TENNESSEE 2011-12 LADYVOL BASKETBALL
Eight-Time National Champions
1987 1989 1991 1996 1997 1998 2007 2008
8 NCAA Championships | 16 SEC Championships | 15 SEC Tournament Championships #8/8 TENNESSEE (16-5) vs. SOUTH CAROLINA (17-5) Feb. 2| Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678) | Knoxville, Tennessee| 7 p.m.
#8/8 Tennessee
LADY VOL LEADERS
Points Record: 16-5 (7-1 SEC) Rebounds Head Coach: Pat Summitt Overall record: (1,087-204/38 yrs) Assists
Shekinna Stricklen - 15.4 ppg Glory Johnson - 9.4 rpg Ariel Massengale - 5.4 apg
rv/rv South Carolina GAMECOCK LEADERS Record: 17-5 (6-3 SEC) Head Coach: Dawn Staley Overall record: (231-133/12 yrs)
Points Rebounds Assists
THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAME All-Time: Tennessee is 44-2 In Knoxville: Tennessee is 20-0 Away: Tennessee is 18-1 At Neutral Sites: Tennessee is 6-1 Post Season: Tennessee is 4-1 Overtime: Tennessee is 1-0 Last Meeting: #4 Tennessee 82, South Carolina 60, Feb. 17, 2011 in Knoxville
Markeshia Grant- 10.3 ppg Aleighsa Welch- 6.1 rpg Ieasia Walker- 3.0 apg
This marks the 47th meeting between the two schools dating back to the 1972 season. Tennessee has defeated South Carolina in 40 consecutive meetings dating back to Jan. 23, 1980, when the Lady Vols’ point guard was current associate head coach Holly Warlick. Overall, the Lady Vols have won 28 consecutive SEC games in Thompson-Boling Arena dating back to 2008. The Lady Vols last SEC home loss was to #7-ranked LSU on Feb. 14, 2008, 78-62.
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 USC Team: #4 UT def. #15/14 South Carolina, 97-78 (Jan. 23, 2003), in Knoxville
2011-12 TENNESSEE LADY VOLUNTEERS No. 1 4 5 10 11 13 15 20 21 25 40
Name Briana Bass Kamiko Williams Ariel Massengale Meighan Simmons Cierra Burdick Taber Spani Alicia Manning Isabelle Harrison Vicki Baugh Glory Johnson Shekinna Stricklen
Yr. Sr. Jr. Fr. So. Fr. Jr. *Gr. Fr. *Gr. *Gr. Sr.
Ht. 5-2 5-11 5-6 5-9 6-2 6-1 6-1 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-2
Pos. PG G PG G F F/G F F/C F/C F G/F
Ppg 2.9 2.3 7.9 10.8 4.9 10.2 4.3 3.6 8.9 13.5 15.4
Rpg 0.8 1.4 2.6 2.4 2.5 3.3 4.5 3.3 7.6 9.4 6.3
Notes 15th career start at Alabama 9 gms back --ACL; 10 pts/5 ast @Bama Rookie record 12 assists vs. Vandy SEC career high 20 pts vs Auburn Started last 2 gms; 15 pts vs LSU Back after missing 9 games-bone bruise Started 9 games; gritty on D Career high 13 pts vs. UTC; Mobile post 14 rebounds vs. LSU; 11 starts solid 8 games b4 ND; 31 career d-d 24 pts at UGA; SEC Preseason POY
Head Coach Associate Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Dir. of Character Development Dir. of BB Operations Video Coordinator Graduate Assistant
Pat Summitt (Tennessee-Martin ‘74) 38th season at UT Holly Warlick (Tennessee ‘81) 27th season at UT Dean Lockwood (Spring Arbor College ‘82) 8th season at UT Mickie DeMoss (Louisiana Tech ‘77) 20th season at UT Daedra Charles-Furlow (Tennessee ‘91) 4th season at UT Kathy Harston (Wayland Baptist ‘80) 4th season at UT Michael Fahey (Benedictine ‘10) 1st season at UT 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
2011-12 LADY VOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Date Nov. 1 Nov. 8 Nov. 13 Nov. 15 Nov. 20 Nov. 27 Nov. 29 Dec. 4 Dec. 11 Dec. 13 Dec. 17 Dec. 20 Dec. 28 Jan. 1 Jan. 3 Jan. 5 Jan. 8 Jan. 12 Jan. 15 Jan. 19 Jan. 23 Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 2 Feb. 5 Feb. 9 Feb. 13 Feb. 16 Feb. 19 Feb. 23 Feb. 26 Mar. 1-4 Mar. 17-20 Mar. 24-27 Apr. 1 & 3
Opponent (TV) Time/Result Carson-Newman (Exh.) W, 105-40 Union University (Exh.) W, 93-45 Pepperdine (SS) W, 89-57 #7/7 Miami (Fla.) (ESPN2) W, 92-76 at Virginia (ESPN3) L, 64-69 OT #1/1 Baylor (ESPN) L, 67-76 MTSU (SS) W, 82-43. #21/22 Texas (SS) W, 73-57 vs. #20/21 DePaul (ESPNU) W, 84-61 at #11/11 Rutgers (ESPN) W, 67-61 at UCLA W, 85-64 at #4/4 Stanford (CSN/FSS) L, 80-97 Old Dominion (SS) W, 90-37 at Auburn (CSS) W, 73-52 UT-Chattanooga W, 90-47 #16/15 Georgia (CSS) W, 80-51 at Arkansas (ESPNU) W, 69-38 at #9/8 Kentucky (FSN) L, 60-61 #25/24 Vanderbilt (SECN) W, 87-64 LSU (CSS) W, 65-56 at #2/2 Notre Dame (ESPN2) L, 44-72 at Alabama (FSN) W, 86-56 at #17/15 Georgia (ESPN2) W, 67-50 South Carolina (CSS) 7:00 p.m. Auburn (SECN) 2:00 p.m. at Vanderbilt (CSS) 8:00 p.m. CT #5/5 Kentucky (ESPN2 in 3D) 7:00 p.m. at Mississippi St. (CSS) 8:00 p.m. CT at Ole Miss (SECN) 1:00 p.m. CT Arkansas (FSN) 7:00 p.m. Florida (ESPNU) 3:30 p.m. SEC Tournament Nashville, Tenn. NCAA Tournament (1st & 2nd Rds.) NCAA Tournament (Regionals) NCAA Final Four Denver, Colo.
