Southeast Missouri State's Stone gets basketball invite to elite PIT

~ The Southeast men's basketball team also could receive an invitation for a tourney

Southeast Missouri State senior forward Tyler Stone received an invitation to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, the university announced in a press release Monday.

According to the PIT website, 64 of the top seniors in college basketball are invited to participate in the tournament, which consists of 12 games throughout four days and is watched by representatives from every team in the NBA.

The tournament is slated for April 16 to 19 at the Churchland High School Sports Complex in Portsmouth, Va.

Stone and fellow senior Lucas Nutt might not have played their last games for Southeast, either.

The Redhawks are being considered for two postseason tournaments, the College Basketball Invitational and the Collegeinsider.com tournament.

Gibson honored

Southeast's Derek Gibson was named the Ohio Valley Conference baseball Co-Player of the Week after playing a big role in the Redhawks' series sweep of Belmont over the weekend.

He batted .636 and had six RBIs in Southeast's three games.

He went 3 for 4 in both Saturday's and Sunday's games, and had seven hits in the series, including a double and a triple.

SIU Edwardsville's Skyler Geissinger shares the honor with Gibson.

Southeast, 9-6 overall and 3-0 in the OVC, will host Missouri State in a nonconferendce game at Capaha Field at 3 p.m. today.