Tennessee vs. Kentucky WBB Game Notes for Feb. 13, 2012, in Knoxville, Tenn.
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8 NCAA Championships | 16 SEC Championships | 15 SEC Tournament Championships 8 NCAA Championships | 16 SEC Championships | 15 SEC Tournament Championships TENNESSEE TENNESSEE 2011-12 LADYVOL BASKETBALL #11 TENNESSEE (17-7) vs. #7 KENTUCKY (21-3) Feb. 13| Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678) | Knoxville, Tenn.| 7 p.m. Date Opponent (TV) Time/Result Nov. 1 Carson-Newman (Exh.) W, 105-40 Nov. 8 Union University (Exh.) W, 93-45 Nov. 13 Pepperdine (SS) W, 89-57 Nov. 15 #7/7 Miami (Fla.) (ESPN2) W, 92-76 Nov. 20 at Virginia (ESPN3) L, 64-69 OT Nov. 27 #1/1 Baylor (ESPN) L, 67-76 Nov. 29 MTSU (SS) W, 82-43. Dec. 4 #21/22 Texas (SS) W, 73-57 Dec. 11 vs. #20/21 DePaul (ESPNU) W, 84-61 Dec. 13 at #11/11 Rutgers (ESPN) W, 67-61 Dec. 17 at UCLA W, 85-64 Dec. 20 at #4/4 Stanford (CSN/FSS) L, 80-97 Dec. 28 Old Dominion (SS) W, 90-37 Jan. 1 at Auburn (CSS) W, 73-52 Jan. 3 UT-Chattanooga W, 90-47 Jan. 5 #16/15 Georgia (CSS) W, 80-51 Jan. 8 at Arkansas (ESPNU) W, 69-38 Jan. 12 at #9/8 Kentucky (FSN) L, 60-61 Jan. 15 #25/24 Vanderbilt (SECN) W, 87-64 Jan. 19 LSU (CSS) W, 65-56 Jan. 23 at #2/2 Notre Dame (ESPN2) L, 44-72 Jan. 26 at Alabama (FSN) W, 86-56 Jan. 29 at #17/15 Georgia (ESPN2) W, 67-50 Feb. 2 rv/rv South Carolina (CSS) L, 60-64 Feb. 5 Auburn (SECN) W, 82-61 Feb. 9 at #nr/25 Vanderbilt (CSS) L, 79-93 Feb. 13 #7/7 Kentucky (ESPN2 in 3D) 7:00 p.m. Feb. 16 at Mississippi St. (CSS) 8:00 p.m. CT Feb. 19 at Ole Miss (SECN) 1:00 p.m. CT Feb. 23 Arkansas (FSN) 7:00 p.m. Feb. 26 Florida (ESPNU) 3:30 p.m. Mar. 1-4 SEC Tournament Nashville, Tenn. Mar. 17-20 NCAA Tournament (1st & 2nd Rds.) Mar. 24-27 NCAA Tournament (Regionals) Apr. 1 & 3 NCAA Final Four Denver, Colo. 2011-12 LADY VOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 2011-12 LADY VOL BASKETBALL MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS Debby Jennings | Associate AD - Media Relations | Cell 865.806.5671 | Email [email protected]Megan Spedden | Media Relations Graduate Assistant | Cell 757.335.1951 | Email [email protected]Eric Trainer | Assoc. Media Relations Director - Home Credentials | Email [email protected]CONTACTS #11/11 Tennessee Record: 17-7, 8-3 SEC) Head Coach: Pat Summitt Overall record: (1,088-206/38 yrs) On the Air #7/7 Kentucky Record: 21-3 (10-1 SEC) Head Coach: Matthew Mitchell Overall record: (137-81/7 yrs) THE KENTUCKY GAME Points Shekinna Stricklen - 14.9 ppg Rebounds Glory Johnson - 9.3 rpg Assists Ariel Massengale - 5.3 apg LADY VOL LEADERS WILDCAT LEADERS TELEVISION ESPN2 in 3D Beth Mowins (play-by-play) Stephanie White (color analyst) ONLINE www.ESPN3.com RADIO Lady Vol Network Mickey Dearstone (play-by-play) All-Time: Tennessee is 48-8 In Knoxville: Tennessee is 21-2 Away: Tennessee is 19-6 At Neutral Sites: Tennessee is 8-0 Post Season: Tennessee is 7-0 Overtime: Tennessee is 3-1 Last Meeting: #9/8 Kentucky def. #6/7 Tennessee, 61-60, on Jan. 12, 2012 in Lex- ington This marks the 57th meeting between the two schools dating back to the 1975-76 season. Kentucky has never won a game in Thompson- Boling Arena against the Lady Vols. The Wildcats are 0-14 since the move to TBA for the 1987-88 season. Tennessee has won 16 of the last 19 games with Kentucky dating back to the first meeting in the 21st century on Jan. 23, 2000. The Wildcats’ most recent wins in the series came in Lexington against former UT LVBB grad assistant Matthew Mitchell (UK 66-56 on Feb. 19, 2009 and 61-60 on Jan. 12, 2012) and former/current UT as- sistant Mickie DeMoss (UK 66-63 on Jan. 26, 2006). UT’s Last Win Over a Ranked Team: 67-50 over #17/15 Georgia (Jan. 29, 2012) in Athens, Ga. UT’s Last Win Over a Top 10 Team: 92-76 over #7/7 Miami (Nov. 15, 2011) in Knoxville, Tenn. UT’s Last Meeting with a Ranked UK Team: #6/7 UT lost to #9/8 Kentucky 61-60 (Jan. 12, 2012), in Lexington. Eight-Time National Champions 1987 1989 1991 1996 1997 1998 20072008 2011-12 TENNESSEE LADY VOLUNTEERS No. Name Yr. Ht. Pos. Ppg Rpg Notes 1 Briana Bass Sr. 5-2 PG 2.6 0.7 15th career start at Alabama 4 Kamiko Williams Jr. 5-11 G 2.9 1.4 11 gms back--ACL; 10 pts/5 ast @Bama 5 Ariel Massengale Fr. 5-6 PG 8.1 2.7 Rookie record 12 assists vs. Vandy1 10 Meighan Simmons So. 5-9 G 11.0 2.2 SEC career high 20 pts at Vandy/Auburn 11 Cierra Burdick Fr. 6-2 F 4.9 2.6 Started 3 gms; 15 pts vs LSU 13 Taber Spani Jr. 6-1 F/G 9.5 3.3 Back after missing 9 games-bone bruise 15 Alicia Manning *Gr. 6-1 F 4.3 4.5 Started 10 games; gritty on D 20 Isabelle Harrison Fr. 6-3 F/C 3.6 3.2 Career high 13 pts vs. UTC 21 Vicki Baugh *Gr. 6-4 F/C 8.0 6.8 14 rebounds vs. LSU; 11 starts 25 Glory Johnson *Gr. 6-3 F 13.8 9.3 4 rbs at Vandy; 32 career d-d 40 Shekinna Stricklen Sr. 6-2 G/F 15.3 5.8 24 pts at UGA; SEC Preseason POY Head Coach Pat Summitt (Tennessee-Martin ‘74) 38th season at UT Associate Head Coach Holly Warlick (Tennessee ‘81) 27th season at UT Assistant Coach Dean Lockwood (Spring Arbor College ‘82) 8th season at UT Assistant Coach Mickie DeMoss (Louisiana Tech ‘77) 20th season at UT Dir. of Character Development Daedra Charles-Furlow (Tennessee ‘91) 4th season at UT Dir. of BB Operations Kathy Harston (Wayland Baptist ‘80) 4th season at UT Video Coordinator Michael Fahey (Benedictine ‘10) 1st season at UT Graduate Assistant Corinne Milien (Bemidji State ‘10) 2nd season at UT How To Say It Briana/Bree-ah-na; Kamiko/Ka-MEE-ko; Taber Spani/Tay-bur Spain-ee; Baugh/BAW; Shekinna/Shuh-KEE-na *GR=Graduate Student Points A’dia Mathies- 15.1 ppg Rebounds Samarie Walker- 6.3 rpg Assists Amber Smith- 3.0 apg
Points Shekinna Stricklen - 14.9 ppgRebounds Glory Johnson - 9.3 rpgAssists Ariel Massengale - 5.3 apg
LADY VOL LEADERS
WILDCAT LEADERS
TELEVISION ESPN2 in 3D
Beth Mowins (play-by-play) Stephanie White (color analyst)
ONLINE www.ESPN3.com
RADIO Lady Vol Network
Mickey Dearstone (play-by-play)
All-Time: Tennessee is 48-8In Knoxville: Tennessee is 21-2Away: Tennessee is 19-6At Neutral Sites: Tennessee is 8-0Post Season: Tennessee is 7-0Overtime: Tennessee is 3-1Last Meeting: #9/8 Kentucky def. #6/7 Tennessee, 61-60, on Jan. 12, 2012 in Lex-ington
This marks the 57th meeting between the two schools dating back to the 1975-76 season. Kentucky has never won a game in Thompson-
Boling Arena against the Lady Vols. The Wildcats are 0-14 since the move to TBA for the 1987-88 season. Tennessee has won 16 of the last 19 games with
Kentucky dating back to the fi rst meeting in the 21st century on Jan. 23, 2000. The Wildcats’ most recent wins in the series came
in Lexington against former UT LVBB grad assistant Matthew Mitchell (UK 66-56 on Feb. 19, 2009 and 61-60 on Jan. 12, 2012) and former/current UT as-sistant Mickie DeMoss (UK 66-63 on Jan. 26, 2006).
UT’s Last Win Over a Ranked Team: 67-50 over #17/15 Georgia (Jan. 29, 2012) in Athens, Ga.UT’s Last Win Over a Top 10 Team: 92-76 over #7/7 Miami (Nov. 15, 2011) in Knoxville, Tenn.UT’s Last Meeting with a Ranked UK Team: #6/7 UT lost to #9/8 Kentucky 61-60 (Jan. 12, 2012), in Lexington.
Eight-TimeNational Champions
1987 1989 1991 1996 1997 1998 2007 2008
2011-12 TENNESSEE LADY VOLUNTEERS No. Name Yr. Ht. Pos. Ppg Rpg Notes 1 Briana Bass Sr. 5-2 PG 2.6 0.7 15th career start at Alabama 4 Kamiko Williams Jr. 5-11 G 2.9 1.4 11 gms back--ACL; 10 pts/5 ast @Bama 5 Ariel Massengale Fr. 5-6 PG 8.1 2.7 Rookie record 12 assists vs. Vandy1 10 Meighan Simmons So. 5-9 G 11.0 2.2 SEC career high 20 pts at Vandy/Auburn 11 Cierra Burdick Fr. 6-2 F 4.9 2.6 Started 3 gms; 15 pts vs LSU 13 Taber Spani Jr. 6-1 F/G 9.5 3.3 Back after missing 9 games-bone bruise 15 Alicia Manning *Gr. 6-1 F 4.3 4.5 Started 10 games; gritty on D 20 Isabelle Harrison Fr. 6-3 F/C 3.6 3.2 Career high 13 pts vs. UTC 21 Vicki Baugh *Gr. 6-4 F/C 8.0 6.8 14 rebounds vs. LSU; 11 starts 25 Glory Johnson *Gr. 6-3 F 13.8 9.3 4 rbs at Vandy; 32 career d-d40 Shekinna Stricklen Sr. 6-2 G/F 15.3 5.8 24 pts at UGA; SEC Preseason POY
Head Coach Pat Summitt (Tennessee-Martin ‘74) 38th season at UTAssociate Head Coach Holly Warlick (Tennessee ‘81) 27th season at UTAssistant Coach Dean Lockwood (Spring Arbor College ‘82) 8th season at UTAssistant Coach Mickie DeMoss (Louisiana Tech ‘77) 20th season at UTDir. of Character Development Daedra Charles-Furlow (Tennessee ‘91) 4th season at UTDir. of BB Operations Kathy Harston (Wayland Baptist ‘80) 4th season at UT Video Coordinator Michael Fahey (Benedictine ‘10) 1st season at UTGraduate Assistant Corinne Milien (Bemidji State ‘10) 2nd season at UT
How To Say It Briana/Bree-ah-na; Kamiko/Ka-MEE-ko; Taber Spani/Tay-bur Spain-ee; Baugh/BAW; Shekinna/Shuh-KEE-na*GR=Graduate Student
TENNESSEE PROBABLE STARTERS... ARIEL MASSENGALEStarts at guard ... 7 asts at Vandy...14 pts vs Auburn...12 pts vs. USC in 40 min...16 pts at UGA...11 asts at Bama...3 pts/4 asts vs. ND...UT rookie record 12 assists vs. Vandy...SEC Rookie of the Week (Jan. 16 & Dec. 5)....Career high 19 pts vs. Georgia & UTC ... Missed DePaul/ Rutgers/at UCLA w/dislocated finger... Back in starting line-up since ODU...Dished 8 asts first half of the Miami game...Named a starter in March 2011 while still in H.S....Concussion (Oct. 10) limited preseason...14th Lady Vol rookie to start on opening day....
GLORY JOHNSONStarts in the post...19 pts only 4 rbs at Vandy...14 pts/11 rbs vs Auburn... 13/9 vs USC...Quick fouls at UGA...13 pts/8 rbs at Bama..9 pts/9 rbs vs. ND...Injured left shoulder vs LSU...Over 1,000 career rbs @ Ark.-- 4th LV ever...16 pts/13 rbs vs. Vandy...17 pts/7 rbs at UK--broke dbl-dbl streak...15 pts/14 rbs at Arkansas...14 pts/13 rbs vs. Auburn...SEC Player of the Week (D26-J1 & J2-8)... 22 pts/13 rbs vs. Georgia...32 career dbl-dbls...Preseason All-SEC ....Graduated in 3 years, working on Master’s degree...
SHEKINNA STRICKLENStarts at G-F-C... 17 pts at Vandy...11 pts/10 rbs vs. Auburn...24 pts in 40 min at UGA...Nation-leading consecutive starts snapped at 122 vs. Bama--14 pts in 15 min. off the bench... 5 pts/7 rbs at ND...Missed LSU...Knee sprain vs Vandy after scoring 20 pts...17 pts. at Auburn...19 pts/8 rbs at Arkansas...AP Preseason All-America...2012 PS SEC Player of the Year......Dbl-dbl of 16 pts and 14 rbs in loss at UVa...Monster game of 25 pts/12 rbs vs. #1 Baylor... 20 pts and 8 rbs vs. Texas...Helped at PG vs. DePaul...22 pts/9 rbs at Rutgers...Career high 27 pts at Stanford...
TABER SPANIStarts at guard or forward...Solid lefty....Started at Vandy...First start since Stanford...Missed nine games due to slow healing bone bruise to her left knee suffered at UVa on Nov. 20...Solid vs. Rutgers 13 pts/5 rbs and found her shot against UCLA with 14 pts on 4 treys...Played 31 minutes vs. Baylor and scored 10 pts...Led UT in scoring w/ 22 pts in 42 min. in the loss to the Cavs...Led UT in scoring vs. #7 Miami w/ 20 -- 4 deep treys in 39 minutes... Sidelined in Oct. after surgery to her left elbow (remove scar tissue)....
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OFF THE BENCH FOR TENNESSEE
1 Briana Bass 5-2 Sr. PG 2.6 ppg// 0.7 rpg4 Kamiko Williams 5-11 Jr. G 2.9 ppg// 1.4 rpg11 Cierra Burdick 6-2 Fr. F 4.9 ppg// 2.6 rpg 15 Alicia Manning 6-1 Sr. F 4.3 ppg // 4.5 rpg20 Isabelle Harrison 6-3 Fr. F/C 3.6 ppg//3.2 rpg21 Vicki Baugh 6-3 Gr.C 8.0 ppg// 6.8 rpg
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RS 2 Number of National Assistant Coaches of
the Year: Holly Warlick (2007) and Mickie
DeMoss (1998, 2000)
4 Glory Johnson is
the fourth Lady Vol in school history to tally
1,000 pts. and 1,000 reb. She went over the mark
at Arkansas on Jan. 8, 2012.
20 Lady Vol student-athletes have earned
WBCA State Farm/Kodak All-America
Honors
12 Twelve more wins will put Pat Summitt
at her next victory milestone: 1,100 Ws.
112The number of
weeks Tennessee has been ranked No. 1 in
the AP poll
669 Number of wins
all-time Lady Vol basketball has over teams on this year’s
schedule
SEC Pct. Home Away Neutral ALL Pct. Home Away Neut. Streak
SUNDAY (2/12)LSU at Alabama (CSS), 1 p.m. CTArkansas at Auburn (ESPN2), 1:30 p.m. CTVanderbilt at Georgia (SECN), 2 p.m. ETOle Miss at Mississippi St. (FSN), 2:30 p.m. CTFlorida at S. Carolina (ESPN2), 5 p.m. ET
MONDAY (2/13)Kentucky at Tennessee (ESPN2), 7 p.m. ET
THURSDAY (2/16)Kentucky at Alabama, 6:30 p.m. CTLSU at Arkansas (CST), 7 p.m. CTFlorida at Vanderbilt (FSN), 8 p.m. CTGeorgia at S.Carolina (FSN), 7 p.m. ETTennessee at Miss. St. (CSS), 8 p.m. CT
SUNDAY (2/19)Tennessee at Ole Miss (SECN), 1 p.m. CTS. Carolina at Alabama (FSN), 2 p.m. CTMississippi St. at Arkansas, 2 p.m. CTAuburn at LSU, 2 p.m. CTGeorgia at Florida (ESPNU), 3:30 p.m. ET
MONDAY (2/20)Vanderbilt at Kentucky (ESPN2), 9 p.m. ET
THURSDAY (2/23)Alabama at Auburn (CSS), 8 p.m. CTArkansas at Tennessee (FSN), 7 p.m. ETMississippi State at Florida, 7 p.m. ETOle Miss at Georgia, 7 p.m. ETSouth Carolina at Kentucky , 7 p.m. ETVanderbilt at LSU (FSN), 8 p.m. CT
MEIGHAN SIMMONSStarts at guard...Tied SEC career high 20 at Vandy...13 pts vs. Auburn...13 pts vs. ND...19 pts vs. LSU...10 pts & 3 steals vs. Vandy...Tossed in 20 pts at Auburn...Filled in at PG vs. DePaul, at Rutgers, at UCLA for the injured Ariel Massengale... Struggled with shot all season just 34.3 percent FG... Break out games at Rutgers 13 pts/6 rbs & 2 clutch treys & UCLA 18 pts on 8-14 FG...12 vs. ODU...2011 SEC Rookie of the Year/started 36/37 games...Led UT with 13.5 ppg and 104 assists...
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Kentucky will be looking for their fi rst-ever win in Thompson-Boling Arena.
UK’s last Knoxville win came on Jan. 23, 1985 with a 76-72 overtime decision in Stokely Athlet-ics Center.
The Wildcats lead the SEC race with a 10-1 record.The 4-1-1 on Kentucky
Kentucky has enjoyed seven days off between games.
Before facing Tennessee, No. 6 Kentucky’s 10-game winning streak was snapped with a 61-51 upset loss to LSU in Baton Rouge on Feb. 5.
A’dia Mathies scored all of her 12 points in the sec-ond half and Keyla Snowden added 11 points for the Big Blue.
UK got as close as 48-45 with 3:52 to go, but LSU went on an 8-0 run.
The Wildcats managed to shoot only 35 percent (21 of 60) and LSU outrebounded Kentucky 33-26.
Our Last Meeting with Kentucky No. 9/8 Kentucky defeated No. 6/7 Tennessee, 61-60,
in Lexington, Ky., on Jan. 12, 2012. The loss snapped the Lady Vols’ 36-game SEC win-
ning streak. Glory Johnson scored 17 points, Vicki Baugh 16 and
Shekinna Stricklen 11 for Tennessee. Tennessee used a 10-2 run midway through the fi rst
half to take a 20-18 lead before both teams went cold for the next fi ve minutes, combining to miss 25 consecutive shots and committing 12 turnovers.
Kentucky took a 25-21 halftime lead as UT fi nished the half with 16 straight misses and eight turnovers.
In the second stanza, UK built a 50-38 lead before UT staged a 14-2 rally with 7:46 left to tie the game at 52-all.
UT led 60-57 before UK scored with 46 seconds left to make it 60-59.
Stricklen was called for a charge with 28 seconds to play. UK’s A’dia Mathies then drove the lane and scored in traffi c with 4.2 seconds left to fi nish with a career-high 34 points.
UT junior Kamiko Williams drove the length of the fl oor, missing a 16-footer as time expired.
UT-UK Extra Time Tennessee has played four overtime games with
Kentucky -- the most of any of UT’s SEC opponents. The last overtime game in the UK series came on Feb.
18, 1994, won by UT, 95-89. UT is 3-1 in overtime con-tests with Kentucky.
Lady Vols from the Bluegrass State Four Lady Vols have crossed the state line from Ken-
tucky to Tennessee to play for UT all-time. Hailing from the Bluegrass State were Kyra Elzy
(LaGrange), All-American Lisa Harrison (Louisville), Kathy Spinks (Belfrey) and Mina Todd (Murray).
Worth Telling Tennessee’s Pat Head Summitt could very well have
coached her 1,000th win at the University of Ken-tucky in February 2009.
Then-UK basketball coach and administrator Sue Feamster was looking to hand over the reins to the women’s team in 1975.
Feamster contacted Head about the job. UK planned to off er Head a little more money than she was mak-ing in Knoxville. The sticking point? Head asked for moving expenses. UK said “no.” The rest, they say, is history.
The DeMoss Factor Tennessee fans are tickled to death to have longtime
Lady Vol staff er Mickie DeMoss back on the Tennes-see bench.
DeMoss left UT for the head coaching position at Kentucky in 2003. Prior to DeMoss taking the helm at UK, the Lady Vols outscored the Wildcats by an av-erage of 32.0 ppg (85.8 to 53.8) in the four previous seasons (2000-03).
The “DeMoss Factor” in Big Blue Country (2004-07) narrowed the score to a UT leading 70.3-62.3, just a +8.0 winning margin.
She stepped down from coaching after the 2007 sea-son only to be lured back into the fray by taking an assistant position with Texas.
When a job opened up on Coach Pat Summitt’s staff in 2010, DeMoss took the opportunity to come home to Knoxville as an assistant coach and the re-cruiting coordinator for the Lady Vols.
Did You Know? The Lady Vols were kicked out of their locker room
at home after the 66-56 loss at UK on Feb. 19, 2009. They got to move back in on Nov. 23, 2009.
Kyra Elzy was a star in the HBO documentary “The Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back.”
Matthew Mitchell liked being a Lady Vol GA -- he traveled to France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and ended the trip on the French Rivera in Nice... Won the 2000 SEC Championship and Tournament Championship... Also went to the Final Four in 2000 where UT lost in the title game to UConn.
Tennessee vs. Kentucky
(UT leads 48-8) DATE AP RANK ESPN RANK SITE W/L SCORE UT/OPP UT/OPP
1/24/76 N13 W 70-6711/13/76 H W 107-531/7/77 16/18 A W 82-571/28/78 3/nr A W 92-90(OT)2/25/78 1/nr H W 99-663/10/78 1/nr N20 W 76-601/20/79 4/nr A L 64-662/17/79 6/nr H W 89-512/2/80 6/17 A W 91-83(OT)2/6/81 11/10 H W 81-653/13/81 3/10 N32 W 58-491/28/82 nr/8 H W 81-752/18/82 13/14 A W 65-612/28/82 11/13 A6 L 74-802/9/83 6/4 A W 95-852/27/83 8/6 H L 69-811/25/84 11/nr A W 75-632/12/84 6/nr H W 67-651/23/85 nr/15 18/24 H L 72-76(OT)2/13/85 nr/19 24/16 A W 77-661/24/86 11/nr 11/24 A L 82-961/11/87 2/nr 2/nr H W 76-642/18/88 3/nr 3/nr A W 99-753/5/88 3/nr 2/nr N51 W 100-661/21/89 2/nr 2/nr H W 101-571/22/90 3/nr 3/nr A W 76-601/12/91 4/nr 3/nr H W 80-702/8/92 4/nr 4/nr A W 77-523/8/92 2/nr 2/nr N51 W 94-802/6/93 1/25 1/23 H W 85-612/18/94 1/nr 1/nr A W 95-89(OT)2/19/95 2/nr 2/nr H W 67-413/4/95 2/nr 2/nr N65 W 74-621/14/96 4/nr 5/nr A W 60-451/12/97 9/nr 9/nr H W 84-611/18/98 1/nr 1/nr A W 93-651/17/99 1/nr 1/nr H W 98-601/23/00 2/nr 2/nr A W 71-651/30/00 4/nr 4/nr H W 77-481/21/01 2/nr 2/nr A W 110-381/27/01 3/nr 3/nr H W 83-392/24/02 4/nr 4/nr H W 89-643/2/03 3/nr 3/nr A W 84-691/29/04 1/nr 1/nr A W 81-721/23/05 7/nr 9/nr H W 67-491/26/06 1/nr 3/nr A L 63-662/11/07 3/nr 3/nr H W 84-621/17/08 2/nr 2/nr A W 65-402/3//08 2/nr 2/nr H W 79-511/8/09 7/nr 11/nr H W 69-642/19/09 13/nr 19/nr A L 56-662/25/10 4/15 4/14 H W 81-653/7/10 4/19 4/18 N W 70-622/7/11 4/15 4/18 A W 73-673/6/11 4/16 4/16 N128 W 90-651/12/12 5/9 6/8 A L 60-61
THE SERIESThis marks the 57th meeting between the two schools dating back to the 1975-76 season. The Lady Vols faced only two other teams more times than the Wildcats – Vanderbilt in 66 meetings and Georgia in 59. Kentucky has managed a total of eight wins in the series with six victories coming in Lexington.
Until the Wildcat upset in the 2006 season while Mick-ie DeMoss was head coach, Tennessee had won the previous 24 meetings with Kentucky dating back to the 1987 season.
Prior to the 66-63 upset at Rupp Arena in 2006, Ken-tucky’s last victory in the series came on Jan. 24, 1986 when the Wildcats notched a 96-82 win on their home turf in Lexington.
The Kats continued their success at home defeating Tennessee, 61-60, on Jan. 12, 2012.
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2011-12 KENTUCKY ROSTER No. Name Pos. Yr. Ht. Hometown/High School/College0 Jennifer O’Neill PG So. 5-6 Bronx, N.Y./Saint Michael Academy1 A’dia Mathies G Jr. 5-9 Louisville, Ky./Iroquois HS3 Crystal Riley PG Sr. 5-5 Memphis, Tenn./ Hillcrest HS/LSU4 Keyla Snowden G Gr. 5-7 Lexington, Ky./Lexington Cath.HS/Akron10 Bernisha Pinkett G So. 5-7 Washington, D.C./ H. D. Woodson HS11 DeNesha Stallworth * C Jr. 6-3 Richmond, Calif./Pinole Valley HS/Cal13 Bria Goss G Fr.- 5-10 Indianapolis, Ind./Ben Davis HS20 Maegan Conwright G So. 5-8 Arlington, Texas/Timberview HS23 Samarie Walker F/C So. 6-1 W.Carrollton,Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne/UConn24 Amber Smith PG Gr. 5-6 Winter Haven, Fla./Winter Haven HS25 Bra’Shey Ali G/F Fr. 6-0 Plainfi eld, N.J./Nazareth Regional HS31 Samantha Drake F/C So. 6-3 Bardstown, Ky./Nelson Co. HS32 Kastine Evans G So. 5-8 Salem, Conn./Norwich Free Academy40 Brittany Henderson F Jr. 6-2 Pasadena, Calif./John Muir HS50 Azia Bishop F/C Fr.- 6-3 Toledo, Ohio/Start HS* - Will sit out the 2011-12 season due to NCAA transfer rulesHead Coach: Matthew MitchellAssociate Head Coach: Kyra Elzy (Tennessee, ‘01)Assistant Coaches: Matt Insell, Shalon Pillow (Tennessee, ’02)
THE KENTUCKY SERIES
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTENNESSEE vs #9/8 KENTUCKY
01/12/12 7:05 pm at Memorial Coliseum-Lexington, KY
#6/7 Tennessee (12-4, 3-1 SEC) vs. #9/8 Kentucky (15-2, 4-0 SEC)| Jan. 12 | Memorial Coliseum (7,961) | Lexington, Ky.
Numbers of Interest
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60
120
Tonight’s sellout at Memorial Coliseum marks the third Lady Vol game this season that was sold out. The other two contests were games at Rutgers and UCLA.
The Lady Vols turned the ball over 20 times against the Wildcats -- the third-highest giveaway total of the season. UT turned the ball over 24 times at UVa.
The loss ends the streak of UT’s recent successes in the Southeastern Conference; the Lady Vols won 36 consecu-tive games in the SEC prior to tonight’s loss.
Tennessee scored 60 total points against the Wildcats, their lowest season total in 2011-12. The previous season low was 64 points in the loss at Virginia (11/20).
Lady Vol senior Shekinna Stricklen has the nation’s longest starting streak. Including today, Stricklen has started 120 consecutive games.
To NoteThe Series• With the loss Tennessee moves to 48-8 in the all-time series versus Kentucky dating back to the 1975-76 season. Tennessee has won 16 of the last 19 meetings against the Wildcats despite the loss.• The loss ends the streak of UT’s recent successes in the Southeastern Confer-ence; the Lady Vols won 36 consecutive games in the SEC prior to tonight’s loss. For Starters • Today’s starters: senior Glory Johnson, senior Alicia Manning, senior Shekinna Stricklen, sophomore Meighan Simmons and freshman Ariel Massengale.• This is the sixth consecutive game in which the Lady Vols have taken to the court with this starting five. They sport a 5-1 record with those five lining up for the opening tip.Stricklen Start Streak• Lady Vol senior Shekinna Stricklen has the nation’s longest starting streak. In-cluding today, Stricklen has started 120 consecutive games.
Chalk TalkAt the Half• The Lady Vols trailed at halftime for just the second time this season (25-21). They have led in 12 contests and were tied at the break in the other two games.• Tennessee is now 0-2 when they trail going into the locker room. • The only other game in which UT trailed at the half was the Nov. 27 loss to the No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears. • Tennessee scored 21 points in the first half, a season low for the Lady Vols. The previous season-low mark came Nov. 20 when UT scored 29 in the first half ver-sus Virginia. • The Lady Vols shot 28.1 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes -- the second-worst first-half effort on the year. UT shot 25 percent in the first half in the loss to Baylor (11/27). • Big Orange leading scorers Shekinna Stricklen and Glory Johnson combined for only eight points in the first half while committing seven turnovers. Turnover Troubles• The Lady Vols struggled to take care of the basketball versus Kentucky, commit-ting 20 giveaways versus the Wildcats. • Tennessee committed 24 turnovers in the loss at Virginia Nov. 20. Rally vs. the Cats• Tennessee trailed by as many as 12 points versus the Wildcats with the score 50-38 with 7:46 remaining. • The Lady Vols worked back against UK, knotting the score at 54. The Orange and White took the advantage at 57-56 -- its first advantage since leading 20-19.
Tennessee TidbitsGlory Goes Hard • Johnson led the Tennessee scoring effort with 17 points against Kentucky.• Her streak of five-consecutive double-doubles was snapped in Lexington, as she pulled down seven boards against UK. Baugh off the Bench • Baugh came off the bench to put up 16 points for Tennessee.• She fell one rebound shy of a double-double in the loss, pulling down nine boards in 29 minutes. Miko Sees Minutes• Kamiko Williams logged a season-high 17 minutes against Kentucky.• She struggled from the floor (2-of-8), but came up with two steals for the Lady Vols in her time on the floor.
All Aboard• All 10 available Lady Vols saw action for Tennessee for the fourth consecutive game.
On the HorizonApproaching 1,100 Wins• Seventeen more wins will put Summitt at her next victory milestone: 1,100 wins.Up Next• The Lady Vols return home for the only Sunday game in the month of January in Thompson-Boling Arena, hosting in-state rival #24/21 Vanderbilt Jan. 15. • The Lady Vols will then play host to LSU. The Jan. 19 contest will be aired by CSS.
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2011-12 LADY VOL WEEK-BY-WEEKWEEK GAMES PLAYED RECORD AP/ESPNOct. 31 CARSON-NEWMAN (EXH), 3/3Nov. 7 UNION (EXH), PEPPERDINE 1-0 3/3Nov. 14 #7/7 MIAMI, at Virginia 2-1 3/3Nov. 21 #1/1 BAYLOR 2-2 6/7Nov. 28 NR/RV MIDDLE TENNESSEE, #21/22 TEXAS 4-2 8/8Dec. 5 vs. #20/21 DePaul 5-2 7/8Dec. 12 at #11 Rutgers, at UCLA 7-2 6/6Dec. 19 at #4/4 Stanford 7-3 6/6Dec. 26 OLD DOMINION, at Auburn 9-3 7/8Jan. 2 UT-CHATTANOOGA, #16/15 GEORGIA, at Arkansas 12-3 6/7Jan. 9 at #9/8 Kentucky, #25/24 VANDERBILT 13-4 6/7Jan. 16 LSU 14-4 9/9Jan. 23 at #2/2 Notre Dame, at Alabama, at #17/15 Georgia 16-5 7/9Jan. 30 rv/rv SOUTH CAROLINA, AUBURN 17-6 8/8Feb. 6 at #nr/25 Vanderbilt 17-7 11/11Feb. 13 #7/7 KENTUCKY, at Mississippi State, at Ole MissFeb. 20 ARKANSAS, FLORIDAFeb. 27 at SEC Tournament
Noting TennesseeLady Vols at a Glance
This is the Lady Vols’ 38th season under Head Coach Pat Summitt.
She has compiled a staggering 1,088-206 overall record.
Is closing in on a milestone of 1,100 W’s -- needs just 12 more.
Collected her record 1000th coaching win with a 73-43 decision over Georgia on Feb. 5, 2009.
She passed Dean Smith (879 wins) for most NCAA collegiate basketball wins of all-time with a 75-54 victory over Purdue on Mar. 22, 2005.
Her 2006-07 and 2007-08 squads were crowned as the NCAA Champions producing the pro-gram’s seventh and eighth titles.
Last season, UT fi nished with a 34-3 overall re-cord and was crowned both the SEC Champions and the SEC Tournament Champions.
This season, UT returned eight letterwinners and welcomed a talented three player rookie class.
The 2011-12 season marked the Lady Vol debut for #5 Ariel Massengale, a 5-6 guard from Boling-brook, Ill., #11 Cierra Burdick, a 6-2 forward from Charlotte, N.C., and #20 Isabelle Harrison, a 6-3 post from Nashville, Tenn.
Our Schedule This Week The Lady Vols enjoy one game at home before
spending Thursday-Sunday on the road. Tennessee hosts Kentucky in the “Play 4 Kay”
breast cancer awareness game on Mon., Feb. 13 at 7 pm on ESPN2.
It will mark the fi rst women’s basketball game to be aired in 3D format on the ESPN family of networks.
One month ago in Lexington, Kentucky took control of the SEC race with a 61-60 win over Tennessee.
