route to an 89-75 in their home finale.

If there's one thing that you don't want to tell Erin Bollmann it's that she isn't capable of achieving something. If you make that mistake, the driven Bollmann, a Meadow Heights graduate and Southeast Missouri State senior, will set out to show you exactly what she can do...

Senior Erin Bollmann has helped steady the Redhawks with her offbeat but determined approach.

The Redhawks ran away with an 82-52 victory over the Panthers to secure the program's first OVC tournament berth since 2009.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team will try to snap its three-game losing on Saturday against the team that started their winless stretch. The Redhawks return home after a three-game road trip and a week off from action to face Eastern Illinois at 2 p.m. at the Show Me Center...

MURRAY, Ky. -- The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team doesn't need a reminder of what its goal is this season. The Redhawks want to be playing in Nashville the first week of March in their first trip to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament since 2009...

Penalties handed down from the NCAA to the Southeast Missouri State women’s basketball program for violations made by a former assistant coach were announced on Friday.

MARTIN, Tenn. -- There were three keys to the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team's game plan for defending Ohio Valley Conference champion and current leader UT Martin on Wednesday night. The Redhawks were supposed to defend the 3, dominate the boards and limit turnovers...

CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Eastern Illinois women's basketball team had gone more than three months without winning a game. The Panthers, who had lost their last 21 games after defeating IUPUI in their home opener on Nov. 13, clawed their way back from a double-figure halftime deficit on Saturday afternoon to defeat Southeast Missouri State 64-59 at Lantz Arena...

The Redhawks led from start to finish in their 96-59 victory over the Racers on Wednesday night

Both the Southeast Missouri State and Murray State women's basketball teams know a thing or two about playing in close games. The Racers -- who have had all but one of their conference games decided by 12 points or fewer -- and Redhawks -- who have had seven of eight games decided by 10 or fewer points -- meet tonight at the Show Me Center. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m...

The Redhawks snapped a two-game losing streak with their 71-69 home win against the Govs on Saturday.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball players were smiling moments before their practice Thursday afternoon, which was a great sight for coach Rekha Patterson. The Redhawks were in unfamiliar territory last week and still are this week as they prep for Saturday's game against Austin Peay...

In the locker room following the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team's road loss to Ohio Valley Conference leader SIU Edwardsville on Wednesday night, the players came up with four concepts that they felt needed to improve: communication, urgency, focus and alertness...

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson told her coaching staff that the Redhawks' next opponent, UT Martin, would feel like a person that had just gotten their hair done and got all dressed up with a nice outfit and shoes...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- After most of the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team's wins this season, members of the team have attributed their success to playing hard and playing tough. Coach Rekha Patterson didn't discount that her team had both on Wednesday night when it squared off with SIU Edwardsville in a matchup between the teams atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings...

The Redhawks and Cougars sit atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings with 5-1 records.

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team was huddled up during its timeout with 23.9 seconds remaining when senior forward Erin Bollmann turned to coach Rekha Patterson and asked, "Coach, you want us to crash?" Patterson simply responded with, "Absolutely."...

The Redhawks improved to 4-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 61-47 victory over the Gamecocks.

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson has witnessed first hand the improvement of the Ohio Valley Conference, beginning with her team that was picked to finish last in the preseason poll surge to a 4-1 start in OVC play. That's why she's not taking her team's next opponent, Tennessee Tech, which is 5-13 and 1-4 in the conference, lightly...

Whether she'll be able to play is almost always a game-time decision for Southeast Missouri State shooting guard Ashton Luttrull. When the Redhawks suit up at the Show Me Center tonight against Jacksonville State there will probably be a conversation between Luttrull and coach Rekha Patterson shortly before tipoff at 5:30 p.m...

RICHMOND, Ky. -- The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team found itself in an unfamiliar situation on Saturday night at McBrayer Arena. Sure, the Redhawks' previous three Ohio Valley Conference games had been fairly close in the final quarter, but didn't have down-to-the-wire finishes, and definitely not finishes that saw them lose a lead, because most of the time they'd been the ones making a second-half comeback or a rally in the fourth quarter...