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CONTACTS
*GR=Graduate Student
2011-12 LADY VOL BASKETBALL MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS Debby Jennings | Associate AD - Media Relations | Cell 865.806.5671 | Email djennings@utk.edu Megan Spedden | Media Relations Graduate Assistant | Cell 757.335.1951 | Email mspedden@utk.edu Eric Trainer | Assoc. Media Relations Director - Home Credentials | Email etrainer@utk.edu
RADIO Lady Vol Network Mickey Dearstone (play-by-play)
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012
TENNESSEE PROBABLE STARTERS...
5 10 11 25 40
ARIEL MASSENGALE Starts at guard ... 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 back-to-back... Missed DePaul/ Rutgers/at UCLA w/dislocated finger...Returned for 11 minutes at Stanford... 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.... MEIGHAN SIMMONS Starts at guard...13 pts vs. ND...19 pts vs. LSU...10 pts & 3 steals vs. Vandy...Tossed in 20 pts at Auburn for SEC career high...Filled in at PG vs. DePaul, at Rutgers, at UCLA for the injured Ariel Massengale... Started at Virginia as two guard... Struggled with shot but has improved from 26 percent to 33.5 percent... 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...
1 4 13 15 20 21
Briana Bass Kamiko Williams Taber Spani Alicia Manning Isabelle Harrison Vicki Baugh
5-2 Sr. PG 5-11 Jr. G 6-1 Jr. F/G 6-1 Gr. F 6-3 Fr. F/C 6-3 Gr.C
CIERRA BURDICK Starts at forward...Six rbs in 14 min at UGA...Earned the first start of her Lady Vol career at Alabama on Jan. 26...Tied her career with 31 minutes against the Tide...Became the 62nd rookie to earn a starting assignment during her freshman campaign....Registered a career high 15 points against LSU...Started the second half against the Lady Tigers and clocked 31 total minutes...Dished nine dimes vs. ODU..Tallied a career-best 10 rebounds versus Middle Tennessee... GLORY JOHNSON Starts in the post... Quick fours 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.-- just 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...16 pts/11 rbs vs. ODU,14 pts/13 rbs vs. Auburn earned SEC Player of the Week (D26-J1 & J2-8)... 22 pts/13 rbs vs. Georgia....18 pts at Stanford....31 career dbl-dbls...Preseason All-SEC ....Graduated in 3 years, working on Master’s degree... SHEKINNA STRICKLEN Starts at G-F-C... 24 pts in 40 min at UGA...Snapped her nation-leading consecutive starting assignments at 122 vs. Alabama...14 pts in 15 min. off the bench... 5 pts/7 rbs at ND...Missed LSU... Knee sprain vs Vandy after scoring 20 pts...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...Ill at UCLA just 11 pts... Career high 27 pts at Stanford...17 pts. at Auburn...19 pts/8 rbs at Arkansas...
SEC STANDINGS /// THE CONFERENCE RACE
Kentucky TENNESSEE South Carolina Georgia Arkansas Vanderbilt LSU Florida Mississippi State Auburn Ole Miss Alabama
OFF THE BENCH FOR TENNESSEE
SEC 9-0 7-1 6-3 5-4 5-4 4-4 4-4 3-5 3-5 3-6 2-7 0-8
Pct. 1.000 .875 .667 556 .556 .500 .500 .375 .375 .333 .222 .000
Home 5-0 3-0 4-1 2-2 2-1 4-1 2-1 2-2 1-3 1-3 1-5 0-4
Away 4-0 4-1 2-2 3-2 3-3 0-3 2-3 1-3 2-2 2-3 1-2 0-4
Neutral 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
ALL 20-2 16-5 17-5 16-6 16-5 16-5 14-7 13-8 13-8 11-11 12-10 10-12
Pct. .905 .762 .773 .727 .762 .762 .667 .619 .619 .500 .545 .455
Home 15-0 9-1 10-2 9-2 11-1 14-1 8-2 9-3 9-3 6-4 8-6 7-3
Away 5-2 6-4 6-3 5-2 3-3 2-4 6-5 2-4 4-4 3-6 4-4 1-8
Neut. Streak 0-0 W9 1-0 W2 1-0 W3 2-2 L2 2-1 W5 0-0 W2 0-0 L1 2-1 L2 0-1 L2 2-1 W1 0-0 L4 2-1 L8
2.9 ppg // 0.8 rpg 2.3 ppg// 1.4 rpg 10.2 ppg // 3.3 rpg 4.3 ppg // 4.5 rpg 3.6 ppg //3.3 rpg 8.9 ppg // 7.6 rpg
THIS WEEK ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE THURSDAY (2/2) Alabama at Arkansas, 7 p.m. CT Vanderbilt at Auburn, 6 p.m. CT Florida at LSU (CST), 6 p.m. CT Mississippi State at Georgia, 7 p.m. ET Ole Miss at Kentucky, 7 p.m. ET South Carolina at Tennessee (CSS), 7 p.m. ET SUNDAY (2/5) Georgia at Alabama (FSN), 2 p.m. CT Auburn at Tennessee (SECN), 2 p.m. ET Ole Miss at Florida, 2 p.m. ET Kentucky at LSU (CST), 2 p.m. CT Vanderbilt at Mississippi State, 2 p.m. CT THURSDAY (2/9) Alabama at Ole Miss, 7 p.m. CT South Carolina at Arkansas, 7 p.m. CT Auburn at Florida (FSFL/SUN), 7 p.m. ET Mississippi St. at LSU (CST), 6 p.m. CT Tennessee at Vanderbilt (CSS), 8 p.m. CT SUNDAY (2/12) LSU at Alabama (CSS), 1 p.m. CT Arkansas at Auburn (ESPN2), 1:30 p.m. CT Florida at S. Carolina (ESPN2), 5 p.m. ET Vanderbilt at Georgia (SECN), 2 p.m. ET Ole Miss at Mississippi St. (FSN), 2:30 p.m. CT
BY THE NUMBERS
MONDAY (2/13) Kentucky at Tennessee (ESPN2), 7 p.m. ET
2
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.