On This Day in LV Basketball History UT is 8-1 in games played on Feb. 13. The Lady Vols are 5-0 at home, 3-0 on the road
and 0-1 on neutral courts. The last time out on Feb. 13, #4-ranked UT de-
feated Vanderbilt, 65-57, in Nashville, in 2011.Looking Back
Last year at this time, the #4-ranked Lady Vols (24-2 overall, 12-0 SEC) had just defeated Vanderbilt, 66-57, in Nashville.
Looking Ahead Tennessee hits the road for the fi nal two regular
season games. The Lady Vols will spent fi ve days and four nights
in the Magnolia State venturing to play at Missis-
sippi State on Feb. 16 and Ole Miss on Feb. 19. UT travels to Starkville for an 8 p.m. CT game on
Thurs., Feb. 16 on CSS. The Lady Vols will then travel to Oxford for a con-
test on Sun., Feb. 19. UT and Ole Miss will tip at 1 p.m. CT on the SEC
Network.Play 4 KayHonoring Kay Yow
Tonight is UT’s Play 4 Kay game, formerly known as the Pink Zone, an initiative of the WBCA to pro-mote breast cancer awareness.
UT has dubbed the game “Think Pink. Bleed Or-ange.”
By way of 12,000 t-shirts in the seats of the arena, an alternating pink/white checkerboard will be formed.
One side of the arena will spell out “Lady Vols” and on the other side, “Live Pink.”
Both will be anchored by breast cancer ribbons.Remembering our Lady Vols
Tonight’s game for breast cancer awareness takes on additional signifi cance for Lady Vol bas-ketball.
We celebrate Director of Lady Vol basketball Character Development Daedra Charles-Furlow continued good health after battling breast can-cer and becoming a survivor.
And we remember one of our own who lost her lost her fi ght with breast cancer on Dec. 27, 2010.
Melissa McCray Dukes, nicknamed “Emma” by her Tennessee Lady Vol basketball teammates, played on four consecutive NCAA Final Four teams (1986-87-88-89) and started as a guard on coach Pat Summitt’s fi rst two national champi-onship teams in 1987 and 1989.
McCray Dukes was posthumously honored as the “SEC Great” from Tennessee last March at the 2011 SEC Tournament.
Vandy Post-MortemThat 90 Thing
On Feb. 9, Vanderbilt was the second team in 2011-12 season to hang 90 points on the Lady Vols.
The Commodores dealt UT a 93-79 loss in Nash-ville.
Stanford was the fi rst to post a plus-90 score when the Cardinal defeated Tennessee 97-80 on Dec. 20, 2011 in Palo Alto, Calif.
The last team to drop 90 on the Big Orange was Florida on Feb. 26, 2006. That game gets a Major League asterisk since it was a 95-93 overtime win for the Gators in Knoxville.
Tennessee In The National (AP) RankingsTotal weeks ranked in the AP poll 613Weeks ranked in the AP top 10 555Weeks ranked in the AP top 5 441Weeks ranked No. 1 in the AP 112Most consecutive weeks in top 25 476Most consecutive weeks in top 10 211*Most consecutive weeks in top 5 90*Most consecutive weeks ranked No. 1 19**indicates inactive streak
Tennessee vs. AP Ranked OpponentsIn 2011-12 7-4 Home 4-1 Away 2-3 Neutral 1-0All-Time 421-168 Home 177-38 Away 119-79 Neutral 125-51vs. Top 10 (all-time) 177-123 Home 69-31 Away 42-56 Neutral 65-36vs. Top 5 (all-time) 83-81 Home 38-23 Away 16-36 Neutral 29-22
12. Delaware 13. Georgetown 14. Texas A&M 15. Nebraska16. Rutgers17. Louisville18. Gonzaga19. Purdue20. Georgia21. Penn State 22. DePaul 23. Georgia Tech24. South Carolina25. Vanderbilt
2011-12 Opponents
Receiving Votes
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Defense Wins Games Other than this season and the 2006 90 point
game, you have to venture back to the “Cinder-ella Season” of 1996-97 for the last multiple 90 point games by the opposition.
Tennessee, the eventual 1997 NCAA Champi-ons with a 29-10 overall record and an 8-4 re-cord in the SEC, had three opponents score 90 or more points that season.
Georgia took a 94-93 overtime win on Dec. 8, 1996 in Knoxville...Louisiana Tech claimed a 98-80 victory in Ruston, La., on Feb. 24, 1997...and UT prevailed in a 100-99 overtime win over LSU in the SEC Tournament on Mar. 1, 1997.
That team lost 10 games but it never lost its heart and desire to compete for a champion-ship.
Just ask Kentucky associate head coach Kyra Elzy who was a rookie Lady Vol starter and a lock down defender on the 1996-97 team.
Rim RunnersGoing, Going, Gone
After tonight, the Lady Vols will have just four games left in the regular season.
UT travels to Mississippi State and Ole Miss on Feb. 16 & 19, respectively.
Tennessee will be at home for games against Arkansas (Feb. 23) and Florida (Feb. 26).
Nashville Part II...Back in a Couple of Weeks The Lady Vols will return to the “Music City” in a
couple of weeks for the 2012 SEC Tournament at Bridgestone Arena, Mar. 1-4.
Tennessee, the 2010 & 2011 SEC Tournament Champs, will be back to defend its titles.
In Nashville, Lady Vol fans will be congregating at B.B. King’s Restaurant and Blues Club (152 2nd Ave.) for the Big Orange Tailgate Tour.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda After losing just one game in the SEC the past
two seasons and claiming both the regular season and tournament titles, UT is in a uphill fi ght to contend for the top spot with three SEC losses.
Tennessee dropped a heartbreaker at Kentucky, 61-60, on Jan. 12.
On Feb. 2, the Lady Vols lost to South Carolina, 64-60, for the fi rst time in 40 games dating back to 1980.
LSU assisted UT by defeating Kentucky last weekend handing the Wildcats its only SEC loss of the year.
The Orange squandered that gift by losing at Vanderbilt, 93-79, on Feb. 9 in Nashville.
Tennessee and Kentucky now meet in Knoxville for a “Big Monday” and “Play 4 Kay” pink game on Feb. 13.
Time to Bounce Back ... Yet AgainBouncing Back from Loss Number Seven
Tennessee will be in a battle to bounce back from loss number seven of the season tonight against Kentucky.
The last time UT had seven losses on Feb. 13 was the Cinderella Season of 1996-97.
The Lady Vols had seven losses at that point in the year and would eventually collect 10 (L’s to #8 La Tech, #5 Georgia, #1 Stanford, #22 Arkansas, #1UConn, #4 Old Dominion and #19 Florida).
The last time UT took (at least) seven losses on the year was the 11 “L” season in 2008-09.
Rewind to January 12, 2012, 6:59 p.m.Inconsistent Since Then
Tennessee entered the game at Kentucky on Jan. 12, 2012, sporting a 12-3 overall record and a 3-0 mark in the SEC.
The Lady Vols had won 36 consecutive SEC games dating back to a loss at Georgia in Jan.
2010. Prior to the UK game, UT had won fi ve consecu-
tive games since the loss at Stanford. During that fi ve-game winning streak head-
ing into the Kentucky game, UT outscored the opposition 80.4 to 45.0 (a +35.4 winning margin) and controlled the boards 51.4 to 29.4 rpg...a +22.0 rebounding advantage.
Bad Pattern Since the UK Loss Since UT dropped the heartbreaking 61-60
game at UK on Jan. 12, the Lady Vols have de-veloped a bad pattern.
After the UK loss, Tennessee bounced back to win a pair (over Vandy and LSU at home) and then lost to Notre Dame on the road.
After the Notre Dame loss, Tennessee re-grouped to defeat Alabama and Georgia on the road.
That winning streak was halted by South Carolina in Knoxville and UT rebounded to de-feat Auburn But lost in the very next game at Vanderbilt.
Tennessee has gone just 5-4 over the last month.
Telling NumbersInside the 5-4 Record over the Last Month
Tennessee is shooting 42.9 percent from the fi eld and the opposition is tossing in 41.2 per-cent of its shots.
Tennessee is averaging 70.0 ppg and giving up 64.1 ppg.
Perhaps the most telling stat is rebounding where the Lady Vols have averaged just 38.6 to 38.1 rpg for the opposition-- uncharacteristic +0.5 advantage.
Senior All-American Shekinna Stricklen has struggled from the fi eld connecting on 41.8 percent of her shots and just 25.8 percent of her three-point attempts.
Glory Johnson has been very challenged at the charity stripe with a team low 46.8 percent (22-47).
On the bright side, rookie Ariel Massengale has logged a team high 32.9 minutes per game dur-ing this stretch handing out 52 assists while committing 24 miscues (296 minutes).
Sophomore Meighan Simmons is shooting the ball a tad better connecting on 37.2 percent of her shots and 35 percent from three-point land.
Back-breakers Game HighsUT Twenty-Something Nights
Four Lady Vols have launched 20-something scoring nights in 11 games this season.
Infl icting the most damage against the oppo-sition has been senior Shekinna Stricklen who has tagged six opponents for: 27 at Stanford, 25 vs. Baylor, 24 at Georgia, 22 vs. Rutgers, 20 vs. Vanderbilt and 20 vs. Texas.
Junior Taber Spani started the season on a roll (before suff ering her bone bruise) and dropped 22 points at Virginia and scored 20 vs. Miami.
Sophomore Meighan Simmons has posted a pair of SEC career best 20 point games at Vanderbilt and at Auburn.
Grad student Glory Johnson has joined the 20 party once with 22 points vs. Georgia.
Escaping Our Defense -- Career Nights for Opponents Conversely, 15 opponents have enjoyed
20-something-plus scoring nights in 13 games this season.
Infl icting the most damage against the Lady Vols was Stanford’s Nneka Ogumike who rang up 42 points in the Cardinal win.
Kentucky’s A’dia Mathies enjoyed a scorefest in the fi rst meeting on Jan. 12, 2012, dropping 34 points against UT.
Markeshia Grant (South Carolina), Skylar Dig-
The Pat Summitt File(all in 38 seasons as UT’s head coach)ALL GAMES
OVERALL: ............................................ 109-22 (.823)30 FIRST/SECOND ROUNDS: ......................... 46-129 REGIONAL SEMIS: ....................................... 24-524 REGIONAL FINALS: ..................................... 18-618 NCAA FINAL FOURS: ................................21-10NCAA TITLES: 8 (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, ........................................................ 1998, 2007, 2008)SEC COACH OF THE YEAR
1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011
NCAA COACH OF THE YEAR
1983, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2004
NAISMITH COACH OF THE CENTURY
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gins (Notre Dame), Christina Foggie (Vanderbilt), and April Sykes (Rutgers) all managed to score 27 points.
Stanford’s Toni Kokenis and Baylor’s Brittney Gri-ner each had 26.
Last year at this time, only 10 opponents had managed more than 20 points and only one player tagged UT for over 25 counters.
In the Jump CircleThose Ranked Teams
Kentucky will be the 13th game against a ranked team for the Lady Vols in 2011-12.
UT is 7-5 versus ranked foes this season having defeated #7/7 Miami (92-76), #21/22 Texas (73-57), #20/21 DePaul (84-61), #11 Rutgers (67-61), #16/15 Georgia (80-51), #25/24 Vanderbilt (87-64) and #17/15 Georgia (67-50).
Tennessee’s ranked losses have been to #1 Bay-lor (76-67), at #4 Stanford (97-80), at #9/8 Ken-tucky (61-60), at #2 Notre Dame (72-44) and at #rv/25 Vanderbilt (93-79).
Kentucky has played six games against ranked opponents and has a 5-1 record.
Thank Goodness for the Strength of Schedule Tennessee enters the game with Kentucky sport-
ing the nation’s toughest strength of schedule according to the NCAA.
The Lady Vols are now number fi ve in the RPI and has an opponent best average of 53.
Kentucky has the ninth best RPI and a SOS of 45. The Wildcats’ opponents have an average RPI of
118. According to the NCAA, eight SEC teams are
listed in the top 50 RPIs in the nation: UT (5), Kentucky (9), Georgia (27), Vanderbilt (29), South Carolina (31), Florida (32), Arkansas (34) and LSU (37).
Upset SpecialUnranked South Carolina
When South Carolina defeated Tennessee, 64-60, on Feb. 2, it marked the second loss in the 2011-12 season to an unranked team.
All-time, UT coach Pat Summitt’s Lady Vols have lost to just 39 unranked teams in 38 years (over-all, 652-39 for .945).
In 2008-09, the Lady Vols were ambushed by three unranked teams: at Kentucky (66-56), at LSU (63-61) and vs. Ball State (71-55).
South Carolina is only the second unranked team to collect a win over the Lady Vols in the 25-year history of Thompson-Boling Arena.
Unranked Florida defeated #5-ranked Tennes-see, 95-93 in overtime on Senior Day in Thomp-son-Boling Arena on Feb. 26, 2006.
Breaking into Our HouseBetter Set an Alarm
Before South Carolina upended Tennessee 64-60 on Feb. 2, the Lady Vols had won 28 consecutive SEC games in Thompson-Boling Arena dating back to 2008.
Top-ranked Baylor also defeated Tennessee in Knoxville earlier this season by a 76-67 score on Nov. 27, 2011.
Two Thompson-Boling Losses in a Single Season The Tennessee Lady Vols rarely lose at home. In fact, since moving to the Thompson-Boling
Arena for the 1987-88 campaign, 25-years ago, UT has lost two games in one season just eight times now that South Carolina managed the up-set.
UT lost two games in TBA during the inaugural 1987-88 campaign and then in: 1996-97, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2008-09 and now the 2011-12 season(s).
Just 22 TBA Losses for the Lady Vols -- All-Time The 22 all-time losses at TBA have come at the
UT’s SEC Streak was Snapped by USC Before South Carolina upended Tennessee 64-60
on Feb. 2, the Lady Vols had won 28 consecutive SEC games in Thompson-Boling Arena dating back to 2008.
Before the USC loss, UT’s last SEC home loss was to #7-ranked LSU on Feb. 14, 2008, 78-62.
Eclipsed 200,000Leading the Nation
A crowd of 10,523 in Athens, Ga., for the Tennes-see vs. Georgia put UT over 200,000 total specta-tors on the season.
Through 24 games, a nation-leading 248,400 have seen Tennessee play at home, on the road and on one neutral court.
In 11 games at home, the Lady Vols have attract-ed 153,138 spectators or an average of 13,922 per game in Thompson-Boling.
UT went over the 100,000 mark in home fans in just eight games this season in Knoxville.
SEC NotebookSweet Home Tennessee
Since Tennessee began contesting games with SEC opponents, the Lady Vols have produced a 189-13 record in home games.
Seven SEC teams have managed victories over the Lady Vols in Knoxville – Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss and South Carolina.
Georgia has won three games on UT’s turf while Auburn, Kentucky, Ole Miss and LSU have reg-istered two wins each, while unranked South Carolina and Florida one win.
Georgia was the only team to defeat UT at home in the 1990s (1991 & 1996).
LSU, Florida and South Carolina are the only SEC teams to defeat UT at home in the 21st century.
Items of Interest Since Pat Head Summitt arrived as head coach
at UT in 1974, the other 11 Southeastern Confer-ence schools have seen a total of 69 coaches at the helm of their women’s basketball programs.
Over the last 38 years, Tennessee has enjoyed one head coach for Lady Vol hoops -- Summitt. Next to Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia and Vander-bilt are the SEC programs with the next fewest head coaches over the 38 year span -- just four each 1996.
Tennessee owns a 454-69 record all-time record vs. 12 teams from the SEC. UT maintains a win-ning record against every team in the SEC.
UT owns a league best record of 313-43 (.884) against all SEC teams dating back to the 1982-83 season.
SEC Regular Season Story UT’s last SEC win at home:
Auburn, 82-61, 2-5-12 UT’s last SEC win away:
Georgia, 67-50, 1-29-12 UT’s last SEC loss at home:
South Carolina, 64-60, 2-2-12 UT’s last SEC loss away:
Vanderbilt, 93-79, 2-9-12Conference Call
Tennessee practically holds a winning streak over every SEC team. The Lady Vols sport 30-plus game winning streaks over two SEC teams -- Alabama 38 and Mississippi State 32.
Tennessee had a 40-game streak snapped against South Carolina when the Gamecocks won 64-60 on Feb. 2, 2012.
Five conference foes broke Lady Vol winning
streaks in the 2008-09 season when Auburn, Kentucky, LSU and Vanderbilt all tagged UT with a loss. Mississippi State is still the only SEC school never to defeat Tennessee.
School Win Streak and last loss Alabama 38 in a row, since 3-3-1984Arkansas 18 in row, since 12-29-1996Auburn 4 in a row, since 3-7-2009Florida 6 in a row, since 2-8-2009Georgia 4 in a row, since 1-21-2010 Kentucky no streak, since 1-12-2012LSU 5 in a row, since 2-26-2009Mississippi 22 in a row, since 2-4-1996Mississippi St. 32 in a row, never lost to MSUSouth Carolina no streak, since 2-2-2012Vanderbilt no streak, since 2-9-2012Found SEC Success
After only winning nine SEC games in 2009, UT rallied and hit double-digits again in 2010 and 2011.
All-time, the Lady Vols have registered double-digit victories in conference play an incredible 17 times.
Since the 1991-92 season when SEC play fi rst expanded, the Lady Vols have won at least 10 games in the following years: 1992-10 wins, 1993-11, 1994-11, 1995-11, 1998-14, 1999-13, 2000-13, 2001-14, 2002-13, 2003-14, 2004-14, 2005-13, 2006-11, 2007-14, 2008-13, 2010-15 and 2011-16 wins.
Dropping Dimes‘Rel Can Dish
Frosh Ariel Massengale has handed out 111 as-sists for the season in 21 games.
She hit the century mark against South Carolina with three helpers and became just the 10th Lady Vol rookie to dish 100 fi rst year assists.
Loree Moore (2001-05) holds the freshman assist record with 133 assists in 34 games (3.91 apg).
Also in the UT rookie 100 assist club are: Dawn Marsh (127), Lea Henry (119), Dena Head 118, Holly Warlick (112), Alexis Hornbuckle (110), Kris-ten “Ace” Clement (107), Meighan Simmons (104) and Candace Parker (103).
Massengale recorded 12 scoring passes against Vanderbilt for the UT single game rookie record on Jan. 15.
At Alabama on Jan. 26, she handed out 11 assists in 28 minutes.
Academically SpeakingJohnson and Spani named to All-District
Two Lady Vols were selected to the District 3 Capital One Academic All-District Basketball Team as announced by CoSIDA on Feb. 2.
Graduate student and forward Glory Johnson and junior guard/forward Taber Spani captured Academic All-District First Team honors after be-ing named to the Academic All-District Second Team last season.
Nominees for the All-District teams had to be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumu-lative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and aca-demic standing at her current institution and be nominated by her sports information director.
Johnson, a 6-3 athletic post, is a two-time SEC Player of the Week selection this season. The Knoxville native is averaging 13.5 ppg and 9.5 rpg while shooting 57.3 percent from the fl oor.
After earning her undergraduate degree in just three years, she has a 3.6 GPA in graduate school and is working toward her masters in communi-cation studies.
Spani is averaging 9.9 ppg and hitting 48.2 per-cent of her shots from beyond the arc this sea-son. A native of Lee’s Summitt, Mo., she missed nine games this winter after suff ering a bone
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bruise, but has played in three of Tennessee’s last four contests.
Spani maintains a 3.91 GPA and is majoring in communications studies.
After earning All-District First Team honors, Johnson and Spani are now eligible to advance to the Capital One Academic All-America Team ballot later this month.
For Real ReboundingChasing Chamique
Grad student Glory Johnson eclipsed 1,000 career rebounds at Arkansas and joined an exclusive club with three other Lady Vols.
Johnson immediately passed Tamika Catchings who had 1,004 caroms in nearly four full years of play.
Since then, the Knoxville native has also passed Sheila Frost (1,043 rebounds in 138 games).
Entering the game with Kentucky, Johnson has 1,085 career rebounds in 129 games.
She is chasing Chamique Holdsclaw who collect-ed 1,295 rebounds in 148 career games.
Former UT Players & Staffers in CoachingTough W’s against Summitt
The roll call goes like this: Sylvia Hatchell, Sha-ron Fanning, Jane Albright, Lea Henry, Nancy Darsch, Trish Roberts, Mickie DeMoss, Matthew Mitchell, Kellie Jolly Harper , Tanya Haave and Nikki Caldwell.
UT coach Pat Summitt has faced many former players and assistant coaches in a variety of games thru the years as opposing head coaches, but no former Lady Vol player has ever knocked off her mentor as a head coach.
Former assistant Carolyn Peck was the fi rst to record a victory over her former boss. While at Purdue, Peck handed Summitt a 78-68 loss on Nov. 15, 1998 in the State Farm Tip-Off Classic in West Lafayette, Ind. The defeat snapped UT’s 46-game consecutive winning streak (that was second only to Louisiana Tech’s NCAA all-time 54-game winning streak).
Former assistants Mickie DeMoss and Matthew Mitchell turned the winning trick as head coach-es at Kentucky, (DeMoss 66-63, on Jan. 26, 2006 and Mitchell 66-56 on Feb. 19, 2009 and 61-60 on Jan. 12, 2012 -- all in Lexington), and Sylvia Hatchell managed to pull off the feat twice at North Carolina (75-63 on Mar. 28, 2006 and 70-57, Dec. 3, 2006).
Facing Coach Summitt Former Lady Vol players turned head coaches
have been less successful. Former Lady Vol All-America Patricia Roberts tried while head coach at Maine (0-2, lost 77-64 on Dec. 13, 1990 and 86-71 on Nov. 24, 1991).
Former Lady Vol Olympian and point guard Lea Henry faced Summitt in the NCAA Tournament with her Georgia State team and lost 98-68 on Mar. 15, 2002.
Next to try to knock off Summitt was Kellie Jolly Harper with her Western Carolina team on Mar. 20, 2005. The Lady Catamounts lost 94-43.
UT All-American and then San Francisco head coach Tanya Haave. “LaMachine’s” Dons fell to UT on Nov. 15, 2008, 68-39. A little over a week later, Harper’s WCU team fell to Summitt’s Lady Vols, 83-56, on Nov. 25, 2008.
The next player to try the knock-off was then UCLA skipper Nikki Caldwell who lost 61-47 on Nov. 28, 2009 in TBA to the #6/5 Lady Vols.
Caldwell once again attempted to defeat both her former coach and boss when her LSU Lady Tigers visited Thompson-Boling Arena on Jan. 19.
In a battle, the Lady Vols prevailed 65-56.Current Collegiate Head Coaches
Nikki Caldwell is one of 10 Lady Vol players who are now serving as head college coaches.
Also in head coaching roles are: Jody Adams (UT 1989-93) at Wichita State; Niya Butts (UT 1996-2000) at Arizona; Tonya Edwards (UT 1986-90) at Alcorn State; Teresa Geter (UT 1997-99) at De-nark (S.C.); Tanya Haave (UT 1980-84) at Metro State (Colo.); Gwen Jackson (1999-2003) at St. Paul’s College (Va.); Kellie Jolly Harper (UT 1995-99) at N.C. State; Lea Henry Manning (UT 1979-83) at Darton College (Ga.), and Semeka Randall (UT 1997-2001) at Ohio University.
Current Collegiate Assistant Coaches Nine Lady Vols are in current assistant coaching
roles in the college game including at least one each on the sidelines in the Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina and LSU games.
Holly Warlick (UT 1976-80) is the associate head coach at Tennessee. On the Auburn bench is Carla McGhee (UT 1986-90); Kentucky bench are Kyra Elzy (UT 1996-01) and Shalon Pillow (UT 1998-02); the South Carolina bench, Nikki McCray (UT 1991-95) and the LSU bench, Tasha Butts (UT 2000-04) who is in her fi rst season at LSU with Caldwell.
Wooden Award Mid-Season ListTwo Lady Vols Named
The John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 20 was announced by The Los Angeles Athletic Club on Jan. 27 and Tennessee Lady Vols Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen earned spots on the elite list.
In addition to Tennessee, four other schools had two players chosen: Notre Dame (Diggins and Natalie Novosel); Stanford (Nneka Ogwumike and Chiney Ogwumike—the fi rst pair of sisters ever named to the midseason list); Baylor (Griner and Odyssey Sims) and Connecticut (Bria Hartley and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis).
Six players from the Wooden Award ballot in 2011, including Stricklen, return to the midsea-son Top 20 in 2012.
They include Griner and Nneka Ogwumike, Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers, Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins, Shenise Johnson of Miami. Ohio State’s Samantha Prahalis was on the ballot in 2010, along with Stricklen, Nneka Ogwumike and Delle Donne.
Turning Point?Line-up Shake-up
Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt decided to tweak the line-up in the game at Alabama on Jan. 26.
Earning her fi rst career start was freshman Cierra Burdick.
Burdick became the 62nd player in Lady Vol histo-ry to start during her freshman campaign. Fellow freshman Ariel Massengale was No. 61 on that list, starting the fi rst game of the season versus Pep-perdine.
Also receiving the starting nod was senior Briana Bass who started for the fi rst time this season and the 15th time in her career.
Shekinna’s Number was Not Called Lady Vol senior Shekinna Stricklen had the na-
tion’s longest starting streak entering the 2011-12 season.
Stricklen started 121 consecutive times before sitting out the LSU game due to injury.
She started the very next game against Notre Dame to up her starts to 122 in a LV uniform.
Alabama marked the fi rst time in her Lady Vol career she did not start a game when she was available to play.
What ‘Cha Got Rookie?Burdick Makes the Most of her Opportunity
Rookie Cierra Burdick is the fi rst one in the gym and the last one to leave.
Against LSU, all of her extra hard work paid off as she logged a career high 31 minutes en route to dropping in 15 points and grabbing six re-bounds.
She started the second half for Glory Johnson who suff ered a shoulder injury.
Even when Johnson returned, the Lady Vol coaching staff elected to keep UT’s AutoZone Player of the Game on the fl oor.
Free Throw Defense7-of-16 vs. Notre Dame & 18-for-31 Against LSU
UT made 16 trips to the charity stripe against Notre Dame and connected on a paltry seven tosses for 43.8 percent.
Tennessee might have defeated LSU by 20 points or more if the Lady Tigers free throw de-fense hadn’t been so tough.
The Lady Vols were an anemic 18 for 31 from the charity stripe for 58.1 percent.
I Swear We Practice Making free throws has always been a team pri-
ority and some of the LSU misses came from nor-mally reliable shooters.
Vicki Baugh went 2-for-6 from the line. She is a 72.7 career free throw shooter.
Since enduring a miserable 52.4 percent inaccu-racy from the free throw line in the loss to Vir-ginia in overtime, you’d think the Lady Vols had learned their lesson.
On the season, UT’s free throw percentage has yo-yoed from the 70 percent range to the pres-ent of 69.2 percent (396-651) .
Glory Johnson has been sent to the line a team high 141 times and connected on just 83 for a dismal 61.0 accuracy rate.
She was the DishSEC Player of the Week
After breaking the Lady Vol record for rookie as-sists on Jan. 15, Tennessee guard Ariel Massen-gale was tabbed for the SEC Women’s Basketball Co-Freshmen of the Week honor on Jan. 16.
Massengale shared her achievement with LSU freshman forward Krystal Forthan.
In two games against ranked SEC opponents, Massengale averaged 6.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg and 8.5 apg, while playing 35.5 mpg in the team’s split with a loss at #9/8 Kentucky (61-60) and a win over #25/24 Vanderbilt (87-64).
Massengale had her “assistfest” against Vander-bilt dishing out 12 scoring passes while adding six points, two rebounds and a couple of steals.
The dozen helpers against the Commodores breaks the previous mark set by Meighan Sim-mons (11 assists vs. Alabama 1/6/11).
Her 12 assists also tied for the fi fth-most in UT history with current associate head coach Holly Warlick who had 12 assists against Clemson in 1980.
Previously, Massengale was tabbed as the SEC Freshman of the Week on Dec. 5 and joins UT grad student Glory Johnson for dual Lady Vol conference honors. Johnson was named as the SEC Player of the Week on both Jan. 2 and 9.
Broke Rookie Record Freshman Ariel Massengale broke the Lady Vol
rookie record for assists with 12 against Vander-bilt on Jan. 15.
Massengale eclipsed the previous record of 11 assists set by Meighan Simmons against Ala-bama on Jan. 6, 2011.
Golden GirlsRookies Recognized
In recognition of an impressive gold-medal per-formance at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Champi-onship this past summer, USA Basketball today announced the USA Women’s U19 World Cham-pionship Team as the 2011 USA Basketball Team
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BREAKING IT DOWN
2011-12 Lineup Combinations Tennessee has utilized seven starting lineups for the 2011-12 season. During the 2010-11 season, Tennessee employed 11 diff erent starting lineups.
Dee --- FenseOpponents shooting from the fi eld (all games):50%FG: Vanderbilt2 (.557), Stanford (.536), Notre Dame (.508)40%FG: Vanderbilt1 (.451), Baylor (.417), Miami (.408), Rutgers & Virginia (.403), Alabama (.400)30%FG: Auburn2 (.397), USC (.394), Texas & Au-burn1 (.373), UCLA (.368), Georgia1 (.349), Ken-tucky1 (.345), LSU (.344), DePaul (.309), UTC (.304)20%FG: Georgia2 (.288), Pepperdine (.284), ODU (.254), MTSU (.238)10%FG: Arkansas (.182)
Leading at the BreakLeading at the Half (16): Pepperdine, Baylor, MTSU, Texas, vs. DePaul, at Rutgers, at UCLA, ODU, at Auburn1, UTC, Georgia1, at Arkansas1, Vander-bilt1, at Alabama, at Georgia2, Auburn2
Tied at the BreakTied at the Half (3): Miami, at Virginia, LSU
Trailing at the BreakTrailing at the Half (5): at Stanford (by 7 points), Kentucky (by 4 points), Notre Dame (by 10 points), South Carolina (by 1 point), at Vanderbilt (by 8 points)
of the Year. Lady Vol rookies Ariel Massengale and Cierra
Burdick were members of the championship team.
Topping opponents by an average of 16.6 points per game during the July 21-31 tournament in Puerto Montt, Chile, the U.S. fi nished 8-1 to cap-ture the gold medal and stand atop the FIBA U19 World Championship podium for a fourth-straight time.
Home Wins for SummittSummitt at 500
With a 87-64 victory over Vanderbilt, Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt collected her 500th career win at home.
Of the now 502 wins (thru the Auburn victory), a total of 179 have come against ranked oppo-nents in Knoxville.
Summitt has claimed victories in Alumni Gym, Stokely Athletics Center and Thompson-Boling Arena on the UT campus over the last 38 years.
And Summitt at 200 The 87-64 victory over Vanderbilt on Jan. 15,
2011 was also another home milestone for Sum-mitt...Her 200th SEC home win.
Things to ConsiderOver 100,000
Tennessee eclipsed 100,000 fans at home games this season in just eight contests.
This is the 18th consecutive season UT has gone over 100,000 at home.
The Lady Vols have entertained 169,499 fans (14,125 average) in Thompson-Boling Arena in 2011-12.
The game versus Vanderbilt on Jan. 15, 2012 drew the highest total at home this season, 17,879.
No Secrets -- Even if We Tried The Lady Vols have appeared on television in 22
of 24 games. Every Tennessee game in the SEC package is
slated for TV this year. UT will have 27 of 29 regular season games on
television this season.Elite CompanyGlory -- Maybe This Season?
It’s a fact that Tennessee has produced some of the greatest players ever in women’s collegiate basketball.
It’s a little known fact that there has only been one double-fi gure rebounder in the history of the program -- Olympian and Kodak All-Ameri-can Patricia Roberts.
Roberts hauled in 14.2 rpg (467 total) in her only season as a Lady Vol in 1976-77. She also claimed scoring honors with 29.9 ppg (987 points) in her single season on The Hill.
In 2006-07, Candace Parker came the closest to a double-fi gure rebounding average but had to settle for 9.8 rpg.
Last season, Glory Johnson fl irted with the elu-sive double-digit and managed 9.7 rpg.
Johnson is currently averaging 9.3 rpg.From the Chalk BoardMUST Control the Glass
Tennessee has lost the rebounding battle against Miami; in back-to-back games against UCLA and Stanford, to Notre Dame, Auburn (in Knoxville) and at Vanderbilt.
Conversely, the Lady Vols held a decisive re-bounding edge over #1-ranked Baylor grabbing 56 rebounds to the Lady Bears’ 42.
It’s Not Better to Give Tennessee has been its own worst enemy turn-
ing the ball over. On the season, UT has generated 16.8 points
off of miscues per game while the opposition is
banking 12.2 ppg off of Orange mistakes. UT leads in second chance points per game at
16.2 ppg with the opposition checking in at 11.5 ppg.
Head Coach Pat SummittAmazing Summitt Numbers
Pat Summitt’s teams have faced 164 diff erent opponents in 1,294 total games and teams from 35 conferences
46% of her 1,294 total games have been played versus ranked teams (600 total games against ranked opponents) with 437 victories versus ranked opponents
161 all-time Lady Vols have contributed to 1,088 wins.
72% of those all-time players have gone on to be decorated as Olympians, All-Americans, USA National Team members, All-SEC performers, Academic All-Americans, Academic All-SEC, etc.
NCAA’s Ford Award Tennessee coach Pat Summitt was the recipi-
ent of the 2012 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award.
Summitt was recognized during the opening business session on Jan. 12 at the 2012 NCAA Convention in Indianapolis.
The Lady Vols played at Kentucky, so Summitt addressed the Convention attendees in a taped video message and Joan Cronan accepted the award on Summitt’s behalf.
Announced on Dec. 6 the award is named in rec-ognition of former President Gerald Ford, honors an individual who has provided signifi cant lead-ership as an advocate for intercollegiate athlet-ics over the course of their career.
NCAA President Mark Emmert said her contribu-tions to intercollegiate athletics over almost four decades go well beyond one sport.
“Coach Summitt has been recognized numerous times for her contributions to women’s basket-ball – and rightly so,” Emmert said.
“The Ford Award honors her for what she has meant to intercollegiate athletics through her career and for the positive example she contin-ues to set today. “
Former Players Compile a Memory Book After hearing of Tennessee Lady Vol Coach Pat
Summitt’s diagnosis of early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type, Chamique Holdsclaw reached out to players spanning all decades of Lady Vol basketball to compile a “memory book” for their coach.
Holdsclaw, a four-time Lady Vols All-American from 1995-99, contacted former Lady Vol play-ers, managers and staff ers asking them to share written memories, Summitt’s infl uence on their lives, and photos of their time in the program. The Astoria, N.Y., native then compiled all of the submissions into a book.
“I know my relationship with Coach Summitt through the death of my grandmother and me going through my ups and downs battling de-pression,’’ said Holdsclaw. “What I realized from these letters is coach has helped these players through some of the most diffi cult times of their lives. When I’m reading them, I’m thinking, ‘Wow she’s had such an impact on all of our lives and just not basketball.’ “
A collection of former players and managers met with Summitt prior to the UT game against Old Dominion and presented her the book.