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The thought crossed the mind of Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson in the closing seconds of her team's road game against Morehead State on Thursday night. Even 20 minutes later, as she stood courtside at Johnson Arena where her team had just come back to knock off the Eagles 89-79, the question was still in her head...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team has had its fair share of offensive outbursts during coach Rekha Patterson's first year at the helm, but no one in the Ohio Valley Conference has scored like the Redhawks' latest opponent. Southeast (9-6, 2-0 OVC) will face the conference's top scoring and stealing team in Morehead State. Tip-off is set for 7:15 p.m. at Johnson Arena in Morehead, Kentucky. Southeast remains on the road for a game at Eastern Kentucky at 3 p.m. Saturday...

Ashton Luttrull scored a career-high 17 points to help the Redhawks to a 75-65 victory over Tennessee State and a 2-0 record in the Ohio Valley Conference.

The Redhawks' 81-74 victory was their first in a conference opener since the 2006-07 season.

The Redhawks rolled to a 94-58 win against the Owls on Wednesday.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team hosts NAIA William Woods on the eve of the Redhawks' Ohio Valley Conference opener. The Owls visit the Show Me Center for an 11 a.m. contest today. Southeast (6-6) will kick off OVC action with a home game vs. Belmont on Thursday at 2:30 p.m...

The Redhawks dropped to 6-6 with an 87-72 loss to the Salukis on Tuesday.

Toughness has been the focal point for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team since Rekha Patterson took over as the Redhawks' coach. After a few close wins this season she's described her players' efforts as "Redhawk Tough," and after their latest loss at home to Central Arkansas the players and Patterson both credited it to a lack of that...

Southeast women's basketball Southeast Missouri State forward Imani Johnson was announced as the Ohio Valley Conference's Freshman of the Week on Tuesday morning. Johnson, a 6-foot redshirt freshman forward, averaged 14 points and seven rebounds in games against Lipscomb and Central Arkansas last week...

The Redhawks' 63-54 loss snapped a two-game winning streak.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team returns to the Show Me Center for its first home game in three weeks. The Redhawks bring a two-game winning streak and a 6-4 record to today's 2 p.m. contest vs. the University of Central Arkansas...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team concluded its six-game road trip the same way it started -- with a win. The Redhawks improved to 6-4 in coach Rekha Patterson's first season at the helm with an 84-69 defeat of Lipscomb University in Nashville on Tuesday night...

The Lipscomb women's basketball team gave first-year Southeast Missouri State coach Rekha Patterson her first real look at many of the teams in the conference she'll be coaching against this season. Lipscomb, which the Redhawks play at 6:30 p.m. tonight in Nashville, has already played four members of the Ohio Valley Conference...

Coach Rekha Patterson and the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team's 8-plus hour bus ride back to Cape Girardeau from Wichita, Kansas, on Friday night became a little bit easier after the first-year coach and her team snapped a three-game losing streak...

The Wichita State women's basketball team may have just picked up its first win of the season in five tries Sunday, but Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson definitely is not writing off the Shockers when her team faces them at noon today at Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team dropped to .500 on the season as it fell on the road to undefeated Missouri, 74-32, on Wednesday night in Columbia, Missouri. The Redhawks (4-4) scored a season-low 15 first-half points and faced a 39-15 deficit to the Tigers (8-0) going into halftime...

Coach Rekha Patterson used the word confident several times to describe the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team's next opponent. Whether it was confidence in their strategy on the court or their personnel, or the confidence that has come from a hot start to the season, that's what the Missouri Tigers exude to Patterson...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team lost both its games at the UTEP Thanksgiving Classic hosted by the University of Texas-El Paso, but coach Rekha Patterson believes that the experience her team got from the two-day tournament was invaluable...

Coach Rekha Patterson and the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team had plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Patterson's fulfilling her dream of being a head coach, and the Redhawks have won four in a row for their best start since 2008-09...

