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Southeast Missouri (6-19, 3-9 OVC) at Southern Illinois Edwardsville (14-9, 8-4 OVC)

Game Information
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012
Tip-Off: 7:00 p.m., CT
Location: Edwardsville, Ill.
Site: Vadalabene Center (4,000)
Series Record: Southeast leads 18-10 (Southeast is 0-1 vs. SIUe in 2011-12)
Coaches: Ty Margenthaler (6-19 overall, 6-19 at Southeast); Amanda Levens (38-73 overall, 38-73 at SIU Edwardsville)

Media Coverage
Redhawks Radio Network: ESPN 1220 AM (KGIR), flagship; 930 AM (KWOC); 1470 AM (KMAL). Todd Bonacki, Play-by-Play;
Live Stats: SIUECougars.com
Video Streaming: OVCSports.tv

Quick Hits
About SIU Edwardsville – The Cougars are making noise in their first go at the Ohio Valley Conference. SIUe boasts a 14-9 overall record and an 8-4 mark in conference play, good for fourth place in the league standings. The Cougars are unable to qualify for the OVC Tournament as part of NCAA reclassifying protocol, but they fair well with their league counterparts in numerous statistical categories. SIU Edwardsville is second in the conference in scoring defense (62.8 points per game), a figure that improves to 60.2 points against per game in league action. The Cougars are fifth in the OVC in scoring offense (65.0 points per game), though their 40.3 team field goal percentage is the third best clip in the league while their 31.2 three-point percentage trails only OVC co-leader UT Martin. The Cougars are also the third best in the league in turnover margin (+3.70 per game). SIUe is the league's worst three-point defense (34.3 percent) and is second to last with 36.5 rebounds per game. Individually, Raven Berry leads the Cougars with 11.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game while shooting 50 percent from the field. Jazmin Hill also averages double figures at 10.5 points per game while Michaela Herrod (9.9 points per game) and Katie Hempen (9.8 points per game) are averaging over nine points per game. Herrod (12 points), Hempen (11) and Berry (10) combined for 33 points in SIUe's win at Southeast on Jan. 16.

Swarming Defense – Southeast put together its finest defensive performance of the season in a Feb. 4 win over Tennessee State. The Redhawks held TSU, who was averaging 76.7 points per game against OVC teams at the time, to 39 points on 22.4 percent shooting. The Tigers made only nine of their first 51 shots and missed their first nine shots of the season half on the Redhawks' defense. The last time Southeast shut down a team to that extent was the second game of the 2010-11 season when it held Jackson State to 37 points.

Roberts Coming On – Junior Bailie Roberts appears to be finding her second wind to the season of late. Roberts is averaging 12.2 points per game while cracking double figures in four of the last five games after being held under 10 points in three of four games prior to this stretch. This spurt started when she scored a career-high 19 points on a career-best 8-of-16 shooting at UT Martin on Jan. 28. She followed that up with her third career double-double in a win over Austin Peay on Jan. 30, scoring 10 points and grabbing a career-high 13 rebounds. She was back at it at Eastern Illinois on Feb. 1, tallying 11 points and hauling in eight more rebounds. She also poured in 14 points (12 in the second half) in Saturday's contest at Murray State. The Maryville, Tenn., native is shooting 45.0 percent and averaging 7.4 rebounds per game in this five-game span.

Running Point – Senior guard Bianca Beck has moved on from a junior year that saw her struggle at the point. Beck has dished out a career-best 88 assists and a 1.35 assist to turnover ratio (sixth best in the OVC). In league play, Beck ranks seventh among all OVC players with 4.1 assists per game.  The senior has also been a pleasant surprise on the glass, ranking fifth on the team averaging 4.4 rebounds per contest. On New Year's Eve, the St. Louis, Mo. native dished out a career-high nine assists. She recorded her first career double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds against Samford on Nov. 26. This is a welcome sign after a 2010-11 campaign that saw her commit 78 turnovers against only 44 assists. She has also scored in double figures six times this season, surpassing her total from a year ago, and tied her career high in scoring (13 points) on three separate occasions.

Freshman Improvement – Freshman guard Allyson Bradshaw has been a valuable weapon off the bench for Southeast
since Thanksgiving. After scoring only three total points in her first five career games, Bradshaw is averaging 6.6 points per
game off the bench in her last 20 contests. The Cape Girardeau, Mo., native has scored in double figures on five occasions
with a season-high of 17 points in a win over Austin Peay on Jan. 30. Bradshaw drained five three-pointers in the contest, tying Karley Evans for the most trifectas a Southeast player has made in a game this season. The freshman has heated up the last four games, averaging 9.8 points while making 50 percent (11-of-22) of her three-point attempts

Road Troubles – Southeast is looking to make up some ground in the league standings down the stretch and it will have to do so on the road. Three of the Redhawks' last four games are on the road, where they are 0-12 this season. Southeast is looking to snap a 16-game road losing streak that dates back to a 64-57 win at Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 10, 2011. The Redhawks have come close to snapping that streak in recent trips, leading at halftime in games at Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee Tech and Murray State before slipping in each contest.

Shiffer Gets Going – Junior center Courtney Shiffer has hit her offensive stride recently as well. The Freeport, Ill., native has scored in double figures five times in her last 10 games (four in the last five games) after doing so only three times in the first 15 contests of the year. In that span, she is shooting 40.2 percent (25.8 percent in the first 15). In her last seven games, Shiffer is shooting 45.1 percent from the floor and averaging 10.1 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, up from her previous season average of 5.1 points and 4.9 rebounds in the first 18 games of the year.

Harriel Heats Up – Junior forward Brittany Harriel has been an offensive catalyst as of late. The Cincinnati, Ohio native has scored in double figures nine times and recorded six double-doubles in her past 13 games. This coming after notching only two double-doubles in her first two seasons. Harriel willed the Redhawks to a tight, 56-52, win over Longwood on Dec. 20 with 18 points while tying a career-high with 13 rebounds. She scored nine of Southeast's last 10 points and went 8-for-9 from the charity stripe to help secure the victory. Two games later, Harriel began a streak of three-straight double-doubles. She poured in a career-high 26 points to go with 12 rebounds as the Redhawks nearly erased an 11-point deficit in the second half against Murray State on New Year's Eve. In Southeast's win over Jacksonville State on Jan. 2, the junior scored 12 points and corralled a team-high 11 rebounds. She made it three straight with 11 points and 11 rebounds at Eastern Kentucky on Jan. 7 and tallied 13 points and 10 rebounds in Monday's contest against SIU Edwardsville. She also scored a team-high 12 points at Tennessee Tech on Jan. 21 while chipping in 15 points in a win over Austin Peay on Jan. 30. The Cincinnati, Ohio native tallied 11 points at Eastern Illinois on Feb. 1. While she just missed a double-double against Tennessee State, Harriel did add a career-high 15 rebounds to her eight points in the win before scoring 16 points and adding 10 rebounds at Murray State on Saturday.