Show Me Center

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The 7,000-seat Show Me Center (SMC) is the home of the Southeast Missouri State University men’s and women’s basketball teams. Additionally, the Show Me Center is the entertainment and meeting hub for the 25O,OOO residents of the tristate region.

A number of renovations were made to the Show Me Center prior to the 2015-16 season, including new telescopic seating, a state of the art center-hung video board and improvements to sound and lighting systems.

On June 26, 2014, the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents approved a list of high priority major capital renovation projects to be completed over the next two to three years to upgrade the Show Me Center to modern arena standards.

The other phase of the project includes high priority items such as renovating the front meeting room and parking lot areas.

The facility first opened its doors in the summer of 1987 and celebrated its 25th Anniversary during the 2012-13 season.

One of the best arenas in the Ohio Valley Conference, the Show Me Center has served Southeast Missouri State University, the City of Cape Girardeau, and the citizens of Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky by providing quality concerts, sporting events, topnotch family entertainment, and a first-rate banquet, convention, and meeting facility.

The facility is a joint-venture of Southeast Missouri State and the City of Cape Girardeau. The combined SMC and Student Recreation Center, which received a complete renovation and expansion in 1999, were originally built at a cost of $18 million.

The building houses the Redhawks men’s and women’s locker rooms, which have been completely remodeled. New basketball offices on the north side of the SMC were completed during the fall of 2003. More recently, a portable floor and goals were purchased before the 2011-12 season.

Southeast’s Student Recreation Center is adjoined to the Show Me Center, and it houses the Redhawks’ practice facilities. The center has five full basketball courts (including two hardwood courts), a large weight room, six racquetball courts, an indoor track, two cardiovascular equipment areas, a climbing wall, two multipurpose rooms, and full locker rooms. The new Student Acquatic Center, which opened in December 2007, features a four-lane lap pool, a recreational pool with a rock wall and zip line, hot tub and locker rooms.

Largest Show Me Center Crowds

vs. Murray State (Feb. 12, 2000) ..................................................7,241 vs. Murray State (Feb. 22, 1992)...................................................7,195 vs. Murray State (Jan. 14, 1999) ...................................................7,156 vs. Southwest Baptist (Feb. 17, 1990)........................................7,142 vs. Murray State (Feb. 15, 2012)....................................................7,125 vs. Central Missouri (Feb. 18, 1990)............................................6,911 vs. Central Missouri (Jan. 12, 1991)...........................................6,904 vs. Missouri Western (Feb. 25, 1989) ....................................... 6,893 vs. Northeast Missouri (Feb. 25, 1989) ...................................6,870 vs. Southern Illinois (Dec. 15, 1994)...........................................6,777 vs. Southwest Baptist (Jan. 26, 1991)...................................... 6,670 vs. Central Missouri (Jan. 23, 1988) ......................................... 6,635 vs. Murray State (Feb. 19, 1994)..................................................6,630 vs. Austin Peay (Jan. 22, 2005) .................................................. 6,607 vs. Murray State (Feb. 14, 1998).................................................. 6,593 vs. Missouri-St. Louis (Jan. 25, 1989).......................................6,518 vs. Tennessee State (Feb. 20, 1993)..........................................6,518

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