LADY VOL BASKETBALL /// 2011-12 GAME NOTES
13
Thirteen more wins will put Pat Summitt at her next victory milestone: 1,100 Ws.
20
Lady Vol studentathletes have earned WBCA State Farm/ Kodak All-America Honors
112
The number of weeks Tennessee has been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll
668
Number of wins all-time Lady Vol basketball has over teams on this year’s schedule
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012
2011-12 SOUTH CAROLINA ROSTER No. Name 0 Imani Sellers 1 Ebony Wilson 2 Shelbretta Ball 3 Ieasia Walker 5 Markeshia Grant 11 La’Keisha Sutton 12 Charenee Stephens 20 Sancheon White 21 Ashley Bruner 22 Courtney Newton 23 Tina Roy 24 Aleighsa Welch 30 Pamela Decheva 33 Elem Ibiam Head Coach: Dawn Staley
Pos. G G G G G G F G F G/F G F F F
Ht. 5-8 5-8 5-8 5-8 5-6 5-8 6-0 5-10 6-0 5-9 5-11 6-0 6-1 6-3
Yr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr.
Hometown/High School/College Holly Hill, S.C./Lake Marion Newark, N.J./Rend Lake College Jackson, Miss./Jackson Academy Amityville, N.Y./Copiague Tampa, Fla./College of Central Florida Trenton, N.J./Trenton Catholic Decatur, Ga./Southwest DeKalb Hammond, Ind./Central Arizona College Norman, Okla./Norman Flowery Branch, Ga./Flowery Branch Kaplan, La./Kaplan Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Sofia, Bulgaria Fayetteville, Ga./Fayette County
Associate Head Coach: Lisa Boyer; Assistant Coaches: Nikki McCray, Darius Taylor GAMECOCKS PROBABLE STARTERS 3 – Ieasia Walker, G, 5-8, Jr., 7.4 ppg, 3.0 apg 5 – Markeshia Grant, G, 5-6, Sr., 10.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg 11 – La’Keisha Sutton, G, 5-8, Sr., 9.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg 12 – Charenee Stephens, F, 6-0, Sr., 4.8 ppg, 4.6 rpg 22 – Courtney Newton, F, 5-9, Sr., 0.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg
Noting South Carolina Tidbits
South Carolina has won six SEC games for just the eighth time in its 21 years in the league. Three of those eight times have been under head coach Dawn Staley. The most SEC games the Gamecocks have ever won is 10 in 2001-02. South Carolina’s defense, rated second in the nation in points allowed (47.5), has held an opponent to 48 or fewer points 11 times this season, including four SEC foes – Alabama (42), Florida (44), Ole Miss (43) and Mississippi State (43). South Carolina has had a huge scoring boon in its current three-game win streak as the Gamecocks averaged 65.0 points over stretch. Prior to that, the Gamecocks were scoring just 56.2 points per game in league play prior to the start of this streak.
The 4-1-1 on South Carolina
Before facing Tennessee, South Carolina seniors La’Keisha Sutton and Markeshia Grant led the way in the Gamecocks 69-43 victory over Mississippi State on Jan. 29 Columbia, S.C. Sutton scored 17 points, her 11th double-figure game in the last 14 outings, while Grant had 15. USC turned an eight-point halftime lead into a comfortable margin with an immediate 17-3 run in the second half. Tough defense by South Carolina limited the Bulldogs to only 11-of-28 shooting in the first half. Defensive rebounding (11 boards) was a big factor in fueling the Gamecocks’ offense and USC allowed just two second-chance points the entire first half. The Gamecocks came out in the second half and went up 47-25, the largest lead of the game, just five minutes the half. South Carolina shot a season high 49.1 field goal percentage and out-worked the Lady Bulldogs on the boards only allowing three secondchance points on the game and turning 27 defensive rebounds into 21 fast break points.
Our Last Meeting with South Carolina
No. 4-ranked Tennessee clinched at least a share of its 16th SEC regular season championship with an 82-60 victory over South Carolina on Feb. 17, 2011 at Thompson-Boling Arena.
The Lady Vols improved to 13-0 in the conference and 25-2 overall in a game that was never in doubt. Junior Lyssi Brewer, in her first start of the season, scored a season-best seven points in the game’s first five minutes and five seconds. She also ripped down a season-best 10 boards in 17 minutes. The real star for the Big Orange, however, was junior Alicia Manning. A-Town scored a career-best 22 points, including her first three trey attempts of the game. She made 8-of-11 field goal attempts, grabbed five boards and grabbed three steals in 26 minutes. Junior Shekinna Stricklen recorded her ninth double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 boards, while Meighan Simmons dropped in 17 points and four assists. Tennessee held the Gamecocks without a field goal for eight minutes and 12 seconds of the first half. After Courtney Newton’s three at the 17:46 mark in the first half, USC didn’t score a bucket until Markeshia Grant hit a three with 9:34 remaining until the break. At that point, the Lady Vols led 21-10 after going on a 17-2 run. In the second half, UT used a 10-0 run to put the game away. Tennessee led to 70-47 with 6:29 left in the game.
