Barnes A Finalist

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 3, 2006 – Southeast Missouri State University has announced three finalists for its men's basketball head coaching position.
They are Scott Edgar, assistant basketball coach at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rod Barnes, former head basketball coach at the University of Mississippi; and Jay Spoonhour, former assistant basketball coach at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Don Kaverman, director of athletics at Southeast, announced the finalists today after interviewing about 10 candidates over the last couple of days at the NCAA Men's Final Four Tournament in Indianapolis, Ind. He said the 10 were chosen for interviews from an original pool of more than 60 applicants.

Edgar will be on campus Thursday, Spoonhour on Friday and Barnes on Monday, April 10. An open forum for each candidate is planned for 3:30 p.m. on their respective interview day in the Show Me Center meeting rooms.