Summitt was overwhelmed. “It’s really hard to surprise Pat,’’ Holdsclaw said. “She was really ex-cited and very touched by the book.”
Maggie Dixon Award Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt was presented with
the Maggie Dixon Courage Award at Madison
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Square Garden on Dec. 11, 2011. The Award is presented annually to an individual
who exhibits courage in the face of adversity and continues to exemplify Maggie’s mantra of never allowing adversity to get in the way of achieving a dream.
Sports Illustrated Sportswoman for 2011 As the all-time winningest coach in NCAA col-
legiate basketball, University of Tennessee Lady Vol head coach Pat Summitt has won her fair share of awards over the past 38 years.
On Dec. 5, 2011 Summitt joined an elite group of sports superstars when it was announced by Time Inc. Sports Group editor Terry McDonell that she, and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, were the 2011 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year.
On Tues., Dec. 6 Summitt and Krzyzewski were feted at a celebration in New York City and were joined by fellow Sportswomen and Sportsmen Chris Evert (1976), Sugar Ray Leonard (1981), Wayne Gretzky (1982), David Robinson (2003) and David Ortiz (2004).
Summitt and Krzyzewski, the NCAA’s all-time winningest women’s and men’s basketball coaches, joined an elite group of sports im-mortals, including Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan, Billie Jean King, Jack Nicklaus, Bobby Orr and Pete Rozelle to receive this award.
The magazine’s editors have chosen each hon-oree based on the principles established in 1954, when runner Roger Bannister was honored as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s fi rst Sportsman: “While the victory may have been his or hers, it is not for the victory alone that he or she is honored. Rath-er, it is for the quality of their eff ort and manner of their striving.”
Summitt and Krzyzewski join UCLA’s John Wood-en (1972) and North Carolina’s Dean Smith (1997) to round out a veritable Mount Rushmore of col-lege coaches who have received this award.
In 1972, Wooden, who had won his eighth na-tional title in nine seasons, was selected along with Billie Jean King. Smith was honored in 1997, the same year he set the then NCAA wins record and announced his retirement.
Other coaches named Sportsman include Joe Paterno (1986); manager Terry Francona (2004, with the Boston Red Sox); Herb Brooks (1980, with the U.S. Olympic hockey team) and Tony DiCicco (1999, with the U.S. Women’s soccer team).
We Back Pat To coincide with National Alzheimer’s Disease
Awareness Month the matchup between the No. 6/7 Lady Vols and the No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears on Sun., Nov. 27th was designated as the fi rst of two, “We Back Pat” games.
The Vols will also participate in a “We Back Pat” game in January, when Coach Cuonzo Martin and the Big Orange take on the Connecticut Hus-kies on January 21st (CBS).
Thousands of fans wore the “We Back Pat” t-shirt to the Baylor game as 16,623 spectators were on hand.
Shirts are still available at The UT Bookstore and Stokely Athletics Center stores, as well as area Food City and Walgreens. The shirts are $10, with $4.25 from every shirt going to research.
In a halftime ceremony at the Baylor game, checked were presented to Alzheimer’s Ten-nessee and UT Medical Center, as the `We Back Pat’ T-shirts have already generated more than $150,000 in donations. The proceeds will help directly impact those living with the disease in the state of Tennessee.
Announcing the Pat Summitt Foundation Since sharing her diagnosis of dementia in late
August, Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt indicated she would like to start a foundation.
Summitt along with her son, Tyler, have formed a foundation that will fund grants in support of Alzheimer’s programs. The foundation, The Pat Summitt Foundation Fund (www.patsummitt.org), was announced at halftime of the Baylor game on Nov. 27 in Knoxville.
The aim of her Foundation is to make grants to non-profi t organizations which provide educa-tion and awareness of Alzheimer’s, its onset and treatment; support services to patients, their families and caregivers, and research to treat, prevent, cure and ultimately eradicate the dis-ease.
“Tyler and I have decided to join this battle, not just for us, but also for the millions of families aff ected by this disease. I have always told our players, our greatest opportunities are disguised as our greatest obstacles. It is time to treat this obstacle as an opportunity and a stepping stone to a cure,” Summitt said.
AARP Recognizes Summitt AARP The Magazine has announced the recipi-
ents of its 10th annual Inspire Awards. Each year the Inspire Awards pay tribute to outstanding individuals who inspire others to action through their innovative thinking, passion and persever-ance.
This year’s list of distinguished honorees in-cludes: Pat Summitt (The Alzheimer’s Advocate), Jane Goodall (The Conservationist), Steve Jobs (The Game Changer), Andy Czerkas (The AARP Foundation Hunger Hero), Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (The Chief Compromiser), Irene Zola (The Advo-cate for the Elderly), Toby Keith (The Supporter of U.S. Troops), Hilton Kelley (The Environmental Advocate), Emilio Estefan Jr. (The Latino Promot-er) and Ret. Army Col. Bill Badger, Patricia Maisch, and Roger Salzgeber (The Arizona Shooting He-roes).
“Through their extraordinary eff orts to lead, in-novate, and give back in ways that make a real impact, this year’s honorees motivate our read-ers to make a make a diff erence in their own communities,” said Nancy Perry Graham, Vice President and Editor of AARP The Magazine. “This daring dozen are compassionate and forward-thinking individuals who defi ne inspiration.”
This year’s honorees are profi led in the Decem-ber/January issue of AARP The Magazine.
Summitt Receives Courage Award The United States Sports Academy presented
Lady Vol Coach Pat Summitt its “Courage” award at the Pepperdine game on Nov. 13.
Trustee emeritus of the USSA, Gene Policinski, was on hand in Knoxville to give Summitt one of the organization’s most prestigious honors -- the Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias Courage Award.
Citing that, Summitt, the seemingly unbeatable coach, has dementia and she vows to fi ght it, raise awareness and keep on coaching.
The Courage Award is presented annually to an individual who demonstrates courageous action in overcoming adversity to excel in sport. This individual should exhibit the qualities of cour-age, perseverance, grace, and strength in sport achievement.
Zaharias’ spirit and zest for life, as well as her courage, strength, and achievement, are the qualities for which this award is named. The Babe’s fi ght to overcome life-threatening cancer and then return to the winner’s circle in women’s professional golf has withstood the test of time.
Off the Glass Rebounds Win Championships
Coach Pat Summitt’s mantra of defense and boards has been a staple of her nearly four de-cades of coaching.
UT started out the 2011-12 regular season haul-ing in 54 boards against Pepperdine while the Waves snagged 34.
Tennessee fell off the rebounding wagon in the very next game as Miami controlled the glass collecting 45 boards to the Lady Vols’ 38 total re-bounds. That was a vast improvement over UT’s 13-rebound deficit at halftime to the Hurricanes.
UT corrected the rebounding problem against Virginia, 45-38, with Shekinna Stricklen collect-ing 14 boards.
Since losing the battle of the boards to Miami, Tennessee had not be outrebounded again until it faced UCLA on Dec. 17 and Stanford on Dec. 20.
A month later, Notre Dame turned the trick out-rebounding UT, 44-35.
On Feb. 5, Auburn’s eight team rebounds result-ed in a 42-39 rebounding edge.
In the very next game, Vanderbilt controlled the boards 41-27.
Overall this season, the Lady Vols have been outrebounded six times and hold just a +7.7 re-bounding advantage, 43.6-36.0.
Last season, in 37 games, Tennessee was out-rebounded only twice -- by Georgia Tech, 37-36, and vs. Kentucky in the SEC Tournament fi nal, 46-41.
Overall, the Lady Vols held a +12.4 rebounding advantage, 46.3 to 33.9, in 2010-11.
StreakingWe were Streaking into 2011-12
The Lady Vols had a 38-game home court win-ning streak halted against Baylor on Nov. 27, 2011. It was the third longest in Lady Vol history. Tennessee’s all-time home court winning streak is 69 consecutive games from Feb. 2, 1991 to Jan. 6, 1996.
Lady Vol Streaks The Lady Vols last loss at home was against un-
ranked South Carolina, on Feb. 2, 2012, since then UT is 1-0 at home.
The last time UT lost on the road was on Feb. 9, 2012 at Vanderbilt, 93-79. UT is 0-0 on the road since then.
The last time the Lady Vols lost on a neutral court was against Notre Dame, 73-59, in the 2011 NCAA Elite 8 game on Mar. 28, 2011. Since that time, UT is 1-0 on a neutral court.
TBA - The Place to PlayRocky Top, You’ll Always Be...
Home, sweet home, to me.... On good ole Rocky Top, Tennessee has entertained the home fans to a scoring bonanza this season averaging 79.5 ppg on The Summitt while holding the op-ponents to 53.5 ppg. No wonder the Lady Vols average a nation leading 14,125 fans per game.
Toughest Place To Play The University of Tennessee’s Thompson-Boling
Arena is still the toughest women’s basketball arena in the nation to secure a win. The Lady Vols have fashioned a 351-22 all-time record on “The Summitt” for a 94.45 winning percentage since the doors were opened in 1987.
Welcome to “The Summitt” The playing court in the Thompson-Boling Arena
on the University of Tennessee campus donned a new look for the 2005-06 season.
After Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt passed Dean Smith for most NCAA collegiate basketball wins of all-time with a 75-54 win over Purdue on Mar. 22, 2005, UT named the TBA court, “The Sum-
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mitt.” The fl oor had a complete overhaul with per-
manent logos of both the Lady Vols and Vols painted directly in front of the scorer’s table; the free throw lanes were painted orange with “SEC” reversed out; the giant jump circle/mid-court TENNESSEE was given a new brighter color scheme, and “The Summitt,” Coach Summitt’s ac-tual signature adorns the sidelines opposite the team benches.
300 Wins in TBA Tennessee recorded its 300th win in Thompson-
Boling Arena when the Lady Vols defeated the Stanford Cardinal, 79-69 OT on Dec. 21, 2008.
Seven years earlier, UT grabbed its 200th TBA win over the University of Southern California on Nov. 18, 2001, 106-66.
UT has now amassed a 351-22(.941) record since the Orange and White moved into the Thomp-son-Boling Arena to start the 1987-88 season 25-years ago.
Along the way, the Lady Vols have produced 10 fl awless home records: in 1988-89 (15-0), 1991-92 (14-0), 1992-93 (13-0), 1993-94 (15-0), 1994-95 (15-0), 1997-98 (16-0), 1998-99 (14-0), 2000-01 (15-0), 2002-03 (16-0), 2009-10 (17-0) and 2010-11 (17-0).
UT also registered a former NCAA record 69-game home court-winning streak from Feb. 1, 1991 thru Jan. 2, 1996.
Just 22 TBA Losses The Tennessee Lady Vols rarely lose at home. In fact, since moving to the Thompson-Boling
Arena for the 1987-88 campaign, UT has lost two games in one season just eight times.
UT lost two games in TBA during the inaugural 1987-88 campaign, 1996-97, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2008-09 and 2011-12 seasons.
The 22 all-time losses at TBA have come at the hands of just 12 teams: South Carolina (2012), Baylor (2011), Virginia (2008), Florida (2006), LSU (2008, 2006), Duke (2009, 2007, 2004), Connecti-cut (2004, 2002, 2000, 1996), Louisiana Tech (1999, 1989), Georgia (1996, 1991), Texas (2003, 2002, 1987), Stanford (1996) and Auburn (1988).
Home Sweet Home The victory over Georgia on Jan. 31, 2005, was
the Lady Vols 400th home win since Pat Summitt took over as head coach in 1974.
Summitt has won 91.6 percent of all home games in 38 years producing a 502-47 overall record.
Home losses (in the Summitt era) include: six in Alumni Gym from 1974-76; 19 in Stokely Athlet-ics Center from 1976-87; and 22 in Thompson-Boling Arena.
On the Court100 Point Games
Since 1974, the Lady Vols have gone over the century mark 76 times.
The 1987-88 team hit triple digits in seven games to lead the NCAA.
UT has a record of 73-3 all-time in 100-point games and a 51-0 record when hitting the cen-tury mark at Thompson-Boling Arena.
In Overtime Tennessee is 28-14 all-time in overtime games. UT’s most recent overtime aff air was a 69-64 loss
at Virginia on Nov. 20, 2011. The most OT games in a year was tied in 2003-04
with four as the Lady Vols went 3-1 in overtime losing to Georgia, 68-66, and defeating Auburn, 68-61, DePaul, 96-89, and Stanford, 70-66.
It tied the mark set in 1996-97, when the Lady Vols were 3-1 in overtime contests losing to Georgia, 94-93, and defeating Texas, 68-65, Vanderbilt, 92-79 and LSU, 100-99.
UT’s 22 points in the OT against Florida (2-3-05), was the most ever scored by the Lady Vols in a single overtime.
UT’s most recent OT aff air in Knoxville was a 82-72 win over Stanford on Dec. 19, 2010.
Lady Vols Own All-Time Wins Mark Tennessee is the all-time wins leader in the
NCAA with 1,182 victories. The next closest pro-gram all-time in terms of wins is Louisiana Tech, which owns a 1,000-212 record (entering the 2011-12 season). The Lady Vols boast a 1,182-263-2 (.827) all-time record.
Staff ers Have, But Never a Player No former Lady Vol who has joined the col-
legiate coaching ranks has ever beaten Head Coach Pat Summitt.
Lady Vol HonoreesTrio Named
Lady Vol seniors Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen along with sophomore Meighan Sim-mons have been recognized among the group of players chosen for the 2011-12 preseason candidate list for the Naismith Trophy as an-nounced on Nov. 30 by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.
The Naismith Trophy is presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate women’s basketball player and is named in honor of the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith.
UT is joined by Notre Dame and Connecticut as the only institutions with three candidates for the award.
The candidate pool will be trimmed with the se-lection of the Midseason Top 30 List in February, and that list will be whittled to four fi nalists in March.
The Naismith Trophy will be presented during the NCAA Women’s Final Four, April 1-3 in Den-ver.
The Tennessee trio has collected accolades throughout the preseason. Johnson made the list of nominees for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and was named to the Wooden Award Top 30 list in October. Stricklen joined John-son on the Wooden Award Top 30 list and was named to the Associated Press Preseason All-America squad. Johnson, Stricklen and Simmons were each named to Preseason All-SEC squads with Stricklen tabbed preseason player of the year.
Stricklen Honored as AP A-A Lady Vol senior guard Shekinna Stricklen was se-
lected as a First Team Associated Press Preseason All-American.
Also joining Stricklen on the fi ve player team were Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Notre Dame’s Sky-lar Diggins, Stanford’s Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Miami’s Shenise Johnson.
Tennessee and Stricklen will face each of those teams this season.
Johnson Named a Lowe’s Nominee Tennessee senior forward Glory Johnson has
been named one of 30 women’s basketball nominees for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, presented to student-athletes who excel on and off the fi eld.
Johnson is one of three nominees from the SEC. Johnson captured All-SEC First Team honors
in 2010-11 and was a fi nalist for the 2011 State Farm All-America Team.
A Master of Science in Communication candi-date, Johnson completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Programs with a Con-centration in Global Studies and a Specialization in Global Politics and Economy in only three years.
We Love a Happy Meal The Tennessee Lady Vols must lead the nation
with the number of McDonald’s High School All-Americans on their roster in 2011-12 with eight players.
The Southeastern Conference unveiled its eighth annual women’s basketball preseason All-SEC fi rst and second teams, to tip off the 2011-12 season of SEC women’s basketball.
Tennessee was predicted to win the SEC regular season championship with 120 votes.
Kentucky, Georgia, LSU, Florida and Vanderbilt round out the top half of the league with South Carolina, Arkansas, Auburn, Alabama, Missis-sippi State and Ole Miss rounding out the lower half.
Joining Stricklen, on the All-SEC First Team were teammates Glory Johnson and Meighan Simmons, Arkansas’ C’eira Ricketts, Georgia’s Jasmine James, Kentucky’s A’dia Mathies, LSU’s LaSondra Barrett and Vanderbilt’s Stephanie Holzer.
Second team consists of Alabama’s Ericka Rus-sell, Arkansas’ Sarah Watkins, Georgia’s Jasmine Hassell, LSU’s Adrienne Webb, Ole Miss’ Valencia McFarland, South Carolina duo La’Keisha Sutton and Ieasia Walker and Vanderbilt’s Tiff any Clarke.
School POINTS 1. Tennessee 1202. Kentucky 1003. Georgia 984. LSU 965. Florida 926. Vanderbilt 857. South Carolina 628. Arkansas 579. Auburn 3910. Alabama 2911. Mississippi State 2512. Ole Miss 16FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC Shekinna Stricklen, TennesseeLaSondra Barrett, LSUA’dia Mathies, KentuckyGlory Johnson, TennesseeC’iera Ricketts, ArkansasStephanie Holzer, VanderbiltMeighan Simmons, TennesseeJasmine James, GeorgiaSECOND TEAM ALL-SEC La’Keisha Sutton, South CarolinaIeashia Walker, South CarolinaAdrienne Webb, LSUValencia McFarland, Ole MissEricka Russell, AlabamaJasmine Hassell, GeorgiaTiff any Clarke, VanderbiltSarah Watkins, ArkansasPLAYER OF THE YEAR POINTSShekinna Stricklen, Tennessee 6Glory Johnson, Tennessee 3Meighan Simmons, Tennessee 1Lasondra Barrett, LSU 1A’dia Mathies, Kentucky 1Lady Vols Picked #1 by SEC Media
Tennessee was predicted to win the 2012 South-eastern Conference women’s basketball champi-onship in a voting of a select panel of both SEC and national media members.
Tennessee topped the order of fi nish with 264 points, with Georgia (228), Kentucky (212), LSU (189), Vanderbilt (172) and Florida (151) round-ing out the top half of the league. Arkansas
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(142), South Carolina (107), Auburn (94), Ala-bama (55), Mississippi State (54) and Ole Miss (48) round out the bottom half.
Tennessee’s Shekinna Stricklen was the over-whelming choice of the media for SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year with 16 votes, the remaining votes were for Georgia’s Jasmine James,
LSU’s LaSondra Barrett and Tennessee’s Glory Johnson.
Stricklen, a 2011 State Farm All-American and SEC MVP averaged 12.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game last season.
UT sophomore Meighan Simmons, the 2011 SEC Rookie of the Year, was selected to the second team. Simmons is the Lady Vols returning scorer at 13.5 ppg.
Joining Stricklen on the All-SEC First Team are Georgia’s Jasmine James, Kentucky’s A’dia Ma-thies, LSU’s LaSondra Barrett and Tennessee’s Glory Johnson.
Second Team included Arkansas’ C’eira Ricketts, Ole Miss’ Valencia McFarland, Simmons, and Vanderbilt’s Stephanie Holzer.
2011-12 Archive NotesFive in Double Figures at Home
Five Lady Vols have posted double fi gure scoring in games at home this season.
Shekinna Stricklen leads the way at 13.7 ppg, while Glory Johnson adds 13.5 , Ariel Massengale 10.5, Meighan Simmons 10.3 and Taber Spani 10.2 ppg.
More Home Trends Tennessee is just a shade off on its home rims con-
necting on 43.4 percent from the fi eld versus 43.6 on the road.
Vicki Baugh enjoys the TBA baskets the most con-necting on 63.9 percent of her shots.
Sophomore Meighan Simmons is a bit “basket chal-lenged” at home making just 29.6 percent of her shots.
As a rookie, Simmons made 46.2 percent of her shots from the fi eld on The Summitt last season.
At home this year, the Big Orange outscores the op-position by +22.5 points and has a +13.9 rebound-ing edge with a 9-2 record.
way around Thompson-Boling Arena. As a forward/center wearing number 24 for the
Lady Vols from 1986-90, McGhee was a member of the 1987 and 1989 NCAA Championship teams.
The 6’3” Peoria, Ill., native averaged 6.1 ppg and 5.1 rpg while appearing in 101 Lady Vol games.
McGhee was a Lady Vol fan favorite. After after a se-rious car accident just before the start of her sopho-more season, where almost every bone was broken in her face and her hip was shattered, she returned to the line-up the following year.
She was a member of the 1996 USA Olympic Team and proudly owns a gold medal.
Trends UT’s 86-point output against Alabama last week
was the most points the Lady Vols have scored this season on the road.
The Bama game also marked the 11th time during the 2011-12 campaign that UT scored 80 or more points.
Shekinna Stricklen averaged 14.3 ppg last week on the road, leading the team in scoring at Alabama and Georgia.
Last week, thieves ran wild over the Lady Vols. Notre Dame swiped the ball 11 times and Georgia gathered in 10 steals. Virginia rang the bell with 13 thefts in their 69-64 win over UT.
BCS Schedule On the road...the Lady Vols traveled for three con-
secutive road games -- which kind of sound like a BCS Bowl line-up -- at #2-ranked Notre Dame, at Alabama and at Georgia.
The “Big Monday” game at Notre Dame was the fi nal regular season non-conference game for the
Lady Vols. The Irish held UT to the fewest points in program
history in the 72-44 Lady Vol loss. The Notre Dame game was an advance sell-out
which joined capacity games at Rutgers, UCLA, Stanford and Kentucky this season.
UT got back on the winning track in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Thursday night taking a 86-56 win over Ala-bama.
The arduous road swing concluded with a 67-50 win at #17/15 Georgia on Jan. 29.
Before Bama, Last Four had not been GreatJust 2-2 Overall
In the Lady Vols last four games before the win at Alabama on Jan. 26, (at #9/8 Kentucky, vs. #25/24 Vanderbilt, vs. LSU and at #2 Notre Dame), UT went 2-2 with both losses coming on the road.
Tennessee outscored the opposition by a scant 64.0 to 63.2 margin during this stretch.
The shooting woes were pretty apparent as UT con-nected on just 39.6 percent of FG, 29.2 from three-point land, 56.5 percent of free throws (48 of 85).
Rebounding was only slightly better at 40.0 rpg while giving up 37.5 rpg.
Birthday WeekTwo Celebrated
Lady Vol sophomore Meighan Simmons spent her 20th birthday on Jan. 25 traveling to Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Junior Taber Spani turned 21 years old from 30,000 feet as the Lady Vols were winging their way home from Tuscaloosa on Jan. 27.
Super SundayMark it Down
On Sun., Jan. 22, all 11 Lady Vols on the 2011-12 ros-ter practiced together for the fi rst time all season.
Junior Taber Spani, who had been sidelined since Dec. 26 and who had not played since Dec. 20, par-ticipated in practice.
Spani shed her crutches Jan. 20 and went through a light workout with Jenny Moshak, Associate Ath-letics Director for Sports Medicine, on Sat., Jan. 21.
Banged up and bruised Glory Johnson and the wonky knee of Shekinna Stricklen were good to go in practice as well.
Put it in the Rearview MirrorNo Excuses--Everyone was available to Play
All 11 Lady Vols were available and saw action for the fi rst time in 2011-12 at Notre Dame.
Taber Spani returned to the fl oor for a game the fi rst time since the Lady Vols lost at Stanford on Dec. 20.
Fewest points in UT history at Notre Dame In the loss at #2-ranked Notre Dame, the Lady Vols
managed only 44 points -- fewest in UT history. The previous low Lady Vol scoring eff ort in program
history was 45 points against Belmont (1/17/76).Second Worst Margin of Defeat The margin of defeat at Notre Dame was the second-
worst mark in the UT record books. The largest margin in a loss in Lady Vol history is 31
points at the hands of Texas (12/11/84).Stop Thief
With 10 steals, Notre Dame was the second team on the year to put up double-digit steals against the Lady Vols.
The only other team was Virginia (13 steals), also a loss.
Been Gimpy and Limpy LatelyHealth Improved Heading into Notre Dame Tennessee took to the court at Notre Dame on Jan.
23 with a few more healthy players. Shekinna Stricklen (15.5 ppg) was back in the start-
ing line-up after missing the LSU game with a knee sprain.
Glory Johnson, who suff ered a shoulder injury in the LSU contest on Jan. 19, was sporting and play-ing in a shoulder brace.
Taber Spani saw the court at Notre Dame for nine minutes after missing the last eight games. She is still listed as day-to-day.
Limped into the LSU game Tennessee took to the court in a key SEC meeting
with LSU on Jan. 19 in Knoxville with nine healthy players.
Neither Shekinna Stricklen (15.5 ppg) nor Taber
Spani (11.9 ppg) saw action. The pair account for a little less than 30 percent of
the total team scoring.Battle Scars Both Tennessee and LSU limped off the court fol-
lowing the game on Jan. 19 in Knoxville. UT started the game with nine healthy players and
had three players suff er various injuries. Glory Johnson left the game with four minutes to
go in the fi rst half after suff ering a left shoulder in-jury.
Izzy Harrison knocked heads with LSU’s Courtney Jones just before the half and was momentarily dazed.
Vicki Baugh caught an elbow just under her eye and a nice “mouse” appeared late in the game.
LSU was a little worse off than UT. Starting guard Jeanne Kenney suff ered an apparent concussion just two minutes into the game and did not return.
Starting LSU point guard Destini Hughes landed awkwardly on a long pass just ticks before halftime.
She sustained substantial damage tearing three ligaments.
In visible pain, Johnson returned to play in the sec-ond half “one-armed.”
The Phone a Friend Line-UpThree in Grad School
Tennessee’s fi fth line-up combo of the season (vs. LSU) featured three starters -- Vicki Baugh, Glory Johnson and Alicia Manning -- who are completing degree requirements for M.S. degrees.
Baugh, a fi fth year senior will have her master’s de-gree in May while Johnson and Manning will com-plete degree requirements for a M.S. next fall.
Summitt versus Non-Conference Foes774 Non-Conference Games in 38 years Lady Vol skipper Pat Summitt has coached in 1,288
games during her 38 year career. She entered the contest with a non-conference re-
cord of 637-137 (.823) versus Notre Dame on Jan. 23.
When Ranked Number 9Just 12th Time Ranked No. 9
When ranked number nine in the polls, the Lady Vols have produced an 7-4 record over other ranked teams.
All-time, UT is 1-2 when facing the number two ranked team from the nine position.
No. 9 Tennessee’s win over a number two ranked team came against Stanford, 70-67, on Dec. 21, 2004.
Not Shying Away from the CompetitionPlaying the Ranked
Both Tennessee and Notre Dame have faced a num-ber of ranked teams this year.
The Lady Vols have faced nine ranked opponents in 18 games and sport a 6-3 record.
Notre Dame has faced six ranked foes in 20 games and is 5-1.
Both schools faced #1-ranked Baylor and lost. UT surrendered a 76-67 decision while ND lost 94-81.
The Irish dumped #8/7 Kentucky 92-83 while the Lady Vols lost at (then) #9/8 UK, 61-60.
The Balance SheetHow UT Wins or Loses This Game
Get a can of Raid to kill the turnover bug... Outside of the Texas game on Dec. 4, 2011 (just
nine turnovers), the Lady Vols have committed too many unforced turnovers.
Tennessee has recorded fi ve games with +20 mis-cues and has a 3-2 record in those games.
Keep some Purell hand sanitizer ready for Notre Dame’s sticky fi ngers...
The Irish lead the nation in steals with 14.6 per game. The Lady Vols have only allowed one opponent to
grab double-digit steals this season...Virginia with 13.
UT has allowed the opposition just 6.9 steals per game -- about half of the Irish average.
Don’t be bored with the boards...take some iron tablets to avoid anemia...
Starting with the Old Dominion game following the Christmas break, UT was crashing the boards to the tune of +22 over a fi ve game stretch.
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TENNESSEE VS. KENTUCKY FEB. 13, 2012
UT outrebounded Georgia by +20 and Arkansas by +23 during the rebounding run.
In the last three games, Tennessee’s rebounding ad-vantage has dropped to just +6.3 against Kentucky, Vanderbilt and LSU.
Summer TeammatesFive of the 12
This past summer a pair of Lady Vols and a trio of Irish players joined forces on the 12-player USA entry to the World University Games and brought home the gold medal from Shenzhen, China.
Tennessee’s Glory Johnson (6.2 ppg, 5.5 rpg) and Shekinna Stricklen (5.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg) and Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins (12.3 ppg, 4.9 apg), De-vereaux Peters (10.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg) and Natalie No-vosel (4.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg)spent their August as team-mates for USA Basketball.
En route to a 6-0 record, the USA defeated oppo-nents by 45 point per game and outrebounded the rest of the collegiate world by a 22.8 margin.
Old Home Week In all, Johnson and Stricklen have caught up with
seven summer teammates this season. From the WUG team, UT has faced Keisha Hamp-
ton from DePaul, Odyssey Sims from Baylor, Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike from Stanford and the trio from Notre Dame tonight.
SEC Initiative...“We Backed Pat”
During the “We Back Pat” week, the Tennessee Vols and the UConn Huskies participated in the festivi-ties in Thompson-Boling Arena on Jan. 21 in their nationally televised contest.
Both teams wore “We Back Pat” warm-up shirts. At halftime, a another check was presented to the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund.
The Southeastern Conference in cooperation with its 12-member institutions celebrated “We Back Pat” Week, a week-long initiative focused on bring-ing awareness and recognition to the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and its fi ght against Alzheim-er’s disease.
During the week of January 15-22, SEC member institutions supported the Pat Summitt Founda-tion Fund during their home basketball games.
During the 17 women’s and 12 men’s games slated for the week, various eff orts were made to increase awareness of the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund.
Twenty of the games were televised. “Pat Summitt is a leader both on and off the court.
The establishment of the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund only reiterates this point.” said SEC Commis-sioner Mike Slive. “We are pleased that the South-eastern Conference can play a small part in help-ing Pat reach her goals for The Foundation Fund today and in the future.”
M*A*S*HStricklen was Day-to-day entering the LSU game
Senior guard-forward-center Shekinna Stricklen suff ered a sprained right knee in the game against #25/24-ranked Vanderbilt on Sun., Jan. 15.
“Diagnostic testing and further evaluation con-fi rmed that Shekinna suff ered a right knee sprain in the game yesterday,” Assoc. AD for Sports Medicine Jenny Moshak said. “We have already started the rehab process and her status is listed as day-to-day.”
She suff ered the knee sprain after a colliding with a Vanderbilt player while both were going after a re-bound along the baseline in the second half.
Stricklen had to be helped from the fl oor by the UT sports medicine staff after scoring a team leading 20 points in 35 minutes of action in the 87-64 vic-tory over the Commodores.
Spani was still Day-to-day Lady Vol junior Taber Spani has been dealing with a
bone bruise in her left knee since the loss at Virginia on Nov. 20.
On Dec. 26, she participated in one-half of the prac-tice and took three weeks off to rest the limb.
She practiced again for the fi rst time on Jan. 22 and played nine minutes against Notre Dame.
In the next game, at Alabama, Spani did not play.
We Bounced Back...AgainLoss Number Four
After almost completing a comeback victory over Kentucky, but missing by a bucket, the Lady Vols regrouped from a loss for the fourth time this sea-son and defeated Vanderbilt, 87-64.
The last time UT took (at least) four losses on the year was the 11 “L” season in 2008-09.
Joined the Club1,000 Career Rebounds -- After Glo Grabbed Four
Grad student Glory Johnson grabbed her fourth rebound in the fi rst half of the game against Ar-kansas and went over the 1,000 rebound thresh-old for her career.
She became just the fourth Lady Vol in the history of the program to have 1,000 career points and 1000 career rebounds.
Johnson joined Chamique Holdsclaw, Sheila Frost and Tamika Catchings in the exclusive club.
She enters the game with VU sporting 1,017 career boards.
She ranks third on the list behind Holdsclaw with 1,295 (148 games) and Frost with 1,043 in 138 games.
Johnson has 1,017 in 121 games to rank ahead of Catchings with 1,004 in a career-shortened (senior year ACL injury) 127 games.
SEC Player of the Week...again. After being named the SEC Player of the Week Jan.
2, Lady Vol senior forward Glory Johnson followed up with outstanding showings against Chattanoo-ga, Georgia and Arkansas. For her eff orts she was tabbed with her second-consecutive SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week on Jan. 9.
Johnson averaged 15.7 ppg and 13.3 rpg and add-ed three assists and eight steals, while playing 27.3 mpg in the team’s three victories.
Johnson had a monumental game against Arkan-sas, using 13 rebounds in her fi fth consecutive double-double to reach the 1,000 rebound pla-teau. In reaching the benchmark Johnson became only the fourth in Lady Vol history to collect 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.
It is the third SEC honor for a Lady Vol player this season, following Ariel Massengale who was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Week Dec. 5 and Johnson’s Player of the Week nod Jan. 2.
We Streaked into SEC Competition Before losing to Kentucky, the Lady Vols had won
36 consecutive games against SEC opposition dat-ing back to 2010.
UT’s streak started after a 53-50 loss at Georgia on Jan. 21, 2010.
Included in the total were 30 consecutive regular season games and six in the SEC Tournament.
In this 36 game streak: UT won 15 consecutive SEC home games; UT won 15 consecutive SEC road games and six consecutive neutral site games in the SEC tourney.
Top of the ClassIn Grad School
Classes started for the Spring semester 2012 at UT on Jan. 11.
Three Lady Vols are enrolled in grad school as they complete their UT eligibility -- Vicki Baugh, Glory Johnson and Alicia Manning.
Baugh has one class to take to fi nish requirements for a M.S. in Kinesiology.
Johnson graduated in just three years and is a M.S. candidate in Communications.
Wednesday was the fi rst day of grad school for Manning who graduated in December 2011. She is seeking a M.S. in Kinesiology.
We were DefensiveSolid “D” at Arkansas
At Arkansas on Jan. 8, Tennessee rolled out a new scent...eau de defense.
The defensive fragrance limited Arkansas to just one trey until the 5:44 mark of the fi rst half when the score was 25-3.
The Razorbacks managed to tally 11 points at the break as UT led 31-11.
For the game, Tennessee’s defense held the ‘Backs
to just 18.2 percent from the fi eld (10-55) and 3-20 from three-point land (15.0 percent).
UT also held the edge on the boards, 47-24, in the 69-38 UT win.
We had Picked Up the PaceFive Games between the Stanford & UK losses
Since losing at #4-ranked Stanford and before los-ing to #9/8-ranked Kentucky, the Lady Vols had stepped up.
Glory Johnson was the scoring and rebounding leader for the team during this stretch averaging 15.4 ppg and 12.8 rpg.
Rookie Ariel Massengale connected on 59.5 per-cent of her shots from the fi eld and contributed 12.0 ppg and 4.6 apg. She committed just seven turnovers in 144 minutes.
All-America Shekinna Stricklen struggled a bit since the Stanford loss averaging 5.5 fewer points per game (17.5 ppg heading into Stanford) and connecting on just 17.4 percent from three-point land.
UT outscored the opposition 80.4 to 45.0 (+35.4 winning margin) and controlled the boards 51.4 to 29.4 rpg...a +22.0 advantage on the boards.
Another Graybeard Game The game versus Georgia came against another
coach with lots of W’s. Already this season, UT coach Pat Summitt
coached in “graybeard games” against Rutgers’ C. Vivian Stringer and Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer.
