SIUE’s appearance in NCAA Tournament is ‘full-circle moment’ for Hellenthal

By Matt Schuckman, Sports Editor | March 19, 2025
Former Quincy University men's basketball coach Ryan Hellenthal, now in his third season as an assistant coach at SIU-Edwardsville, will coach in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday as the 16th-seeded Cougars face top-seeded Houston in the Midwest Regional. | Submitted photo

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Everything Ryan Hellenthal experiences this week during the SIU-Edwardsville men’s basketball team’s appearance in the NCAA Tournament is connecting his past to his present and so many of the things that have happened in between. The Cougars, making their first NCAA Tournament appearance since becoming an NCAA Division I program in 2008,…

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Hawks never flinch in second half, outlast Cougars to score exhibition upset

By Matt Schuckman, Sports Editor | November 5, 2021
The Quincy University men's basketball team's sideline reacts to a Charles Callier basket in the second half of Thursday night's 62-61 exhibition victory at SIU-Edwardsville. Photo courtesy Matt Kamp/Edwardsville Intelligencer

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Ryan Hellenthal didn’t want to temper the excitement with too much of a dose of reality, but the Quincy University men’s basketball coach needed the Hawks to know what lies ahead. “This is just an exhibition for us,” the fifth-year coach said after the Hawks upset NCAA Division I SIU-Edwardsville 62-61 on…

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Anderson scores first collegiate goal for SLU, Murphy works way into SIUE’s lineup

By Matt Schuckman, Sports Editor | August 30, 2021
Seth Anderson, center, celebrates with his Saint Louis University teammates after scoring his first career goal in Sunday's 4-0 victory over Creighton. Photo courtesy SLU Athletics/Bill Barrett

QUINCY — The top goal scorer in the history of the Quincy Notre Dame boys soccer program didn’t take long to net his first collegiate goal. A substitute midway through the first half of Sunday’s match against Creighton, Saint Louis University freshman forward Seth Anderson scored with a left-footed shot in the 33rd minute of…

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