Women's Basketball Continues Road Trip at Kansas City Friday, Battles Illinois Sunday - Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

Game 3

Southeast Missouri (0-3) at Missouri-Kansas City (2-1)

Game Information
Date: November 13th, 2026
Time: 7 PM
Location: Kansas City, Mo.
Venue: Swinney Center
Series: SEMO leads 7-3

Head Coaches
SEMO: Briley Palmer (97-84 Overall, 20-44 at SEMO; Third Season)
PU: Candi Whitaker (2-1 record at UMKC | First Season, Second stint)

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Game 4

Southeast Missouri (0-3) at Illinois (2-0)

Game Information
Date: November 15th, 2026
Time: 2 PM
Location: Champaign, Ill.
Venue: State Farm Center
Series: Illinois leads 1-0

Head Coaches
SEMO: Briley Palmer (97-84 Overall, 20-44 at SEMO; Third Season)
PU: Shauna Green (85-47 record at Illinois | Fifth Season)

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Redhawks Extends Road Trip to Kansas City and Illinois

The Southeast Missouri women's basketball team continues its road trip at Kansas City facing the University of Missouri-Kansas City Friday with tip-off slated for 7 p.m. The road trip continues Sunday at the University of Illinois with a 2 p.m. tip.

Series History
UMKC
SEMO and UMKC will play for the 11th time, and SEMO has full control of the series winning seven out of the first 10 matchups. The Roos and Redhawks have not met since 2015 when SEMO won 78-65, and the Redhawks have won the last three matchups. UMKC won the first matchup back in 1991.
Illinois
This will be the second matchup against the Fighting Illini with last season being the only matchup between the squads. Illinois walked away with a 91-67 win as the Redhawks look to even up the series.

BIG Games
Sunday will be the second game of the season against a Big Ten opponent. SEMO dropped its first game against Big Ten Conference member Purdue on Tuesday 73-50.

These two games will be the fourth and fifth games SEMO has played against Big Ten Conference opponents since the 2023-24 season. In 2025 the Redhawks played at Illinois, in 2023 SEMO played Purdue and Northwestern.

Freshman Breakout
Hailey Buckman had her first double digit scoring game in her freshman campaign at Purdue when she dropped 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting.

So far through three games, Buckman has played 71 minutes and scored 17 points. She has also added five steals and seven rebounds.

O-Boards
Against Purdue SEMO grabbed 10 offensive rebounds. Seven Redhawks grabbed at least one offensive rebound with Courtenay Lee leading the way with three.

Stay Hot Zoe
Zoe Newland has scored in double-figures in back-to-back contests. She had a game high 23 points against Miami (Ohio) and added 10 more points at Purdue. Through three games she is averaging 13.7 points per game to lead SEMO.

The Blitz
SEMO is playing three games this week continuing its busy November. The Redhawks have already played three games and are slated to play 11 total in the month of November.

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Players Mentioned

Hailey Buckman

Courtenay Lee

Zoe Newland

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