Both coaches entered the contest against UT with over 800 career victories -- Stringer with 872 and VanDerveer with 833.
Georgia coach Andy Landers is a member of the 800 club with 867 wins on his resume.
Summitt and Landers have a combined 1,948 wins heading into the Georgia game on Jan. 5.
The Tennessee Lady Vols have now produced a 28-5 opening day record in SEC play dating back to the 1979-80 season.
UT is 14-2 in home SEC openers and 14-3 on the road.
Georgia (1984 and 1996) and Auburn (1988 and 1989) each ambushed the Lady Vols in two SEC opening games, while Vanderbilt turned the trick in 1990.
The Lady Vols have not dropped an SEC opener since 1996 when Georgia escaped with a 94-93 overtime victory in Knoxville on Dec. 8,
Flirting with Double-Doubles Tennessee had four players poised to record a
double-double against Georgia on Jan. 5. In the end, substitutions dictated that Glory John-
son would be the only player to end up with one registering 22 points and 13 rebounds.
Rookie Ariel Massengale tossed in 19 points and recorded nine assists.
Shekinna Stricklen had 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Vicki Baugh lacked one bucket to tally a double-double fi nishing with eight points and 10 rebounds off the bench.
Career Day for Two Rookies Rookies Ariel Massengale and Isabelle “Izzy” Harri-
son attended career day on Jan. 3, 2012. The duo posted career highs in points against Chat-
tanooga with Massengale tossing in 19 points and Harrison adding 13 points.
A Good Day in Tiger Town Sophomore Meighan Simmons had a solid perfor-
mance against Auburn and tossed in an SEC PR of 20 points.
She was joined in double-digit scoring by Shekinna Stricklen with 17 points, Glory Johnson’s double-double of 14 points and 13 rebounds and Alicia Manning’s 10 points.
UT ruled the boards by a 49-31 margin.Kamiko Back in the Line-up
Lady Vol guard Kamiko Williams was cleared by UT team physicians to play in the Chattanooga game on Jan. 3.
The junior had been rehabbing her left knee since anterior cruciate ligament surgery on July 22.
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Williams played 16 minutes against UTC and dished a team high four assists, grabbed three rebounds, and snagged two steals to go along with a bucket.
Fellow junior and southpaw Taber Spani continues to be listed as day-to-day with a bone bruise.
Manning Threw a Christmas Party UT coach Pat Summitt inserted senior Alicia Manning
into the starting line-up (for Vicki Baugh) against Old Dominion on Dec. 28 stating the Woodstock, Ga., na-tive “had earned it in practice.”
Manning responded with career highs in rebounds (15) and steals (6).
A blue collar player all the way, the Lady Vols’ “gritti-ness factor” reaches all-time highs when Manning is on the court.
Dialing Assistance A pair of Lady Vol rookies have recorded nine assists
in a game twice this season. Ariel Massengale had nine helpers against (then)
#7-ranked Miami. Fellow freshmate Cierra Burdick dished nine assists
against Old Dominion. Their mark of nine is second-best for a rookie. Soph-
omore Meighan Simmons holds the UT rookie re-cord with 11 scoring passes against Alabama on Jan. 6, 2011.
Simmons Slowly Heating it Up Sophomore guard Meighan Simmons has desper-
ately struggled with her shot this season. “Speedy” had a fi eld goal average hovering on life
support in the teens and has not hit the mid 30’s in FG%....
SEC Player of the Week (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) Coming back after the winter holiday, Lady Vol se-
nior forward Glory Johnson returned with strong performances against Old Dominion and Auburn. For her eff orts, she was named the SEC Women’s Bas-ketball Player of the Week on Jan. 2.
Johnson averaged 15.0 ppg and 12.0 rpg and added three assists and three steals, while playing 29.0 mpg in victories over Old Dominion and Auburn.
Against Old Dominion she led the UT scoring eff ort with 16 points and doubled up, pulling down 11 re-bounds in just 26 minutes in the 90-37 win.
Following her standout game against the Lady Mon-archs, Johnson recorded her second-consecutive double-double and fourth of the season in the 73-52 victory at Auburn on Sunday.
She fi nished with 14 points, 13 boards and three steals in the win to open the SEC slate.
She is the second Lady Vol to earn SEC laurels this season, following Ariel Massengale who was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Week Dec. 5.
Massengale Back Lady Vol rookie point guard Ariel Massengale was
back in the starting line-up against Old Dominion. She was cleared to play on Dec. 20 after missing the
previous three games (#20/21 DePaul, #11 Rutgers and UCLA).
The starting rookie guard made a brief 11 minute second half appearance against Stanford.
She suff ered a dislocated middle fi nger on her left hand in practice on Dec. 8.
Three Losses Heading into January The last time Tennessee sported three losses head-
ing into January was the 2004-05 season. The Lady Vols were 8-3 overall and had lost at
#4-ranked Texas, 74-59; to #10/9-ranked Duke, 59-57, and at #24-ranked Rutgers, 65-51.
Last 7-3 Start to Open the Season The last time the Lady Vols posted a 7-3 record in the
fi rst 10 games to open a season was in 1996-97. In that weird 29-10 overall record & NCAA title sea-
son, Tennessee collected wins over Austin Peay, #12/13-ranked Kansas, 314/17-ranked Notre Dame, Wisconsin-Green Bay, Memphis, #11/10-ranked Texas Tech, #13/16-ranked Texas (OT) and suff ered losses to #11/8-ranked Louisiana Tech, #5-ranked Georgia, and #1-ranked Stanford.
The team headed into the 1997 portion of the sched-ule 7-4 overall after losing at #22/24 Arkansas.
Third Time this Season Against Old Dominion, Tennessee rebounded from a
loss for the third time in the 2011-12 season.
After dropping a 97-80 decision at #4-rankedStan-ford on Dec. 20, UT righted the ship with a 90-37 win over ODU on Dec. 28 in Knoxville.
Stanford’s 90 points were the most against UT since Feb. 26, 2006 vs. Florida (UF 95, UT 93 (OT).
UT turned Scarlet at Stanford Tennessee’s 17-point loss at Stanford was the Lady
Vols’ worst “L” since losing 71-55 against Ball State on Mar. 22, 2009, in the First Round of the NCAA tourna-ment.
The Cardinal owned the boards against the Lady Vols with a 35-29 advantage.
Stanford also dominated UT in the paint by a 40-18 margin.
Stricklen = Ironwomen Senior Shekinna Stricklen logged an average of
37.1 minutes per game over the four contests on the road in December.
She logged all 40 minutes against Stanford while scoring a career high 27 points.
She managed 33 minutes against UCLA despite fi ghting stomach troubles which sent her to the locker room in the fi rst half.
In the come-from-behind victory at Rutgers, Strick-len sat a handful of second shy of 40 minutes.
In that game, she tossed in 22 points, grabbed nine rebounds and snagged three steals.
Against DePaul, she logged 34 minutes.Shoot ‘em Up
Against UCLA, Tennessee hit a school record 76 per-cent (19-of-25) of its shots in the fi rst half eclipsing the previous record of 70.3 percent against Old Do-minion(1/4/89).
On the afternoon against UCLA, Tennessee shot 69.2 percent - the fourth-highest mark in program his-tory.
UT’s season high shooting percentage going into the game was 49.2 percent against Pepperdine (11/13/11).
The Ranked UT’s six ranked opponents within its fi rst 10 games of
the 2011-12 campaign marks the most since playing fi ve teams in the AP poll in the fi rst eight games of the 2007-08 season.
Conference Carousel This season, the Lady Vols have faced a pair of teams
from three diff erent conferences -- the ACC, the Big 12, BIG EAST and Pac-12.
Against these power conferences, UT recorded a 5-3 record.
Was Happy to be in Cali Lady Vol starting center Vicki Baugh is excited to be
in her home state of California. The Sacramento native, who missed almost 21
months on the court due to ACL surgeries, will be making her fi rst appearance in Los Angeles since her rookie season in 2007-08.
Baugh is fi nishing her UT eligibility in grad school. She will receive her Master’s in kinesiology in May.
From BIG EAST Week to Pac 12 Week Last week, the Lady Vols took on two teams from the
BIG EAST facing #20/21-ranked DePaul (an 84-61 win on Dec. 11) and #11-ranked Rutgers on Dec. 13 (a 67-61 win).
This week, Tennessee engages in Pac 12 Week facing UCLA (an 85-64 win) and at #4-ranked Stanford (a 97-80 loss)on the road.
One of the Days of Christmas Somewhere in the Lady Vols version of the “Twelve
Days of Christmas” there should be a verse of “Stan-ford Comes A’ Callin’.”
Over the last 20-plus years, Tennessee and Stanford have traditionally met in mid-December and typi-cally served as a measuring stick for each other re-gardless of the outcome.
In December games against the Cardinal, UT leads the series 16-6.
Summer Fun Please excuse Glory Johnson, Shekinna Stricklen,
Nnemkadi and Chiney Ogwumike if they are caught up in conversation and laughter before the game.
The foursome spent part of their summer as USA basketball teammates at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China.
Team USA posted a perfect 6-0 record. The Red, White & Blue captured the gold medal with
a 101-66 victory over Taiwan.Playing in Front of a Full House
The games versus both Stanford and UCLA were announced as advance sellouts.
Last season, UT played in front of capacity crowds at Louisville (22,124), Old Dominion (7,774), Baylor (10,569) and Auburn (7,536).
Massengale Making Progress Starting rookie point guard Ariel Massengale is
making progress in recovering from a dislocated fi nger.
In the last couple of days, she has returned to the court to take some light reps.
The protective cast-like material was removed prior to the team traveling out west.
On Dec. 8, Jenny Moshak, University of Tennessee Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine, announced that Massengale had suff ered a dislo-cated fi nger in practice and would possibly be out of the lineup for two to three weeks.
The week previously, the rookie from Bolingbrook, Ill., collected the fi rst conference honors of her collegiate career as she was named SEC Women’s Basketball Freshman of the Week following her outstanding performance in UT’s wins over Middle Tennessee and (then) No. 20/21-ranked Texas.
On the season, Massengale is averaging 7.2 ppg and 5.8 apg for the No. 7/8-ranked Lady Vols.
Missing Miss Massengale In the three games with out Ariel Massengale, ball
security has been an issue. Tennessee has committed 50 miscues in the last
three games. UT lost the ball an improved 15 times at UCLA.
However, those 15 miscues led to 15 Bruin points. Against #11-ranked Rutgers, UT had 16 turnovers
(including three off ensive fouls). UT evenly spaced the miscues with eight in each
half. At the start of the game against DePaul, the Lady
Vols certainly looked like they were very much missing freshman point guard Massengale.
In the fi rst fi ve minutes, all fi ve starters lost the ball at least once for a total of six UT miscues.
Tennessee managed to settle down over the next 15 minutes of the half and lost the ball just seven times.
Taber is Clutch Since suff ering a bone bruise against Virginia on
Nov. 20, junior Taber Spani has struggled a bit with her game.
In her last two contests, she looks like she is on the way back.
Against UCLA, she drilled 4-of-6 treys and was 5-for-7 from the fi eld for 14 points.
Following a couple of “not so Taber” performances, she was one of the second half sparks in the win over Rutgers.
Spani drilled a death ray trey with 1:53 left to give UT a comfortable 10-point lead, 64-54, to seal the comeback win.
The forward looked like her old self in the second half scoring 10 points and dishing three assists.
She logged 31 minutes on the night.Rutgers Backs Pat
The folks at Rutgers showed their support for UT coach Pat Summitt when the two teams met on Dec. 13.
The Rutgers players wore “We Back Pat” shooting shirts and RU athletics director Tim Pernetti pre-sented UT a commemorative jersey for Summitt.
Rutgers sold the Pat Summitt Foundation bracelets on the concourse with the proceeds going to the Foundation fund.
UT & Rutgers Hall of Famers Both Tennessee and Rutgers can boast of Women’s
Basketball Hall of Fame (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Nai-smith Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfi eld, Mass.) head coach inductees in Pat Head Summitt and C. Vivian Stringer.
Summitt joined the Women’s HoF when she was se-lected as a member of the inaugural class of 1999,
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while Stringer was a 2001 inductee. In Fall 2009, Stringer earned her induction into the
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame while Summitt was a member of the Class of 2000.
Not only are the head coaches members of the WBHOF but UT also sports Lady Vol associate head coach Holly Warlick (inducted as a player in the Class of 2001 with Coach Stringer) and Lady Vol Basketball Director of Character Development, Daedra Charles-Furlow was a 2007 inductee.
Garden Party Tennessee’s appearance in Madison Square Garden,
“the world’s most famous basketball arena,” marks the fourth time for the Lady Vols.
UT has a 3-0 record at MSG. In all previous trips to the Garden, Rutgers has been
the opponent each time. Lady Vol All-American and Olympian Chamique
Holdsclaw traveled to her hometown for her senior year in 1998-99. It marked UT’s fi rst trip to The Gar-den.
The game was played before the largest crowd to ever see a women’s collegiate basketball game in the Garden, 15,735.
The trip was billed as the NYC homecoming for Holdsclaw who hailed from Astoria in Queens.
Second-ranked UT had little trouble with the No. 15/13-ranked Scarlet Knights winning 68-54 on Jan. 3, 1999.
The next visit was a meeting between #2 ranked Tennessee, who was trying to rebound from a loss at UConn, and #9/10-ranked Rutgers, in a defensive struggle in Madison Square Garden on Jan. 2, 2001, as the Lady Vols won 58-51.
In the 2001 game at MSG, Lady Vol senior All-American Tamika Catchings was forced to wear the “blood jersey” (number 55), after her number 24 orange road jersey turned up missing when the UT managers did the team laundry after the game ver-sus UConn in Hartford. It never did appear on eBay.
The Lady Vols were invited to play in the Maggie Dixon Classic in 2009 with Rutgers as the opponent once again. No. 4/3-ranked Tennessee defeated the Scarlet Knights, 68-54, on Dec. 13.
Maggie Dixon ClassicClassic Notes
This marks the second time the Lady Vols have par-ticipated in the Maggie Dixon Classic.
Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt is the 2011 recipient of the Maggie Dixon Courage Award. Summitt will be honored by the Dixon family during a second half time out in the Classic’s fi rst game between Baylor and St. John’s.
Ironically, the last game Maggie Dixon ever coached at Army was against Tennessee. In 2006 Tennessee, Army, Old Dominion and George Washington were all bracketed together in Norfolk, Virginia, for NCAA First /Second Rounds.
The night before the Tennessee vs. Army contest both coaching staff s found themselves dining at the same Virginia Beach seafood restaurant.
Basketball talk ensued that evening and the next day the two teams met on the court.
The game won’t be remembered as Army’s fi rst ap-pearance in the NCAA Tournament under a rookie head coach but as the game in which Tennessee redshirt freshman Candace Parker dunked twice as the Lady Vols won going away, 102-54 on March 19, 2006.
The next week, the Lady Vols met Rutgers in the Sweet 16 in the Cleveland Regional (a 76-69 win) but lost to North Carolina in the Regional Champi-onship, 75-63.
Sadly, Maggie Dixon passed away after the Final Four in Boston on April 6, 2006.
Graduation Lady Vol senior guard Alicia Manning had a busy
morning on Dec. 9. In addition to packing for a trip to New York City and an early morning practice, Manning donned cap and gown to receive her di-ploma from UT.
The newly-minted graduate of the College of Edu-cation received her B.S. in Sport Management with a business minor.
In January Manning will join fellow Lady Vols Vicki Baugh and Glory Johnson in graduate school. The Woodstock, Ga., native plans to pursue a master’s in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Psychol-ogy.
Manning was joined at graduation by her parents, Jeff and Virginia Manning, as well as Lady Vol head coach Pat Summitt.
Following graduation in Thompson-Boling Arena, she dashed to the locker room where she signed the Lady Vol graduation pillar, adding her name near Candace Parker’s and continuing the 100 per-cent graduation among UT hoopsters.
Manning then joined her teammates in Pratt Pavil-ion for practice before heading to the Big Apple.
Heading in the Right Direction Tennessee halted a two-game losing streak taking a
82-43 win over Middle Tennessee State behind the play of rookies.
Cierra Burdick, came off the bench to contribute 14 points and 10 rebounds while Ariel Massengale added 14 points and fi ve assists.
That “must win” was followed by a solid eff ort in the 73-57 victory over #21/20 Texas on Dec. 4 in Knox-ville.
Starting with a Pair of L’s The last time the Lady Vols opened the season with
a 2-2 record was during the 1990-91 campaign. Ten-nessee went on to a 30-5 overall record and cap-tured the 1991 National Championship.
Tennessee opened that season with a win over Stanford (the defending NCAA Champs)...lost by 13 at N.C. State...defeated Virginia Tech on the road ... then lost at Vanderbilt by 14 points.
Including this season, back-to-back losses have only occurred 25 times during Coach Pat Summitt’s 38-year career at Tennessee.
Before losing back-to-back to Virginia and #1-ranked Baylor (Nov. 20 & 27, 2011), the last oc-currence was during the 11 loss 2008-09 season.
UT lost back-to-back games twice that year -- at Duke and Kentucky (Feb. 16 & 19) and vs. Auburn and Ball State (Mar. 7 & 22).
Tennessee suff ered back-to-back losses three times in the 10 loss, 1996-97 NCAA Championship “Cin-derella Season.”
Of the all-time losses for Summitt’s teams, they have lost back-to-back-to-back games just twice.
In December 1984, the Lady Vols lost three consec-utive games (all on the road) at #3-ranked Georgia, at #2 Texas and at #7 Louisiana Tech.
In February 1986, UT also lost three consecutive games at #8-ranked Ole Miss, #11-ranked Auburn and against #3-ranked Louisiana Tech.
When Playing Number One Tennessee is 14-29 all-time when playing the na-
tion’s number one ranked team. The Lady Vols are 3-10 in Knoxville, an even 6-6 on the road and 5-13 on neutral courts.
UT is currently ranked number six in the AP poll. Tennessee is now 0-4 when trying to upset #1 from that position.
UT is currently ranked number seven in the USA To-day/ESPN poll. Tennessee is now 0-2 when trying to upset #1 from that position.
The Numbers Game Prior to the game versus Baylor on Nov. 27, the last
time Tennessee played the nation’s number one-ranked team was on Jan. 22, 2007 in Knoxville. The Lady Vols missed charity tosses down the stretch to lose 74-70 to top-ranked Duke after mounting a fu-rious comeback rally.
The Blue Devils opened the game with a nightmar-ish 19-0 run-out, as the Lady Vols fell into a 21-point hole (28-7 at 9:23 in the fi rst half ) before rallying to narrow the halftime defi cit to 11 points (38-27).
Free throw defense stymied Tennessee, as the Lady Vols connected on just 8-17 (.471) for the game. All-American Candace Parker managed just 1-7 from the free throw line.
Good Neighbors The 2011 meeting with Miami in the State Farm
TipOff Classic marked the Lady Vols eighth appear-ance in the State Farm TipOff Classic and the fi fth
time to host the event. Tennessee now has a 6-2 record in TipOff games.
Making a Claim In the fi rst TipOff in 1993, Lady Vol coach Pat Sum-
mitt picked up her 500th career victory. In the TipOff in 1998, Purdue and Coach Carolyn
Peck halted the Lady Vols school record 46-game consecutive winning streak.
Tennessee’s last opening game home loss to start a season came against Louisiana Tech in the 1999 TipOff Classic, 69-64, as UT failed to convert free throws in the waning seconds.
In Tennessee’s most recent TipOff appearance in 2009 in Knoxville, the Lady Vols spoiled Brittney Griner’s fi rst collegiate game with a 74-65 victory over the Lady Bears.
Going into the Hall Lady Vol Olympian and All-American Nikki McCray
Pinson will be a member of the 2012 Women’s Bas-ketball Hall of Fame Induction Class. Also being inducted are: Nancy Fahey (Coach), Pamela McGee (Player), Inge Nissen (Player), Robin Roberts (Con-tributor), and Dawn Staley (Player)Rookie Starts
A true rookie got a starting nod on the opening day of the 2011-12 season.
When Coach Pat Summitt started freshman Ariel Massengale against Pepperdine in the opening game of the 2011-12 season, it marked only the 14th time in her coaching career that a freshman started her very fi rst game at Tennessee -- out of a total of 161 all-time Lady Vols who have played at UT.
The list of opening day rookie starters: Taber Spani, 2009, Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen, 2008, Angie Bjorklund, 2007, Candace Parker, 2005, Shyra Ely 2001, Ashley Robinson 2000, Gwen Jackson 1999, Kyra Elzy 1996, Chamique Holdsclaw 1995, Tiff ani Johnson 1994, Bridgette Gordon and Sheila Frost 1985.
The Nod With Ariel Massengale getting the opening day
start against Pepperdine, she became the 61st rookie all-time to earn a starting assignment at UT. Last season, Meighan Simmons, a 5-9 point guard from Cibolo, Texas, became the 60th rookie all-time to earn a starting assignment at Tennessee.
The previous year, rookie Kamiko Williams (59th all-time) started against Arkansas while her classmate and fellow rookie Taber Spani, became the 13th frosh to start her very fi rst game at UT and the 58th rookie overall.
In 2008-09, a record number of players – FIVE – were called on to start for the Lady Vols as rookies: Shekinna Stricklen (starter number 53), Glory John-son (number 54), Briana Bass (55), Alicia Manning (56) and Kelley Cain (57) all earned starting assign-ments.
Angie Bjorklund became the 52nd all-time Lady Vol to start during her freshman season –she started in 30 of 38 games.
Previously, Cait McMahan earned a start at point guard versus Louisiana Tech during her freshman season.
Prior to Cait’s starting nod, then-redshirt freshman Candace Parker played and started in all 36 games her rookie season in 2005-06.
A season earlier, Tennessee coach Pat Summitt liked what she saw out of the 2004-05 rookie class as two players earned starting nods during the season. Nicky Anosike played in all 35 games with 25 starting assignments and Alexis Hornbuckle played in all 35 games with 21 starts.
This duo became the 48th and 49th rookies all-time to earn starting assignments at UT as rookies.
Fourth Earliest Opener The game against Pepperdine was the fourth
earliest date the Lady Vols have ever opened the season. UT’s earliest opening game was during the 2002-03 season with fi rst tip on Nov. 10, 2002, taking on #22/19-ranked Oklahoma and register-ing a 94-68 win.
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AMAZING LADY VOL STREAKSALL-TIME WINNING STREAKS
No. Began Broken 46 Mar. 15, 1997 vs. Grambling (H) 91-54 ............................ Nov. 15, 1998 vs. Purdue (A) 68-7825 Dec. 19, 2010 vs. Stanford (H) 82-72 .......................Mar. 28, 2011 vs. Notre Dame (N) 59-7324 Nov. 16, 1998 vs. St. Joseph’s (H) 108-63 ................................Feb. 21, 1999 vs. LSU (A) 69-7222 Feb. 2, 1989 vs. South Carolina (H) 60-54 ........... Dec. 9, 1989 vs. Louisiana Tech (H) 58-5922 Jan. 11, 1988 vs. Georgia Tech (A) 96-79 ..............Apr. 1, 1988 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 59-6820 Jan. 23, 2000 vs. Kentucky (A) 71-65 ......................... Apr. 2, 2000 vs. Connecticut (N) 52-7120 Jan. 2, 1993 vs. Old Dominion (A) 68-60 ...........................Mar. 6, 1993 vs. Georgia (N) 72-7319 Jan. 7, 2003 vs. Old Dominion (A) 91-63 ...................................Mar. 9, 2003 vs. LSU (N) 62-7818 Nov. 20, 2005 vs. Stetson (H) 83-33 ........................................Jan. 23, 2006 vs. Duke (A) 53-7518 Jan. 2, 2001 vs. Rutgers (N) 58-51 ...................................Mar. 3, 2001 vs. Vanderbilt (N) 74-7718 Jan. 21,1992 vs. Florida Atlantic (H) 108-26 Mar. 26, 1992 vs. Western Kentucky (N) 70-7517 Jan. 20, 1994 vs. Virginia Tech (H) 88-51 ...........Mar. 24, 1994 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 68-7116 Jan. 24, 2010 vs. LSU (A) 55-43 ......................................... March 27, 2010 vs. Baylor (N) 62-7716 Mar. 18, 2007 vs. Drake (N) 76-37 ............................. Dec. 22, 2007 vs. Stanford (A) 69-73 OT16 Nov. 20, 1994 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 69-62 ............Jan. 16, 1995 vs. Connecticut (A) 66-7716 Jan. 14, 1978 vs. Missouri (A) 101-83 ...........................Mar. 18, 1978 vs. Maryland (N) 69-7515 Feb. 17, 2008 vs. Vanderbilt (A) 81-68 ..............................Nov. 17, 2008 vs. Virginia (H) 83-82 15 Jan. 28, 1980 vs. LSU (H) 96-73 ................................ Mar. 8, 1980 vs. Old Dominion (N) 67-6815 Feb 2, 1981 vs. Southern California (H) 78-71 .Mar. 29, 1981 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 59-7914 Nov. 21, 1993 vs. Ohio State (N) 80-45 .............................Jan. 17, 1994 vs. Rutgers (A) 77-8714 Dec. 17, 1982 vs. LSU (A) 83-73 ............................. Feb. 14, 1983 vs. Old Dominion (A) 66-9013 Jan. 21, 1995 vs. Mississippi State (H) 81-58 ...............Mar. 6, 1995 vs. Vanderbilt (N) 61-6712 Jan. 2, 2008 vs. DePaul (A) 102-68 .............................................Feb. 14, 2008 vs. LSU (H) 62-7812 Dec. 9, 1990 vs. Maryland (H) 82-71 ..................................Jan. 19, 1991 vs. Auburn (A) 65-7011 Jan. 25, 2007 vs. Vanderbilt (A) 67-57 ........................................Mar. 3, 2007 vs. LSU (N) 54-6311 Dec. 5, 2006 vs. Tennessee-Martin (H) 85-29 ..................... Jan. 22, 2007 vs. Duke (H) 70-7411 Dec. 30, 2003 vs. George Washington (A) 65-51 ... Feb. 5, 2004 vs. Connecticut (H) 81-6711 Nov. 16, 2001 vs. Chattanooga (A) 97-57 .................Jan. 5, 2002 vs. Connecticut (H) 72-8611 Nov. 18, 2000 vs. DePaul (H) 94-52 ..........................Dec. 30, 2000 vs. Connecticut (A) 76-8111 Nov. 19, 1999 vs. Tennessee-Martin (H) 133-60 .....Jan. 8, 2000 vs. Connecticut (H) 67-7411 Jan. 25, 1982 vs. South Carolina (A) 87-81 ..................Feb. 28, 1982 vs. Kentucky (A) 74-8011 Nov. 25, 1988 vs. Illinois (N) 81-50 ....................................... Jan. 7, 1989 vs. Auburn (A) 59-6710 Jan. 2, 2005 vs. Old Dominion (A) 68-58 .................................Feb. 10, 2005 vs. LSU (A) 58-6810 Feb. 3, 1990 vs. Auburn (H) 76-65 ....................................... Mar. 5, 1990 vs. Auburn (N) 77-7810 Feb. 8, 1985 vs. Florida State (A) 67-56 ..................... Mar. 22, 1985 vs. Mississippi (N) 60-63
ALL-TIME HOME WINNING STREAKSNo. Began Broken 69 Feb. 2, 1991 vs. Tennessee Tech 94-67 ..............................Jan. 6, 1996 vs. Connecticut 53-5940 Jan. 12, 1997 vs. Kentucky 84-61 ............................... Nov. 14, 1999 vs. Louisiana Tech 64-6938 Feb. 22, 2009 vs. Mississippi State 82-68 .................................Nov. 27, 2011 vs. Baylor 67-7637 Feb. 21, 1976 vs. Cumberland 90-42 ..........................Mar. 10, 1979 vs. Old Dominion 72-7426 Jan. 10, 2000 vs. Arkansas 79-69 ........................................Jan. 5, 2002 vs. Connecticut 72-8625 Jan. 14, 1988 vs. Old Dominion 91-68 ........................Dec. 9, 1989 vs. Louisiana Tech 58-5924 Feb. 16, 2002 vs. Vanderbilt 75-68 ...............................................Dec. 28, 2003 vs. Texas 60-7022 Dec. 12, 2004 vs. DePaul 78-63 ...........................................................Feb. 9, 2006 vs. LSU 69-7220 Jan. 2, 1990 vs. Illinois 84-57 ......................................................Jan. 28, 1991 vs. Georgia 74-8117 Feb. 1, 2007 vs. South Carolina 72-36 ............................................ Feb. 14, 2008 vs. LSU 62-7813 Jan. 11, 1996 vs. Old Dominion 69-47 ............................Dec. 8, 1996 vs. Georgia (OT) 93-94 12 Jan. 21, 1982 vs. Clemson 91-60 ........................Nov. 30, 1982 vs. Old Dominion (OT) 72-7811 Jan. 28, 1980 vs. Louisiana State 97-73 ......................................... Jan. 3, 1981 vs. UCLA 62-6511 Feb. 15, 1986 vs. Vanderbilt 94-81 ..................................... Jan. 31, 1987 vs. Mississippi 65-6910 Jan. 10, 1981 vs. Illinois State 64-52 ....................Nov. 22, 1981 vs. Stephen F. Austin 74-8010 Nov. 12, 2006 vs. Chattanooga 102-72........................................ Jan. 22, 2007 vs. Duke 70-7410 Nov. 23, 2008 vs. Louisiana Tech 94-59 .......................................Feb. 16, 2009 vs. Duke 62-549 Feb. 2, 1987 vs. Georgia Tech 100-74 ............................................ Dec. 9, 1987 vs. Texas 78-97
ALL-TIME AWAY WINNING STREAKSNo. Began Broken 23 Jan. 7, 2003 vs. Old Dominion 91-63...........................................Nov. 25, 2004 vs. Texas 59-7421 Jan. 2, 2008 vs. DePaul 102-68 ....................................................... Dec. 14, 2008 at Texas 59-7317 Jan. 7, 2001 vs. Arkansas 76-61 ..............................................Feb. 2, 2002 vs. Vanderbilt 59-7611 Dec. 17, 2006 vs. Texas 67-46 ...............................................................Mar. 3, 2007 vs. LSU 54-6311 Nov. 23, 1997 vs. UT-Martin 73-32 ........................................... Nov. 15, 1998 vs. Purdue 68-78
Freshmen (2 or more)Holdsclaw, Chamique 16
Frost, Sheila 11
Parker, Candace 10
Catchings, Tamika 9
Horton, Karla 7
Johnson, Tiff ani 6
Johnson, Glory 5
Gordon, Bridgette 4
Morton, Karen 4
Anosike, Nicky 3
Ostrowski, Mary 3
Snow, Michelle 3
Cain, Kelley 2
Brewer, Alyssia 2
Stricklen, Shekinna 2
Ely, Shyra 2
Evans, Peggy 2
Groover, Debbie 2
Thompson, Pashen 2
Sophomores (2 or more)Parker, Candace 21
Holdsclaw, Chamique 16
Ostrowski, Mary 11
Groover, Debbie 10
Horton, Karla 10
Gordon, Bridgette 9
Catchings, Tamika 8
Ward, Vonda 8
Towns, Paula 6
Johnson, Glory 5
Ely, Shyra 5
Evans, Peggy 5
Haave, Tanya 5
Jackson, Gwen 5
Shekinna, Stricklen 4
Charles, Daedra 4
Ely, Cindy 4
Johnson, Dana 4
Baugh, Vicki 3
Cain, Kelley 3
Freeman, Valerie 3
Frost, Sheila 3
Manning, Alicia 3
Noble, Cindy 3
Randall, Semeka 3
Snow, Michelle 3
Brewer, Alyssia 2
Juniors (2 or more)Holdsclaw, Chamique 16
Parker, Candace 13
Charles, Daedra 13
Johnson, Glory 12
Noble, Cindy 11
Stricklen, Stricklen 11
Johnson, Dana 9
Johnson, Tiff ani 9
Ostrowski, Mary 9
Catchings, Tamika 8
Ely, Shyra 8
Frost, Sheila 8
Haave, Tanya 8
McCray, Nikki 8
Thompson, Pashen 7
Jackson, Gwen 6
Groover, Debbie 5
Horton, Karla 5
Snow, Michelle 5
Ward, Vonda 5
Brogdon, Cindy 5
Fluker, Tye’sha 3
Towns, Paula 3
Butts, Tasha 3
Kelley Cain 2
Seniors (2 or more)Collins, Shelia 14
Harrison, Lisa 14
Charles, Daedra 13
Ostrowski, Mary 12
Holdsclaw, Chamique 9
Johnson, Dana 9
Webb, Lisa 9
Frost, Sheila 8
Rankin, Jill 8
Catchings, Tamika 7
Ely, Shyra 7
Johnson, Glory 6
Anosike, Nicky 6
Gordon, Bridgette 6
Jackson, Gwen 6
Noble, Cindy 6
Butts, Tasha 3
Fuller, Alex 3
Robinson, Ashley 2
Most in a career (5 or more)Holdsclaw, Chamique 57
Parker, Candace 45
Ostrowski, Mary 35
Catchings, Tamika 32
Charles, Daedra 30
Frost, Sheila 30
Ely, Shyra 22
Horton, Karla 22
Johnson, Glory 22
Gordon, Bridgette 21
Groover, Debbie 20
Johnson, Dana 20
Noble, Cindy 20
Jackson, Gwen 18
Harrison, Lisa 17
Johnson, Tiff ani 17
Stricklen, Shekinna 17
Collins, Shelia 15
Ward, Vonda 15
Haave, Tanya 14
Thompson, Pashen 14
Snow, Michelle 13
Anosike, Nicky 11
Webb, Lisa 11
McCray, Nikki 10
Towns, Paula 10
Evans, Peggy 9
Rankin, Jill 8
Cain, Kelley 8
Randall, Semeka 7
Butts, Tasha 6
Brogdon, Cindy 5
Points and Assists DDClower, Susan 1
Henry, Lea 1
Hornbuckle, Alexis 1
Marciniak, Michelle 1
Marsh, Dawn 1
McGhee, Carla 1
Simmons, Meighan 1
Stricklen, Shekinna 1
Warlick, Holly 1
Zolman, Shanna 1
LADY VOL DOUBLE-DOUBLES
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TENNESSEE VS. KENTUCKY FEB. 13, 2012
For Tennessee...Most points ..........................92 (vs. UM, 11/15/11)Least points ............................ 44 (vs. ND, 1/23/12)Biggest lead .....53, 2nd half(vs. ODU, 12/28/11)Biggest defi cit..30, 2nd half (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12)Biggest lead in a loss...........9, 1st half (vs. SU, 12/20/11)Biggest defi cit in a win....6, 1st half (vs. UM, 11/15/11)Biggest halftime lead ...........34 (vs. UTC, 1/3/12)Biggest halftime defi cit.....10, (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12Most fi rst-half points .............50* (vs. UTC, 1/3/12)Best fi rst-half FG% .........76.0 (vs. UCLA, 12/17/11)Fewest fi rst-half points ....... 18 (vs. ND, 1/23/12)Worst fi rst-half FG% ..........20.0 (vs. ND, 1/23/12)Most second-half points ...53 (vs. PU, 11/13/11)Best second-half FG%....63.0 (vs. UCLA, 12/17/11)Fewest second-half points...... 26(vs. ND 1/23/12)Worst second-half FG% ....32.3 (vs. MT, 11/29/11)
For Opponents...Most points ...........................97 Stanford, 12/20/11)Least points ............................... 37 (ODU, 12/28/11)Biggest lead .......... 30, 2nd half (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12))Biggest defi cit..............53, 2nd half (ODU, 12/28/11)Biggest lead in a loss .....6, 1st half (UM, 11/15/11)Biggest defi cit in a win.........9, 1st half (SU, 12/20/11)Biggest halftime lead..10, (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12)Biggest halftime defi cit ............34, (UTC, 1/3/12)Most fi rst-half points .................. 48 (SU, 12/20/11)Best fi rst-half FG% .........52.8, (Vanderbilt, 2/9/12)Fewest fi rst-half points ....11 (Arkansas, 1/8/12)Worst fi rst-half FG% .......10.0 (Arkansas, 1/8/12)Most second-half points ............ 51 (VU, 2/9/12)Best second-half FG% ............. 67.9 (ND, 1/23/12)Fewest second-half points ... 17 (ODU, 12/28/11)Worst second-half FG% ....... 20.0* (UGA, 1/29/12)
Tennessee This Season...Tennessee led in the fi rst half of 24 games.Tennessee has trailed in the fi rst half of 18 games.Tennessee led at halftime of 16 games.Tennessee has trailed at halftime of 5 games.Tennessee was tied at halftime of 3 games.Tennessee led in the second half of 21 games.Tennessee never trailed in the second half of 15 games.Tennessee led in rebounding in 17 games.Tennessee tied in rebounding in 1 game.Tennessee was outrebounded in 6 games.Tennessee never trailed in 4 games.
