Redhawks Go For Fifth-Sraight Win at Southern Indiana Saturday
2/7/2025 10:09:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Game Information
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
Tip-Off: 7:30 p.m., CT
Location: Evansville, Ind.
Facility: Liberty Arena (4,800)
Series: SEMO leads, 5-1
Last Meeting: SEMO 77, USI 66 | 1/9/25 | Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Last Meeting in Evansville: SEMO 70, USI 66 | 3/2/24
Head Coaches
Southeast Missouri: Brad Korn (67-83 overall; 67-83 at SEMO; 40-46 OVC)
Southern Indiana: Stan Gouard (292-185 overall; 64-68 at USI; 41-41 OVC)
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Road Trip Continues
• Southeast Missouri continues its three-game road trip with a stop at Southern Indiana Saturday. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m., CT at Liberty Arena.
• The three-game road stretch matches SEMO's longest of the season.
• After Saturday's game, the Redhawks have a short turnaround for a midweek matchup at Little Rock on Feb. 11.
• Since Jan. 16, SEMO is scheduled to play on the road in six of eight contests.
• The Redhawks won three of their previous four away games.
Series Notes
• Southeast Missouri and Southern Indiana meet for the seventh time on the back end of their home-and-home series this season.
• SEMO holds a 5-1 lead in the all-time series.
• The Redhawks have won four-straight against the Screaming Eagles, including a 77-66 victory in Cape Girardeau on Jan. 9
• SEMO started and finished its Ohio Valley Conference season with wins over USI in 2023-24.
• Four of the last five meetings between the teams were decided by no more than five points.
• Brad Korn is 4-1 against the Screaming Eagles as SEMO's head coach.
Over Halfway Home
• The Redhawks are 9-4 in Ohio Valley Conference play a little over halfway through their conference schedule.
• Southeast Missouri began the second half of league action with three-straight wins, including a 90-79 home win over UT Martin (Jan. 30), 89-87 overtime victory at home over Tennessee State (Feb. 1) and 80-51 win over then-OVC leader Morehead State (Feb. 6).
• After Saturday's game, SEMO travels to Little Rock (Feb. 11).
• The rest of the OVC slate then features home games against Tennessee Tech (Feb. 15), Western Illinois (Feb. 20) and Lindenwood (Feb. 22), and road matchups at SIU Edwardsville (Feb. 27) and Eastern Illinois (Mar. 1).
Redhawks Tied for Second in the OVC
• For a short time after Thursday's big road win at Morehead State, Southeast Missouri was in a tie for first in the Ohio Valley Conference standings.
• However, SIU Edwardsville claimed the top spot with its 75-58 victory over Tennessee Tech.
• SEMO (9-4), Little Rock (9-4) and Morehead State (9-4) enter the weekend in a three-way tie for second behind the Cougars.
• The Redhawks more than doubled their number of conference victories from 2023-24 (4).
• At 14-10 overall and 9-4 in OVC play, the Redhawks have surpassed their number of overall (9) and OVC (4) wins from 2023-24 by +5 margins.
• SEMO began the 2024-25 season with a 3-0 record in OVC play marking the first time it won three-straight games to start a conference season since 2011-12.
• The Redhawks beat Eastern Illinois (79-72, Dec. 19), SIU Edwardsville (80-64, Dec. 21), Southern Indiana (77-66, Jan. 9), UT Martin (90-79, Jan. 30) and Tennessee State (89-87, OT, Feb. 1) at home, and Tennessee State (67-65, Jan. 2), Tennessee Tech (77-70, Jan. 16), Western Illinois (72-51, Jan. 25) and Morehead State (80-51, Feb. 6) on the road for their OVC wins this year.
• SEMO won nine of its last 13 OVC games dating back to last year's season-ending 70-66 victory at Southern Indiana.
• The Redhawks started both their first and second halves of OVC play with 3-0 records.
Closing in on 10 Conference Victories
• A win at Southern Indiana Saturday will give the Redhawks their 10th in Ohio Valley Conference play.
• SEMO is currently 9-4 in league action.
• If that happens, the Redhawks will reach 10 conference wins in a season for the fifth time in program history.