Dealings with Dawn
Staley was MVP -- UT Won the NCAA Title
At the 1991 NCAA Final Four in New Orleans, La., Tennessee and Virginia squared off in the NCAA Championship game. The Virginia point guard at the time was Dawn Staley who helped her team stage a furious comeback to tie the game at 60-all in regulation. Staley scored 28 points before fouling out and was named the MVP – except the ballots were counted in the final three minutes during regulation. UT guard Dena Head also scored 28 points and led the Lady Vols in the overtime stanza to a 7067 victory over UVA. It was the first ever NCAA OT championship game.
Summitt vs. Staley
THE SOUTH CAROLINA SERIES
Tennessee vs. South Carolina (UT leads 44-2) DATE
2/18/72 3/10/73 2/16/74 1/15/79 3/9/79 1/23/80 3/7/80 3/21/80 1/12/81 1/25/82 12/4/82 2/16/83 2/8/84 2/18/85 1/6/86 2/19/87 1/20/88 2/2/89 1/25/90 1/24/91 1/15/92 2/18/93 2/8/94 1/12/95 2/15/96 2/11/97 2/28/97 1/6/98 1/7/99 1/14/00 1/11/01 1/17/02 1/23/03 1/15/04 2/8/04 1/27/05 2/17/05 1/4/06 2/1/07 3/2/07 1/13/08 1/18/09 1/7/10 1/31/10 1/20/11 2/17/11
AP RANK ESPN RANK SITE UT/OPP UT/OPP
4/nr 8/15 4/8 3/7 2/4 9/10 nr/12 4/13 4/nr 7/nr 20/nr 12/nr 9/nr 4/nr 2/17 3/15 4/nr 2/nr 1/nr 2/nr 1/nr 5/nr 8/nr 8/nr 1/nr 2/nr 2/nr 2/nr 2/8 4/15 5/nr 1/nr 5/nr 6/nr 1/nr 3/nr 2/nr 2/nr 13/nr 4/nr 5/nr 5/nr 4/nr
24/nr 13/nr 8/nr 4/nr 2/17 3/15 4/nr 2/nr 1/nr 2/nr 1/nr 5/nr 9/nr 11/nr 1/nr 2/nr 2/nr 2/nr 3/8 4/14 5/nr 1/nr 6/nr 6/nr 1/nr 3/nr 2/nr 2/nr 15/nr 4/nr 5/nr 6/nr 4/nr
W/L
SCORE
N1 W 44-30 N6 L 54-59 N1 W 72-45 H W 62-54 H W 76-64 A L 52-56 A27 W 67-54 N28 W 75-72 H W 65-54 A W 87-81 N36 W 84-62 H W 87-67 A W 71-66 H W 66-58 A W 70-54 H W 80-56 A W 85-80 H W 60-54 A W 70-69 H W 77-61 A W 78-58 H W 100-57 A W 91-75 H W 72-55 A W 79-73 H W 90-59 N65 W 75-48 A W 94-52 H W 87-58 A W 92-76 H W 99-45 A W 80-61 H W 97-78 A W 86-58 H W 72-58 A W 68-53 H W 74-44 A W 66-51 H W 72-36 N119 W 81-63 A W 71-48 H W 68-56 H W 79-62 A W 60-55 A W 71-56 H W 82-60
HEADING INTO THE GAME… UT and USC meet today for the 47th time in the series. The Lady Vols have recorded 40 consecutive victories over the Gamecocks dating back to the 1979-80 season when UT associate head coach Holly Warlick was the starting point guard. Warlick was quarterbacking the team the only time UT lost to USC in the Summitt Era. The day after the loss, the Lady Vol players wore their game uniforms in practice -- since (then) Coach Pat Head said her team “had only played for about 20 minutes in them.”
Before she became head coach at South Carolina, Hall of Famers Dawn Staley and Pat Summitt met twice before when Staley was head coach at Temple. Her Owls were 0-2 vs. UT. The #1-ranked Lady Vols narrowly won in Knoxville, 52-48, in 2004, and then took a 75-50 win in Philadelphia in 2005. FOLLOW ON TWITTER @LADYVOL_HOOPS /// WWW.UTLADYVOLS.COM
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012
2011-12 LADY VOL WEEK-BY-WEEK
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WEEK
GAMES PLAYED
Oct. 31 Nov. 7 Nov. 14 Nov. 21 Nov. 28 Dec. 5 Dec. 12 Dec. 19 Dec. 26 Jan. 2 Jan. 9 Jan. 16 Jan. 23 Jan. 30 Feb. 6 Feb. 13 Feb. 20 Feb. 27
CARSON-NEWMAN (EXH), UNION (EXH), PEPPERDINE #7/7 MIAMI, at Virginia #1/1 BAYLOR NR/RV MIDDLE TENNESSEE, #21/22 TEXAS vs. #20/21 DePaul at #11 Rutgers, at UCLA at #4/4 Stanford OLD DOMINION, at Auburn UT-CHATTANOOGA, #16/15 GEORGIA, at Arkansas at #9/8 Kentucky, #25/24 VANDERBILT LSU at #2/2 Notre Dame, at Alabama, at #17/15 Georgia SOUTH CAROLINA, AUBURN at Vanderbilt KENTUCKY, at Mississippi State, at Ole Miss ARKANSAS, FLORIDA at SEC Tournament
RECORD
AP/ESPN
1-0 2-1 2-2 4-2 5-2 7-2 7-3 9-3 12-3 13-4 14-4 16-5
3/3 3/3 3/3 6/7 8/8 7/8 6/6 6/6 7/8 6/7 6/7 9/9 7/9 8/8
Noting Tennessee
Rim Runners
Lady Vols at a Glance This is the Lady Vols’ 38th season under Head Coach Pat Summitt. She has compiled a staggering 1,087-204 overall record. Is closing in on a milestone of 1,100 W’s -needs just 13 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 program’s seventh and eighth titles. Last season, UT finished with a 34-3 overall record 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 Bolingbrook, 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 Home Sweet Home! The Lady Vols will enjoy five games at home and three on the road in the month of February. This week, Tennessee entertains South Carolina on Feb. 2 and Auburn on Feb. 5 in Knoxville. On This Day in LV Basketball History UT is 13-3-1 in games played on Feb. 2. The Lady Vols are 8-1 at home, 5-2-1 on the road and 0-0 on neutral courts. The last time out on Feb. 2, #12/15-ranked UT lost to #2/2 Oklahoma, 70-80, in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 2009. Looking Back Last year at this time, the #5/6-ranked Lady Vols (21-2 overall, 9-0 SEC) had just defeated Arkansas, 72-53, in Fayetteville. Looking Ahead Enjoying Thompson-Boling Arena for another home game. Tennessee meets Auburn for the second time this season on Feb. 5. The Lady Vols knocked off the Tigers in the first SEC game of 2011-12 on The Plains on Jan. 1, 2012 by a 73-52 margin.