THE LAST TIME...Tennessee scored 100 points ................................................................Jan. 6, 2011 vs. Alabama (UT 110, UA 45)Tennessee scored 90 points.......................................................................Dec. 28, 2011 vs. ODU (UT 90, ODU 37)Tennessee scored 60 points or less ..............................................Feb. 2, 2012 vs. South Carolina(USC 64, UT 60)Tennessee scored 50 points or less ..................................................... Jan. 21, 2010 at Georgia (UGA 53, UT 50)Tennessee scored 40 points or less ................................................. Jan. 23, 2011 at Notre Dame (ND 72, UT 44)Tennessee gave up 100 points ...............................................................Mar. 6, 1987 vs. Auburn (AU 102, UT 96)Tennessee gave up 90 points ...............................................................Feb. 9, 2012 vs. Vanderbilt (VU 93, UT 79 )Tennessee gave up 60 points or less ....................................................Jan. 6, 2012 vs. Alabama (UT 86, UA 56)Tennessee gave up 50 points or less ....................................................... Jan. 29, 2012 vs. UGA(UT 67, UGA 50)Tennessee gave up 40 points or less ......................................................Dec. 28, 2011 vs. ODU (UT 90, ODU 37)A Lady Vol scored 30 points ............................... Mar. 30, 2008 vs. Notre Dame, Candace Parker, 34, (UT 74, ND 64)A Lady Vol scored 40 points ..................................... Mar. 3, 1985 vs. Mississippi, Shelia Collins, 40, (UT 79, UM 71) A Lady Vol scored 50 points ................................. Nov. 13, 1976 vs. Kentucky, Patricia Roberts, 51, (UT 107, UK 53)An opp. player scored 30 points .................................. Jan. 12, 2012, A’dia Mathies, Kentucky, 34, (UK 61, UT 60)An opp. player scored 40 points ............................Dec. 20, 2011, Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford, 42, (SU 97, UT 80) An opposing player scored 50 points ....................................................................................................NeverNo Lady Vol scored in double fi gures......................................Mar. 29, 2002 vs. Connecticut (UCONN 79, UT 56)No opposing player scored in double fi gures ..................................Mar. 19, 2011 vs. Stetson (UT 99, UM 34)A Lady Vol had 20 rebounds ...................... Mar. 16, 1991 vs. SW Missouri St., Daedra Charles, 22, (UT 55, SWM 47)A Lady Vol had 25 rebounds ......................................................................................................................NeverAn opposing player had 20 rebounds ............................Apr. 6, 2008 vs. LSU, Sylvia Fowles, 20, (UT 47, LSU 46)An opposing player had 25 rebounds ...................................................................................................NeverA Lady Vol had 10 assists .......................................Jan. 26, 2012 vs. Alabama, Ariel Massengale, 11, (UT 86, UA 56)A Lady Vol had 15 assists ................................................ Mar. 6, 1988 vs. Georgia, Dawn Marsh, 18, (UT 82, UG 76)An opposing player had 10 assists .........................Feb. 9, 2012 vs. Vanderbilt, Jasmine Lister, 13, (VU 93, UT 79)An opposing player had 15 assists ..........................................................................................................NeverA Lady Vol made 5+ three-pointers ......................... Dec. 4, 2011, vs. Texas, Shekinna Stricklen 5, (UT 73, Texas 57)A Lady Vol made 8 three-pointers ............................... Dec.1, 2010 vs. Lamar, Meighan Simmons, 8, (UT 99, LU 55)A Lady Vol made 10 three-pointers ........................................................................................................NeverAn opp. player made 5+ three-pointers ........... Feb. 2, 2012, Markeshia Grant, South Carolina, 7, (USC 64, UT 60)An opp. player made 8 three-pointers .................Dec. 21, 1992, Molly Goodenbour, Stanford, 9, (UT 84, SU 79)An opposing player made 10 three-pointers ......................................................................................NeverTennessee shot 60 percent FG .......................................... Dec. 17, 2011 vs. UCLA, .692 (36-52), (UT 85, UCLA 64)Tennessee shot 55 percent FG ........................................March 19, 2011 vs. Stetson, .557 (39-70), (UT 99, SU 34)Tennessee shot 40 percent FG or lower ............................. Jan. 19, 2012 vs. LSU, .375 (21-56), (UT 65, LSU 56)Tennessee shot 30 percent FG or lower .................. Jan. 23, 2012 vs Notre Dame, .279 (17-61), (ND 72, UT 44)Tennessee shot 25 percent FG or lower ...........................Dec. 14, 2010 at Baylor, .250 (18-72), (BU 65, UT 54) An opponent shot 60 percent FG ........................................Nov. 25, 2004, Texas, .604 (29-48), (UT 59, Texas 74)An opponent shot 55 percent FG ...................................... Feb. 9, 2012, Vanderbilt, .557 (39-70), (VU 93, UT 79)An opponent shot 50 percent FG .................................. Jan. 23, 2012, Notre Dame, .508 (30-59), (ND 72, UT 44)An opponent shot 40 percent FG or lower ..................... Jan. 26, 2012,Alabama, .400 (22-55), (UT 86, UA 56)An opponent shot 30 percent FG or lower ........................... Jan. 29, 2012, UGA .288 (17-59), (UT 67, UGA 50An opponent shot 20 percent FG or lower .............Jan. 8, 2012, Arkansas, .182 (10-55), (UT 69, Arkansas 38)Tennessee won 20 games in a row ................................................ Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streakTennessee won 15 games in a row ................................................ Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streakTennessee won 10 games in a row ................................................ Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streakTennessee lost 3 games in a row .......................................................Feb. 5, 1986-Feb. 10, 1986, 3-game streakTennessee lost 5 games in a row ......................................................Jan. 28, 1970-Jan. 22, 1971, 5-game streakTennessee won 60 home games in a row ....................................... Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streakTennessee won 50 home games in a row ....................................... Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streakTennessee won 40 home games in a row ................................... Jan. 12, 1997-Nov. 14, 1999, 40-game streakTennessee won 10 road games in a row ...................................... Jan. 2, 2008-Dec. 14, 2008, 19-game streak Tennessee won 15 road games in a row ......................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakTennessee won 20 road games in a row ......................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakTennessee won 25 road games in a row ......................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakTennessee lost 3 road games in a row .............................................. Jan. 24 1986-Feb. 5, 1986, 3-game streakTennessee lost 5 road games in a row ........................................... Jan. 25, 2009-Feb. 26, 2009, 5-game streak
TOUGHEST PLACES TO PLAY1. Thompson-Boling Arena
Tennessee 341-20 (94.45%)
2. Gampel Arena Connecticut 268-17 (94.03%)3. XL Center Connecticut 117-11 (91.40%)4. Thomas Assembly Center Louisiana Tech 403-40 (90.97%)5. Dahlberg Arena Montana 449-57 (88.73%)
6. Jon M. Huntsman Utah 428-64 (86.99%)7. McGrath Arena DePaul 135-22 (84.98%) 8. Frank Erwin Center Texas 428-80 (84.25%)9. Comcast Center Maryland 125-26 (82.78%) 10. Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum Auburn 354-79 (81.75%)
2011-12 BESTS & WORSTS
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TENNESSEE VS. KENTUCKY FEB. 13, 2012
2011-12 LADY VOL HIGHS AND LOWS
INDIVIDUAL
Points ...................................................................27, Shekinna Stricklen vs. Stanford 12/20/11
Field Goals ...........................................................10, Shekinna Stricklen vs. Stanford 12/20/11
Field Goal Attempts .............................................. 22, Shekinna Stricklen vs. Baylor 11/27/11
Field Goal Percentage (min. 10 att.) .................................................................... 70.0 (7-10)
...............................................................................................Glory Johnson vs. Miami 11/15/11
3-Pt Field Goals ........................................................... 5, Shekinna Stricklen vs. Texas 12/4/11
3-Pt Field Goal Attempts ................................................10, Taber Spani at Virginia 11/20/11
3-Pt. Field Goal Percentage (min. 4 att.) .............................................................. 75.0 (3-4)
................................................................................ Shekinna Stricklen vs. Pepperdine 11/13/11
Free Throws ................................................................10, Glory Johnson vs. Stanford 12/20/11
Free Throw Attempts .................................................. 13, Glory Johnson at Virginia 11/20/11
TEAM STATISTICS UT OPPSCORING 1815 1463 Points per game 75.6 61.0 Scoring margin +14.7 -FIELD GOALS-ATT 656-1498 549-1475 Field goal pct . 4 3 8 . 3 7 23 POINT FG-ATT 133-379 113-427 3-point FG pct . 3 5 1 . 2 6 5 3-pt FG made per game 5.5 4.7FREE THROWS-ATT 370-533 252-365 Free throw pct . 6 9 4 . 6 9 0 F-Throws made per game 15.4 10.5REBOUNDS 1046 863 Rebounds per game 43.6 36.0 Rebounding margin +7.6 -ASSISTS 367 293 Assists per game 15.3 12.2TURNOVERS 369 402 Turnovers per game 15.4 16.8 Turnover margin +1.4 - Assist/turnover ratio 1.0 0.7STEALS 211 165 Steals per game 8.8 6.9BLOCKS 115 85 Blocks per game 4.8 3.5ATTENDANCE 169499 78901 Home games-Avg/Game 12-14125 11-6674 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 1-5486
Score by Periods 1st 2nd OT TotalsTENNESSEE 873 936 6 1815Opponents 698 754 11 1463
Date Opponent Score Att.11/13/11 PEPPERDINE W 89-57 1214711/15/11 #7/7 MIAMI W 92-76 1215111/20/11 at Virginia L o t 64-69 645011/27/11 #1/1 BAYLOR L 67-76 1662311/29/11 MIDDLE TENNESSEE W 82-43 1186112/04/11 #21/22 TEXAS W 73-57 13465
& 12/11/11 vs #20/21 DePaul W 84-61 548612/13/11 at #11/11 Rutgers W 67-61 636812/17/11 at UCLA W 85-64 202512/20/11 at #4/4 Stanford L 80-97 732912/28/11 OLD DOMINION W 90-37 15409
* 01/01/12 at Auburn W 73-52 426901/03/12 CHATTANOOGA W 90-47 11754
* 01/05/12 #16/15 GEORGIA W 80-51 13721* 01/08/12 at Arkansas W 69-38 5258* 01/12/12 at #9/8 KENTUCKY L 60-61 7961* 01/15/12 #25/24 VANDERBILT W 87-64 17879* 01/19/12 LOUISIANA STATE W 65-56 13107
01/23/12 at #2/2 Notre Dame L 44-72 9149* 01/26/12 at Alabama W 86-56 2049* 01/29/12 at #17/15 Georgia W 67-50 10523* 02/02/12 SOUTH CAROLINA L 60-64 15021* 02/05/12 AUBURN W 82-61 16361* 02/09/12 at #rv/25 Vanderbilt L 79-93 12034
* = Conference game& = Maggie Dixon Classic (New York, N.Y.)
2011-12 Lady Vol BasketballTENNESSEE Combined Team Statistics (as of Feb 12, 2012)
vs. Ranked Teams
RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRALALL GAMES 7-5 4-1 2-4 1-0CONFERENCE 3-2 2-0 1-2 0-0NON-CONFERENCE 4-3 2-1 1-2 1-0
Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds
## Player gp-gs min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg% ft-fta ft% off def tot avg pf dq a to blk stl pts avg
TEAM STATISTICS UT OPPSCORING 808 646 Points per game 73.5 58.7 Scoring margin +14.7 -FIELD GOALS-ATT 295-674 242-647 Field goal pct . 4 3 8 . 3 7 43 POINT FG-ATT 42-156 47-185 3-point FG pct . 2 6 9 . 2 5 4 3-pt FG made per game 3.8 4.3FREE THROWS-ATT 176-253 115-176 Free throw pct . 6 9 6 . 6 5 3 F-Throws made per game 16.0 10.5REBOUNDS 460 386 Rebounds per game 41.8 35.1 Rebounding margin +6.7 -ASSISTS 165 120 Assists per game 15.0 10.9TURNOVERS 163 191 Turnovers per game 14.8 17.4 Turnover margin +2.5 - Assist/turnover ratio 1.0 0.6STEALS 96 70 Steals per game 8.7 6.4BLOCKS 47 45 Blocks per game 4.3 4.1ATTENDANCE 76089 42094 Home games-Avg/Game 5-15218 6-7016 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 0-0
Score by Periods 1st 2nd TotalsTENNESSEE 366 442 808Opponents 316 330 646
Date Opponent Score Att.* 01/01/12 at Auburn W 73-52 4269* 01/05/12 #16/15 GEORGIA W 80-51 13721* 01/08/12 at Arkansas W 69-38 5258* 01/12/12 at #9/8 KENTUCKY L 60-61 7961* 01/15/12 #25/24 VANDERBILT W 87-64 17879* 01/19/12 LOUISIANA STATE W 65-56 13107* 01/26/12 at Alabama W 86-56 2049* 01/29/12 at #17/15 Georgia W 67-50 10523* 02/02/12 SOUTH CAROLINA L 60-64 15021* 02/05/12 AUBURN W 82-61 16361* 02/09/12 at #rv/25 Vanderbilt L 79-93 12034
* = Conference game& = Maggie Dixon Classic (New York, N.Y.)
2011-12 Lady Vol BasketballTENNESSEE Points-Rebounds-Assists (as of Feb 10, 2012)
All games
01 04 05 10 11 13 15
Opponent Date Score BASS,BRIAN WILLIAMS,K MASSENGALE SIMMONS,ME BURDICK,CI SPANI,TABE MANNING,AL
BY THE NUMBERS In SEC Play• Saw 11 minutes off the bench at Vanderbilt (2/9), contributing an assist• Came up with two steals in eleven minutes off the bench versus Auburn (2/5)• Earned her first start of the season and 15th in her career versus Alabama (1/26); scored eight points and snagged five steals in her longest appearance of the season (29 minutes)• Came off the bench to see nine minutes versus LSU (1/19), coming up with two defensive boards• Put up three points and recorded two boards versus Vanderbilt (1/15), seeing 12 minutes off the bench• Came off the bench to see five minutes at Kentucky (1/12)• Tallied two points and two rebounds in 18 minutes of action against Arkansas (1/8)• Came off the bench to see three minutes of action against #15/16 Georgia (1/5)
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Came up with a steal in four minutes of action in her home state of Indiana (at Notre Dame, 1/24)• Put up nine points on a 3-5 showing from beyond the arc in 17 minutes of action against Chattanooga (1/3)• Tallied nine points against Old Dominion (12/28) on 3-8 shooting, seeing a season-high 19 minutes • Came off the bench for the final minute of the UCLA game (12/17), making a trip to the free throw line and hitting one of two shots from the stripe• Saw eight minutes against DePaul (12/11), dishing out an assist and picking up a defensive board• Came off the bench to see two minutes of action against Texas (12/4)• Saw a season-high 16 minutes off the bench versus the Middle Tennessee (11/29), tallying four points
• Came up with two rebounds and three assists, also season highs, in the contest• Saw seven minutes of action against Virginia (11/20); went 0-1 from the floor (a three-point attempt) and committed two turnovers.• Scored 10 points off the bench against Pepperdine (11/13) where she was perfect from the floor (2-2 three point attempts) and perfect from the line (4-4 free throw attempts)
1BRIANA BASSSENIOR
5-2 /// GuardIndianapolis, Ind. (North Central H.S.)
In SEC Play• Saw 10 minutes off the bench at Vanderbilt (2/9), recording two points and a rebound• Tallied four points in 11 minutes of action versus Auburn (2/5) • Pulled down four rebounds in nine minutes versus South Carolina (2/2)• Came off the bench to see 20 minutes at Georgia (1/29), tallying six points and eight boards• Returned to the starting lineup at Alabama (1/26), shooting 80% (4-5) from the floor and pulling down six boards• Came up with a season and SEC high, tallying 14 rebounds versus LSU (1/19)• Put up 16 points on 7-10 shooting from the field against Vanderbilt (1/15), tying her SEC high• Led Tennessee in rebounding against Kentucky (1/12) with nine boards; put up an SEC-high mark of 16 points off the bench• Came off the bench against Arkansas (1/8) to put up perfect shooting numbers for the second-consecu-tive outing; went 3-3 from the floor and 2-2 from the stripe to go along with two blocks in the win• Went a perfect 2-2 from the floor and 4-4 from the line to tally eight points against Georgia (1/5); also pulled down 10 boards in the win• Saw 16 minutes off the bench against Auburn (1/1); had a poor shooting performance (0-5), but man-aged to pull down nine boards in the win
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Put up eight points and pulled down six boards at Notre Dame (1/24)• Tied a season best with two steals against Chatta-nooga (1/3), adding to her nine-point, nine-board night• Came off the bench to record a double-double
against Old Dominion (12/28), putting up 11 points and 12 rebounds in the win• Found herself in foul trouble again against #4 Stan-ford (12/20) and played only 16 minutes in the start• Contributed three rebounds, two points and a steal in her time on the floor• Put up her sixth career double-double (and third of 2011-12) against the UCLA (12/17) with 14 points and 12 boards -- a season high• Tied her season high totals for assists and blocks, coming up with three of each against # 11 Rutgers (12/13); contributed seven points, including a 4-5 performance from the charity stripe in the contest• Picked up two early fouls against# 20/21 DePaul (12/11) and went on to see only 12 minutes in the start• Contributed six points and a block in the effort, go-ing 1-1 from the floor and 4-5 from the line• Tied a season high with 17 points against #21/22 Texas (12/4), hitting a career-best eight field goals• Tacked on 11 rebounds to record her second dou-ble-double of 2011-12 • Earned her fourth start of the season against MTSU (11/29), but found herself in foul trouble with four fouls in eight minutes• Contributed two points and three boards in her lim-ited floor time• Posted first double-double since the 2008-09 sea-son with a career-high 17 points and 10 rebounds against #1 Baylor (11/27)• Knocked down first career three pointer against Baylor with 44 seconds left in the contest• Scored six points and pulled down 4 boards in the start against #7 Miami (11/16)• Saw 19 minutes of action and went 3-4 from the floor in the contest• Made the start against Pepperdine (11/13) after making only one start in all of 2010-11 (Vanderbilt)• Scored eight points and tallied seven rebounds in 19 minutes of action against the Waves• Contributed three blocks and three assists in the balanced performance
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#21 B A UGH, Vick i
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / * 19 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 4 3 7 7.0 4 3 2 3 2 8 8.0M IA M I 11/15 / * 19 3-4 . 7 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 3 4 5.5 3 3 3 0 0 6 7.0B A Y LO R 11/27 / * 32 6-11 . 5 4 1-1 1 .00 4-4 1 .00 3 7 10 7.0 2 3 1 1 1 17 10.3M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / * 8 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 2 1 3 6.0 4 0 4 0 0 2 8.3TE X A S 12/04 / * 35 8-10 . 8 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 5 6 11 7.0 0 2 2 0 1 17 10.0vs D eP au l 12 /11 / * 12 1-1 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 4-5 . 8 0 0 0 0 5.8 2 0 2 1 0 6 9.3a t R utgers 12 /13 / * 28 1-4 . 2 5 0-0 . 0 0 4-5 . 8 0 5 2 7 6.0 1 3 2 3 1 6 8.9a t U C LA 12/17 / * 26 6-9 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 1 11 12 6.8 1 2 3 0 1 14 9.5a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / * 16 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-4 . 5 0 2 1 3 6.3 4 0 1 1 1 2 8.7O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / 23 5-8 . 6 2 0-0 . 0 0 1-4 . 2 5 5 7 12 6.9 1 2 2 2 0 11 8.9a t A uburn 01-01- 16 0-5 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 4-4 1 .00 3 6 9 7.1 2 0 4 1 1 4 8.5C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / 19 3-4 . 7 5 0-0 . 0 0 3-4 . 7 5 3 6 9 7.3 3 1 2 2 2 9 8.5#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / 20 2-2 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 4-4 1 .00 2 8 10 7.5 2 0 2 0 0 8 8.5a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- 18 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 3 4 7.2 0 1 3 2 1 8 8.4a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / 29 7-8 . 8 7 0-0 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 7 2 9 7.3 4 0 1 1 1 16 8.9V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / 23 7-10 . 7 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 1 6 7 7.3 3 2 1 0 1 16 9.4LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / * 33 2-6 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2-6 . 3 3 6 8 14 7.7 3 3 3 1 1 6 9.2a t N otre D am e 01/23 / 26 4-9 . 4 4 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 4 2 6 7.6 3 1 3 2 0 8 9.1a t A labam a 01/26 / * 18 4-5 . 8 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 5 6 7.5 2 2 2 1 0 8 9.1a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / 20 2-4 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 7 8 7.6 3 0 3 1 0 6 8.9S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / 9 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 3 4 7.4 1 0 2 0 0 0 8.5A U B U R N 02/05 / 11 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 0 1 7.1 0 1 0 1 0 4 8.3a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / 10 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 0 1 1 6.8 1 2 1 0 1 2 8.0Tota ls 11 470 69-116 . 5 9 1-1 1 .00 45-62 . 7 2 59 98 157 6.8 49 31 49 23 15 184 8.0
G am es p layed: 23M inu tes/gam e: 20 .4P o in ts /gam e: 8 .0FG P ct: 59 .53FG P ct: 100 .0FT P ct: 72 .6
R ebounds/gam e: 6 .8A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .3Turnovers/gam e: 2 .1A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 0 .6S tea ls /gam e: 0 .7B locks/gam e: 1 .0
BAUGH’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS
In SEC Play• Led UT in rebounding at Vanderbilt (2/9), pull-ing down nine boards in 23 minutes; added seven points in the effort• Saw seven minutes off the bench against Auburn (2/5), scoring four points in the win• Put up four points in eight minutes in the start ver-sus South Carolina (2/2)• Started her second consecutive game at Georgia (1/29), putting up four points and six rebounds• Earned her first career start at Alabama (1/26); scored nine points and tied her career high minutes with 31• Saw career-high minutes versus LSU (31 min, 1/19), tying her career best with 15 points on 5-10 shoot-ing• Went 3-3 from the floor, putting up six points in the win over Vanderbilt (1/15), trying her SEC high in four minutes off the bench• Came up with a rebound and a block in five min-utes against Kentucky (1/12)• Saw nine minutes off the bench against Arkansas (1/8); set a personal SEC-best mark with six points • Recorded three points and two rebounds against Georgia (1/5)• Came off the bench to see 13 minutes of action against Auburn (1/1); scored two points, pulled down two boards and recorded a steal for UT
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Tallied four points and five rebounds in 18 minutes at Notre Dame (1/24); also recorded two steals• Put up eight points in 19 minutes against Chatta-nooga (1/3), pulling down three boards on the night• Came off the bench against Old Dominion (12/28) to tie a UT season high with nine helpers; added five
boards, a block and her first career steal in the win• Saw eight minutes of action against #4 Stanford (12/20), hitting two free throws for the Lady Vols• Played 11 minutes against UCLA (12/17), contribut-ing four points on 2-4 shooting in the contest. • Came in off the bench to see nine minutes of ac-tion against Rutgers (12/13) where she came up with a defensive rebound and a block in the win• Saw 24 minutes off the bench against #20/21 De-Paul (12/11), scoring a career-high 15 points with three steals and two rebounds on the day• Came off the bench to see 11 minutes of action against #21/22 Texas, where she pulled down three defensive boards and dished out a career-high three assists in the win• Saw a career-high 26 minutes of action off the bench versus Middle Tennessee (11/29); collected her first career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, going 5-6 from the floor in the contest• Against Virginia, (11/20), recorded a defensive re-bound and dished out an assist in 10 minutes of ac-tion off the bench• Saw first action as a Lady Vol against Pepperdine (11/13), clocking 16 minutes; scored seven points and tallied seven rebounds in 16 minutes of action against the Waves
Awards & Honors• Her USA U-19 team was named USA Basketball’s team of the year after bringing home the gold from Chile this summer
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#11 B URDICK , C ierra
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / 16 2-3 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 3-5 . 6 0 0 1 1 1.0 3 2 4 2 0 7 7.0M IA M I 11/15 / 2 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / 10 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 0.7 1 1 1 0 0 0 2.3B A Y LO R 11/27 / 3 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.8M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / 26 5-6 . 8 3 1-1 1 .00 3-4 . 7 5 2 8 10 2.4 2 0 2 3 0 14 4.2TE X A S 12/04 / 11 0-6 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 3 3 2.5 2 3 0 0 0 0 3.5vs D eP au l 12 /11 / 24 4-6 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 7-10 . 7 0 0 2 2 2.4 2 0 1 0 3 15 5.1a t R utgers 12 /13 / 9 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4.5a t U C LA 12/17 / 11 2-4 . 5 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 1 0 2 0 0 4 4.4a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / 8 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 0 0 0 1.8 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.2O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / 24 2-4 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 3 5 2.1 3 9 3 1 1 4 4.2a t A uburn 01-01- 13 0-3 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 1 2 2.1 2 0 0 0 1 2 4.0C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / 19 4-9 . 4 4 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 1 3 2.2 1 2 1 1 0 8 4.3#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / 9 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 2 0 2 2.1 0 0 2 0 0 3 4.2a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- 9 3-5 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 2 2 2.1 2 1 1 1 0 6 4.3a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / 5 0-3 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 2.1 1 0 1 1 0 0 4.1V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / 4 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 0 0 6 4.2LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / 31 5-10 . 5 0 1-1 1 .00 4-6 . 6 6 3 3 6 2.2 3 1 2 1 1 15 4.8a t N otre D am e 01/23 / 18 2-6 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 3 5 2.3 3 2 1 0 2 4 4.7a t A labam a 01/26 / * 31 3-10 . 3 0 0-2 . 0 0 3-5 . 6 0 0 3 3 2.4 0 2 1 0 0 9 5.0a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / * 14 2-4 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 5 6 2.5 3 1 3 1 0 4 4.9S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / * 8 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 0 1 2.5 0 0 0 1 0 4 4.9A U B U R N 02/05 / 7 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 0 0 0 2.3 3 0 1 0 0 4 4.8a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / 23 3-7 . 4 2 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 7 9 2.6 1 2 2 2 0 7 4.9Tota ls 3 335 43-100 . 4 3 3-10 . 3 0 29-40 . 7 2 19 44 63 2.6 34 26 28 15 8 118 4.9
G am es p layed: 24M inu tes/gam e: 14 .0P o in ts /gam e: 4 .9FG P ct: 43 .03FG P ct: 30 .0FT P ct: 72 .5
R ebounds/gam e: 2 .6A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .1Turnovers/gam e: 1 .2A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 0 .9S tea ls /gam e: 0 .3B locks/gam e: 0 .6
BURDICK’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS
In SEC Play• Came up with five points, four rebounds and a block in eight minutes off the bench against Auburn (2/5); called the catalyst in the win by Summitt• Recorded a rebound and a steal in two minutes at Georgia (1/29)• Came off the bench to see 19 minutes at Alabama (1/26), recording 10 points and six rebounds in the win• Recorded a bucket, a rebound and a steal in four minutes against LSU (1/19)• Saw four minutes off the bench against Vanderbilt (1/15), hitting her only shot attempted from the floor• Pulled down three rebounds in five minutes against Kentucky (1/12)• Came off the bench against Arkansas (1/8), seeing 13 minutes; put up two points and three rebounds• Saw seven minutes against Georgia (1/5), scoring four points with one rebound• Recorded five minutes against Auburn (1/1), put-ting up two points and pulling down two rebounds in the win.
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Knocked down two free throws and put up a block in nine minutes at Notre Dame (1/24)• Came off the bench against Chattanooga (1/3) to have a career night with 13 points against the Lady Mocs; tied her career best with five field goals• Recorded a career-high 10 points against ODU (12/28) on a career-best five field goals in 14 min-utes• Came up with a rebound in three minutes off the bench against #4 Stanford (12/20)• Saw four minutes of action against UCLA (12/17), coming up with a block and a steal in the win
• Saw two minutes against#11 Rutgers (12/13); came up with an offensive rebound in her time on the floor• Came in off the bench to see 11 minutes of action against #20/21 DePaul (12/11); finished with six points, two boards and a block for the Lady Vols in the win• Saw 14 minutes of action off the bench against #21/22 Texas (12/4), contributing four rebounds in the contest; tacked on two blocks in the game• Tied a career high with 19 minutes of action against Middle Tennessee (11/29); tallied career highs in both points and rebounds with seven and nine re-spectively• Came off the bench to collect seven rebounds in 16 minutes of action against the Lady Bears• Tacked on her first career assist in the effort• Saw 19 minutes of action off the bench versus Vir-ginia (11/20), pulling down seven boards• Went 2-4 from the floor and 2-5 from the line, chip-ping in six total points and added two blocks• Came off the bench against #7 Miami (11/15) and was attributed with sparking the Lady Vols’ pull away from the Hurricanes; scored four points and pulled down two boards and a block in nine minutes• Saw first action as a Lady Vol against Pepperdine (11/13), clocking 13 minutes off the bench• Pulled down eight boards in the winning effort, seven of them off the defensive glass; scored five points for UT, making five of six shots from the char-ity stripe
Of Note• Started attending classes at UT in June which enabled her to play in the Pilot Rocky Top League, where she got summer experience playing with and against former and current Lady Vols• She also benefitted from a summer’s worth of work with strength and conditioning coach Heather Ma-son
In SEC Play• Put up 19 points and four rebounds in the start at Vanderbilt (2/9)• Recorded a double-double in the win over Auburn (2/5) with 13 points and 11 boards in 35 minutes• Led UT in scoring versus South Carolina (2/2) with 13 points; also tallied nine rebounds in the loss• Recorded eight rebounds to go along with five points at Georgia (1/29)• Played 15 minutes in the start at Alabama (1/26), scoring 13 points and a team-high eight rebounds• Scored 10 points and pulled down six rebounds against LSU (1/19), collecting two blocks in 24 min-utes• Recorded her sixth double-double in seven games, tallying 16 points and 13 rebounds versus Vandy (1/15)• Led UT in scoring with 17 points against Kentucky (1/12); added seven rebounds in the effort• Became the fourth member of the 1,000 point/1,000 rebound club with her fifth consecutive double-dou-ble (15 points, 14 rebounds) against Arkansas (1/8)• Put up her fourth-consecutive double-double against Georgia (1/5) with a season-high 22 points and 13 reb• Against Auburn (1/1), used a 5-9 shooting effort to record her second-consecutive double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds in the win• Named SEC Player of the Week for her performanc-es against Old Dominion and Auburn
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Tallied nine points and nine boards in the start at Notre Dame (1/24); added two steals in the effort.• Eclipsed the 1,300-point mark with 10 points, 13 rebounds against Chattanooga (1/3); recorded third-consecutive double-double against the Lady Mocs
• Led UT in scoring against Old Dominion (12/28) with 16 points on a 6-12 effort from the floor; put up a double-double with 11 boards on the night• Put up a season-high 18 points against #4 Stanford (12/20) on 4-5 shooting and a season-best 10 free throws; also contributed six rebounds, two steals and two blocks against the Cardinal• Tallied 17 points in 38 minutes at UCLA (12/17), ty-ing a season high with seven made field goals (7-9); came up with her second block of the season in the win• Scored nine points against #11 Rutgers (12/13), ty-ing her season best with five free throws (5-6); con-tributed six rebounds -- three offensive and three defensive • Led Tennessee in scoring versus #20/21 DePaul (12/11), dropping 16 points on the Blue Demons on 6-13 shooting; pulled down nine rebounds and came up with two steals in the contest• Put up the 25th double-double of her career against #21/22 Texas, contributing 11 points and 10 boards • Righted the ship from the free throw line, hitting 5-6• Recorded nine points and as many rebounds in 25 minutes against Middle Tennessee (11/29), tacking on a season-high three steals; recovered from free throw woes to go 5-6 (.833) from the charity stripe in the win• Against #1 Baylor (11/27), fell a point shy of her sec-ond double-double of the season, recording nine points and 11 boards against the Lady Bears; added two assists, two blocks and a steal in the performance• Went 5-6 from the floor against Virginia (11/20), contributing 15 total points; added six rebounds, three assists and a block in the losing effort• Against #7 Miami (11/15), fell one rebound shy of her second-consecutive double-double, putting up 16 points and nine boards in the contest; went 7-10 from the floor and tacked on two steals and a block • Recorded her 24th career double-double against Pepperdine (11/13), dropping 17 points and 13 boards in the contest ; was named Player of the Game four her double-digit dazzle.
