Jermaine Henderson

A cornerstone of the men’s basketball program at the University of Miami-Ohio for the past 19 years is coming to Missouri State University. Jermaine Henderson, a highly-regarded recruiter and motivator, will join Coach Paul Lusk’s staff as an assistant coach at MSU, beginning April 20.

Henderson has spent the last 15 seasons as an assistant with the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks, including the last seven as associate head coach. He began his playing career with Miami in 1993 and has been a mainstay on the Oxford, Ohio, campus ever since.

“I’m certainly thankful for the opportunity Coach Lusk has afforded me,” Henderson said. “Missouri State and the Missouri Valley Conference as a whole have always stood for a standard of excellence in college basketball, and I’m anxious to get there and get started.”

He replaces Steve Woodberry on the Bears’ staff after Woodberry departed for an assistant coaching opportunity at the University of Tulsa earlier this month.

Oklahoma State used a 15-0 second-half run to beat the Missouri State Lady Bears 70-57 in the third-round of the Women’s NIT at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla.  The Cowgirls, who entered the game 16th nationally in field goal percentage defense, held the Lady Bears to 19-of-63 from the field for 30.2 percent shooting.  The Lady Bears end their season at 24-9, while OSU improves to 19-12 as it advanced to the quarterfinal round.

The Cowgirls had a six point lead at the break and OSU went on a 7-0 run for its largest lead at 42-31 with 15:40 to play before Karly Buer stopped it with a three-pointer.  Big 12 Freshman of the Year Liz Donohoe went on a personal 8-0 run, and the Cowgirls added seven more points to that before it was all said and done to complete a 15-0 run with a 57-37 lead and 11:05 left to play. The Lady Bears were not able to get closer than 12 points the rest of they way.