UT’s SEC Streak in TBA Overall, the Lady Vols have won 28 consecutive SEC games in Thompson-Boling Arena dating back to 2008. The Lady Vols last SEC home loss was to #7-ranked LSU on Feb. 14, 2008, 78-62. Noting Tonight’s Game The Lady Vols averaged 76.5 points in two victories over the Gamecocks last season. As a rookie, Meighan Simmons erupted for 30 points in two contests versus South Carolina in 2010-11. In five career games against USC, senior Shekinna Stricklen has averaged 10.7 ppg. At home, the Big Orange are outscoring the opposition by 25.1 points. Nikki McCray Knows TBA South Carolina assistant coach Nikki McCray knows her way around Thompson-Boling Arena. As a forward/guard wearing number 23 for the Lady Vols from 1991-95, McCray was a Kodak All-American. The 5’11” Collierville, Tenn., native scored 1,572 career points (12.4 ppg), grabbed 671 rebounds (5.3 rpg) and snagged 289 steals (2.3 spg) while starring in 127 Lady Vol games. One of McCray’s most notable lifelong events occurred on The Summitt in Thompson-Boling Arena. As a member of the 1996 USA Olympic Team, the squad played an exhibition game against the Lady Vols in Knoxville on Nov. 22, 1995. McCray was surprised with a marriage proposal at center court following the game. 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. Ariel Massengale, who ranks fourth in the country with a 2.62 assist-to-turnover ratio, is
LADY VOL BASKETBALL /// 2011-12 GAME NOTES
THE POLLSTERS Associated Press 1/30 1. Baylor 2. Notre Dame 3. UConn 4. Stanford 5. Duke 6. Kentucky 7. Miami [Fla.] 8. TENNESSEE 9. Maryland 10. Green Bay 11. Ohio State 12. Delaware 13. Rutgers 14. Louisville 15. Purdue 16. Nebraska 17. Georgetown 18. Texas A&M 19. Penn State 20. Gonzaga 21. Georgia 22. BYU 23. North Carolina 24. Georgia Tech 25. Texas Tech
ESPN/USA Today 1/31 1. Baylor 2. Notre Dame 3. UConn 4. Stanford 5. Kentucky 6. Duke 7. Miami [Fla.] 8. TENNESSEE 9. Green Bay 10. Maryland 11. Ohio State 12. Louisville 13. Delaware 14. Rutgers 15. Georgetown 16. Texas A&M 17. Purdue 18. Nebraska 19. Gonzaga 20. Georgia 21. Penn State 22. Georgia Tech 23. DePaul 24. North Carolina 25. Kansas
2011-12 Opponents Receiving Votes
2011-12 Opponents Receiving Votes
DePaul South Carolina Arkansas Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt MTSU South Carolina
Tennessee In The National (AP) Rankings Total weeks ranked in the AP poll Weeks ranked in the AP top 10 Weeks ranked in the AP top 5 Weeks ranked No. 1 in the AP Most consecutive weeks in top 25 Most consecutive weeks in top 10 Most consecutive weeks in top 5 Most consecutive weeks ranked No. 1 *indicates inactive streak
612 555 441 112 475 211* 90* 19*
Tennessee vs. AP Ranked Opponents In 2011-12 7-4 Home 4-1 Away 2-3 Neutral 1-0 All-Time 421-168 Home 177-38 Away 119-79 Neutral 125-51 vs. Top 10 (all-time) 177-123 Home 69-31 Away 42-56 Neutral 65-36 vs. Top 5 (all-time) 83-81 Home 38-23 Away 16-36 Neutral 29-22
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 just three assists shy of tallying 100 helpers on the season. Freshman Cierra Burdick has started the last two games, and averaged 6.50 ppg.
Eclipsed 200,000 at Georgia
Leading the Nation A crowd of 10,523 in Athens, Ga., for the Tennessee vs. Georgia put UT over 200,000 spectators on the season. 204,984 have seen Tennessee play at home, on the road and on one neutral court. In 10 games at home, the Lady Vols have attracted 138,117 spectators. UT went over the 100,000 mark in home fans in just eight games this season in Knoxville.
Dropping Dimes
‘Rel Can Dish Frosh Ariel Massengale is just three assists away from 100 for the season. She has handed out 97 assists in 18 games. She 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. When she hits the century mark, she’ll become just the 10th Lady Vol rookie to dish 100 first year helpers. 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), Kristen “Ace” Clement (107), Meighan Simmons (104) and Candace Parker (103).
