Southeast Missouri State University
Lipscomb
10/30/2026 1:17:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Game Information
Date:Â Monday, November 2, 2026
Tip-Off:Â 6:30 p.m., CT
Location: Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Facility:Â Show Me Center (7,000)
Series:Â LU leads, 3-1
Last Meeting:Â LU 88, SEMO 77 | 11/29/25 | Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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Here We Go
•   Southeast Missouri tips off its 2026-27 season at home when it hosts Atlantic Sun member Lipscomb Monday. Start time is 6:30 p.m., CT at the Show Me Center.
•   SEMO plays its first two games at home. After Monday's contest, the Redhawks will welcome NCAA Division III member Webster University on Nov. 4.
Season-Openers
•   Southeast Missouri is 13-22 in season-opening games during its NCAA Division I era.
•   The Redhawks are 3-3 in season-openers with Brad Korn at the helm.
•   This year marks the first time SEMO begins a season at home with Korn as its head coach.
•   The Redhawks last began a season at the Show Me Center on Nov. 10, 2017 (81-69 win over Missouri Baptist).
•   Lipscomb is the first NCAA Division I opponent to face SEMO in a season-opener at the Show Me Center since Wisconsin-Green Bay on Nov. 21, 2003. The Redhawks started that year with a 63-62 win under then-Head Coach Gary Garner.
•   The Redhawks were on the road for their season-opener each of the last eight years.
Series Notes
•   The Redhawks and Lipscomb meet for the fifth-time on the front end of a home-and-home series in 2026-27.
•   Southeast Missouri is scheduled to return the trip to Lipscomb on Dec. 19.
•   LU holds a 3-1 lead in the all-time series.
•   All four of those matchups have been under Head Coach Brad Korn.
•   The Bisons won the last three meetings between the teams and are 1-1 against the Redhawks in Cape Girardeau.
•   SEMO's lone win of the series came at home on Dec. 7, 2020 (82-77).
Season 120
•   Southeast Missouri beings its 120th season of basketball in 2026-27.
•   This year marks SEMO's 36th as an NCAA Division I program.
•   The Redhawks are 426-587 since joining the Division I ranks in 1991-92.
•   SEMO has a total of 11 winning seasons as an NCAA Division I program.
•   The Redhawks also won two Ohio Valley Conference regular-season titles (1999-2000, 2024-25), two OVC Tournament crowns (1999-2000, 2022-23) and made two NCAA Tournament appearances (1999-2000, 2022-23).
Seventh Year for Korn
•   Brad Korn enters his seventh year as Southeast Missouri's head coach.
•   Korn led SEMO to its first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth in over two decades during the 2022-23 season.
•   Two years later, he guided the Redhawks to their first outright OVC regular-season title in 2024-25.
•   He is 94-98 overall and 60-53 in the OVC as SEMO's head coach.
•   Korn ranks third all-time in wins among head coaches during SEMO's NCAA Division I era behind Ron Shumate (235-76) and Gary Garner (126-132).
•   For the second-straight year, Southeast Missouri has been picked second in the Ohio Valley Conference Preseason Poll, the league announced on Oct. 15.
•   SEMO received 107 points and two first-place votes in the 2026-27 version of the OVC Preseason Poll voted on by the conference's head men's basketball coaches and communication directors.
•   Tennessee State, which won the OVC regular-season and tournament titles, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2025-26, is this year's preseason favorite.
•   The Tigers collected 125 points and 13 of 18 first-place votes.
•   Morehead State, SIU Edwardsville and UT Martin share the third-place spot with 86 points each.
•   Lindenwood (61 pts.), Southern Indiana (44 pts.), Eastern Illinois (37 pts.) and Western Illinois (17 pts.) complete the nine-team predicted order of finish.
Bell and Blocker Among OVC Players to Watch
•   Guards Marqueas Bell and Landren Blocker are among the 2026-27 Ohio Valley Conference Players to Watch.
•   A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Bell is Southeast Missouri's top returning scorer after averaging 9.1 points and 5.2 rebounds in 33 games and 10 starts last season.
•   He shot 52.5 percent (106-of-202) from the field and 73.9 percent (85-of-115) at the free throw line.
•   Additionally, Bell ranked third on the team with 59 assists and collected 20 steals.
•   Blocker, who hails from Little Rock, Arkansas, rated second on the team with 22 blocks during his first year at SEMO in 2025-26.
•   He started 28 games, averaging 5.2 points and 3.8 boards along the way. Blocker also ranked second on the team with 31 steals.
Seasoned Veteran
•   Marqueas Bell is the only four-year player on Southeast Missouri's 13-man roster.
