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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Jarekious Bradley scored a game-high 18 points and had two blocks in the final minute of the game to help Southeast Missouri (9-10, 3-3) secure a 65-61 win over Tennessee Tech (9-10, 1-5) Saturday night at the Show Me Center.
 
Southeast won its second-straight game and improved to 6-3 at home this season.
 
"We played extremely hard and won a good game tonight," said Southeast head coach Dickey Nutt. "Defensively, we stepped up and that was the difference."
 
On a night where the Redhawks didn't shoot particularly well from the field and at the free throw line, it was the defense that rose to the occasion with the game on the line.
 
Down, 60-58, Bradley made four free throws in a row to regain a slight 61-60 advantage for Southeast with just under three minutes (2:55) left.
 
Josh Langford then stole the ball from Jordan Johnson and Bradley finished with a layup to push Southeast's lead to three.
 
Dwan Caldwell split a pair of free throws to make it a two-point game (63-61) with 1:27 left before the Redhawks made a huge defensive stand.
 
Bradley blocked Josiah Moore's layup 22 seconds later. Langford then got another steal before Nino Johnson swatted away Caldwell's shot. Johnson's big block came immediately after Caldwell rebounded a missed three-pointer by Torrance Rowe.
 
Following a Antonius Cleveland turnover, TTU had one last chance. However, Bradley blocked Jordan Johnson's shot with three seconds left and buried two more free throws to nail down the 65-61 victory.
 
"Late in the game we were getting stop after stop after stop," said Nutt. "We made it hard for them to score. We were aggressive and didn't give them open shots."
 
Southeast led the entire first half and carried a slight 32-30 edge into the locker room.
 
The Redhawks and Golden Eagles went back-and-forth as neither team led by more than six points.
 
Isiah Jones buried his first three on Southeast's opening possession and the Redhawks built a 5-2 advantage a little over three minutes in.
 
A Langford layup put Southeast ahead, 16-10, with 11:16 left to play before Bradley's three-pointer gave the Redhawks another six-point cushion (21-15) at the 7:46 mark.
 
Shortly after Marcus Wallace knocked down a pair of free throws to push Southeast's lead to 30-25, Mason Ramsey dropped in a three and Caldwell made a layup to dice TTU's lead to two.
 
Langford splashed in a three-pointer to give Southeast its largest lead of the night at 41-34 with 16:31 remaining.
 
Javon McKay's free throws gave TTU its first lead at the 13:36 mark before the exciting finish down the stretch.
 
The Golden Eagles missed their last 10 field goals of the game.
 
Bradley shot 5-of-13 from the field, made two threes and went a near-perfect 6-of-7 at the free throw line en route to his 15^th double-digit scoring effort this year. He also had seven rebounds in 32 minutes.
 
Johnson added 14 points, a game-high three blocks, two steals and five rebounds.
 
Southeast shot under 40 percent (39.6) from the field and 53.6 percent (15-of-28) at the free throw line.
 
Charles Jackson and Johnson led TTU with 14 points apiece. Caldwell contributed 11 points and Moore pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds, as well.
 
The Redhawks return to action at UT Martin on Jan. 24.