Southeast Missouri (1-4) vs. Cal Poly (3-3)

Game Information
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Tip-Off: 7 p.m., CT
Location: Flagstaff, Ariz.
Facility: Rolle Activity Center (1,210)
Series: First Meeting

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Southeast Missouri (1-4) at Northern Arizona (2-2)

Game Information
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tip-Off: 7 p.m., CT
Location: Flagstaff, Ariz.
Facility: Rolle Activity Center (1,210)
Series: First Meeting

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Arizona Multiple Team Event
•    Southeast Missouri (1-4) makes its longest trek of the season to Flagstaff, Arizona for a two-day multiple team event hosted by Northern Arizona University.
•    The Redhawks will face Cal Poly (3-3) on Nov. 25 and event host Northern Arizona (2-2) Nov. 26. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m., CT at the Rolle Activity Center.
•    SEMO will depart for Arizona via commercial flight Sunday and return to Cape Girardeau on Thanksgiving (Nov. 27).

Busy Thanksgiving Week
•    The Redhawks will play three games in five days during Thanksgiving week.
•    Southeast Missouri faces Cal Poly (Nov. 25) and Northern Arizona (Nov. 26) in Flagstaff, Arizona hosts Lipscomb (Nov. 29) two days after they return to Cape Girardeau.
•    Lipscomb comes to Cape Girardeau on the back end of a home-and-home series.

Series Notes
•    This year marks the first time Southeast Missouri faces both Cal Poly and Northern Arizona in its program history.
•    Cal Poly is a member of the Big West and Northern Arizona is out of the Big Sky Conference.

Korn in MTEs
•    The Redhawks have been part of a Multiple Team Event (MTE) every season with Brad Korn as their head coach.
•    In 2024-25, Southeast Missouri split two games in Conway, Arkansas beating host Central Arkansas (77-73 OT, Nov. 21) and falling to UNC Asheville (72-64, Nov. 22).
•    Prior to that, the Redhawks played in the Chattanooga Coke Zero Sugar Classic (2023-24), Milwaukee Cream City Classic (2022-23), Incarnate Word Thanksgiving Classic (2021-22) and Negro League Baseball Museum Tip-Off Classic (2020-21, Kansas City, Mo.).
•    Korn has a record of 4-7 in Multiple Team Events.

Back in Arizona
•    For the second time in three years, Southeast Missouri will travel to Arizona for basketball.
•    SEMO last played in Arizona when it opened its 2023-24 season at Grand Canyon located in Phoenix.
•    This time, the Redhawks will be two-and-a-half hours north of Phoenix in Flagstaff.
•    The famous Route 66 runs directly through Flagstaff, which was the city with the highest elevation on the historic Route.

On the Road
•    The Redhawks close out a three-game road stretch with its long trip out west.
•    Southeast Missouri opened the year at Atlantic 10 member Saint Louis (Nov. 3) and visited SEC foe Missouri (Nov. 7) and Big Ten member Iowa (Nov. 18).
•    SEMO is currently 0-3 on the road in 2025-26.

Season-High Field Goal Percentage
•    Southeast Missouri shot a season-best 52 percent (26-of-50) from the field at Iowa (Nov. 18).
•    It marked the second time this year where SEMO shot over 50 percent.
•    The Redhawks also finished with a 51.6 percent (33-of-64) clip vs. Webster (Nov. 12).

First Career Start for Blocker
•    Southeast Missouri went with a different starting lineup for the first time this season at Iowa (Nov. 18).
•    Landren Blocker earned his first career start and scored four points with two rebounds against the Hawkeyes.
•    Prior to that game, Luke Almodovar, Braxton Stacker, Troy Cole, Jr., Brendan Terry and BJ Ward started the first four contests of the 2025-26 campaign.

Double-Digit Margins
•    Four of the Redhawks first five games this season have been decided by double-digits.
•    Southeast Missouri's only win thus far was an 87-41 victory vs. Webster (Nov. 12).
•    SEMO was fell to Saint Louis (92-67, Nov. 3) and Iowa (99-70, Nov. 18) on the road, and St. Thomas (84-72, Nov. 15) at home in the other three matchups.

About Cal Poly
•    Cal Poly is off to a 3-3 start this season with wins over Pacific Lutheran (101-79, Nov. 5), Seattle (73-71, Nov. 8) and Utah (92-85, Nov. 20).
•    The Mustangs lead the Big West Conference with 65 three-point field goals made for an average of 10.8 per game through their first six contests.
•    Hamad Mousa, who played his freshman year at Dayton, ranks fifth in the Big West in scoring with 19.4 points per game. Mousa is also eighth in the league with an average of six rebounds.
•    Cal Poly is averaging 81.8 points per game and giving up 85.3 per contest.
•    Mike DeGeorge is in his second season as head coach at Cal Poly.
•    DeGeorge led the Mustangs to the Big West Championship semifinals for the first time in 11 years during his first season with the Mustangs in 2024-25.
•    Cal Poly also ranked third in NCAA Division I basketball with 11.5 three-pointers per game and 19th with 82.1 points per game last season.    

About Northern Arizona
•    Northern Arizona enters the week with an even 2-2 record.
•    NAU has wins against Justice University (87-55, Nov. 7) and Embry-Riddle (108-79, Nov. 18).
•    The Lumberjacks are coming off a six-day layoff heading their Monday matchup with Cal Poly.
•    UNA is turning the ball over a Big Sky Conference low eight times per game and leads the conference with a +5.5 turnover margin.
•    Arne Osojnik and Ryan Abelman are the Lumberjacks' top scoring threats. Both are averaging 12.5 points a game.
•    Abelman leads the Big Sky with 36.5 minutes per contest.
•    Shane Burcar is in his seventh year as head coach at NAU.