Nov. 29, 2008

THE TEAMS: After beating Longwood 81-77 in the Las Vegas Invitational, Southeast Missouri is 2-3 on the season and 1-2 in the Las Vegas Invitational. The Redhawks have wins over Longwood and Culver-Stockton with road losses to New Mexico, Kansas State and Iowa.

After beating Delaware State yesterday, Oakland is 2-4. The Bears have wins over Oregon, and Delaware State with losses to Cleveland State, Syracuse, Iowa and Kansas State.

THE COACHES: Zac Roman is 2-3 in his first season as Redhawks acting head coach. Greg Kampe is 398-305 in his 25th season as head coach at Oakland.

THE SERIES: First Meeting

LAS VEGAS INVITATIONAL: Southeast is 1-2 in the Las Vegas Invitational with losses at Kansas State and at Iowa and a win over Longwood. The Redhawks play Oakland for fifth place on Saturday. The Redhawks finished seventh in the Chicago Invitational Challenge last season.

SHORT ROSTER: The Redhawks will have only four players in uniform who played on last year's team. Jaycen Herring, Kenard Moore, Calvin Williams and Johnny Hill all played last season. Jajuan Maxwell played for the Redhawks in 2006-2007 but missed last season with a knee injury. The Redhawks will dress nine players during the Las Vegas Invitational.

CAREER HIGH FOR WILLIAMS: Junior Calvin Williams, 6-9, had a career high 22 points against Longwood on Friday. He also had 11 rebounds to give him his first double-double of the season. Williams averages 15.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.

MOORE REGAINS TOUCH: Senior Kenard Moore had an 0-8 shooting day on Tuesday at Iowa but bounced back with 18 points including 4-6 from three against Longwood. Against the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference he had a career high 31 points. For the first five games, Moore averages 16.8 points per game.

RUSSELL HITS THE BOARDS: Junior college transfer LaMont Russell pulled down a game-high 17 rebounds against a big and physical Kansas State team. Russell averages 8.6 rebounds per game.

HERRING LEADS VS. LOBOS: Senior Jaycen Herring, 6-5, led Southeast in the season opening loss at New Mexico. He had 21 points including 3-6 threes and 6-9 free throws. Herring, who had 11 points against Longwood, averages 12.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.

JONES AT THE POINT: Junior college transfer Bijon Jones played all 40-minutes in the loss at New Mexico. Despite playing at altitude, Jones went the distance with 8 points, 5 rebounds and a team-high 3 assists. On Friday against Longwood, he clinched the game with two free throws with 9.0-seconds remaining. Despite a thigh injury in the second half, Jones still logged 39-minutes.

MAXWELL STARTS FAST: Sophomore Jajuan Maxwell, 6-6, who missed last season with a knee injury, is off to a fast start. He had his first career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds vs. Kansas State. He just missed a double-double on Friday against Longwood with 8 points and 11 rebounds.

KIRK RETURNS: After missing two games with an ankle injury suffered at Kansas State, junior college transfer Israel Kirk, 6-7, played 13-minutes vs. Longwood with 4 points and 2 rebounds. He was the top rebounder against New Mexico with 8. He came back 4 rebounds vs. Kansas State to average 4.7 per game for the young season.

SOUTHEAST PICKED 8th IN OVC: The Southeast Missouri State basketball team has been picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll by league coaches and sports information directors. Murray State was picked first with Tennessee-Martin second and Austin Peay third. Morehead State was chosen for fourth followed by Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Eastern Kentucky, Southeast Missouri, Eastern Illinois and Jacksonville State. CHALK TALK: Southeast basketball coaches will host a Chalk Talk prior to all home games at the Show Me Center. Coaches will discuss the upcoming game and answer question from the fans. The Chalk Talk will be in the North Meeting Room at the Show Me Center and will be between the women's and men's game. The Chalk Talk is open to the public.

REDHAWKS HAVE ST. LOUIS RADIO STATION: The Southeast Basketball Network includes Team 1380 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.

REDHAWKS BASKETBALL WITH Zac Roman: Roman will have a weekly television show on WQWQ-TV, the Heartland's CW. The show will be seen at 11:05 p.m. each Monday night beginning on Dec. 1and will be hosted by Heartland Sports Director Todd Richards. The show will also be shown on Charter Cable Channel 11 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday's at 8 p.m. It will also be run on the KFVS-TV/Southeast Weather Channel (Charter Channel 113) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY AT BEEF O'BRADY'S: Zac Roman will be featured on a live radio show each Tuesday noon at Beef O'Brady's in Cape Girardeau. The show on KGIR, 1220 AM, will run from noon until 1 p.m. and will be hosted by Erik Sean.

SID STREAK: Southeast SID Ron Hines has worked 827 consecutive men's basketball games. He has not missed a game since 1980.

NEXT FOR THE REDHAWKS: The Redhawks begin Ohio Valley Conference play by hosting Austin Peay at the Show Me Center on Thursday night with a 7:45 tipoff.