For Real Rebounding
Chasing 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 South Carolina, Johnson has 1,061 career rebounds in 126 games. She is chasing Chamique Holdsclaw who collected 1,295 rebounds in 148 career games.
Former UT Players & Staffers in Coaching
Tough W’s against Summitt The roll call goes like this: Sylvia Hatchell, Sharon 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. Former assistant Carolyn Peck was the first 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 TipOff 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 coaches 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 19962000) at Arizona; Tonya Edwards (UT 1986-90) at Alcorn State; Teresa Geter (UT 1997-99) at Denark (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 199599) at N.C. State; Lea Henry Manning (UT 197983) 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 on each sideline in the Kentucky, South Carolina and LSU games. Holly Warlick (UT 1976-80) is the associate head coach at Tennessee. On the 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 first season at LSU with Caldwell.
Wooden Award Mid-Season List
Two 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 first 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 midseason 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.
The Pat Summitt File (all in 38 seasons as UT’s head coach) ALL GAMES OVERALL: ...................................... 1,087-204 (.841) HOME: .................................................. 501-46 (.916) AWAY: ................................................... 357-94 (.796) NEUTRAL: ............................................ 229-64 (.781) SEC GAMES OVERALL: ........................450-66 (.872) vs. all SEC HOME: .................................................. 201-13 (.938) AWAY: ................................................... 171-36 (.826) NEUTRAL: ..............................................78-17 (.821) NON-CONFERENCE GAMES OVERALL: ..........................................637-138 (.822) SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS (16 out of 31) 1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011 SEC TOURNAMENT GAMES OVERALL: ...............................................66-17 (.795) SEC TOURNAMENT TITLES (15 out of 31) 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 GAMES VS. RANKED TEAMS OVERALL: ..........................................436-166 (.724) AP RANKED 1-10: .............................175-124(.595) AP RANKED 11-25:............................ 236-37 (.861) ESPN RANKED 1-10: ......................... 132-81 (.634) ESPN RANKED 11-25:....................... 202-26 (.883) GAMES VS. UNRANKED TEAMS OVERALL: ............................................ 651-38 (.945) NCAA TOURNAMENT GAMES OVERALL: ............................................ 109-22 (.823) 30 FIRST/SECOND ROUNDS: ......................... 46-1 29 REGIONAL SEMIS: ....................................... 24-5 24 REGIONAL FINALS: ..................................... 18-6 18 NCAA FINAL FOURS: ................................21-10 NCAA 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 2000
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 In the Jump Circle Those Ranked Teams Georgia was be the 11th ranked team the Lady Vols faced in 2011-12. UT is 7-4 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 (6750). Tennessee’s ranked losses have been to #1 Baylor (76-67), at #4 Stanford (97-80), at #9/8 Kentucky (61-60) and at #2 Notre Dame (7244). South Carolina has taken on five ranked teams and has a 3-2 record. South Carolina defeated #18/16 North Carolina (79-48), #24/21 Vanderbilt (65-55) and #25/22 Vanderbilt (65-60 OT) and lost to #11/12 Penn State (55-50) and to #9/8 Kentucky (66-58). Versus South Carolina Tennessee enters the game with South Carolina sporting the nation’s number one strength of schedule and the number two RPI according to the NCAA. South Carolina has an RPI of 39 and a strength of schedule at 77. In career games against South Carolina, Meighan Simmons averages 15.0 ppg while Shekinna Stricklen drops in 14.4 ppg. Stricklen is best on the boards at 7.8 rpg.
Liking a Complete Squad
Two Games Old Against Notre Dame on Jan. 23, the entire 11 member Lady Vol squad played for the first time in the 2011-12 season. Later that week, all 11 were available to play at #17/15 Georgia. The full complement of players is expected to be ready for the South Carolina game.
Super Sunday
Mark it Down On Sun., Jan. 22, all 11 Lady Vols on the 201112 roster practiced together for the first time all season. Junior Taber Spani, who had been sidelined since Dec. 26 and who had not played since Dec. 20, participated in practice. Spani shed her crutches Jan. 20 and went through a light workout with Jenny Moshak, Associate Athletics 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. Spani will continue to be evaluated daily.
Put it in the Rearview Mirror
No Excuses--Everyone was available to Play All 11 Lady Vols were available and saw action for the first time in 2011-12 at Notre Dame. Taber Spani returned to the floor for a game the first 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 effort 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. 6
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The only other team was Virginia (13 steals), also a loss.
SEC Notebook
Ticket News Flash! Vanderbilt has now released single game tickets for the Tennessee at Vanderbilt game on Feb. 9th in Nashville. Previously, the only way to get a ticket to the Tennessee game was to purchase the entire book of Vandy season tickets The link to purchase is: https://oss.ticketmaster. com/html/pack_planlist.htmI?l=EN&CNTX=&team =vanderbilt&selID=110. The tickets are upper levels of the arena and are $25 each plus associated fees. Sweet Home Tennessee Since Tennessee began contesting games with SEC opponents, the Lady Vols have produced a 188-12 record in home games. Only six SEC teams have ever managed a victory over the Lady Vols in Knoxville – Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU and Ole Miss. Georgia has won three games on UT’s turf while Auburn, Kentucky, Ole Miss and LSU have registered two wins each and Florida one win. Georgia was the only team to defeat UT at home in the 1990s (1991 & 1996). LSU and Florida 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 Conference 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 Vanderbilt are the SEC programs with the next fewest head coaches over the 38 year span -just four each 1996. Tennessee owns a 453-67 record all-time record vs. 12 teams from the SEC. UT maintains a winning record against every team in the SEC. UT owns a league best record of 312-41 (.884) against all SEC teams dating back to the 198283 season. SEC Regular Season Story UT’s last SEC win at home: LSU, 65-56, 1-19-12 UT’s last SEC win away: Georgia, 67-50, 1-29-12 UT’s last SEC loss at home: LSU, 78-62, 2-14-08 UT’s last SEC loss away: Kentucky, 61-60, 1-12-12 Conference Call Tennessee practically holds a winning streak over every SEC team. The Lady Vols sport 30plus game winning streaks over three SEC teams -- South Carolina 40, Alabama 38, and Mississippi State 32. 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 3-3-1984 Arkansas 18 in row, since 12-29-1996 Auburn 3 in a row, since 3-7-2009 Florida 6 in a row, since 2-8-2009 Georgia 4 in a row, since 1-21-2010 Kentucky none streak, since 1-12-2012 LSU 5 in a row, since 2-26-2009 Mississippi 22 in a row, since 2-4-1996
Mississippi St. 32 in a row, never lost to MSU South Carolina 40 in a row, since 1-23-1980 Vanderbilt 7 in a row, since 1-11-2009 Found 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 first 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.
