Feb. 11, 2007

BASKETBALL GAME INFORMATION

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 6:02 p.m. (ESPNU)

Southeast Missouri @ Eastern Illinois

Lantz Arena, Charleston, Ill.

Probable Starters

Southeast Missouri (10-16, 8-9 OVC)

F 01 Brandon Foust, 6-6, Jr.

F 12 Terrick Willoughby, 6-4, Sr.

C 44 Tyrell White, 6-7, Sr.

G 05 David Johnson, 6-4, Jr.

G 13 Roderick Pearson, 6-2, Fr.

THE TEAMS: Southeast Missouri State is 10-16 overall and 8-9 in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Redhawks won their fourth OVC road game on Feb. 3, beating Tennessee-Martin 73-69 and came back with a 81-78 home win over Morehead State on Thursday night, but lost to Eastern Kentucky on Saturday. Southeast will play its final three OVC games on the road. Eastern Illinois is 8-17 overall and 4-13 in the OVC after whipping UT-Martin 74-59 on Saturday.

THE COACHES: Southeast Missouri is under the direction of new head coach Scott Edgar, an assistant at Tennessee last season, who has served as head coach at Duquesne and Murray State. He has also been an assistant at Tulsa, Arkansas and Alabama-Birmingham. His collegiate head coaching record is 118-111 in his eighth season. Edgar is 3-0 vs. Eastern Illinois.

Mike Miller is 14-35 in his third season at Eastern Illinois and is 101-114 in his eighth season as a collegiate head coach.

THE SERIES: Southeast Missouri leads the series 18-14.

EARLIER GAME: The Redhawks beat the Panthers 80-65 at the Show Me Center on Jan. 4. Michael Rembert led Southeast with 19 points and 12 rebounds.

**REDHAWKS NOTES**

NATIONAL TELEVISION AGAIN ON TUESDAY: The game at Eastern Illinois on Tuesday , 6 p.m., will be televised nationally by ESPNU and locally by the Heartland's CW, WQWQ-TV. It will be the second straight nationally televised game for the Redhawks.

80 POINTS IS A KEY: The Redhawks are 6-1 when scoring 80 or more points. The Redhawks scored 81 points in a win over Tennessee-Martin, 88 at Eastern Kentucky, 80 vs. Eastern Illinois, 96 at Murray State, 92 vs. Tennessee State and 81 vs. Morehead Stte.. Southeast leads the OVC in scoring in conference games only with 76.1 points per game.

10 TREYS HELP: Southeast is 7-0 when making 10 or more 3-pointers. The Redhawks had 13 3-pointers in last Thursday's win over Morehead State and had 13 in the earlier win over Eastern Kentucky. The Redhawks lead the OVC in 3-pointers per game with 8.32 per game.

ROAD WARRIORS: Southeast is 4-3 in OVC road games this season with wins over Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, Morehead State and Tennessee-Martin.

AT THE SHOW ME CENTER: The Redhawks are 5-7 at the Show Me Center this season and are 205-89 (.697) since the facility opened in 1987. Southeast leads the OVC in attendance with 3,556 fans per game.

INJURIES IN THE MIDDLE: Southeast junior center Michael Rembert is questionable for the EIU game after injuring a knee late in the Thursday night's win over Morehead State. He did not play in Saturday night's loss to Eastern Kentucky and is listed as out indefinitely with stretched ligaments in his knee. Rembert, the Redhawks leading rebounder with 6.0 per game, averages 10.3 points per game. Rembert's backup, junior Dionte Perry, did not play against Morehead because of a head injury suffered in the Feb. 3 win at Tennessee-Martin, but Perry did return to action against Eastern Kentucky and scored two points and pulled down five rebounds in 21-minutes play. Perry, who averages 3.7 points and 2.8 rebounds per game is probable for the EIU game. Senior Tyrell White started against Eastern Kentucky and had no points and three rebounds in 16-minutes. He averages 0.9 points and 0.9 rebounds per game and is the probable starter at center vs. EIU.

OVC STAT LEADERS: In OVC games only, Southeast Missouri State leads the league in four statistical categories. The Redhawks lead the OVC in blocked shots (4.5), offensive rebounds (12.6), 3-point field goals made (9.0) and scoring offense (75.2).