•   Bell is one of just five four-year players in the Ohio Valley Conference this year along with Tennessee State's Arterio Morris and Aaron Bradshaw, Southern Indiana's Kaden Brown and SIU Edwardsville's Tyler King.
Roster Talk
•   Southeast Missouri's 13-man roster includes four returnees and nine newcomers.
•   Guards Marqueas Bell, Landren Blocker, PJ Farmer and Trace Sadler are the returnees.
•   SEMO added seven transfers and two freshmen.
•   Marcus Eaves (John A. Logan College), Alonzo Clawson-Smith (IU Kokomo), Kycen Pruett (College of Coastal Georgia), Darrion Sutton (Missouri State), Drew Cooper (Bossier Parish CC), Fontaine Williams, Jr. (West Texas A&M) and Clayton Jewell (Colorado-Mesa) are the transfers.
•   Curt Simpson (Chattahoochee H.S.) and Axton Perry (Bartlett H.S.) are the freshmen on this year's squad.
Korn Approaching 100 Career Wins
•   Brad Korn is six wins away from reaching 100 in his career.
•   Korn currently has 94 wins in his seventh season as Southeast Missouri's head coach.
•   Sixty of those victories came in Ohio Valley Conference play.
Non-Conference Games
•   Brad Korn is 34-45 in non-conference games during his career.
•   Korn's best non-league record as Southeast Missouri's head coach stands at 9-9 in 2022-23, the season SEMO last won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title and made the NCAA Tournament.
•   His other non-conference records include 2-5 in 2020-21, 6-9 in 2021-22, 5-8 in 2023-24, 6-7 in 2024-25 and 6-7 in 2025-26.
Back-to-Back 20-Win Seasons
•   The Redhawks recorded 20 or more wins each of the last two seasons.
•   Southeast Missouri went 20-13 overall and finished third in the Ohio Valley Conference in 2025-26.
•   The year before that, the Redhawks went 21-12 and won their first outright OVC regular-season title in program history.
•   SEMO has never gone three-consecutive seasons with 20 or more wins in its NCAA Division I era.
•   The 1999-2000 team (24-7) posted the most wins in a season in the program's NCAA Division I tenure.
Keep it Going
•   Southeast Missouri had a winning season in three of its last four years.
•   Overall, SEMO has 11 winning seasons in its NCAA Division I era.
Redhawks Edge Evansville in Only Exhibiiton
•   Marqueas Bell scored a game-high 22 points to lead Southeast Missouri to an 89-81 exhibition overtime win over Evansville on Oct. 21 at the Ford Center.
•   Bell led five SEMO players with double figures in the scoring column.
•   The Redhawks led until the 3:11 mark in the second half when Makuei Riek threw down a dunk to give UE a 70-68 edge.
•   The Purple Aces were then ahead, 76-73, when Alonzo Clawson-Smith drained a 3-pointer with six seconds remaining to send the game to overtime.
•   Bell scored six of SEMO's 13 points in the extra period to nail down the win.
Non-Conference Slate
•   The Redhawks play a 15-game non-conference schedule this upcoming 2026-27 season.
•   Southeast Missouri tips off the year with two-straight games on its homecourt vs. Lipscomb (Nov. 2) and Webster (Nov. 4).
•   After that, SEMO travels to Southeastern Conference member South Carolina (Nov. 8) and Conference USA member Middle Tennessee (Nov. 13).Â
•   Home games vs. Midway University (Nov. 16) and Purdue Fort Wayne (Nov. 24) and away matchups with St. Thomas (Nov. 19), Kansas City (Nov. 28) and American Athletic Conference foe Wichita State (Nov. 30) are the rest of the November contests.Â
•   The Redhawks close out non-league play with six games in December.Â
•   SEMO hosts Mission University (Dec. 3), Kansas City (Dec. 12) on the back end of home-and-home series and Saint Mary of the Woods (Dec. 22) right before Christmas.Â
•   The Redhawks travel to Saint Louis (Dec. 6), longtime rival Southern Illinois (Dec. 9) and Lipscomb (Dec. 19), as well.Â
•   The Redhawks and Salukis renew a home-and-home series for the first time in five years.Â
•   This year's game marks the 122nd meeting between the schools.Â
•   SIU edged SEMO, 70-68, the last time these teams played each other on Dec. 21, 2022 in Carbondale, Illinois.
About Lipscomb
•   Lipscomb enters the 2026-27 campaign ranked third in the Atlantic Sun Preseason Poll.
•   The Bisons were picked behind Queens and Jacksonville.
•   LU had three preseason ASUN selections in Mateo Esmeraldo, Titas Sargiunas and Takai Simpkins.
•   Kevin Carroll is in his second year as the Bisons head coach.Â
•   Carroll led LU to a 19-13 overall record and fourth-place finish in the ASUN a year ago.
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