Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team will have some different faces at the end of the bench after coach Ty Margenthaler added two new assistants to accompany Heather Ezell for the upcoming season.

Cameron Tucker and Lavesa Glover have been added to Margenthaler's coaching staff and they both come in with a lot of experience.

Tucker has been coaching since he was in the ninth grade. He was a team manager for Steve Alford at the University of Iowa. Alford who now is the coach at UCLA.

Other teams he's been a part of have been Ball State, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Houston Baptist. He was most recently a head coach in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh.

"When he (Margenthaler) had this opening, I was very happy to join the staff," Tucker said.

Glover, who played at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, also has worked with Tucker before coming to Southeast.

They both worked at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, so the friendship started before coming to Southeast.

"We're already giving each other a hard time," Glover joked.

Glover has experience being the assistant coach at Valley City State as well as being the director of basketball operations at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Glover will be working with the post players and is already familiar with the defense that Southeast will be running.

Dick Bennett, former coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay where Glover played, ran the same style that Margenthaler is currently running.

"It's exciting for me to be here, I'm excited to get working, and the energy is great." Glover said.

Margenthaler brought these coaches in both for specific reasons. Margenthaler believes Glover works well with the development of post players.

"She will do a great job with working with our team, working with our post players and developing them," Margenthaler said. "She's won four championships, she's a winner. She understands what it takes to win and she has a winning attitude."

Tucker, who is from Indiana, was brought on because he's been a head coach and he can help recruit within the Midwest.

"He's had head-coaching experience," Margenthaler said. "He's made the tough calls. He's a Midwest guy and recruiting-wise that's the area we recruit."

Margenthaler has decided to change the offensive style that the team runs. The last three years Margenthaler has been the coach, the offense had been a motion-type offense.

Now, the coaching staff is changing the offense to have more ball screens, which Tucker is familiar with and has had success with.

"I ran it in Milwaukee and Scotland with much success," Tucker said. "I learned it from the Butler staff -- Brad Stevens and those guys. It's a fantastic offense, and it's going to really exploit our strengths."

Margenthaler has high expectations for the season as he enters his fourth year.

He's continuing to build the program back and is looking to turn the corner this year and make the conference tournament.

"The conference tournament is something we really need to get to, and I've been wide open about it," Margenthaler said. "That's something that would be a good starting point and get us going in to the right direction."

Margenthaler also mentioned that this year's freshmen class is talented and the two transfers will be an added bonus.

Erin Bollmann, from Patton, Missouri, is joining the team after transferring from Three Rivers Community College, and Jasmine Robinson, from Memphis, Tennessee, sat out last year after transferring from the University of Alabama and is eligible to begin playing this season.

The season is set to begin on Nov. 14 at home against Alabama A&M.