Awards & Honors• Tabbed SEC Player of the Week consecutive weeks: Jan. 2 and Jan. 9• Named to the 2011-12 Preseason All-Southeastern Conference First Team• Recognized as one of 30 nominees for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.• Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List and was named to the 20-member mid-season list
25GLORY JOHNSONSENIOR
6-3 /// ForwardKnoxville, Tenn. (The Webb School)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#25 JOHNSON, G lo ry
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / * 27 7-11 . 6 3 0-0 . 0 0 3-3 1 .00 5 8 13 13.0 3 0 2 0 0 17 17.0M IA M I 11/15 / * 27 7-10 . 7 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-5 . 4 0 5 4 9 11.0 4 0 0 1 2 16 16.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / * 39 5-6 . 8 3 0-0 . 0 0 5-13 . 3 8 4 2 6 9.3 4 3 1 2 1 15 16.0B A Y LO R 11/27 / * 28 3-8 . 3 7 0-0 . 0 0 3-4 . 7 5 5 6 11 9.8 3 2 2 2 1 9 14.3M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / * 25 2-3 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 5-6 . 8 3 3 6 9 9.6 2 2 2 1 3 9 13.2TE X A S 12/04 / * 27 3-9 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 5-6 . 8 3 2 8 10 9.7 3 1 3 0 0 11 12.8vs D eP au l 12 /11 / * 29 6-13 . 4 6 0-0 . 0 0 4-5 . 8 0 6 3 9 9.6 2 0 3 0 2 16 13.3a t R utgers 12 /13 / * 27 2-4 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 5-6 . 8 3 3 3 6 9.1 4 1 5 0 0 9 12.8a t U C LA 12/17 / * 38 7-9 . 7 7 0-0 . 0 0 3-5 . 6 0 1 4 5 8.7 2 2 0 1 1 17 13.2a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / * 33 4-5 . 8 0 0-0 . 0 0 10-12 . 8 3 1 5 6 8.4 3 0 3 2 2 18 13.7O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / * 26 6-12 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 4-5 . 8 0 5 6 11 8.6 0 1 2 1 0 16 13.9a t A uburn 01-01- * 32 5-9 . 5 5 0-0 . 0 0 4-5 . 8 0 6 7 13 9.0 3 2 4 0 3 14 13.9C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / * 20 4-8 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 5 8 13 9.3 0 2 1 2 3 10 13.6#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / * 32 8-11 . 7 2 0-0 . 0 0 6-11 . 5 4 4 9 13 9.6 1 0 2 1 2 22 14.2a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- * 30 6-9 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 3-6 . 5 0 6 8 14 9.9 2 1 3 2 3 15 14.3a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / * 29 7-14 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 3-7 . 4 2 2 5 7 9.7 2 0 4 2 2 17 14.4V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / * 33 6-10 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 4-8 . 5 0 5 8 13 9.9 2 2 3 0 5 16 14.5LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / * 24 3-6 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 4-8 . 5 0 1 5 6 9.7 2 1 0 2 3 10 14.3a t N otre D am e 01/23 / * 28 3-12 . 2 5 0-0 . 0 0 3-10 . 3 0 3 6 9 9.6 1 1 4 1 2 9 14.0a t A labam a 01/26 / * 15 6-10 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 4 4 8 9.6 2 1 1 0 1 13 14.0a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / * 21 2-2 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 2 6 8 9.5 4 3 2 3 2 5 13.5S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / * 26 6-11 . 5 4 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 2 7 9 9.5 5 0 2 3 0 13 13.5A U B U R N 02/05 / * 35 6-7 . 8 5 0-0 . 0 0 2-6 . 3 3 1 10 11 9.5 1 3 0 4 1 14 13.5a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / * 29 8-12 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 3-4 . 7 5 2 2 4 9.3 5 1 6 3 0 19 13.8Tota ls 24 680 122-211 . 5 7 0-0 . 0 0 86-141 . 6 1 83 140 223 9.3 60 29 55 33 39 330 13.8
G am es p layed: 24M inu tes/gam e: 28 .3P o in ts /gam e: 13 .8FG P ct: 57 .8FT P ct: 61 .0
R ebounds/gam e: 9 .3A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .2Turnovers/gam e: 2 .3A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 0 .5S tea ls /gam e: 1 .6B locks/gam e: 1 .4
JOHNSON’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS
BY THE NUMBERS
2011-12 SEASON HIGHSPoints 12 DePaul, 12/11/11Rebounds 15 Old Dominion, 12/28/11Assists 5 Old Dominion, 12/28/11Steals 6 Old Dominion, 12/28/11Blocks 1 MTSU, 11/29/11 Field Goals 6 DePaul, 12/11/113-Pointers 0 Free Throws 1 Old Dominion, 12/28/11*Minutes 32 DePaul, 12/11/11
CAREER HIGHSPoints 22 South Carolina, 2/17/11Rebounds 15 Old Dominion, 12/28/11Assists 7 Dayton, 3/22/10Steals 6 Old Dominion, 12/28/11Blocks 2 San Francisco, 11/15/08Field Goals 8 South Carolina, 2/17/113-Pointers 3 South Carolina, 2/17/11*Free Throws 9 Alabama, 1/6/11Minutes 34 Dayton, 3/22/10*
SEC HIGHSPoints 22 South Carolina, 2/17/11Rebounds 14 Ole Miss, 3/5/10Assists 6 Florida, 2/14/10Steals 3 LSU, 2/27/11*Blocks 1 South Carolina, 2/17/11*Field Goals 8 South Carolina, 2/17/113-Pointers 3 South Carolina, 2/17/11*Free Throws 9 Alabama, 1/6/11Minutes 34 Ole Miss 2/11/10** indicates most recent occurrence
In SEC Play• Saw 12 minutes off the bench at Vanderbilt (2/9), putting up two points and three boards• Returned to the starting lineup against Auburn (2/5), putting up four points in 11 minutes • Came up with seven rebounds in ten minutes off the bench versus South Carolina (2/2)• Came off the bench at Alabama (1/26) to play 13 minutes; scored four points and pulled down five boards• Put up rounded numbers against LSU (1/19), con-tributing with points (5), rebounds (6) and assists (2) • Contributed three points and a rebound in the start against Kentucky (1/12) • Came up with three points, five rebounds and three assists against Arkansas (1/8)• Came up with five rebounds in the start against Georgia (1/5)• Racked up 10 points and five boards in the start against Auburn (1/1); also dished out three assists and came up with two steals in the winning effort
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Saw 12 minutes in the start against Notre Dame, picking up two rebounds (1/24)• Scored six points and pulled down five boards against Chattanooga (1/3)• Made her first start of 2011-12 against ODU (12/28), setting a career mark in rebounds with 15; fell one point shy of the double-double and dished out five assists in the rounded effort• Came off the bench to see 27 minutes against #4 Stanford (12/20), tying a season high, dishing out two assists; also contributed nine points and four rebounds against the Cardinal• Went a perfect 3-3 from the floor against UCLA
(12/17) and doubled her previous season high with four assists in the win• Came off the bench to play 23 minutes against #11 Rutgers (12/13); went to the glass, pulling down three offensive and three defensive boards.• Was named AutoZone Player of the Game against #20/21 DePaul (12/11) for her 12 point, 12 rebound performance off the bench -- both totals were sea-son highs; also came up with a season high four steals and dished out two assists in 32 minutes on the floor• Against Middle Tennessee (11/29), scored a season-high seven points and came up with five rebounds, seeing 23 minutes; also set a season high, coming up with three steals in the contest• Made the most of ten minutes of action against Virginia (11/20), contributing three boards, an assist and a steal• Grabbed six rebounds in 19 minutes against Pep-perdine (11/13): two offensive and four defensive
15ALICIA MANNINGSENIOR
6-1 /// ForwardWoodstock, Ga. (Etowah H.S.)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#13 SPA NI, Taber
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / * 27 4-11 . 3 6 3-5 . 6 0 0-1 . 0 0 1 3 4 4.0 0 5 3 2 2 11 11.0M IA M I 11/15 / * 39 7-14 . 5 0 4-8 . 5 0 2-3 . 6 6 1 4 5 4.5 1 3 2 0 1 20 15.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / * 42 8-17 . 4 7 4-10 . 4 0 2-2 1 .00 1 2 3 4.0 2 0 2 1 0 22 17.7B A Y LO R 11/27 / * 31 4-12 . 3 3 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 . 0 0 0 2 2 3.5 3 0 1 0 0 10 15.8M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / * 18 2-4 . 5 0 2-3 . 6 6 2-2 1 .00 0 4 4 3.6 1 2 2 0 1 8 14.2TE X A S 12/04 / * 26 1-4 . 2 5 1-2 . 5 0 1-2 . 5 0 3 2 5 3.8 1 1 1 1 0 4 12.5vs D eP au l 12 /11 / * 30 4-9 . 4 4 0-3 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 3 4 3.9 0 1 3 0 0 8 11.9a t R utgers 12 /13 / * 31 5-12 . 4 1 3-5 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 2 5 4.0 2 3 1 0 0 13 12.0a t U C LA 12/17 / * 29 5-7 . 7 1 4-6 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 1 4 3 0 0 14 12.2a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / * 25 3-6 . 5 0 1-3 . 3 3 2-2 1 .00 2 3 5 3.7 1 2 2 0 0 9 11.9a t N otre D am e 01/23 / 9 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 2 2 3.5 0 1 1 0 0 0 10.8a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / 21 1-5 . 2 0 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 3.3 1 2 1 1 1 3 10.2S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / 31 3-9 . 3 3 1-1 1 .00 1-3 . 3 3 2 2 4 3.4 1 1 3 0 0 8 10.0A U B U R N 02/05 / 21 3-7 . 4 2 1-3 . 3 3 2-2 1 .00 0 2 2 3.3 1 0 0 0 1 9 9.9a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / * 17 1-4 . 2 5 0-2 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 2 3 3.3 1 0 1 0 0 4 9.5Tota ls 11 397 51-123 . 4 1 27-58 . 4 6 14-20 . 7 0 15 34 49 3.3 16 25 26 5 6 143 9.5
G am es p layed: 15M inu tes/gam e: 26 .5P o in ts /gam e: 9 .5FG P ct: 41 .53FG P ct: 46 .6FT P ct: 70 .0
R ebounds/gam e: 3 .3A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .7Turnovers/gam e: 1 .7A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 1 .0S tea ls /gam e: 0 .4B locks/gam e: 0 .3
#15 MA NNING, A lic ia
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / 19 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 2 4 6 6.0 1 2 3 0 1 3 3.0M IA M I 11/15 / 7 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / 10 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 3 3 3.0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1.7B A Y LO R 11/27 / 4 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.5 1 1 0 0 1 0 1.3M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / 23 3-8 . 3 7 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 2 3 5 3.0 2 1 2 1 3 7 2.4TE X A S 12/04 / 3 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 2.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.0vs D eP au l 12 /11 / 32 6-12 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 3 9 12 3.9 4 2 2 0 4 12 3.4a t R utgers 12 /13 / 23 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 3 3 6 4.1 2 1 1 0 1 4 3.5a t U C LA 12/17 / 19 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 3 3 4.0 0 4 1 0 1 6 3.8a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / 27 4-9 . 4 4 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2 2 4 4.0 1 2 0 0 1 9 4.3O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / * 29 4-10 . 4 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 7 8 15 5.0 0 5 0 0 6 9 4.7a t A uburn 01-01- * 25 3-6 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 4-4 1 .00 3 2 5 5.0 2 3 1 0 2 10 5.2C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / * 21 2-5 . 4 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 1 4 5 5.0 1 1 2 0 1 6 5.2#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / * 20 0-4 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 3 5 5.0 0 1 2 0 0 0 4.9a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- * 22 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 1 4 5 5.0 2 3 1 0 0 3 4.7a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / * 19 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 1 0 1 4.8 1 0 2 0 0 3 4.6V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / * 19 3-5 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-5 . 4 0 2 3 5 4.8 2 2 1 0 1 8 4.8LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / * 28 2-4 . 5 0 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 3 6 4.8 0 2 1 0 1 5 4.8a t N otre D am e 01/23 / * 12 0-3 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 1 2 4.7 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.6a t A labam a 01/26 / 13 1-4 . 2 5 0-1 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 2 3 5 4.7 4 0 1 0 1 4 4.6a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 4.5 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.3S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / 10 2-3 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 6 7 4.6 1 1 0 0 0 4 4.3A U B U R N 02/05 / * 11 2-6 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 1 3 4.5 0 1 1 0 0 4 4.3a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / 12 2-4 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 2 3 4.5 1 1 1 0 2 4 4.3Tota ls 10 413 42-101 . 4 1 2-6 . 3 3 17-25 . 6 8 39 68 107 4.5 30 34 22 1 28 103 4.3
G am es p layed: 24M inu tes/gam e: 17 .2P o in ts /gam e: 4 .3FG P ct: 41 .63FG P ct: 33 .3FT P ct: 68 .0
R ebounds/gam e: 4 .5A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .4Turnovers/gam e: 0 .9A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 1 .5S tea ls /gam e: 1 .2B locks/gam e: 0 .0
MANNING’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS
In SEC Play• Dished out seven assists in the loss at Vanderbilt (2/9)• Put up double-digit scoring in her third consecu-tive game with 14 points against Auburn (2/5); pulled down five boards -- a career high• Had 12 points and three assists, playing all 40 min-utes in the start versus South Carolina (2/2)• Used a 4-6 shooting effort to tally 16 points at Geor-gia (1/29), with three assists and a steal• Dished out 11 assists at Alabama (1/26), one shy of her career high set vs. Vanderbilt• Contributed eight points, two rebounds and three assists in the win over LSU (1/19)• Tallied six points, four rebounds and five assists in the loss at Kentucky (1/12)• Against Arkansas (1/8), scored seven points and dished out five assists in 29 minutes• Fell one assist shy of a double-double against Geor-gia (1/5), tying career marks for points and assists with 19 and nine respectively• Made her first SEC start against Auburn (1/1) where she tallied four points and tied a career high with four boards to go along with two assists and a steal in the win
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Contributed three points and four assists in the start at Notre Dame (1/24)• Shot a perfect 6-6 from the floor (4-4 from three) to collect a career-high 19 points against Chattanooga (1/3); added two assists and two steals in the win• Rode 3-3 shooting from behind the arc to an 11-point performance against ODU (12/28), dishing out five assists and coming up with four steals• Returned from injury against #4 Stanford (12/20) to see 11 minutes of second-half action against the Car-dinal; came up with a rebound and an assist• Broke into double-digit scoring versus #21/22 Texas
(12/4), tallying 10 points on a 4-10 performance from the field (2-3 from three); also dished out five helpers and came up with two steals in the winning effort• Went 6-9 from the floor against MTSU (11/29), con-tributing a career-high 14 points in the win ; dished out five helpers and snagged two steals on the night without committing a turnover• Had four points against #1 Baylor (11/29) in 31 min-utes against the Lady Bears; dished out four assists and came up with a defensive board in the contest• Came up with seven helpers and kicked in four steals in 34 minutes of action against Virginia (11/20); scored two points and added four boards in the contest• Against #7 Miami (11/15), fell one assist shy of her first career double-double, putting up 11 points and nine assists against the Hurricanes; her nine rebounds place her tied for second on the freshman single game assist list• With the start against Pepperdine (11/13), became only the 14th freshman to start her first game as a Lady Vol after being named starting point guard by head coach Pat Summitt when she was still in high school in March• Dished out five assists and tacked on three rebounds in 20 minutes versus the Waves
Honors• Her USA U-19 team was named USA Basketball’s team of the year after bringing home the gold from Chile this summer• Was named SEC Freshman of the Week Dec. 5 and was named Co-Freshman of the Week Jan. 16.
5ARIEL MASSENGALEFRESHMAN
5-6 /// Point GuardBolingbrook, Ill. (Bolingbrook H.S.)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#04 W ILL IA MS, K am iko
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgC H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / 16 1-2 . 5 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 0 3 3.0 1 4 1 0 2 2 2.0#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / 9 0-5 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 2 0 2 2.5 0 2 0 0 1 2 2.0a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- 7 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.0 1 1 4 0 0 0 1.3a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / 17 2-8 . 2 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 0 3 2.3 2 1 1 1 2 4 2.0V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 2.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.6LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / 2 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.3a t N otre D am e 01/23 / 3 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.1a t A labam a 01/26 / 19 4-7 . 5 7 0-1 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 0 1 1 1.4 0 5 0 0 1 10 2.3S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / 17 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 1 1 2 1.4 0 0 0 1 0 7 2.8A U B U R N 02/05 / 18 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 1.4 2 2 1 0 0 4 2.9a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / 6 1-3 . 3 3 0-1 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 1 0 1 1.4 0 1 0 0 0 3 2.9Tota ls 0 119 13-34 . 3 8 0-4 . 0 0 6-7 . 8 5 12 3 15 1.4 7 16 10 2 6 32 2.9
G am es p layed: 11M inu tes/gam e: 10 .8P o in ts /gam e: 2 .9FG P ct: 38 .23FG P ct: 0 .0FT P ct: 85 .7
R ebounds/gam e: 1 .4A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .5Turnovers/gam e: 0 .9A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 1 .6S tea ls /gam e: 0 .5B locks/gam e: 0 .2
#05 MA SSENGA LE, A r iel
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / * 20 1-3 . 3 3 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 3 3 3.0 2 5 1 0 2 2 2.0M IA M I 11/15 / * 31 3-11 . 2 7 2-4 . 5 0 3-3 1 .00 1 3 4 3.5 3 9 5 0 1 11 6.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / * 34 1-6 . 1 6 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 3 4 3.7 5 7 7 0 4 2 5.0B A Y LO R 11/27 / * 31 1-10 . 1 0 1-6 . 1 6 1-2 . 5 0 0 1 1 3.0 4 4 1 0 0 4 4.8M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / * 23 6-9 . 6 6 1-3 . 3 3 1-1 1 .00 2 2 4 3.2 0 5 0 0 2 14 6.6TE X A S 12/04 / * 27 4-10 . 4 0 2-3 . 6 6 0-2 . 0 0 0 3 3 3.2 2 5 1 0 2 10 7.2a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / 11 0-1 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 2.9 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.1O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / * 21 4-6 . 6 6 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.6 1 5 0 0 4 11 6.8a t A uburn 01-01- * 36 1-5 . 2 0 0-1 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 1 3 4 2.8 3 2 2 0 1 4 6.4C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / * 23 6-6 1 .00 4-4 1 .00 3-5 . 6 0 0 1 1 2.6 1 2 4 0 2 19 7.7#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / * 35 8-12 . 6 6 2-3 . 6 6 1-1 1 .00 2 1 3 2.6 1 9 1 0 0 19 8.7a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- * 29 3-8 . 3 7 1-2 . 5 0 0-2 . 0 0 1 1 2 2.6 2 5 0 0 1 7 8.6a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / * 36 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 0 4 4 2.7 1 5 3 0 1 6 8.4V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / * 35 3-10 . 3 0 0-4 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 0 2 2.6 1 12 3 0 2 6 8.2LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / * 31 2-11 . 1 8 0-6 . 0 0 4-4 1 .00 0 2 2 2.6 3 3 3 0 3 8 8.2a t N otre D am e 01/23 / * 35 1-3 . 3 3 1-2 . 5 0 0-1 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.5 2 4 2 0 2 3 7.9a t A labam a 01/26 / * 28 0-4 . 0 0 0-3 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 0 2 2 2.5 2 11 1 0 2 1 7.5a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / * 35 4-6 . 6 6 2-2 1 .00 6-8 . 7 5 0 4 4 2.6 1 3 3 0 1 16 7.9S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / * 40 4-14 . 2 8 0-4 . 0 0 4-4 1 .00 0 3 3 2.6 1 3 4 0 0 12 8.2A U B U R N 02/05 / * 29 6-11 . 5 4 1-1 1 .00 1-2 . 5 0 1 4 5 2.7 2 4 3 0 4 14 8.5a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / * 27 0-2 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 0 2 2 2.7 4 7 2 0 1 2 8.1Tota ls 20 617 60-153 . 3 9 20-57 . 3 5 31-45 . 6 8 12 44 56 2.7 42 11 46 0 35 171 8.1
G am es p layed: 21M inu tes/gam e: 29 .4P o in ts /gam e: 8 .1FG P ct: 39 .23FG P ct: 35 .1FT P ct: 68 .9
R ebounds/gam e: 2 .7A ssis ts /gam e: 5 .3Turnovers/gam e: 2 .2A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 2 .4S tea ls /gam e: 1 .7
SEC HIGHSPoints 20 Auburn, 1/1/12Rebounds 5 South Carolina, 2/17/11*Assists 11 Alabama, 1/6/11Steals 3 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12Blocks 1 Vanderbilt, 2/13/11* Field Goals 8 Ole Miss, 1/9/113-Pointers 4 Vanderbilt, 1/15/11*Free Throws 7 Auburn, 1/1/12Minutes 38 LSU, 1/18/12*indicates most recent occurrence
In SEC Play• Tied a season high with 20 points at Vanderbilt (2/9) on 5-11 shooting• Put up 13 points in the start against Auburn (2/5), playing 22 minutes for UT• Tallied four points in the loss to South Carolina (2/2)• Went 3-8 from the floor against Georgia (1/29), put-ting together nine points in the win• Used a 3-8 shooting effort to tally nine points off the bench at Alabama (1/26)• Led UT in scoring with 19 points on 6-16 shooting against LSU (1/19)• Recorded 10 points and three steals in the win over Vanderbilt (1/15)• Recorded three points and two boards in 24 minutes with the start at Kentucky (1/12) • Scored seven points and added a helper in the start against Arkansas (1/8)• Put up 10 points on a 3-11 shooting performance against Georgia (1/5)• Led UT in scoring against Auburn (1/1) with 20 points -- a season and SEC high mark; was named AutoZone Player of the Game for her performance in the win
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Led UT in scoring for the second-consecutive game at Notre Dame, tallying 13 points (1/24)• Against Chattanooga (1/3), recorded 10 points and two boards; tied a career high with two blocks in the win over the Lady Mocs• Put up 12 points on 5-13 shooting in the start against Old Dominion (12/28)• Against #4 Stanford (12/20), tallied13 points on 5-12 shooting in the start; also contributed a season-high four assists and two boards in the effort• Led UT in scoring versus UCLA (12.17), tying her sea-son high with 18 points on 8-14 scoring in the win
• Dished out three assists in addition to a block and a steal against the Bruins• Tied a season high with three treys against No. 11 Rutgers (12/13) en route to a 13-point performance; pulled down a season-high six rebounds (five defen-sive), playing all 40 minutes in the win• Got her first starting nod of 2011-12 against #20/21 DePaul (12/11), replacing the injured Massengale; went 4-7 from the floor, totaling nine points while contributing two assists and three boards• Tied a season high against #21/22 Texas (12/4), hit-ting three shots from behind the arc en route to a 10-point performance against the Longhorns; dished out an assist and came up with two steals • Went 0-7 from the floor in 21 minutes of action against Middle Tennessee (11/29), but contributed five points from the free throw line in the contest; came up with a pair of assists and a pair of steals• Came off the bench to see 16 minutes of action against #1 Baylor (11/27); went 1-12 from the floor, but picked up three boards, three assists and two steals in the contest• Came off the bench to see 21 minutes of action ver-sus Virginia (11/20), where she knocked down a three-pointer and added a rebound and a block in her time on the floor• Clocked 36 minutes off the bench against #7 Miami (11/15); went 3-5 from behind the arc and tallied a to-tal of 18 points with in four rebounds and three assists• Broke into double digit scoring with 13 points against Pepperdine (11/13); tacked on three rebounds and an assist in 20 minutes off the bench
Preseason Accolades• Named to the 2011-12 Preseason All-SEC First Team• Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List
10MEIGHAN SIMMONSSOPHOMORE
5-9 /// GuardCibolo, Texas (Byron P. Steele II H.S.)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#10 SIMMONS, Meighan
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / 20 4-9 . 4 4 2-4 . 5 0 3-4 . 7 5 0 3 3 3.0 3 1 2 1 0 13 13.0M IA M I 11/15 / 36 5-11 . 4 5 3-5 . 6 0 5-6 . 8 3 0 4 4 3.5 0 3 2 0 1 18 15.5a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / * 21 1-7 . 1 4 1-5 . 2 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.7 2 0 4 1 0 3 11.3B A Y LO R 11/27 / 16 1-12 . 0 8 0-3 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 1 3 2.8 1 3 1 0 2 2 9.0M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / 21 0-7 . 0 0 0-2 . 0 0 5-7 . 7 1 0 1 1 2.4 1 2 2 0 2 5 8.2TE X A S 12/04 / 18 3-11 . 2 7 3-7 . 4 2 1-2 . 5 0 0 1 1 2.2 1 1 0 1 2 10 8.5vs D eP au l 12 /11 / * 20 4-7 . 5 7 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 1 2 3 2.3 2 2 4 0 2 9 8.6a t R utgers 12 /13 / * 40 4-12 . 3 3 3-8 . 3 7 2-6 . 3 3 1 5 6 2.8 2 1 3 1 0 13 9.1a t U C LA 12/17 / * 39 8-14 . 5 7 2-5 . 4 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 4 4 2.9 0 3 3 1 1 18 10.1a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / * 37 5-12 . 4 1 1-5 . 2 0 2-3 . 6 6 0 2 2 2.8 0 4 4 0 0 13 10.4O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / * 20 5-13 . 3 8 2-7 . 2 8 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 2.5 3 1 2 0 1 12 10.5a t A uburn 01-01- * 37 6-15 . 4 0 1-5 . 2 0 7-8 . 8 7 1 3 4 2.7 0 2 5 0 1 20 11.3C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / * 24 4-14 . 2 8 2-6 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2 0 2 2.6 1 2 0 2 0 10 11.2#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / * 29 3-11 . 2 7 2-7 . 2 8 2-2 1 .00 0 2 2 2.6 3 1 0 0 0 10 11.1a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- * 20 2-9 . 2 2 1-6 . 1 6 2-2 1 .00 0 1 1 2.5 1 1 3 0 0 7 10.9a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / * 24 1-6 . 1 6 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 2 2 2.4 2 1 0 0 0 3 10.4V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / * 30 4-13 . 3 0 2-6 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 2 1 3 2.5 2 1 1 1 3 10 10.4LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / * 38 6-16 . 3 7 3-7 . 4 2 4-6 . 6 6 3 2 5 2.6 3 4 5 0 2 19 10.8a t N otre D am e 01/23 / * 28 5-15 . 3 3 1-3 . 3 3 2-3 . 6 6 1 1 2 2.6 1 0 2 0 0 13 10.9a t A labam a 01/26 / 13 3-8 . 3 7 1-4 . 2 5 2-2 1 .00 1 0 1 2.5 2 0 1 0 0 9 10.9a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / * 38 3-8 . 3 7 1-4 . 2 5 2-2 1 .00 0 0 0 2.4 1 1 3 0 0 9 10.8S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / * 24 2-8 . 2 5 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 2 2 2.4 0 0 0 0 0 4 10.5A U B U R N 02/05 / * 22 6-9 . 6 6 1-3 . 3 3 0-1 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.3 2 1 2 0 2 13 10.6a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / * 25 5-11 . 4 5 3-7 . 4 2 7-8 . 8 7 0 0 0 2.2 1 1 1 0 1 20 11.0Tota ls 18 640 90-258 . 3 4 36-112 . 3 2 47-64 . 7 3 14 39 53 2.2 34 36 50 8 20 263 11.0
G am es p layed: 24M inu tes/gam e: 26 .7P o in ts /gam e: 11 .0FG P ct: 34 .93FG P ct: 32 .1FT P ct: 73 .4
R ebounds/gam e: 2 .2A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .5Turnovers/gam e: 2 .1A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 0 .7S tea ls /gam e: 0 .8B locks/gam e: 0 .3
In SEC Play• Returned to the starting lineup at Vanderbilt (2/9) for the first game since Stanford (12/20)• Clocked 21 minutes against Auburn (2/5); put up nine points in the win• Played 31 minutes off the bench against South Caro-lina (2/2), scoring eight points for UT • Saw 21 minutes off the bench at Georgia (1/29); hit a trey and dished out a pair of assists in the win
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Returned to action versus Notre Dame (1/24)• Used 3-6 shooting against #4 Stanford (12/20) to tal-ly nine points in the start; came up with five rebounds and dished out two assists against the Cardinal• Logged 29 minutes in the start against UCLA (12/17), putting up 14 points and tying her season high for treys, hitting 4-6; distributed the ball, tallying four helpers in the win• Against #11 Rutgers (12/13). went 3-5 from behind the arc, totaling 13 points; tied a season high with five rebounds in the contest• Went 4-9 from the floor against #20/21 DePaul (12/11), tallying eight points in 30 minutes of action; tacked on four rebounds and an assist in the win• Tied her season-high rebound total against #21/22 Texas (12/4), pulling down five boards; came up with an assist and a block to go with her four-point outing• Versus Middle Tennessee (11/29), went 2-3 from be-hind the arc and 2-2 from the charity stripe to contrib-ute eight points; came up with four boards and two assists against the Blue Raiders• Played 31 minutes agains #1 Baylor (11/27), chipping in 10 points and two rebounds against the Lady Bears• Tied a career high with 22 points against Virginia (11/20), going 8-17 from the floor, hitting four from
long range; added two rebounds and a block in a career-high 42 minutes of action• Put up a team-high 20 points against #7 Miami (11/15) dropping four of eight shots from behind the arc; contributed five boards and three assists in 39 minutes• Was productive on both sides of the ball against Pep-perdine (11/13), notching 11 points, five assists and four rebounds; tacked on two blocks and two steals in the winning effort
In SEC Play• Put up 17 points in 34 minutes at Vanderbilt (2/9)• Recorded a double-double against Auburn (2/5), to-taling 11 points and 10 rebounds in the win• Logged 35 minutes in the start against South Carolina (2/2) and recorded eight points in the loss• Led the team in scoring for the second-consecutive game, with 24 points on a 9-18 showing at UGA (1/29)• Led UT in scoring off the bench at Alabama, scoring 14 points on a 5-9 shooting effort• Scored 20 points on 8-15 shooting against Vanderbilt (1/15), adding two steals and two assists in the win• Went 3-12 from the floor against Kentucky (1/12), to-taling 11 points with five rebounds in the loss• Led UT in scoring against Arkansas (1/8), putting up 19 points and adding eight boards in the trip• Against Georgia (1/5), rode 5-15 shooting to collect 12 points in addition to pulling down eight rebounds; tied a season high with three assists• Scored 17 points in 36 minutes against Auburn (1/1), including a perfect 5-5 showing from the charity stripe; tied season highs in steals and assists with three each
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Pulled down seven rebounds and tallied five points at Notre Dame (1/24)• Had a sub-par night against Chattanooga (1/3), going 2-7 from the floor for four points; tied a season-best with three assists in the win• Missed double-digit scoring for the first time in 2011-12 against Old Dominion (12/28), tallying 8 points on 3-7 shooting; pulled down four boards in the win• Set a career high with 27 points against #4 Stanford (12/20), tying a career high with 10 field goals; played all 40 minutes of the contest where she dished out two assists and came up with two steals• Against UCLA (12/17), kept her double-digit scoring streak alive, contributing 11 points despite missing
portion of the first half due to illness; went 5-6 from
the floor in the win over the Bruins• Put up 22 points on #11 Rutgers (12/13) on 8-18 scor-ing in 40- minutes; fell a rebound shy of a double-dou-ble, pulling down nine rebounds in the winning effortand tied a season high with three steals• Entered double digit scoring again against #20/21 DePaul (12/11), putting up 12 points; went a perfect 6-6 from the line and tallied eight rebounds and a sea-son-high three assists in the win• Scored a team-high 20 points against #21/22 Texas (12/4) on a season-best five treys; also set season highs in assists and blocks, coming up with three of each• Versus Middle Tennessee (11/29), recorded her fifth double-digit scoring effort in only the fifth game of the season, putting up 12 points; added five boards, two blocks and two steals in the win• Led the team in scoring against #1 Baylor (11/27) with her headlining double-double performance; contrib-uted 25 points and 12 boards on the night• Added two blocks and an assist to her effort• Recorded a double-double against Virginia (11/20), contributing 16 points and a team-high 14 rebounds; snagged two steals and dished out an assist in a ca-reer-high 43 minutes• Made her 105th consecutive start and played 30 minutes against #7 Miami (11/15), scoring 15 points; pulled down seven boards and tacked on a steal and an assist in the effort• Made the start against Pepperdine (11/13) and broke into double digit scoring with 13 points against the Waves; tacked on six rebounds and two assists in 27 minutes of action in the winPreseason Accolades• Stricklen was named to the 2011-12 Preseason All-SEC First Team and was tabbed the league’s preseason player of the year• Recognized by the AP with preseason All-America laurels, being named to the first team• Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List and was named to the 20-member mid-season list
40SHEKINNA STRICKLENSENIOR
6-2 /// GuardMorrilton, Ark. (Morrilton H.S.)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#40 STRICK LEN, Shek inna
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgP E P P E R D IN E 11/13 / * 27 5-13 . 3 8 3-4 . 7 5 0-2 . 0 0 1 5 6 6.0 4 2 1 1 0 13 13.0M IA M I 11/15 / * 30 6-13 . 4 6 2-4 . 5 0 1-1 1 .00 2 5 7 6.5 3 1 0 0 1 15 14.0a t V irg in ia 11 /20 / * 43 7-15 . 4 6 0-6 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 6 8 14 9.0 3 1 4 1 2 16 14.7B A Y LO R 11/27 / * 39 9-22 . 4 0 4-9 . 4 4 3-4 . 7 5 6 6 12 9.8 4 1 4 2 0 25 17.3M ID D LE TE N N E S S E E 11/29 / * 21 5-7 . 7 1 2-2 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 2 3 5 8.8 1 0 2 2 2 12 16.2TE X A S 12/04 / * 37 6-14 . 4 2 5-9 . 5 5 3-4 . 7 5 3 5 8 8.7 2 3 2 0 3 20 16.8vs D eP au l 12 /11 / * 34 3-11 . 2 7 0-2 . 0 0 6-6 1 .00 1 8 9 8.7 0 3 3 1 2 12 16.1a t R utgers 12 /13 / * 40 8-18 . 4 4 3-5 . 6 0 3-5 . 6 0 3 6 9 8.8 1 2 3 0 3 22 16.9a t U C LA 12/17 / * 33 5-6 . 8 3 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 7.9 3 1 3 0 1 11 16.2a t S tan fo rd 12/20 / * 40 10-17 . 5 8 3-8 . 3 7 4-6 . 6 6 1 2 3 7.4 4 2 3 0 2 27 17.3O LD D O M IN IO N 12/28 / * 24 3-7 . 4 2 0-3 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 2 2 4 7.1 2 0 1 1 2 8 16.5a t A uburn 01-01- * 36 5-18 . 2 7 2-9 . 2 2 5-5 1 .00 1 0 1 6.6 1 3 0 0 3 17 16.5C H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / * 21 2-7 . 2 8 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2 3 5 6.5 2 3 2 0 0 4 15.5#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / * 36 5-15 . 3 3 0-3 . 0 0 2-3 . 6 6 2 6 8 6.6 1 3 2 0 3 12 15.3a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- * 34 8-12 . 6 6 2-6 . 3 3 1-2 . 5 0 3 5 8 6.7 3 3 4 1 1 19 15.5a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / * 31 3-12 . 2 5 1-4 . 2 5 4-4 1 .00 2 3 5 6.6 3 3 5 0 2 11 15.3V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / * 35 8-15 . 5 3 1-5 . 2 0 3-3 1 .00 2 1 3 6.4 4 2 1 0 2 20 15.5a t N otre D am e 01/23 / * 28 2-10 . 2 0 1-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 3 4 7 6.4 2 3 3 0 1 5 14.9a t A labam a 01/26 / 15 5-9 . 5 5 1-3 . 3 3 3-4 . 7 5 0 4 4 6.3 2 0 0 0 1 14 14.9a t #16 /15 G eorg ia 01 /29 / * 40 9-18 . 5 0 1-4 . 2 5 5-7 . 7 1 4 3 7 6.3 2 2 1 1 2 24 15.4S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / * 35 3-7 . 4 2 0-2 . 0 0 2-4 . 5 0 3 7 10 6.5 3 2 0 1 0 8 15.0A U B U R N 02/05 / * 27 4-14 . 2 8 0-4 . 0 0 3-5 . 6 0 4 6 10 6.6 4 2 3 1 3 11 14.8a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / * 34 7-13 . 5 3 3-6 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 1 2 6.4 4 2 2 1 1 17 14.9Tota ls 22 740 128-293 . 4 3 35-105 . 3 3 52-70 . 7 4 55 93 148 6.4 58 44 49 13 37 343 14.9
G am es p layed: 23M inu tes/gam e: 32 .2P o in ts /gam e: 14 .9FG P ct: 43 .73FG P ct: 33 .3FT P ct: 74 .3
R ebounds/gam e: 6 .4A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .9Turnovers/gam e: 2 .1A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 0 .9S tea ls /gam e: 1 .6B locks/gam e: 0 .6
CAREER HIGHSPoints 17 South Carolina, 1/31/10Rebounds 9 Alabama, 1/6/11Assists 6 Old Dominion, 12/30/09Steals 4 San Francisco, 12/22/09Blocks 4 Ole Miss, 1/9/11* Field Goals 7 Kentucky, 2/7/11*3-Pointers 2 Vanderbilt, 1/15/11*Free Throws 6 Virginia, 11/18/10Minutes 37 Texas, 12/12/10
SEC HIGHSPoints 17 South Carolina, 1/31/10Rebounds 9 Alabama, 1/6/11Assists 5 Alabama, 1/26/12*Steals 2 Ole Miss, 1/9/11*Blocks 4 Ole Miss, 1/9/11* Field Goals 7 Kentucky, 2/7/11*3-Pointers 2 Vanderbilt, 1/15/11*Free Throws 4 South Carolina, 1/31/10Minutes 29 South Carolina, 1/31/10*indicates most recent occurrence
In SEC Play• Saw six minutes off the bench at Vanderbilt (2/9); re-corded three points in the appearance• Logged 18 minutes of action against Auburn (2/5), scoring four points in the win• Saw 17 minutes off the bench versus South Carolina (2/2) and put up seven points• Played a season-high 19 minutes versus Alabama (1/26), scoring a season-best 10 points in the win• Came off the bench to play two minutes versus LSU (1/19)• Saw 12 minutes against Vanderbilt (1/15)• Logged a season-high 17 minutes at Kentucky (1/12), contributing a season high four points and three re-bounds• Came off the bench to play seven minutes against Arkansas (1/8) where she collected a rebound and dished out an assist• Saw her second action of 2011-12 against Georgia (1/5/11), recording two points, two rebounds and two assists in nine minutes
Versus Non-Conference Opponents• Saw three minutes of action off the bench versus Notre Dame (1/24)• Made her first appearance of 2011-12 against Chat-tanooga (1/3) after rehabbing from ACL surgery this summer; dished out a team-high four assists in her debut
4KAMIKO WILLIAMSJUNIOR
5-11 /// GuardClarksville, Tenn. (Northeast H.S.)