REMBERT TWO-TIME OVC NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK: Michael Rembert was the OVC Newcomer of the Week on Feb. 5. He averaged 13 points and 7.5 rebounds per game last week while shooting 50% from the field in two games. Against Morehead State, he had the game-winning tip in with 1.4 seconds remaining to lift the Redhawks to a 61-59 victory. He finished the game with 18 points and seven rebounds. He had eight points and six rebounds in a loss to Murray State. This marks the second time this season (Dec. 18) that he has won the award and the third consecutive week a Southeast players has earned the honor with Brandon Foust winning the prior two weeks. Rembert, a transfer from Bradley, averages 10.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.

TWO DOUBLE-DOUBLES FOR REMBERT: Rembert had a double-double against Tennessee State with 13 points and 10 rebounds. He had 19 points and 12 rebounds vs. Eastern Illinois.

FOUST TWICE VOTED OVC NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK: Brandon Foust was named the OVC Newcomer of the Week for the second straight week on Jan. 22. He averaged 17.5 points per game while shooting .667 from the field, .833 from three and .667 from the line in games against Tennessee State and Tennessee Tech. Foust also added 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and 3 blocks. He scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting (including 4-of-4 from 3-point range) in the win over TSU.

Foust was the OVC Newcomer of the Week on Jan. 15 after averaging a double-double in games against Murray State and Austin Peay.

Foust averaged 19 points and 10.5 rebounds per game in contests gainst Murray State and Austin Peay. Fosut had 23 points and nine rebounds in a win at Murray State and 15 points and 12 rebounds in a one-point loss at APSU.

A transfer from Oklahoma, Foust leads the Redhawks in scoring and rebounding with 12.5 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.

WILLOUGHBY IS BACK: Senior guard Terrick Willoughby returned to action at Morehead State on Jan. 24 after missing four games with mononucleosis. He had six points in 24 minutes of action at Morehead. He made his first start since the illness against Murray State on Jan. 27. Willoughby averages 7.9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. He leads the OVC in 3-point field goal percentage with .429.

PEARSON VOTED OVC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Freshman point guard Roderick Pearson was voted the OVC Freshman of the Week on Jan. 8 after he recorded his first collegiate double-double at Eastern Kentucky with 22 points and 11 assists and came back with 10 points, five rebounds and three assists vs. Eastern Illinois.

For the two games, Pearson averaged 13 points and seven assists per game while shooting 63% from the floor, 60% from three and 90% from the line.

Pearson averages 7.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.

JOHNSON MOVES UP: Junior guard David Johnson is the Redhawks second leading with an average of 11.0 points per game. He has fully recovered from hernia surgery that forced him to miss all but three games last season. Johnson, who had a career high 23 points and 10 rebounds in a loss to Tennessee Tech, averages 11.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game on the season.

FRESHMEN CONTRIBUTE: Freshmen continue to gain more and more playing time. Freshmen average over 70 minutes per game out of a possible 200.

Roderick Pearson leads the way, averaging 22 minutes per game.

OVC HONORS: Roderick Pearson was named the OVC Freshman of the Week on Jan. 8 while Michael Rembert was voted Newcomer of the Week on Dec. 18 and Feb. 5. Brandon Foust was voted Newcomer of the Week on Jan. 15 and Jan. 22.

REDHAWKS ADD ST. LOUIS RADIO STATION: The Southeast Basketball Network has added 1380 ESPN Radio in St. Louis. The network operated by Mississippi River Radio, will be anchored by 100,000 watt K-103 FM in Cape Girardeau. Other network stations include KSIM, Sikeston;, KWOC, Poplar Bluff and KMAL, Malden.

Erik Sean will be the play-by-play voice of Redhawks basketball with Todd Bonacki adding commentary at home games and Ron Hines adding color during the road games.

Scott Edgar RADIO SHOW: Scott Edgar has a weekly radio show on KGIR, 1220 AM in Cape Girardeau. He is on from 6-7 p.m. each Monday with host Erik Sean. They will talk Redhawks basketball and take calls from listeners.

REDHAWKS BASKETBALL WITH Scott Edgar: Edgar has a weekly television show on WQWQ-TV, the Heartland's CW. The show is seen at 11 p.m. each Monday night and will be hosted by Heartland Sports Director Todd Richards. The show will also be shown on Charter Cable, Channel 11, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at both 8 and 9 p.m.

SID STREAK: Southeast SID Ron Hines has worked 781 consecutive basketball games. The streak is the longest in college basketball. He has not missed a game since 1980.

NEXT FOR THE REDHAWKS: Southeast will return to the Show Me Center to play Louisiana Tech from the Western Athletic Conference in the ESPNU BracketBuster game. Game time will be 7:30 p.m.