Redhawks Lose to Alabama A&M, 74-56

Thursday, November 19

Huntsville, Ala.

7:00 PM

Southeast Missouri State University

0-3

Alabama A&M

2-0

Team	1	2	F
Southeast Missouri	26	30	56
Alabama AM	28	46	74

Antonius Cleveland led the Redhawks with 16 points against Alabama A&M

11/19/2015 10:48:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Antonius Cleveland scored 16 points and Joel Angus III added 14 as Southeast Missouri (0-3) fell to Alabama A&M (2-0), 74-56, Thursday night at Elmore Gymnasium.

Southeast, which dropped its third-straight road game, was outscored 46-30 in the second half. The Redhawks turned the ball over 11 times in the game's final 20 minutes, as well.

"I thought we didn't have any flow at all and didn't take care of the ball in the second half," said Southeast head coach Rick Ray. "We had a lot of opportunities at the rim, but just didn't finish."

The Redhawks trailed by only two points (28-26) after a low scoring first half that featured five ties and seven lead changes.

Neither team led by more than six points until halftime and Southeast managed to take a 24-20 lead on a layup by Angus with 2:18 left.

AAMU countered by scoring eight of the final 10 points of the first half to grab its 2-point edge.

The Redhawks sliced the Bulldogs lead to 32-28 on Marcus Wallace's layup with 17:40 remaining and that was as close as they would get.

Preseason Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year Ladarius Tabb knocked down a 3-pointer to give AAMU its first double-digit lead at 45-35 at the 13:28 mark.

Moments after Christopher Thomas buried a 3-pointer to stretch the Bulldogs lead to 52-37, Southeast answered with a 12-3 run to get within six.

Angus ignited the run with a layup before Ladarius Coleman got a steal and made a pair of free throws. Cleveland then scored a layup and stole the ball on AAMU's ensuing possession. He threw down a dunk shortly after that to close the Bulldogs lead to 55-49 with 8:39 on the clock.

Down by eight with a little under seven minutes left, Southeast was outscored 15-5 the rest of the way. Adrian Edwards' dunk off an Arthur Wade pass gave the Bulldogs their biggest lead (74-54) before they finished off their second victory of the season.

Tabb scored a game-high 26 points and Thomas followed with 20 to lead AAMU, which shot 54.5 percent (18-of-33) from the field and 62.5 percent (5-of-8) from 3-point range in the second half.

Cleveland and Angus each posted their second-straight games with double figures. Cleveland made five field goals and six free throws, while Angus shot 50 percent (6-of-12) from the floor. Cleveland and Angus contributed eight and seven rebounds, respectively.

Coleman, who returned from a two-game suspension, had a game-high nine rebounds and scored nine points in 27 minutes off the bench. Trey Kellum also came back after serving a two-game suspension, pulling down five rebounds in 13 minutes.

Southeast outrebounded AAMU, 45-31, and held a +9 (16-7) advantage on the offensive glass. That, however, was overshadowed by a season-high 20 turnovers and another tough night at the free throw line (10-of-21, 47.6 pct.).

The Redhawks complete their lengthy four-game road trip at Texas-Rio Grande Valley on Nov. 24.