TENNESSEE Ind iv idual Gam e-by -Gam e (as o f Feb 10, 2012)A ll gam es
#04 W ILL IA MS, K am iko
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th row s ReboundsOpponen t Date gs m in fg -fga pc t 3fg -fga pc t ft-fta pc t o ff def to t avg p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts avgC H A TTA N O O G A 01/03 / 16 1-2 . 5 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 0 3 3.0 1 4 1 0 2 2 2.0#16/15 G E O R G IA 01/05 / 9 0-5 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 2 0 2 2.5 0 2 0 0 1 2 2.0a t A R K A N S A S 01-08- 7 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 1 2.0 1 1 4 0 0 0 1.3a t #9 /8 K E N TU C K Y 01/12 / 17 2-8 . 2 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 3 0 3 2.3 2 1 1 1 2 4 2.0V A N D E R B ILT 01/15 / 5 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 2.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.6LO U IS IA N A S TA TE 01/19 / 2 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 1.7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.3a t N otre D am e 01/23 / 3 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 1.4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.1a t A labam a 01/26 / 19 4-7 . 5 7 0-1 . 0 0 2-2 1 .00 0 1 1 1.4 0 5 0 0 1 10 2.3S O U TH C A R O LIN A 02/02 / 17 3-3 1 .00 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 1 .00 1 1 2 1.4 0 0 0 1 0 7 2.8A U B U R N 02/05 / 18 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1 0 1 1.4 2 2 1 0 0 4 2.9a t V anderb ilt 02 /09 / 6 1-3 . 3 3 0-1 . 0 0 1-2 . 5 0 1 0 1 1.4 0 1 0 0 0 3 2.9Tota ls 0 119 13-34 . 3 8 0-4 . 0 0 6-7 . 8 5 12 3 15 1.4 7 16 10 2 6 32 2.9
G am es p layed: 11M inu tes/gam e: 10 .8P o in ts /gam e: 2 .9FG P ct: 38 .23FG P ct: 0 .0FT P ct: 85 .7
R ebounds/gam e: 1 .4A ssis ts /gam e: 1 .5Turnovers/gam e: 0 .9A ssis t/tu rnover ra tio : 1 .6S tea ls /gam e: 0 .5B locks/gam e: 0 .2
#05 MA SSENGA LE, A r iel
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WILLIAMS’ 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsPEPPERDINE vs TENNESSEE11/13/11 4:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalMIAMI 42 34 76TENNESSEE 42 50 92
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUM 30 13 15 13 18UT 34 23 12 19 24
Last FG - UM 2nd-00:22, UT 2nd-00:32.Largest lead - UM by 6 1st-18:08, UT by 19 2nd-00:32.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 4 times.
GAME 1 #3 UT vs. Pepperdine // Nov. 13, 2011
GAME 2 #3 UT vs. #7 Miami // Nov. 15, 2011
KNOXVILLE -- It took over two minutes for the first shot to finally fall. Pepperdine never led, but kept within two baskets until an 8-0 run capped by Meighan Simmons’ jumper with 10:32 left in the first half gave Tennessee a 20-9 lead.
Summitt played her entire bench in the first half, including freshmen Cierra Burdick and Isabelle Harrison, and the Tennessee reserves scored 20 points.
Glory Johnson led the Lady Vols with 17 points and 13 rebounds. Shekinna Stricklen and Simmons each had 13 points, Taber Spani contributed 11 points and Briana Bass had 10.
Pepperdine’s tough defense came at a cost. The Waves had 14 personal fouls in the first half, though the Lady Vols were uncharacteristically sloppy at the charity stripe, making just two of six foul shots before halftime.
Still, it forced Rousseau to go deep into her bench, which was responsible for just four points in the first half and 19 total. Jazmine Jackson had 17 points for the Waves, who shot 28.4 percent to the Lady Vols’ 49.2 percent shooting.
Tennessee outrebounded Pepperdine 54-34, but couldn’t turn them into points. The Lady Vols gained control of the game with their 20 fast-break points and by sinking eight of their 10 3-point baskets in the second half.
Summitt gave a starting nod to point guard Ariel Massengale, making her just the 14th Lady Vol to start her very first career game. The coach was so convinced of Massengale’s talent and frustrated by a lack of a bona fide point guard last season that she dubbed Mas-sengale a starter back in March.
Massengale sat for more than 13 minutes in the first half after picking up two fouls and finished with just one field goal, but had five assists to just one turnover and came up with two steals and three rebounds in 20 minutes.
KNOXVILLE - Junior Taber Spani hit a game-high four three-pointers, but none bigger than the one she drained from the top of the key as the shot clock expired with 6:36 remaining in the game. The swish ignited an 11-0 Tennessee run and ultimately helped lift the No. 3 Tennessee women’s basketball team (2-0) to a 92-76 victory over No. 7 Miami (1-1) on Tuesday eve-ning at Thompson-Boling Arena.
The pair of top ten teams were tied, 42-42, at halftime before Tennessee scored the second half’s first nine points and 18 of the first 22 to take a 60-46 lead.
But the Hurricanes came storming back, eventually getting as close as 73-68. That’s when Spani saved her best for her last shot.
After her three-pointer, the Lady Vols forced a shot clock violation on the other end, and freshman Isabelle Harrison scored her first points of the evening off of on an offensive rebound.
Tennessee went on to score 19 of the game’s final 27 points to notch its second win in as many tries this season.
After Miami’s Riquna Williams went off for 17 first-half points, UT limited her to just seven in the second. Although she finished with a game-high 24 points, the Lady Vols made her use 28 shot attempts to get there.
Tennessee had five players in double-figures. Joining Spani were Meighan Simmons (18), Johnson (16), Shekinna Stricklen (15) and Ariel Massengale (11). Johnson also chipped in a team-high nine rebounds, while Massengale led the game with the second-highest assist total by a UT freshman all-time with nine.
In the first half, it was the Hurricanes that got off to a strong start. After Baugh scored the game’s opening bucket on a layup, Miami went on a 10-2 run for its largest lead of the contest, 10-4.
The Hurricanes made four of their first six three-point attempts, and led until a try from Simmons put the Lady Vols back ahead, 18-16, with 13:41 left in the first half.
After UM’s Stefanie Yderstorm responded with a three-pointer of her own complemented by a Krystal Saunders layup, the Lady Vols scored eight consecutive points to take a 26-21 lead with 10:21 left in the first half and would not trail again.
UT matched its biggest lead of the first 20 minutes, 38-31, on a jumper from Spani, who led the team with 13 first-half points. UM closed the first half with an 11-4 run to tie the score, 42-42.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsUT vs Virginia11/20/11 2:00 PM at Charlottesville, Va. (JPJA)
Officials: Joe Cunningham, Lawson Newton, Jennifer RezacTechnical fouls: UT-None. Virginia-None.Attendance: 6450UVa: Pitts fouled out at 8:15 (II)Tenn: Massengale fouled out at 00:27.6 (OT)
Score by periods 1st 2nd OT TotalUT 29 29 6 64Virginia 29 29 11 69
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsBAYLOR vs UT11/27/11 2:02 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalBAYLOR 31 45 76UT 33 34 67
GAME 3#3 UT at Virginia // Nov. 20, 2011
GAME 4#6/7 UT vs. #1 Baylor // Nov. 27, 2011
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Chelsea Shine scored 18 points, including a key basket in over-time, and Virginia stunned turnover-prone No. 3 Tennessee 69-64 on Sunday.
The Cavaliers (4-0) came into the game allowing just over 42 points a game under first-year coach Joanne Boyle, and dictated the pace against a Lady Vols team averaging 90.5 points.
Taber Spani led the Lady Vols (2-1) with 22 points, including a 3-pointer 59 seconds into overtime that gave Tennessee a 61-58 lead, but the Cavaliers scored the next 11 points, the crowd at John Paul Jones Arena getting more excited with each basket.
China Crosby had 13 points and Ataira Franklin 12 for Virginia, which beat Tennessee for just the third time in 16 games. Lexie Gerson and Ariana Moorer each scored 10. Shekinna Stricklen had 16 and Glory Johnson 15 for the Lady Vols, who missed 10 of 21 free throws.
In the overtime, after Spani’s 3-pointer, Moorer hit a pair of free throws, and then a foul-line jumper, one of only three baskets she made in 16 tries. Shine followed a turnover the Ten-nessee with a short baseline jumper, and Crosby hit 3 of 4 free throws to make it 67-61.
The Lady Vols never had an answer, and each time they failed to score and Virginia came away with the ball, the crowd of 6,450 at John Paul Jones Arena got louder and more excited.
Stricklen had a chance to give the Lady Vols the lead near the end of regulation when she was fouled while scoring, but she missed the free throw, one of 10 misses in 21 tries for Tennessee. The Lady Vols also had 24 turnovers that the Cavaliers turned into 27 points.
Crosby broke a 56-all tie with 36.6 seconds to go in regulation, hitting a desperate shot from the baseline with the shot clock running down. After a timeout, Spani calmly swished a 12-footer from the left baseline with 22.8 seconds to go, pulling Tennessee even again.
Moorer’s last chance drive in regulation was cleanly blocked just before the buzzer. The Cavaliers tightened their defense and Tennessee continued to be sloppy early in the sec-ond half as Virginia opened the half on a 14-6 run. The Cavaliers led by as many as nine and by 47-40 when the Lady Vols began asserting themselves on the offensive glass and rallied.
Tennessee scored eight straight points, taking its first lead since the first half, but Shine scored inside and Crosby’s three-point play boosted the Cavaliers’ edge back to 52-48.
The Lady Vols pulled even three times, but only led once thereafter.
Virginia used a 12-2 run to take a 24-20 lead in a sloppy first half. The Lady Vols turned the ball over at least seven times in the drought, and went almost 5 minutes without scoring.
Spani, who hit the floor hard at one point and went back to the locker room, led Tennessee with 12 points in the half, and Gerson led the Cavaliers with eight.
KNOXVILLE - The No. 6 Lady Vols led for much of the second half, but No. 1 Baylor took the lead late in the second half and went on to a 76-67 win before an electric crowd at Thompson-Boling Arena. The contest was the first “WE BACK PAT” game as the Pat Summitt Foundation was launched at halftime and $150,000 was presented to the Alzheimer’s Ten-nessee and the UT Medical Center with money raised from sales of “WE BACK PAT” shirts.
Baylor All-American Brittney Griner scored 17 of her game-high 26 in the second half to lead the Bears’ comeback as they moved to 6-0. UT’s All-American Shekinna Stricklen led the Lady Vols with 25 points and 12 rebounds. Vicki Baugh also had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
With the loss, the Lady Vols’ 38-game home win streak comes to an end as Tennessee falls to 2-2 overall. The last time UT started a season 2-2 was the 1990-91 season. That year, Tennes-see went on to win its third NCAA Championship with a 30-5 record.
Odyssey Sims (23 points) knocked down a 3-pointer with 7:20 left in regulation to give Baylor the lead it would never relinquish, 56-53. Glory Johnson (9 points, 11 rebounds) swooped in for a layup with 6:40 left to bring UT back within one at 56-55, but that was as close as it would be the rest of the way.
Tennessee continued to pressure in the final minutes, but missed several shots as the Lady Vols shot just 29.3 percent in the game.
Johnson made a pair of free throws with 2:02 left to bring UT back within four at 65-61. Griner answered with another lay-in with just two seconds left on the shot clock to give the Bears a 67-61 lead with 1:32 left in the game.
Baugh (17 points, 11 rebounds) and Stricklen both bombed a 3-pointers in the final 44 sec-onds, but it wasn’t enough as the Bears posted the win to drop the Lady Vols to 2-2.
The Lady Vols grabbed 55 rebounds, outboarding the Bears, 55-42, their most since the NCAA First Round win over Stetson last season, when they had 63.
Taber Spani’s lay-up with 8:50 left, gave the Lady Vols a 53-50. Spani missed the ensuing free throw as part of an and-one as Baylor quickly answered. Griner converted a 3-point play seconds later to tie the game at 53 all.
Baylor answered with a 7-0 run to come back within one points at 39-38 before Baugh layed one home for a 41-38 UT edge with 16 minutes left in the game. Baylor took a short-lived lead at 42-41 on a Griner lay-up with 15 minutes left in the second half. Spani regained the edge with a layup just 16 seconds later.
The Lady Vols had a 17-2 run bridging the halves to build a lead of 39-31 with 17:39 left in the second half. Stricklen scored on a putback forcing Baylor to call timeout as UT took a seven-point lead (38-31) just 1:27 into the second half. Stricklen had eight of UT’s points in the spurt as the Lady Vols bounced back from a 29-22 deficit with four minutes left in the first half.
Tennessee led 33-31 at intermission as Spani canned a 3-pointer with 42 seconds left in the half. Stricklen had 19 points and seven rebounds in the first 20 minutes while Brittney Griner was limited to nine points and just three rebounds. The Lady Vols dominated the glass in the first half, holding a 34-19 advantage. That included 18 offensive rebounds as UT shot just 25 percent.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsMIDDLE TENNESSEE vs TENNESSEE11/29/11 7:04 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Officials: Dee Kantner, Denise Brooks, Laura MorrisTechnical fouls: TEXAS-None. TENNESSEE-None.Attendance: 13465
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTEXAS 32 25 57TENNESSEE 41 32 73
GAME 5#8 UT vs. Middle Tennessee // Nov. 29, 2011
GAME 6#8 UT vs. #21/22 Texas // Dec. 4, 2011
KNOXVILLE - A pair of freshmen, Cierra Burdick and Ariel Massengale, each scored a career-high 14 points and keyed a pair of first-half runs as the No. 8 Tennessee women’s basketball team defeated in-state rival Middle Tennessee, 82-43, Tuesday evening at Thompson-Boling Arena. Massengale logged just 23 minutes, but led the Lady Vols in both scoring for the first time in her career, tying Burdick. Massengale has led Tennessee (3-2) in assists in all five games to open her collegiate career, and had zero turnovers for the first time Tuesday night. Massengale, and UT’s other four starters, had a light night after controlling the action throughout the game’s entirety. Johnson played a starter-high 25 minutes and tallied nine points and nine rebounds. Despite the Lady Vols’ largest win this season of 39 points, UT matched its least amount of double-figure scorers this season with two. Senior preseason All-American Shekinna Stricklen also chipped in 12 points. Over the first 10 minutes of the second half, Tennessee extended its 48-24 halftime lead to a 62-30 margin and the Lady Vols never looked back. UT limited the Blue Raiders (4-3) to 19 points in the second half. Middle Tennessee was led by a game-high 16 points from Kortni Jones. Ebony Rowe also had 10 points for MTSU. In the first half, Middle Tennessee jumped out to a 5-2 lead before the Lady Vols scored 20 of the game’s next 22 points to take a 22-7 lead at the 11:47 mark, setting the tone for the rest of the game. During that stretch, Massengale played a role in 14 of UT’s 20 points, contributing nine points and assisting on a pair of baskets. The freshman standout also had one of her two steals in the run. She had already matched her career high with 11 points by halftime. The Blue Raiders responded with an 11-5 run to bring their deficit back within single digits at 27-18 with 7:08 left. UT reinforced its dominance, scoring 21 of the opening stanza’s final 27 points, to take a 48-24 halftime lead. Burdick scored all seven of her first-half points in the run as the Lady Vols’ 24-point advantage at intermission was their largest of the season.
KNOXVILLE — Clutch three-point shooting and powerful rebounding lifted #8 Tennessee to a 73-57 victory over #21/22 Texas on Sunday afternoon.
From three-point range Tennessee shot 52.4 percent, making 11-of-21 while being led by Shekinna Stricklen (20 points) and Meighan Simmons (10 points), who combined to make 8-of-16 from behind the arc. Stricklen was a career-high 5-of-9 from three-point land.
The Lady Vols (4-2) outrebounded the Longhorns (5-2), 49-38, led by Vicki Baugh’s 11 boards.
Baugh (17 points) and Glory Johnson (11 points and 10 rebounds) both posted double-doubles. Ariel Massengale also scored in double-figures with 10 points while handling out five assists.
The Longhorns were led by Ashleigh Fontenette and Chassidy Fussell, who tallied 22 and 14 points, respectively.
Stricklen’s fifth three-pointer of the game was the final dagger as it put Tennessee up 64-53 with 6:15 to play on a trey as the shot clock was winding down.
The Lady Vols held Texas scoreless for 6:20 late in the game as the Lady Vols went on a 10-0 run while forcing the Longhorns into five turnovers during the spurt. Texas ended the drought on Fontenette’s jumper with 2:40 left in the game, as the Longhorns had fallen behind by 16.
Down by as many as 14 early in the second, the Longhorns cut the deficit to six at 59-53 on a three-pointer by Chelsea Bass with 8:50 left in the second half. That would be Texas’ final points for more than six minutes. The Lady Vols answered as Johnson scored on a lay-up to start a run of 10 consecutive points. Tennessee forced Texas into a 30-second shot clock violation with 6:41 left in regulation with furious defensive pressure.
The Lady Vols picked up their shooting early in the second half and began to pull away, taking a 52-38 lead on a Baugh lay-up with 15:31 left in the game.
Tennessee led 41-32 at halftime thanks to some strong shooting from three-point range as UT knocked down 7-of-13 (54 percent) from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes. The Big Orange was led by Simmons, who was 3-of-5 with 10 first-half points. Baugh added 11 points in the first half along with five rebounds as the Lady Vols held a 29-18 rebounding edge at intermission.
UT expanded a 27-26 lead with 5:19 left to as big as 11 (38-27) with 1:28 left in the first half. Texas had drawn within one on a three-pointer by Fontenette before the Lady Vols went on an 11-1 spurt.
The Lady Vols return to action next Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York as Ten-nessee takes on #22 DePaul in the Maggie Dixon Classic. Tip-off is set for 1:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsDePaul vs TENNESSEE12/11/11 1pm at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Officials: Dennis DeMayo, May Forsberg, Susan BlauchTechnical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. Rutgers-None.Attendance: 6368
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTENNESSEE 33 34 67Rutgers 28 33 61
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 18 9 18 10 4RU 38 12 12 10 13
Last FG - UT 2nd-01:53, RU 2nd-00:08.Largest lead - UT by 13 1st-06:53, RU by 5 2nd-15:38.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 6 times.
GAME 7#7 UT vs. #20/21 DePaul // Dec. 11, 2011
GAME 8#6 UT vs. #11 Rutgers // Dec. 13, 2011
NEW YORK - Glory Johnson scored 16 points and Cierra Burdick added 15 to help No. 7 Tennessee beat No. 20 DePaul 84-61 on Sunday in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Shekinna Stricklen added 12 points while Alicia Manning had season-highs of 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Lady Vols (5-2), who saw their 12-point halftime lead cut to 41-37 before using an 15-4 run to take control. Stricklen had six points during the burst.
Her layup made it 56-43 with 11:19 left and DePaul (8-2) couldn’t get within single digits the rest of the way.
Tennessee coach Pat Summitt was honored during No. 1 Baylor’s 73-59 victory over St. John’s with the Maggie Dixon Courage award. Summitt announced in August that she had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Both the Lady Bears and Red Storm came out of their timeouts to applaud the winningest coach in college basketball.
Jasmine Penny scored 16 points and Keisha Hampton added 14 for DePaul.
It was the second time Tennessee played in the Classic named for the former Army wom-en’s coach. The Lady Vols beat Rutgers two years ago. The Scarlet Knights had played in all four of the previous Garden events. Army hosted Ohio State at West Point the first year.
The 28-year-old Dixon died April 6, 2006, of arrhythmia, probably caused by an enlarged heart. Her death came three weeks after she finished her first season as Army coach. She won the admiration of the academy and all of college basketball for leading Army to its first NCAA berth, where the Cadets lost in the first round to Summitt’s Lady Vols.
Tennessee was playing its first game without freshman point guard Ariel Massengale. She had started every game averaging 7.2 points and 5.8 assists.
She injured a finger on her left hand while diving for a loose ball at the end of practice on Thursday and will be sidelined for a few weeks.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The sixth-ranked Tennessee women’s basketball team used a pivotal 13-0 run late in the second half to propel the Lady Vols to a 67-61 victory over No. 11 Rutgers on Tuesday evening at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.
The sixth-ranked Lady Vols lost all of a 13-point lead and found themselves down by three before taking control with a late run to seal their 67-61 victory over the Scarlet Knights. Sophomore guard Meighan Simmons hit two clutch 3-pointers during the game-changing spurt.
Trailing 54-51 with 8:33 left, Tennessee (6-2) scored 13 straight points, holding Rutgers without a point for nearly 8 minutes. Vicki Baugh started the burst with a layup and Sim-mons hit consecutive 3-pointers to give the Lady Vols a 61-54 lead. Taber Spani hit another 3 with 1:52 left to seal the victory.
The game featured two Hall of Fame coaches with Pat Summitt and C. Vivian Stringer of Rutgers. The long-time friends have combined for nearly 1,950 victories during their illus-trious careers. They stand first and third on the women’s basketball all-time victory list.
Summitt received a warm standing ovation from the crowd before the game and shared a long embrace with Stringer. Rutgers players wore warmup shirts that said “We Back Pat” in honor of Summitt’s battle with Alzeheimer’s. The school also presented Tennessee with a collage of Stringer’s favorite photos with Summitt and a commemorative jersey at the half. Tennessee held Rutgers scoreless over a 7:55 span as April Sykes connected from down-town with 38 seconds left. As the Lady Vols squandered free throw opportunities, the Scarlet Knights made things interesting, coming as close as 65-61 before a pair of free throws from Shekinna Stricklen sealed the victory for UT.
The Lady Vols got off to a quick start behind Stricklen. The senior preseason All-American had 10 straight points for Tennessee during one stretch. Her jumper with 5:48 left in the half gave the Lady Vols a 33-20 lead. That would be their last points before the half as Rutgers turned up its defensive pressure, scoring the final eight points before the break, including four by Sykes.
Rutgers continued the run to start the second half scoring 11 of the first 14 points. Sykes’ layup 2 1/2 minutes in gave Rutgers its first lead of the game at 37-36. Khadijah Rushdan’s basket moments later capped the 19-3 burst.
Neither team could pull away. Rutgers built a 54-51 lead on consecutive scores by Rushdan and a layup by Sykes with 8:33 left. That would be the Scarlet Knights’ final points until Sykes hit a 3-pointer with 35.9 seconds left that made it 64-57. Rutgers would get within four on Monique’s Oliver’s lay-in with 12.6 seconds left.
Rushdan finished with 16 points. Spani and Simmons each had 13 points for Tennessee.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTENNESSEE vs UCLA12/17/11 2:00 p.m. at Wooden Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Officials: Lisa Jones, Marianne Karp, Robert ScofieldTechnical fouls: TENNESSEE-HARRISON, Isabelle. Stanford-None.Attendance: 7329
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTENNESSEE 41 39 80Stanford 48 49 97
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 18 13 10 4 11STAN 40 14 14 4 6
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:05, STAN 2nd-01:27.Largest lead - UT by 9 1st-13:21, STAN by 19 2nd-02:06.
Score tied - 4 times.Lead changed - 1 time.
GAME 9#6 UT vs. UCLA // Dec. 17, 2011
GAME 10#6 UT vs. #4 Stanford // Dec. 20, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Meighan Simmons scored 18 points, Glory Johnson added 17 and No. 6 Tennessee made 18 of its first 20 shots in beating UCLA 85-64 on Saturday.
Vicki Baugh had 14 points and 12 rebounds, Taber Spani added 14 points and Shekinna Stricklen scored 11 for the Lady Vols, who shot 36 of 52 (69.6 percent) from the floor -- not far off the school record of 72.1 percent against Old Dominion on Jan. 4, 1989.
Rebekah Gardner scored 15 of her career-high 24 points in the first half for UCLA (5-4), and Thea Lemberger and Markel Walker added 11 points each for the Bruins.
The win was the fourth straight for the Lady Vols (7-2) and their 18th in 19 meetings all-time against UCLA. It also raised Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt’s career record to 1,078-201.
The 59-year-old Hall of Famer, in her 38th season at Tennessee, is the only coach in NCAA men’s and women’s basketball history to reach 1,000 wins.
The Lady Vols never trailed, making their first eight shots, including three 3-pointers, for a 19-8 lead. The Bruins went on a 10-3 run to draw within four points before Tennessee had a 21-9 burst to make it 43-27. The Lady Vols then missed five of six shots, leaving them shooting 19 of 25 (76 percent) and with a 45-34 lead at halftime.
Tennessee outscored the Bruins 9-2 to begin the second half for a 54-36 lead. UCLA wasn’t closer than 13 points after that. A layup by Baugh with 7:29 remaining made it 74-52, with Tennessee shooting 32 of 43 (74.4 percent) from the field at that stage.
There were only four fouls called and just one free throw in the first half, and 17 fouls and 18 free throws in the game.
Tennessee played its third straight game without starting point guard Ariel Massengale, who dislocated her left middle finger during practice earlier this month.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored a career-high 42 points and dazzled in what might have been the most meaningful home game of her senior season, and No. 4 Stanford beat sixth-ranked Tennessee 97-80 on Tuesday night in one of women’s basketballs best rivalries.
The Cardinal extended their school-record home winning streak to 68 games at Maples Pavilion, where a sellout crowd of 7,329 waved red “We Back Pat” rally towels in support of Hall of Fame Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, who revealed in August she has early onset Alzheimer’s.
Shekinna Stricklen scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Lady Vols, who had their five-game winning streak snapped.
Glory Johnson added 18 points, six rebounds, two blocks and two steals and Meighan Simmons scored 13 for Tennessee on a night Ogwumike put on a show for national television.
Ogwumike’s basket that hit the rim and bounced in with 10:59 left gave the Cardinal their first double-digit lead of the game at 65-55 - and they only built on that the rest of the way. Ogwu-mike’s two free throws with 3:49 left topped her previous best outing of 38 points on April 4, 2010, against Oklahoma.
Her sophomore sister, Chiney, added 14 points as the Cardinal shot 53.6 percent.
Tennessee shot a sizzling 61.5 percent in the first half to stay within 48-41 at the break before going a cool 37 percent in the second half to finish at 49.1 percent.
The Cardinal, riding a streak of four straight Final Fours without a championship, haven’t lost on their home floor at raucous Maples Pavilion since falling to Florida State in the second round of the NCAA tournament on March 19, 2007.
Stanford has beaten Tennessee three times during that span - also a 73-69 win on Dec. 22, 2007, and a 67-52 victory on Dec. 19, 2009. There also was that monumental 71-59 victory last Dec. 30 that snapped top-ranked Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak.
Summitt walked onto the court a few minutes before tipoff to a rousing standing ovation from the sellout crowd.
Fellow Hall of Famer VanDerveer was shown on the main elevated center-court scoreboard of-fering her support to Summitt while acknowleding how much Stanford cherishes the rivalry and regular non-conference meetings with the Lady Vols.
VanDerveer said Stanford’s program “is behind her 100 percent.” Summitt was not yet on the court with her team to see the presentation.
“Pat, we love you, we care about you and we wish you the very best in your battle with Alzheim-er’s,” said the video with VanDerveer, who walked to the opposite bench to greet Summitt. They posed for a few photos together.
The Cardinal began the game 3 for 13 to 6 of 8 for Tennessee, which jumped out to a 10-3 lead in the opening 2:50.
The Lady Vols were whistled for a technical foul at the 11:18 mark of the first half for having six players on the court. Stanford converted both free throws to cut Tennessee’s lead to 16-15.
Tennessee freshman guard Ariel Massengale, who had missed last three games nursing a dislo-cated middle finger on her left hand that required minor surgery, entered the game for the first time with 10:45 left. The Lady Vols beat DePaul and won at both Rutgers and UCLA without her. Massengale practiced Monday in the Bay Area.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsOld Dominion vs TENNESSEE12/28/11 7:00 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTENNESSEE 31 42 73Auburn 29 23 52
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 26 27 30 4 8AU 16 15 14 0 33
Last FG - UT 2nd-02:39, AU 2nd-00:19.Largest lead - UT by 24 2nd-00:31, AU by 4 1st-10:27.
Score tied - 6 times.Lead changed - 2 times.
GAME 11#7/8 UT vs. Old Dominion // Dec. 28, 2011
GAME 12#7/8 UT at Auburn // Jan. 1, 2012
KNOXVILLE - Behind double-doubles from seniors Vicki Baugh and Glory Johnson, the seventh-ranked Tennessee women’s basketball team topped Old Dominion, 90-37, Wednesday evening at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Lady Vols spent their practices since last week’s 17-point loss at No. 4 Stanford focused on regaining the defensive excellence that coach Pat Summitt expects of them. The result was a near perfect effort in a 90-37 win over Old Dominion on Wednesday night. “Tonight, it was about Tennessee,” associate head coach Holly Warlick said. “It was about what was across our chest. We focused on getting better. I think what we did today was indicative of how hard we’ve practiced on the defensive end.” Warlick estimated the team had spent all of two minutes total working on offense during practices on Monday and Tuesday. The coaches and players used the rest of the time to work on rebounding, pass deflections and preventing transition baskets -- all things that haunted them in the 97-80 loss to the Cardinal on Dec. 20. The Lady Vols (8-3) outrebounded the Lady Monarchs 54-32, limited them to 25 percent shooting, forced 23 turnovers and gave up just one basket on the fastbreak. Tennessee now has won 16 straight and 31 of the last 32 against the Lady Monarchs, whose 37 points was the lowest total scored by either team in the 45-game annual series. Tennessee appeared a bit rusty on the offensive end early against Old Dominion (3-10), which scored the first two baskets of the game. The Lady Monarchs were leading 8-7 when Alicia Manning hit a jumper with 16:14 in the first half that launched a 14-2 run to give the Lady Vols control of the game. Ariel Massengale, who hadn’t started a game since dislocating her left middle finger in practice Dec. 8, hit back-to-back 3s in the span of 28 seconds during the stretch. “I was really happy with our play at the very beginning because Tennessee is such a big place to play and it’s really big-time,” Old Dominion guard Jackie Cook said. “I was really proud of how we stepped up and played from the very start. We just couldn’t finish.” Tennessee took a commanding 50-20 halftime lead against Old Dominion by shooting 50 percent from the field and hitting 6 of 12 from 3. The Lady Vols turned the ball over just twice and posted 15 assists before the break. Their improved defense led to balanced offense, with Johnson logging 16 points and 11 re-bounds. Baugh had 11 points and 12 rebounds. Meighan Simmons added 12 points, Massengale scored 11, Isabelle Harrison had 10 and Alicia Manning grabbed 15 rebounds. “I like a game like this because we’re working on ourselves,” Johnson said. `We’re working on our-selves as a team and we’re trying to get better and work on our defense. We have so many things that we have to work on outside of the big games. We only have so much time.” Cook led Old Dominion with 13 points, as the Lady Vols managed to frustrate Old Dominion’s top player, Tia Lewis. Lewis entered the game averaging 18.1 points and 9.7 rebounds but finished with eight points, eight rebounds and four fouls. By the end of the game, Tennessee had scored 46 and had 26 points off turnovers. Old Dominion only scored eight points inside and had just a single point off the Lady Vols’ 11 giveaways.
AUBURN, Ala. - The seventh-ranked Tennessee women’s basketball team opened the new year and SEC play with a 73-52 win against Auburn on Sunday afternoon at Auburn Arena, marking UT’s 34th consecutive SEC win dating back to the 2009-10 season.