• It will also mark the second time in three years where SEMO has won 10 OVC games under Head Coach Brad Korn.
• The Redhawks 10-win conference seasons include 1997-98 (10-8), 1998-99 (15-3), 1999-00 (14-4) and 2022-23 (10-8).
• SEMO's program record for OVC victories is 15 (1998-99).
Korn Notches 40th OVC Win
• Brad Korn picked up his 40th Ohio Valley Conference win when Southeast Missouri blew out Morehead State, 80-51, on Feb. 6.
• Korn improved to 40-46 all-time in OVC games.
• He become the fourth head coach in SEMO program history to get 40 or more OVC wins, joining Gary Garner (73-81), Dickey Nutt (41-59), and Ron Shumate (40-56).
400th NCAA Division I Win in Sight
• Southeast Missouri is one win away from getting its 400th victory as a NCAA Division I program.
• SEMO became an NCAA Division I school in 1991-92 and is in its 34th year at that level.
• The Redhawks are 399-572 all-time in their NCAA Division I era.
Massive Win in Morehead
• The Redhawks picked up a big 80-51 road win at Morehead State (Feb. 6).
• Southeast Missouri knocked MSU out of first place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings.
• SEMO handed the Eagles their largest home OVC loss in 19 years since MSU dropped an 88-65 decision to then-league member Jacksonville State on Jan. 21, 2006.
• The Redhawks left with a win for the third time in their last four trips to Morehead.
• MSU has a 61-8 record at Johnson Arena since the 2020-21 campaign.
• The 29-point win marked SEMO's largest at MSU in program history.
Last 15 Games
• Southeast Missouri is 11-4 in its last 15 games and is presently the hottest team in the Ohio Valley Conference.
• SEMO is on a four-game winning streak and has scored 80 or more points in each of its last three outings.
• It is the second time this season where the Redhawks are on a winning streak of four or more games.
• SEMO is 5-2 at the Show Me Center and 4-2 on the road in conference play.
• The Redhawks beat Western Illinois (Jan. 25), 72-51, and Morehead State (Feb. 6), 80-51, on the road and upended both UT Martin (Jan. 30), 90-79, and Tennessee State (Feb. 1), 89-87, at home.
Hot Shooting
• Southeast Missouri shot 50 percent or better from the field in four-straight games.
• SEMO shot 54.8 percent in its recent 80-51 road win at Morehead State (Feb. 6).
• The Redhawks last shot 50 percent or better in four-straight games during the 2013-14 season.
• The last time SEMO shot 50 percent or better four games in a row during Ohio Valley Conference play since the Redhawks went six-straight contests in 2011-12.
Martin is Rolling
• Rob Martin scored double figures in nine-straight games.
• Martin scored 15 points against Southern Indiana (Jan. 9) and followed that up with 21 vs. Morehead State (Jan. 11), 19 vs. Little Rock (Jan. 14), 13 at Tennessee Tech (Jan. 16), 12 at Lindenwood (Jan. 23), 16 at Western Illinois (Jan. 25), 18 vs. UT Martin (Jan. 30), 22 vs. Tennessee State (Feb. 1) and 27 at Morehead State (Feb. 6).
• He is SEMO's second-leading scorer with 13.1 points per game through 24 starts this season.
• Martin finished as the Redhawks top scorer a total of seven times in 2024-25.
Redhawks Sixth in the Nation Defending the Three
• Southeast Missouri is sixth in the nation in 3-point percentage defense.
• Opponents are shooting just 28.2 percent from downtown against Southeast Missouri this season.
• SEMO has held its opponent to five or less 3-pointers made in 15 of its 24 games in 2024-25.
• Opponents have not made more than four 3-pointers against the Redhawks in four of the last six contests.
• There are a total of 355 NCAA Division I basketball teams.
About Southern Indiana
• Southern Indiana is ninth in the Ohio Valley Conference with a 4-9 league mark.
• USI is on a three-game losing streak and enters Saturday's contest after a 74-56 home loss to Little Rock (Feb. 6).
• Damoni Harrison leads the Screaming Eagles with 14.5 points per game.
