{"id":162923,"date":"2025-09-23T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162923\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:37:21","slug":"semo-mens-basketball-holds-first-official-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162923\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMO Men\u2019s Basketball holds first official practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; The number of returners to SEMO Men\u2019s Basketball has Head Coach Brad Korn excited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Reigning OVC regular season champions, SEMO held their first official practice of the 2025-26 season, showcasing a team with plenty of veteran role players, looking to step up into even larger roles this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">While there are some key departures, namely Rob Martin and Teddy Washington Jr., a bulk of the squad remains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cWe brought back a good chunk of our team, which is unheard of and unreal in this day and age, but again I think it\u2019s the atmosphere, the environment that we have,\u201d Korn said. Nobody has to do anything special, as long as our team is better and playing the way we can to our potential and to our standard, then I think guys will emerge and we\u2019ll just have a really good basketball team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year, Coach Korn is looking to test his squad early, with several challenging non-conference games to start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a challenging non-con schedule, but I think it\u2019s a group that\u2019s ready for a challenging schedule, so we\u2019ll see where we\u2019re at,\u201d Korn said. \u201cLast year was last year. We\u2019re focused on this year and what this group can do and how we can maximize their potential. But it\u2019s an exciting group because there\u2019s a lot of different pieces out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Redhawks open the season with a pair of in-state opponents, a season-opener at SLU, Monday, November 3, and a trip to Mizzou that Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SEMO hosts another in-state school, Webster, for its home opener on Wednesday, November 12.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"SEMO men's basketball opens the season at in-state opponent SLU, before a trip later that week...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Q7TX7K3PD5HP3B7FZFMJA6BW54.jfif\" width=\"980\" height=\"552\" \/>SEMO men&#8217;s basketball opens the season at in-state opponent SLU, before a trip later that week to Mizzou.(SEMO Redhawks)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">OVC play starts December 18 with a road trip to Tennessee Tech. The Redhawks, defending regular season champs, will play the reigning conference tournament champs, SIUE, on January 17 at the Show Me Center, in a rematch of last year\u2019s OVC title game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"SEMO opens the conference portion of it's season December 18 at Tennessee Tech.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GSNDCZUBWVHK5CJ3NL6N6ALAAQ.webp\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>SEMO opens the conference portion of it&#8217;s season December 18 at Tennessee Tech.(SEMO Redhawks)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. 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