We BouncedYet Again
Bounced Back from Loss Number Five Tennessee bounced back from loss number five of the season at #2/2-ranked Notre Dame with an 86-56 win at Alabama on Jan. 26. The last time UT had five losses on Feb. 2 was the Cinderella Season of 1996-97. The Lady Vols actually had seven losses at that point in the year (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) five losses on the year was the 11 “L” season in 2008-09.
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 first career start was freshman Cierra Burdick. Burdick became the 62nd player in Lady Vol history to start during her freshman campaign. Fellow freshman Ariel Massengale was No. 61 on that list, starting the first game of the season versus Pepperdine. Also receiving the starting nod was senior Briana Bass who started for the first time this season and the 15th time in her career. Shekinna’s Number was Not Called Lady Vol senior Shekinna Stricklen had the nation’s longest starting streak entering the 201112 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 first 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 first 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 rebounds. She started the second half for Glory Johnson who suffered a shoulder injury. Even when Johnson returned, the Lady Vol coaching staff elected to keep UT’s AutoZone Player of the Game on the floor.
Free Throw Defense
7-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 defense hadn’t been so tough. The Lady Vols were an anemic 18 for 31 from the
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 charity stripe for 58.1 percent. I Swear We Practice Making free throws has always been a team priority and some of the LSU misses came from normally 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 inaccuracy from the free throw line in the loss to Virginia 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 present of 69.5 percent (328-472) . Glory Johnson has been sent to the line a team high 130 times and connected on just 80 for a dismal 61.5 accuracy rate.
She was the Dish
SEC Player of the Week After breaking the Lady Vol record for rookie assists on Jan. 15, Tennessee guard Ariel Massengale 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 Vanderbilt 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 Simmons (11 assists vs. Alabama 1/6/11). Her 12 assists also tied for the fifth-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 Vanderbilt on Jan. 15. Massengale eclipsed the previous record of 11 assists set by Meighan Simmons against Alabama on Jan. 6, 2011.
Golden Girls
Rookies Recognized In recognition of an impressive gold-medal performance at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship this past summer, USA Basketball today announced the USA Women’s U19 World Championship Team as the 2011 USA Basketball Team 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. finished 8-1 to capture the gold medal and stand atop the FIBA U19 World Championship podium for a fourthstraight time.
HomeWins for Summitt
Summitt at 500 With a 87-64 victory over Vanderbilt, Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt collected her 500th career win at home. Of the now 501 wins (thru the LSU 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 Summitt...Her 200th SEC home win.
Top of the Class
In 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 finish requirements for a M.S. in Kinesiology. Johnson graduated in just three years and is a M.S. candidate in Communications. Wednesday was the first day of grad school for Manning who graduated in December 2011. She is seeking a M.S. in Kinesiology.
Things to Consider
Over 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 138,117 fans (13,812 average) in Thompson-Boling Arena in 2011-12. The game versus Vanderbilt on Jan. 15, 2011 drew the highest total at home this season, 17,879. No Secrets -- Even if We Tried The Lady Vols have appeared on television in 19 of 21 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. SEC Streak in TBA Overall, the Lady Vols have won 28 consecutive SEC games in Thompson-Boling Arena dating back to 2008. The Lady Vols last SEC home loss was to #7-ranked LSU on Feb. 14, 2008, 78-62.
Elite Company
Glory -- 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-figure rebounder in the history of the program -- Olympian and Kodak All-American 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-figure rebounding average but had to settle for 9.8 rpg. Last season, Glory Johnson flirted with the elusive double-digit and managed 9.7 rpg. Johnson is currently averaging 9.4 rpg.
From the Chalk Board
MUST Control the Glass Tennessee has lost the rebounding battle against Miami; in back-to-back games against UCLA and Stanford, and to Notre Dame. Conversely, the Lady Vols held a decisive rebounding 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 turning the ball over. UT committed a total of 24 turnovers in the loss to Virginia which led to 29 UVa points but did a little bit better job against Baylor with just 11 miscues leading to 14 Lady Bear points. In a sprint fest against Texas, UT’s ball security led to just nine giveaways. On the season, UT has generated 17.2 points off of miscues per game while the opposition is banking 13.1 ppg off of Orange mistakes. UT leads in second chance points per game at 17.1 ppg with the opposition checking in at 11.4 ppg.