The Redhawks defeated Western Illinois on the road for the first time.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball will have to weather a barrage of 3-pointers today. The Redhawks face one of the top 3-point shooting teams in the country in Western Illinois. Tip-off is set for 11 a.m. from Western Hall in Macomb, Illinois...

The Redhawks defeated the visiting Kangaroos 78-65 on Friday night to improve to 3-1.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team returns home tonight to host Missouri-Kansas City before hitting the road for a six-game stretch. The Redhawks (2-1) and Kangaroos (0-2) face off at 6 p.m. in the Show Me Center. Southeast won't play at home again until Dec. 13...

The second quarter proved to be the difference for the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team on Wednesday night. The Redhawks held Alabama A&M to just two field goals and two free throws and had their most productive scoring of the game, allowing them to pull away for good in a 69-58 victory in Huntsville, Alabama...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team and coach Rekha Patterson had little time to dwell on the Redhawks' first win of the season and Patterson's first career win. Southeast will play its third game in five days when it heads to Huntsville, Alabama, today to face Alabama A&M. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m...

The Redhawks defeated Harris-Stowe 78-66 on Monday night at the Show Me Center. It was the first career win for coach Rekha Patterson

The first chance to see the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team in regular-season action at home has arrived. The Redhawks host NAIA Harris-Stowe tonight in their home opener. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Show Me Center. The Hornets have a record of 1-2 in their first season under coach Hana Haden...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team saw its deficit balloon from a manageable six points at halftime of Saturday's season opener at Saint Louis to 20 within the first 4 minutes, 9 seconds after the break. The Redhawks were unable to pull back within double figures of the Billikens and lost 67-52 at Chaifetz Arena...

Coach Rekha Patterson added a pair of high school seniors and a junior college transfer to the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball program during the first two days of the week-long early signing period. The athletic department announced Thursday afternoon that Iyanna McCurdy, LaShala Saine and Lakyn Gulley all signed National Letters of Intent to play at Southeast...

The Redhawks' reaction to difficult circumstances will play a big role in the first year of coach Rekha Patterson's rebuilding process.

With a pair of lightning quick point guards, a sharpshooter and an impactful combo guard in senior Olivia Hackmann, Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson has a backcourt she's excited about.

The six Redhawk post players each brings a variety of abilities into coach Rekha Patterson's first season at the helm.

Patterson's new journey as the women's basketball coach at Southeast has been in the making since she was a child, and this season is just the next step toward fulfilling her vision of being a successful coach.

The Redhawks defeated the Lynx 108-59 in their final exhibition game on Wednesday night at the Show Me Center.

The Redhawks blasted Oakland City 109-66.

The Southeast Missouri State women's cross country team placed third at the Ohio Valley Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Murray, Kentucky, while the men's team took seventh. Megan Parks paced the Redhawks with a 12th-place finished in 18 minutes, 1.9 seconds in the 5K race to earn second-team all-conference...

First-year Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Rick Ray and women's basketball coach Rekha Patterson got their first experience with the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll, which is voted on by league coaches and sports information directors and was released Tuesday during the OVC's media day in Nashville...

First-year coach Rekha Patterson encourages team to adopt new attitude.

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team will open its 2015-16 regular season under first-year coach Rick Ray with four road games beginning at Dayton on Nov. 13. The women's team will play their first regular-season game under new coach Rehka Patterson at Saint Louis on Nov. 14...

Brady Barke has begun his new role as interim director of athletics after Mark Alnutt's resignation went into effect Friday.

Patterson's first summer as head coach of the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team concludes next week, and six important concepts remain her biggest focus for the Redhawks.

Alnutt's hiring by Memphis and resignation from Southeast moves him one step closer to his ultimate career goal of being the athletic director of a school in a Power 5 conference.

A look at some of the top events on the field and off of it for the Redhawks in the 2014-15 school year.

Rekha Patterson knew exactly which players she had in mind to first recruit when she was hired as the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach April 15. Now less than a month later she's announced the signings of four high school seniors that she was aware of during her time as an assistant at Ball State: Adrianna Murphy, Corneisha Henderson, Dolapo Balogun and Hilma Mededovic...

