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Tennessee State (8-15, 4-7 OVC) at Southeast Missouri (5-18, 2-8 OVC)

Game Information
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
Tip-Off: 5:30 p.m., CT
Location: Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Site: Show Me Center (7,000)
Series Record: Tennessee State leads 21-14 (Southeast went 1-1 vs. TSU in 2010-11)
Coaches: Ty Margenthaler (5-18 overall, 5-18 at Southeast); Tracee Wells (76-148 overall, 76-148 at Tennessee State)

Media Coverage
Redhawks Radio Network: ESPN 1220 AM (KGIR), flagship; 930 AM (KWOC); 1470 AM (KMAL). Erik Sean, Play-by-Play; Jess Bolen, Color Commentary.
Live Stats: GoSoutheast.com
Video Streaming: KFVS12.com; OVCSports.tv

Quick Hits
Gameday Events – Saturday is the Southeast Missouri women's basketball team's "Play 4Kay" game, slated to raise awareness of breast cancer. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the contest and all fans in attendance will receive a free pink ribbon window cling. Cancer survivors will receive free admission to the Show Me Center for the game as well. The game is also a celebration of Rowdy's seventh birthday. General admission tickets are seven dollars and St. Louis Cardinals mascot Fredbird will also be in attendance to commemorate the occasion.

About Tennessee State – The Tigers are a game and a half ahead of the Redhawks in the OVC standings with a 4-7 conference record (8-15 overall). TSU has dropped three of its last four games, including a 73-66 home decision against Eastern Kentucky on Wednesday night. The Tigers are the league's third-highest scoring team (70.1 points per game), but are dead last in the OVC in scoring defense (77.2). TSU is also the second-best rebounding team in the league at 43.7 rebounds per game. In conference play, the Tigers average 76.7 points (second) and yield 81.3 points (11th) per contest. Jasmin Shuler leads the Tigers with 15.3 points per game and Tayla Foster also averages double digits at 10.7 points per contest.

Last Season's Meetings (Southeast 51, Tennessee State 46 – Dec. 4, 2010 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Tennessee State 58, Southeast 35 – Feb. 24, 2011 in Nashville, Tenn.) – The home team claimed both meetings a season ago, with the Redhawks opening the series with a five-point win at the Show Me Center in early December last season. Southeast held TSU to only 26.5 percent shooting. Karley Evans and Jasmine Davis tied for the game high with 10 points while Brittany Harriel tied a game-high with nine rebounds as Southeast led by as much as 13 in the second half. Southeast struggled offensively in the return trip a year ago, posting only 35 points while making only 9-of-48 (18.8 percent) field goal attempts. Harriel led the Redhawks with 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds before fouling out.

Roberts Coming On – Junior Bailie Roberts appears to be finding her second wind to the season of late. Roberts has scored in double figures in each of the last three games after being held under 10 points in three of four games prior to this stretch. This stretch 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. The Maryville, Tenn., native is shooting 47.4 percent and averaging 13.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in this three-game stretch.

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 eight 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 49.2 percent (25.8 percent in the first 15). In her last five games, Shiffer is shooting 50.0 percent from the floor and averaging 11.6 points and 5.6 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 seven times and recorded five double-doubles in her past 10 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.

Working Overtime – Southeast put a scare into preseason OVC favorite Tennessee Tech on Jan. 21, leading most of the way before falling just shy, 60-57, in overtime. That game marked the Redhawks' first overtime game in nearly three years. The last time Southeast went to overtime was an 80-74 loss at Austin Peay on Feb. 28, 2009. The last time the Redhawks won an overtime game was on Feb. 2, 2008 when it dropped UT Martin, 58-51.

Consistent Roberts – Since day one, no Redhawk has provided more offensive consistency than junior Bailie Roberts. The Maryville, Tenn., native leads the team with 14 games of 10 or more points, leading to her team-best 9.9 points per game scoring average. She also ranks second on the team with 6.1 rebounds per game. She also leads all active Redhawks with 32 games of double-figure scoring.