The 2024–25 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks women's basketball team represented Southeast Missouri State University during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Redhawks, who were led by first-year head coach Briley Palmer, played their home games at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri as members of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).
The RedHawks finished the season 6–23, 4–16 in OVC play, to finish in a tie for tenth place.
Previous season The Redhawks finished the 2023–24 season 9–20, 6–12 in OVC play, to finish in ninth place. They failed to qualify for the OVC tournament, as only the top eight teams qualify for the tournament.
On May 3, 2024, head coach Rekha Patterson announced that she would be stepping down from her position after nine seasons, in order to take an assistant coaching position at UCF. On May 16, the school announced that they would be hiring Mineral Area College head coach Briley Palmer as the team's new head coach.
Preseason On October 16, 2024, the OVC released their preseason coaches poll. Southeast Missouri State was picked to finish last in the OVC regular season.
Preseason rankings OVC preseason pollPredicted finishTeamVotes (1st place) 1 Southern Indiana 200 (20) 2 UT Martin 180 (2) 3 Eastern Illinois 145 4 Tennessee Tech 140 5 Little Rock 135 6 Western Illinois 119 7 Lindenwood 81 T–8 SIU Edwardsville 61 Morehead State 10 Tennessee State 59 11 Southeast Missouri State 29
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Players to Watch Each OVC team selected two "Players to Watch" for their team. Players to WatchPlayerPositionYearIndiya BowenGuardSophomoreZoe BestFreshman Source:
Roster
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=""| OVC regular season
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