After she was announced as the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach on April 15, Rekha Patterson had to make a trip back to Muncie, Indiana, where she was an assistant at Ball State, to pick up some of her belongings.

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team has gone from having four Class of 2015 signees to none. High school seniors Amber Lindfors, Olivia Crozier, and Jennifer and Jessica Mackowiak, who signed to play for former coach Ty Margenthaler during the early signing period in November, have each been granted a release from their National Letter of Intent, Southeast assistant sports information director Tyler Koonce confirmed in an email Monday morning...

Senior Kayla Fortner homered twice in the Redhawks doubleheader sweep of Eastern Illinois to bring her total to 16 for the season and overtake the mark of 14 set by Michelle Summers in 2007.

A few hours after Rick Ray was announced as the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Monday night he was tasked with another job. While Ray and his wife, Breyana, were out to dinner with Southeast athletic director Mark Alnutt and his wife, Kate, he was put on the phone to make a two-minute "hard sales pitch" to Rekha Patterson, according to Alnutt...

Patterson's preparation to become a head coach began as a seventh grader when she kept the scorebook for the girls high school team her mom coached and broke down film of the boys high school team her dad coached.

Ball State associate head coach Rehka Patterson will be named the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach today, according to a report from swishappeal.com. Patterson's hiring will take place just two days after Rick Ray was announced as the Redhawks' men's basketball coach...

Rekha Patterson was introduced as the eighth coach in Southeast Missouri State women's basketball history in a press conference Wednesday morning at the Show Me Center.

Ball State associate head coach Rekha Patterson was hired as Southeast Missouri State's eighth women's basketball coach in program history, the athletic department announced Wednesday morning.

The athletics department announced Tuesday afternoon that there will be a press conference "regarding the future of its women's basketball program" at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

With the head coaching positions for the Southeast Missouri State men's and women's basketball teams still vacant it's become a waiting game for the players that signed their National Letter of Intent to be a Redhawk during the early signing period in November...

Former Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Ty Margenthaler could have walked away from the job with no compensation if he'd been fired for violating his contract, and the university could have paid much more.

The firing of men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt was announced less than two hours after the announcement of women's basketball coach Ty Margenthaler's resignation.

Southeast was 10-19 overall in Margenthaler's final season and 3-13 in the OVC to tie for 10th place in the 12-team league. The Redhawks failed to make the conference tournament in his four years at the helm.

Margenthaler had an overall record of 37-78 and was 18-46 in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Redhawks failed to make the conference tournament in his four seasons at the helm.

Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt sat in the stands at a high school district basketball game at Scott City High School on Thursday night watching his son Logan coach in a semifinal. At halftime a relieved Dickey Nutt gave a thumbs up, smiled and mouthed the words, "We're in."...

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Ty Margenthaler urged his players heading into Wednesday night's road game against SIU Edwardsville not to have any regrets when they stepped off the court at the Vadalabene Center in Edwardsville, Illinois...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team heads to SIU Edwardsville for its final road game of the season tonight. The Redhawks and Cougars tip off at 7 p.m. from the Vadalabene Center in Edwardsville, Illinois. Southeast dropped to 10-17 overall and 3-11 in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 49-48 road loss to Eastern Illinois on Saturday. The loss eliminated the Redhawks from reaching the conference tournament for the sixth consecutive year...

The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball program's Ohio Valley Conference tournament drought continues. The Redhawks, who have not reached the eight-team conference tournament since 2009, were eliminated from the postseason race with a 49-48 loss to Eastern Illinois on Saturday at Lantz Arena. Southeast dropped to 10-17 overall and 3-11 in conference...

Since the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team defeated Eastern Illinois nearly two weeks ago, the Redhawks have a new-found confidence as they close out the regular season. Southeast will try to continue to build off that confidence, and keep its Ohio Valley Conference tournament hopes alive, when it faces the Panthers at 1 p.m. Saturday in Charleston, Illinois...