Report: Ball State's Patterson to be named Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach

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.

Southeast will hold a press conference in regards to the women's program at 11 a.m. today on the upper northeast concourse of the Show Me Center next to the athletics Hall of Fame, it announced Tuesday.

The press conference will be televised on the Ohio Valley Conference's Digital Network and there will be a reception that is open to the public immediately following in the meeting rooms on the lower level of the Show Me Center.

Patterson has been the associate head coach on Brady Sallee's staff at Ball State for the past two seasons. The Cardinals reached the Mid-American Conference tournament championship game in 2013-14 and advanced to the Women's National Invitational Tournament each of the past two seasons. She also was on staff at Ball State for the 2006-07 season.

For the five seasons prior to her most recent stint at Ball State, Patterson was on Kim Mulkey's staff at Baylor.

She spent four seasons as the coordinator of basketball operations before being named associate coach and recruiting coordinator in 2011.

The Bears went 74-2 over the next two seasons, including going 40-0 en route to winning the 2012 NCAA National Championship.

Patterson, who played at North Carolina A&T and graduated in 2001 with a degree in public relations, began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Baylor from 2002-04. She earned her master's in education with an emphasis in sports management from Baylor in 2004.

She then spent two years in the Ohio Valley Conference at Eastern Illinois before spending one year at Ball State. She was at Creighton for the 2007-08 season.

Patterson would become the eighth coach in Southeast women's basketball history and replace Ty Margenthaler, who resigned on March 23.

The Redhawks finished the season 10-19 and 3-13 in the OVC. They failed to make the eight-team conference tournament for the sixth year in a row.

Margenthaler compiled a record of 37-78 and 18-46 in conference during his four seasons at Southeast.

There is currently an NCAA investigation into the program and recruiting violations by a former assistant coach.