The Lady Vols won going away in a game when their shots weren’t falling. Hounding Auburn into mistakes helped. Meighan Simmons scored 20 points and the Lady Vols (No. 8 ESPN/USA Today, No. 7 AP) closed on a big run. Tennessee (9-3, 1-0 SEC) came into the game last in the league in scoring defense, giving up 63.5 points a game, but forced 25 turnovers and had 12 steals. It was more than enough to earn the Lady Vols a 34th-consecutive SEC win. The Lady Vols closed the game on a 19-6 run to turn a tight contest into a blowout and win for the 27th time in the last 30 meetings with the Tigers (8-6, 0-1). Shekinna Stricklen added 17 points for Tennessee but was disgusted with her 5-of-18 shooting performance. Glory Johnson had 14 points and 13 rebounds and Alicia Manning scored 10 points. Simmons had 13 in the second half.
Camille Glymph led Auburn with 21 points, making 5 of 10 from 3-point range.
The Lady Vols struggled from the field, shooting just 32 percent (21 of 65) after coming in as the SEC’s second-best shooting team. However, they gave Auburn troubles on the boards and with a trapping defense that often forced the Tigers into hurried shots with the shot clock ticking down. Tennessee also dominated in rebounding 49-31. The Lady Vols turned a 31-29 halftime lead into a 14-point cushion midway through the second half. Johnson also boiled down the essence of Summitt’s halftime message.
“Basically, if we don’t get it together, we’re walking home,” she said. “And it’s a long walk. I figured this isn’t the way Tennessee plays. We know how to play and we’re not playing to our standards. When we’re not rebounding and settling for good shots instead of great shots, that’s what hap-pens.” Auburn managed to cut the 14-point deficit in half with Glymph hitting back-to-back 3s to make it 53-46 with 8 minutes to play. Then, Tennessee hit 7 of 8 free throws over the next 3 minutes to spark a 9-0 run and all but put the game away. The Lady Vols went 28 of 31 from the line to help overcome the poor shooting night.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsChattanooga vs TENNESSEE01/03/12 7:05 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalChattanooga 16 31 47TENNESSEE 50 40 90
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUTC 12 6 9 0 20UT 30 19 30 6 41
Last FG - UTC 2nd-00:14, UT 2nd-00:23.Largest lead - UTC by 2 1st-19:22, UT by 46 2nd-00:23.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 1 time.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics#16/15 Georgia vs TENNESSEE01/05/12 7:05 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
Officials: Tina Napier, Mary Day, Bob TrammellTechnical fouls: #16/15 Georgia-None. TENNESSEE-None.Attendance: 13721
Score by periods 1st 2nd Total#16/15 Georgia 27 24 51TENNESSEE 36 44 80
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchGA 12 4 6 2 9UT 42 9 20 12 17
Last FG - GA 2nd-00:56, UT 2nd-00:18.Largest lead - GA by 2 1st-19:09, UT by 31 2nd-02:25.
Score tied - 1 time.Lead changed - 1 time.
GAME 13#6/7 UT vs. Chattanooga // Jan. 3, 2012
GAME 14#6/7 UT vs. #16/15 Georgia // Jan. 5, 2012
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The #6/7 Lady Vols used a 30-0 run in the first half to run away with a 90-47 victory over Chattanooga on Tuesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee moved to 10-3 with the easy win in its final home non-conference game this season. The Lady Vols will play their third game in five nights on Thursday as Georgia comes to Knox-ville for a 7 p.m., tip-off on CSS. Freshman Ariel Massengale (19 points) and Isabelle Harrison (13 points) each scored career-highs in the win as four Lady Vols scored in double-figures. Glory Johnson tallied a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 13 rebounds. Meighan Simmons also scored 10 points. For Johnson, it was her third straight double-double and sixth of the season.
The Lady Vols outrebounded the Lady Mocs, 55-28, while shooting 47.2 percent from the floor. Chattanooga was limited to just 30.4 percent for the game including 20.7 (6-of-29) in the first half. The game marked the return of junior guard Kamiko Williams, who missed the first 12 games recovering from a torn ACL. Williams played 16 minutes and had two points, four assists, two steals and three rebounds. The Lady Mocs (8-4) were led by former Lady Vol Faith Dupree, who had 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Tennessee led 10-8 with 16:34 left in the first half before that 30-0 run, which made it 40-8 with 5:48 left in the half on a jumper by Cierra Burdick.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - #6/7 Tennessee pulled away from #16/15 Georgia with a 32-9 run in the second half before 13,721 fans to post a 80-51 victory at Thompson-Boling Arena on Thursday night. Glory Johnson posted a double-double to lead four players in double-figures. For Johnson, her 22-point, 13-rebound effort was her fourth straight double-double I and sixth this season. The freshman Ariel Massengale nearly notched her first-career double-double as she tied her career-highs with 19 points and 9 assists. The Lady Vols improved to 11-3 overall and 2-0 in the SEC with its fourth win a row. Georgia suf-fered just its third loss to stand at 12-3 and 1-1 in the league. The loss ended the Lady Bulldogs four-game win streak. Tennessee dominated the glass, holding a 52-32 edge on the boards led by Johnson. Vicki Baugh also hauled down 10 to go along with eight points. The Lady Vols’ defense was stellar in holding Georgia to just 34.9 percent from the floor including 4-of-21 from 3-point range. Meighan Simmons scored in double-figures for the seventh game in a row with 10. Shekinna Stricklen tallied 12 for her 12th game of the year with 10 or more. Tennessee went on a 24-6 run midway through the second half to take 68-42 lead with 7:16 left on Johnson’s 3-point play. The run expanded to 32-9 on a Cierra Burdick putback with a little more than two minutes left in the game, making it 76-45. The Lady Vols continued to pull away as Johnson converted a fastbreak 3-point play to give UT a 51-36 lead with 13 minutes left in the game. Simmons’ 3-pointer with 11:45 left made it a 17-point bulge at 57-40. Two beautiful fastbreak give-and-gos between Stricklen and Johnson in the final minute gave Tennessee a 36-27 lead at intermission. Massengale had 15 points in the first half to lead all scor-ers as the Lady Vols shot 52 percent. Down by as many as 11, Georgia cut the deficit to five on a 3-pointer by Meredith Mitchell with 2:05 left in the first half causing the Lady Vols to call timeout. Massengale continued her assault on the hoop with a putback lay-up with 3:51 left in the first half as Tennessee took a 30-20 lead. Vicki Baugh’s first basket of the game with 5:41 left in the first half put the Lady Vols up 28-19. Tennessee opened the game strong, taking a 20-11 lead in the first 8:13 as Massengale made her first four shots including two 3-pointers. The Lady Vols return to the hardwood on Sunday as Tennessee travels to Arkansas for a 3:30 p.m., match-up that will air on ESPNU and can be heard on the Lady Vol Network.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTENNESSEE vs Arkansas
01-08-12 2:30 p.m. at Fayetteville, Ark. (Bud Walton Arena)
Officials: Mark Zentz, Sue Blauch, Denise BrooksTechnical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. #9/8 KENTUCKY-None.Attendance: 7961
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTENNESSEE 21 39 60#9/8 KENTUCKY 25 36 61
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 36 17 10 12 20UK 24 20 12 0 17
Last FG - UT 2nd-02:06, UK 2nd-00:05.Largest lead - UT by 3 2nd-02:06, UK by 12 2nd-07:46.
Score tied - 8 times.Lead changed - 5 times.
GAME 15#6/7 UT vs. Arkansas // Jan. 8, 2012
GAME 16#6/7 UT vs. #9/8 Kentucky // Jan. 12, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Shekinna Stricklen made sure she went out in style in her last perfor-mance in her home state. Stricklen scored 19 points, and Glory Johnson recorded her fifth straight double-double, as Tennessee (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 AP) routed Arkansas 69-38 on Sunday. The win was the 36th straight in Southeastern Conference play for the Lady Volunteers (12-3, 3-0), who opened the game with a 25-3 run and never looked back. Tennessee hasn’t lost an SEC game since a 53-50 loss at Georgia on Jan. 21, 2010, and it was in no jeopardy of doing so while holding the Razorbacks to a season-low point total. Arkansas, meanwhile, remained winless in SEC play. The Razorbacks (11-4, 0-3) hit only 3 of 30 shots in the first half, and their 10-of-55 shooting for the game (18.1 percent) was the worst in school history. Stricklen, who starred in high school in Morrilton, Ark., scored what was a career-high 26 points in a win at Arkansas last season, and the Lady Volunteers’ leading scorer was equally impressive this time around. The senior scored six points early as Tennessee opened with a 14-0 run, including one of her two 3-pointers for the game. She finished 8 of 12 from the field and had eight rebounds in front on a sizeable and vocal cheering section behind the Tennessee bench. The strong effort came after Stricklen had shot just 32 percent over her last four games. Stricklen’s performance was hardly the only dominant one.
Johnson, who entered the game only four rebounds short of 1,000 for her career, didn’t need long to reach that mark against the Razorbacks (11-4, 0-3). She grabbed her fourth rebound and scored on a putback late in the first half to put Tennessee up 31-8 -- finishing with 15 points and 14 rebounds. The game was well out of hand at that point.
Arkansas didn’t score until Lyndsey Harris’ 3-pointer 6:24 into the game, and it opened 1 of 19 from the field. Harris, who finished with 14 points, hit two first-half 3-pointers, and the Razorbacks’ only other basket was a putback by Quistelle Wiliams. Arkansas’ previous worst shooting half was a 3-of-26 performance against Wichita State in 1981. Its previous worst game was 8 of 41 against Louisiana Tech in 1978. The Razorbacks entered the game shooting just 38 percent as a team for the season. The previous worst performance this season was a 17-of-53 effort against Florida State in November, but they managed to win that game 55-52. They had no such chance against the suffocating defense of Tennessee, which held Arkan-sas’ leading scorer C’eira Ricketts to two points on 1-of-11 shooting. Harris didn’t fare much better at 4 of 14. Johnson joined an elite group of Lady Vols to reach the 1,000/1,000 club. Also achieving 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in their UT careers were Chamique Holdsclaw, Sheila Frost and Tamika Catchings.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A’dia Mathies drove the lane and scored in traffic with 4.2 seconds left to finish with a career-high 34 points and No. 9 Kentucky beat No. 6 Tennessee 61-60 Thurs-day night to snap the Lady Volunteers’ 36-game Southeastern Conference winning streak. With Kentucky trailing 60-57, Mathies followed her own shot to cut it to one with 46 seconds left. After Tennessee (12-4, 3-1) was called for a charge and Kentucky (15-2, 4-0) used a timeout, Mathies took the ball at halfcourt, dribbled into the lane and hit a 7-foot floater off the glass in the paint. Kamiko Williams drove the length of the floor, but missed an off-balance 16-footer as time expired. Tennessee rallied from 12 points down with 7:46 left to take a lead, but lost for the first time in the SEC since falling 53-50 at Georgia on Jan. 21, 2010. Keyla Snowden added 11 points to help Kentucky win its first four games in conference play for the first time in history to go with 15 straight at home. Glory Johnson scored 17 points, Vicki Baugh 16 and Shekinna Stricklen 11 for Tennessee. Kentucky led 50-38 off two free throws by Mathies with 7:46 left when Tennessee used a 14-2 rally to tie it. Meighan Simmons and Stricklen hit 3s, while Ariel Massengale’s three-point play made it 54-all. Then, after Mathies made two more free throws, Stricklen hit a layup, Kentucky’s Amber Smith threw a pass away that led to a free throw by Johnson and Mathies fell and lost the ball that started Tennessee’s 3-on-0 break that ended with a layup by Baugh to give the Lady Vols a 59-56 with 2:06 left. Bria Goss made one of two free throws for the Wildcats and Johnson hit the second of two attempts to put Tennessee back ahead 60-57. Goss then missed a 3 that would’ve tied it, but grabbed her own rebound and Kentucky got another possession. Mathies scored on a putback to cut it to 60-59 and Stricklen was whistled for a charge with 28 seconds to play, setting up the final possession. The last time these two teams played in the SEC Tournament, the Lady Vols routed the Wildcats by 25. This one looked to be different from the start between the two schools that have many ties on the coaching staff on both sides. Tennessee used a 10-2 run midway through the first half to take a 20-18 lead before both teams went cold for the next five minutes, combining to miss 25 consecutive shots and commit 12 turnovers before Mathies grabbed an offensive rebound and scored on a putback to end the cold snap. The Lady Vols’ struggles continued. Alicia Manning hit the second of two free throws, but a bucket by Snowden gave Kentucky a 25-21 halftime lead as Tennessee finished the half with 16 straight misses and eight turnovers. Johnson’s 8-footer in the lane on the team’s first shot of the second half ended the span of nearly 11 minutes without a field goal, but Kentucky would still build a 50-38 lead behind Mathies and Snowden before Tennessee’s furious rally.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsVanderbilt vs TENNESSEE01/15/12 2:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Officials: Cameron Inouye, Jesse Dickerson, Maj ForsbergTechnical fouls: Vanderbilt-None. TENNESSEE-None.Attendance: 17879VU #21 fouls out @8:07/2
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalVanderbilt 36 28 64TENNESSEE 39 48 87
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchVANDY 28 10 11 2 16UT 46 28 21 10 27
Last FG - VANDY 2nd-03:58, UT 2nd-00:12.Largest lead - VANDY by 4 1st-14:06, UT by 23 2nd-00:12.
Score tied - 6 times.Lead changed - 4 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsLouisiana State vs TENNESSEE01/19/12 7:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Louisiana State 56 • 13-5, 4-2 SECTotal 3-Ptr Rebounds
Officials: Tina Napier, Eric Brewton, Kelly JohnsonTechnical fouls: Louisiana State-None. TENNESSEE-None.Attendance: 13107LSU #55 fouls out at 1:39/2
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalLouisiana State 26 30 56TENNESSEE 26 39 65
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchLSU 19 8 9 5 17UT 20 14 17 12 17
Last FG - LSU 2nd-01:27, UT 2nd-02:40.Largest lead - LSU by 3 1st-18:13, UT by 9 2nd-00:35.
Score tied - 11 times.Lead changed - 6 times.
GAME 17#6/7 UT vs. #25/24 Vanderbilt // Jan. 15, 2012
GAME 18#9 UT vs. LSU // Jan. 19, 2012
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A 21-4 run over a six-minute span midway through the second half helped lift the #6/7 Lady Vols to a 87-64 victory over #25/24 Vanderbilt on Saturday before 17,879. Shekinna Stricklen led the way with 20 points and Glory Johnson posted her sixth double-double in the last seven games with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Vicki Baugh con-tributed 16 points and seven rebounds for the Lady Vols, who rebounded from a 61-60 loss at #9 Kentucky on Thursday night. Tennessee improved to 13-4 overall, 4-1 in the SEC.
Meighan Simmons chipped in with 10 points and Ariel Massengale set her career-high in assists with 12 to go along with six points. The 12 assists tie for the fifth-most in Tennessee history. That mark was first accomplished by Associate Head Coach Holly Warlick in 1980.
Christina Foggie led all scorers with 28 points for the Commodores (14-3, 2-2). Stephanie Holzer added 14.
After a very tight game for the first 25 minutes, where neither team led by double-figures, the Lady Vols turned up the defensive intensity and created offensive opportunities. Ten-nessee had 14 steals and shot 52.9 from the floor. It was the third time this season, Tennes-see shot 50 percent from the floor. Johnson tied her career-high with five steals.
The Lady Vols limited the NCAA’s best 3-point shooting team to just 31.3 from beyond the arc (5-of-16). Vanderbilt came into the game making 44.1 percent of its shots from trifecta land.
As part of the 21-4 run, the Lady Vols used a 10-0 run to break open the game midway through the second half. Tenacious defense helped create easy offensive opportunities for UT. After neither team led by double-figures for the first 28 minutes of action, the Lady Vols ballooned to a 15-point lead with 10:26 left in the game.
A Stricklen 3-pointer with 14 minutes left in the second half, gave the Lady Vols a 51-43 advantage after the teams had played even early in the second half. Tennessee then took the first double-figure lead of the game on a pair of Baugh free throws with 11:44 left. Just seconds later Johnson stole the ball and layed in home for a 57-45 lead for Tennessee. On the next possession, Simmons stole another pass and Massengale finished 10 consecutive points for the Lady Vols.
The lead ballooned to 20 on a Baugh jump shot with 4:30 left, giving the Lady Vols a 77-57 lead.
Tennessee held a 39-36 advantage at halftime thanks to 50 percent shooting from the floor (16-of-32) with eight points apiece from Baugh and Johnson. The half featured three ties and team led by double-figures.
Johnson went down with an apparent shoulder injury with 1:49 left in the half as she got tangled up with Elan Brown going after a loose ball. After halftime, she returned with vengeance and as she racked up the double-double.
A Briana Bass 3-pointer followed by a Baugh lay-up gave the Lady Vols a 35-26 lead with 3:34 left in the first half. Vanderbilt came right back with consecutive 3-pointers by Foggie to cut the UT lead to 35-32 with 2:49 left.
Johnson’s putback with 6:30 left in the first half gave Tennessee the first lead larger than six points in the first half, 25-19. That finished a mini 6-0 run for UT.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In a physical game that saw both teams playing without key players due to injury, #9 Tennessee battled to a 65-56 victory over LSU on Thursday night before 13,107 at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Lady Vols moved to 14-4 overall and 5-1 in the SEC. The Lady Tigers, coached by former UT star Nikki Caldwell, fell to 13-5 and 4-2 in the league. Meighan Simmons led Tennessee with 19 points and Cierra Burdick netted a career-high tying 15, for her highest scoring game in more than a month. An ailing Glory Johnson played just 24 minutes and scored 10 points. Shekinna Stricklen missed the first game of her career with a right knee sprain. Vicki Baugh pulled down a season-high 14 rebounds as the Lady Vols outrebounded LSU, 45-39.
Courtney Jones led LSU with 16 points and Adrienne Webb added 12. LSU’s leading scorer LaSondra Barrett (12.5 ppg) was held to her second-lowest scoring game of the season with six before fouling out. In a very physical and tight game, neither team led by double-figures the entire game and neither team had a lead by more than two possessions for the first 30:30. The game was tied on 11 occasions before the Lady Vols ended the game on a 16-7 run over the final 6:22 to secure the win. Tennessee used a 10-0 run to take a 47-39 lead with 9:30 left in the second half. Back-to-back fastbreak lay-ups by Simmons and Johnson followed by a Cierra Burdick jumper put the Lady Vols ahead 45-39 with 10:34 left in the second half. But LSU retaliated with its own 10-2 run to tie the game at 49 all with 6:40 left in regula-tion. Burdick ended that spurt with a jump shot to regain a Lady Vols lead, 51-49 with 6:20 remaining. The lead moved to 56-51 thanks to late successful free-throw shooting. Tennessee had a stretch of making 7-of-8 foul shots late in the game after starting 6-of-15 from the charity stripe. Fastbreak lay-ups by Johnson and Ariel Massengale 19 seconds apart put Tennessee up 60-53 with 2:40 left in the game. Tennessee finished the game off with free throws in the final minutes to secure UT’s 28th straight home SEC win. LSU and Tennessee stood tied 26 all at intermission with solid defense being played by both teams. The Lady Vols were limited to 9-of-28 (32.1 percent) from the floor while the Lady Tigers shot 11-of-32 (34.4). Simmons led all scorers with eight points in the first half. Just 2.9 seconds before halftime, LSU guard Destini Hughes suffered a leg injury was the taken off the court in a wheelchair and did not return. The Lady Tigers were also without point guard Jeanne Kenney, who suffered a concussion in the first minutes of the game. Massengale gave the Lady Vols their first lead of the game since a Simmons 3-pointer opened the scoring, as the freshman’s lay-up put UT up 14-13 with 10:16 left in the first half. LSU quickly responded with a Barrett trey to regain the lead. That lead was short lived as Tennessee used a 13-5 run to take a 24-18 lead with 5:15 left in the first half. LSU came into the game with the nation’s second-best field goal percentage defense (30.3) and third in scoring defense (47.5). The Lady Tigers limited Tennessee to 37.5 from the floor. The Lady Vols defense was even more stiff in holding LSU to 34.4 from the floor.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Notre Dame01/23/12 7 p.m. at Notre Dame, Ind. (Purcell Pavilion)
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTENNESSEE 47 39 86Alabama 32 24 56
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 34 25 14 12 47UA 26 2 6 4 21
Last FG - UT 2nd-03:49, UA 2nd-00:03.Largest lead - UT by 33 2nd-02:32, UA None.
Score tied - 0 times.Lead changed - 0 times.
GAME 19#9 UT vs. #2 Notre Dame // Jan. 23, 2012
GAME 20#7/9 UT vs. Alabama // Jan. 26, 2012
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Skylar Diggins matched a season high with 27 points Monday night and No. 2 Notre Dame beat No. 7 Tennessee 72-44, holding the Vols to their lowest scoring output in school history.
Devereaux Peters had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Irish (20-1), who have won 17 straight. Tennessee (14-5) got 13 points from Meighan Simmons, but shot just 27.9 percent in the lopsided loss.
Notre Dame was 0-20 all-time against the Vols before a 73-59 victory in the NCAA regional finals last March in Dayton, Ohio. The Irish haven’t lost since Nov. 20 to top-ranked Baylor and have now beaten both UConn and Tennessee on their home floor this season after toppling both in last year’s NCAA tournament.
Leading at the half, the Irish jumped out early in the second as Diggins sank a 3-pointer and Peters had three inside baskets in an 11-3 run that opened up a 39-21 lead three minutes in. Tennessee continued to miss on everything, from both the field and the free-throw line.
Diggins made a nice strip of an inside pass, dribbled the length of the court, passed to Peters and then got it back for a layup to make it 44-26 with just over 14 minutes left. Then after picking up her third foul, Diggins hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game to make it a 21-point lead. Diggins was 10 of 17 from the field and 5 for 7 on 3-pointers.
After Tennessee closed to within 16 with about seven minutes to go, the Irish went on one final run to put it away. Kayla McBride added 17 points for the Irish.
The Vols made just 17 of 61 field-goal attempts and were only 7 for 16 from the free-throw line.
Rebounding, including eight early offensive caroms, kept the Vols close in the early stages of the game because they could not make a shot. They missed 14 of their first 17 attempts from the floor and finished the first half 7 for 35 (20 percent). And the poor shooting extended to the line, where the Vols were only 4 for 10. The field-goal percentage and total points were first-half lows for the Vols this season.
McBride, showing an ability to break for the basket, had nine straight Notre Dame points at one juncture and scored 11 in the first half. Diggins ended up with 10 at the half, hitting two free throws with 2 seconds left to put the Irish up 28-18.
Tennessee’s leading scorer, Shekinna Stricklen, who missed the previous game against LSU with a sprained knee, returned to the lineup and managed five points - five points under her average. And Vols guard Taber Spani, who has been sidelined with a bone bruise in her left knee since Dec. 26, was also able to play.
Meighan Simmons was the only Lady Vol to score in double-figures, recording a team-high 13 points. Glory Johnson chipped in nine points and nine rebounds, while Vicki Baugh tallied eight points and six boards.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The #7/9 Tennessee women’s basketball team got back on the win-ning track with a convincing 86-56 victory at Alabama. Shekinna Stricklen led four players in double-figures with 14. The Lady Vols improved to 15-5 overall with a 6-1 mark in the SEC. The Crimson Tide dropped to 10-11 and remain winless in the league at 0-7.
The Lady Vols unveiled a new starting lineup featuring Glory Johnson, Cierra Burdick, Briana Bass, Vicki Baugh and Ariel Massengale and it proved successful. Johnson tallied 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Burdick added nine while both Bass and Baugh tallied eight. Massengale was a sensational distributor handing out 11 assists -- one shy of her career-high.
Coming off the bench, Kamiko Williams and Isabelle Harrison each chipped in with 10.Kyra Crosby led Alabama with 15 points in defeat. She was Alabama’s lone double-figure scorer. The Tide was held to just 1-of-14 from 3-point territory.
“We were happy with the pace we played,” Tennessee associate head coach Holly Warlick said. “Obviously, we wanted to score. We wanted an up-tempo game. I thought the first half, Alabama hung tough with us.”
Tennessee jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the game’s first 2 minutes and was comfortably ahead for most of the opening half. The Vols led by 15 points at the break.
“To have a good start, I think that helps our team a lot, gives us a lot of confidence and warns people for next time,” Johnson said.
The Vols had only four turnovers compared to Alabama’s eight. Tennessee also won the rebounding battle 24-17.
“What I thought happened in the first half is if we’d made some free throws, maybe kept the score a little bit closer, it might’ve been a different type basketball game,” Alabama coach Wendell Hudson said. “But from the effort standpoint, Tennessee is a very good basketball team, and I thought we competed.”
Tennessee scored 25 points off 22 turnovers, including 11 steals.
The Vols shot 45 percent from the field (32-of-71) but just 21 percent on 3-point attempts (4-of-19). Alabama’s performance from long range was much worse; the Tide went 1-for-14.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Georgia01/29/12 5:00 PM ET at Stegeman Coliseum -- Athens, Ga.
Officials: Scott Yarbrough, Mark Zentz, Billy SmithTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Georgia-None.Attendance: 10523
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 29 38 67Georgia 28 22 50
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 32 9 7 8 9GA 24 18 15 6 6
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:36, GA 2nd-04:16.Largest lead - UT by 17 2nd-00:36, GA None.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 0 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsSouth Carolina vs TENNESSEE02/02/12 7:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
South Carolina 64 • 18-5, 7-3 SECTotal 3-Ptr Rebounds
Officials: Dee Kantner, Laura Morris, Carla FountainTechnical fouls: South Carolina-None. TENNESSEE-None.Attendance: 15021UT's #25 fouls out @ 12.0/2
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalSouth Carolina 29 35 64TENNESSEE 28 32 60
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchSC 24 9 14 4 6UT 36 6 12 4 19
Last FG - SC 2nd-02:15, UT 2nd-03:38.Largest lead - SC by 5 1st-16:18, UT by 7 2nd-05:02.
Score tied - 5 times.Lead changed - 10 times.
GAME 21#7/9 UT vs. #17/15 Georgia // Jan. 29, 2012
GAME 22#8 UT vs. South Carolina // Feb. 2, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. - After leading by just one point at halftime, #7/9 Tennessee outscored #17/15 Georgia in the second half, 38-22, to claim a 67-50 victory at Stegman Coliseum on Sunday evening. The Lady Vols (16-5, 7-1 SEC) scored the first 11 points of the second half to take a 40-28 lead and never looked back. The closest the Lady Dogs (16-6, 5-4) got for the remainder of the game was eight points. Shekinna Stricklen led all scorers with 24 points. Ariel Massengale was Tennessee’s only other double-figure scorer with 16. Georgia was led by Meredith Mitchell (13) and Jasmine Hassell (11). The Lady Vols’ defen-sive was stifling as it limited Georgia to just 28.8 from the floor (17-of-59) and a 2-of-18 from 3-point range. Taber Spani returned to action and scored three points. Glory Johnson was the top rebounder with eight to go along with five points. Stricklen keyed that 11-0 run to start the second half as she scored six points in the spurt that started with a Meighan Simmons 3-pointer just 15 seconds into the second half. Tennessee led 29-28 at halftime after Georgia cut its deficit to one just before halftime on a layup by Erika Ford with 30 seconds left in the half. The Lady Vols built a 19-11 lead on a 3-pointer by Spani with 10:50 left in the half, but Georgia answered with the next six points. To get back to within two at 19-17. The Lady Vols return to action on Thursday as South Carolina comes to Thompson-Boling Arena for a 7 p.m. Tip. That game will air on CSS and can be heard on the Lady Vol Network.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The #8 Lady Vols saw their 28-game home conference win streak come to an end as South Carolina handed Tennessee a 64-60 defeat. The Gamecocks finished the game on a run 9-0 run to claim their first-ever win in Knoxville after being 0-20 all-time. Markeshia Grant scored a career-high 27 points including seven 3-pointers for USC (18-5, 7-3 SEC).
The Lady Vols (16-6, 7-2) were led by Glory Johnson, who had 13 points. Ariel Massengale added 12.
All-time USC was 2-44 against the Lady Vols. The last time South Carolina beat Tennessee was on Jan. 23, 1980, a 56-52 USC win at home.
The last time Tennessee dropped a home SEC game was on Feb. 14, 2008, a 78-62 defeat at the hands of #7 LSU.
Ieasia Walker put home a lay-up with 2:15 left to take the lead for good, 61-60. Walker then knocked down one of two free throws with 1:00 left to make it a 62-60 game. The Gamecocks forced a jumpball and took possession with 45 seconds remaining. After Grant missed a 3-pointer with 21 seconds left La’Keisha Sutton grabbed an offensive rebound. Sutton then knocked down two free throws with 12 seconds left to seal the win. Those free throws were just the fourth and fifth made foul shots for South Carolina, which started 3-12 from the free-throw line in the game.
After being down by five, the Lady Vols rallied to tie the game at 46 all on a Shekinna Stricklen layup with 10:23 left in the second half. A Taber Spani 3-pointer -- Tennessee’s first trey of the game -- with 9:57 left gave the Lady Vols a 49-46 wrapping an 8-0 run. A Kamiko Williams 3-point play extended the advantage to 52-48 with 8:48 left.
Tennessee took the first lead of more than five points in the game on a Williams’ jumpshot with 5:00 left in the game. That put the Lady Vols up 57-50.
USC rallied back as Grant nailed her seven 3-pointer of the game with 3:41 left to cut the Gamecocks deficit to 57-55. That added to Grant’s career-high, but was her first basket in 10 minutes.
South Carolina trimmed the lead to one at 60-59 after a steal by Ashley Bruner and a lay-in by Aleighsa Welch with 2:49 left.
The game was close throughout with neither team leading by seven points all night. Ten-nessee didn’t score for the final 3:38 of the game on a Johnson lay-up.
The Gamecocks went on an 8-0 run over a two-minute span to take a 43-38 lead with 14:28 left in the second half.
South Carolina held a narrow 29-28 lead at halftime thanks to 15 points from Grant, who tallied 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting. The remainder of the USC squad shot just 7-of-24 from the floor (29.1 percent). Massengale had nine points in the first stanza to lead all Lady Vols.Tennessee did not have a steal in the game and made just one 3-pointer, that Spani trey in the second half.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsAuburn vs TENNESSEE02/05/12 2:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Officials: Bryan Enterline, Ed Sidlasky, Brian HallTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Vanderbilt-None.Attendance: 12034
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 34 45 79Vanderbilt 42 51 93
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 28 17 9 4 17VANDY 52 21 16 4 6
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:46, VANDY 2nd-00:05.Largest lead - UT by 2 1st-19:21, VANDY by 14 2nd-03:24.
Score tied - 3 times.Lead changed - 5 times.
GAME 23#8 UT vs. Auburn // Feb. 5, 2012
GAME 24#11 UT vs. #25 Vanderbilt // Feb. 9, 2012
KNOXVILLE - No. 8 Tennessee started a new homecourt conference win streak on Sunday afternoon with an 82-61 victory over Auburn. Glory Johnson and Ariel Massengale led all scorers with 14 points each. Johnson also grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and had four blocks for her ninth double-double of the season, while Massengale added four assists and four steals. Shekinna Stricklen posted a double-double as well, her third of the season and first since Nov. 27 against Baylor, with 11 points and 10 rebounds. UT moves to 17-6 overall and 8-2 in the SEC while Auburn lost for the fourth time in five games and fell to 11-13 and 3-8 in the league. Tennessee has won 14 games in a row at home vs. Auburn, dating to 1989. After trailing very early in the game, Tennessee made easy work of Auburn, pulling away in the second half. A layup by Vicki Baugh with 4:05 left in the first half gave the Lady Vols their first double-figure lead of the afternoon (38-27) and they continued to hold a margin of at least eight for the remainder of the game. Five consecutive points by Massengale gave UT a 56-39 lead with 13:24 left in the game. That was Tennessee’s largest lead to that point. Auburn cut the deficit to 11 at 58-47 on a lay-up by Morgan Jennings with 9:57 left, but Massengale answered with her own hoop with 9:30 left in the game. Hasina Muhammad’s lay-up with 6:53 left cut the Auburn deficit to eight at 61-53 but Meighan Simmons came right back to regain a 10-point and Johnson’s putback expanded the lead back to 12 at 65-53. A Lady Vols’ 11-0 run late in the game put the contest out of reach. Shekinna Stricklen’s lay-up off a feed from Massengale ballooned UT’s lead to 72-53 with 4:27 left. A Taber Spani 3-pointer with 5:00 left in the first half gave the Lady Vols a 34-25 lead. Tennessee continued to pull away as the Lady Vols took a 44-31 lead into halftime on an Massengale lay-up with 1:45 left in the half. Auburn held an advantage as large as five points early on, but Tennessee took the lead for good at 16-14 on an Alicia Manning lay-up with 13:54 left in the first half. A jumper by Spani with 12:15 left finished a 7-0 run for the Lady Vols and gave them an 18-14 lead. The Lady Vols had their 28-game home SEC win streak come to an end on Thursday night as South Carolina rallied late to beat UT, 64-60. In that game, Tennessee did not record a steal. Against Auburn, the Lady Vols came away with 13 thefts. The Lady Vols head to Vanderbilt for a Thursday night game at 9 p.m. ET. That game will air on CSS and can be heard on the Lady Vol Network.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The No. 11 Lady Vols trailed most of the night, but took a brief lead in the second half before No. 25 Vanderbilt regained control and posted a 93-79 victory at Memorial Gym.
Four Commodores scored in double-figures as Tiffany Clarke had 23 and Christina Foggie netted 22. Stephanie Holzer tallied 19 while Jessica Lister had 19 points and 13 assists. Vanderbilt moved to 19-5 overall and 7-4 in the SEC.
The Lady Vols (17-7, 8-3 SEC) were led by Meighan Simmons, who had 20 points. Glory Johnson scored 19 before fouling out with six minutes left in the game. Shekinna Stricklen also scored 17.
The game marked the second time Tennessee allowed 90 points this season, as the Lady Vols gave up 97 to Stanford on Dec. 20, 2011. It was the most points ever scored by Vandy against Tennessee as the Commodores shot 55 percent for the game and 58 percent in the second half alone.
Vanderbilt used a 17-2 run after the Lady Vols climbed all the way out of a 12-point hole to take a commanding 69-56 lead with 7:49 left in the game on a Clarke lay-up. The Commo-dores lead ballooned to 14 points as Foggie’s fastbreak lay-up put Vanderbilt up 80-66.
After being down by as many as 12 points, Tennessee rallied to take a short-lived lead at 54-52 with 11:42 left in the second half on a Johnson jumper. Cierra Burdick had tied the game at 52 all with 12:33 left in the game.
The Lady Vols lost to Vanderbilt for the first time in eight games and just the second time in the last 25 meetings dating to 2001-02.
Tennessee returns to action in a rematch with Kentucky on Monday night at 7 p.m. The Wildcats handled the Lady Vols their first conference loss of the season, 61-60 on Jan. 12.