Head Coach Pat Summitt
Amazing Summitt Numbers Pat Summitt’s teams have faced 164 different opponents in 1,291 total games and teams from 35 conferences 46% of her 1,291 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 1,087 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 recipient 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 will address the Convention attendees in a taped video message and Joan Cronan will accept the award on Summitt’s behalf. Announced on Dec. 6 the award is named in recognition of former President Gerald Ford, honors an individual who has provided significant leadership as an advocate for intercollegiate athletics over the course of their career. NCAA President Mark Emmert said her contributions 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 basketball – 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 continues 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 players, managers and staffers asking them to share written memories, Summitt’s influence 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 depression,’’ said Holdsclaw. “What I realized from these letters is coach has helped these players through some of the most difficult times of their lives. When I’m reading them, I’m thinking, ‘Wow
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 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 excited and very touched by the book.” Maggie Dixon Award Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt was presented with the Maggie Dixon Courage Award at Madison 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 collegiate 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 immortals, 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 honoree based on the principles established in 1954, when runner Roger Bannister was honored as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s first Sportsman: “While the victory may have been his or hers, it is not for the victory alone that he or she is honored. Rather, it is for the quality of their effort and manner of their striving.” Summitt and Krzyzewski join UCLA’s John Wooden (1972) and North Carolina’s Dean Smith (1997) to round out a veritable Mount Rushmore of college coaches who have received this award. In 1972, Wooden, who had won his eighth national 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 first 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 Huskies on January 21st (CBS). Thousands of fans wore the “We Back Pat” t-shirt to the Baylor game as 16,623 spectators were on 8
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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 Tennessee 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-profit organizations which provide education 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 disease. “Tyler and I have decided to join this battle, not just for us, but also for the millions of families affected 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 recipients 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 perseverance. This year’s list of distinguished honorees includes: 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 Advocate for the Elderly), Toby Keith (The Supporter of U.S. Troops), Hilton Kelley (The Environmental Advocate), Emilio Estefan Jr. (The Latino Promoter) and Ret. Army Col. Bill Badger, Patricia Maisch, and Roger Salzgeber (The Arizona Shooting Heroes). “Through their extraordinary efforts to lead, innovate, and give back in ways that make a real impact, this year’s honorees motivate our readers to make a make a difference 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 define inspiration.” This year’s honorees are profiled in the December/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 fight it,
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 different starting lineups. Gms. 1-2, 4-6 3 7-10 11-17, 19 18 20 21
Rec. 4-1 0-1 3-1 6-2 1-0 1-0 1-0
Line-up (F-F-C-G-G) Johnson, Strick, Baugh, Massengale, Spani Spani, Strick, Johnson, Massengale, Simm Johnson, Strick, Baugh, Simmons, Spani Mann, Strick, Johnson, Massengale, Simm Mann, Baugh, John, Massengale, Simm Johnson, Burdick, Baugh, Massengale,Bass Stricklen, Burdick, Johnson, Massengale, Simm
UT’s Win/Loss Differential Wins: +53 (1), +43 (1), +39 (1), +32 (1), +31 (1), +30 (1), +29 (1), +23 (2), +21 (2), +17 (1), +16 (2) , +9 (1), +6 (1) Losses: -1 (1), -5 (1), -9 (1), -17 (1), -28 (1)
Offensive Opportunities Tennessee shooting from the field (all games): 60% FG: UCLA (.692) 50%FG: Vanderbilt1 (.529), Arkansas (.500), 40%FG: ODU (.493), Pepperdine (.492), Stanford (.491), Georgia2 (.489), Miami (.478), DePaul (.475), UTC (.472), Alabama (.451), MTSU (.448), Georgia1 (.424), UVa (.407) 30%FG: Kentucky1 (.383), Rutgers (.382), LSU (.374), Texas (.368), Auburn1 (.323), 20%FG: Baylor (.293), Notre Dame (.279)
Dee --- Fense Opponents shooting from the field (all games): 50%FG: Stanford (.536), Notre Dame (.508) 40%FG: Vanderbilt1 (.451), Baylor (.417), Miami (.408), Rutgers & Virginia (.403), Alabama (.400) 30%FG: Texas & Auburn1 (.373), UCLA (.368), Georgia1 (.349), Kentucky1 (.345), LSU (.344), DePaul (.309), UTC (.304) 20%FG: Georgia2 (.288), Pepperdine (.284), ODU (.254), MTSU (.238) 10%FG: Arkansas (.182)
Leading at the Break (15): Pepperdine, Baylor, MTSU, Texas, DePaul, Rutgers, UCLA, ODU, Auburn1, UTC, Georgia1, Arkansas, Vanderbilt1, Alabama, Georgia2 Tied at the Half (3): Miami, Virginia, LSU Leading at the Half
Trailing at the Half (3): Stanford (by 7 points), Kentucky (by 4 points), Notre Dame (by 10 points)
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 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 courage, 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 fight 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 decades of coaching. In two 2011-12 preseason exhibitions contests, the Lady Vols outrebounded the opposition 52.0 rpg to 26.5 rpg. UT started out the 2011-12 regular season hauling 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 rebounds. 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 collecting 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 outrebounding UT, 44-35. Overall this season, the Lady Vols hold just a +9.1 rebounding advantage, 44.6-35.4. Last season, in 37 games, Tennessee was outrebounded only twice -- by Georgia Tech, 37-36, and vs. Kentucky in the SEC Tournament final, 46-41. Overall, the Lady Vols held a +12.4 rebounding advantage, 46.3 to 33.9, in 2010-11.
Streaking
We were Streaking into 2011-12 The Lady Vols had a 38-game home court winning 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 #1 Baylor, 76-67, on Nov. 27, 2011, since then UT is 7-0 at home. The last time UT lost on the road was on Jan. 23, 2012 at Notre Dame, 72-44. UT is 2-0 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 Play
Rocky Top, You’ll Always Be... Home, sweet home, to me.... On good ole Rocky Top, Tennessee has already entertained the home fans to a scoring bonanza this season averaging 82.9 ppg on The Summitt while holding the opponents to 53.5 ppg. No wonder the Lady Vols average a nation leading 13,812 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 350-21 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 Summitt.” The floor had a complete overhaul with permanent 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 actual signature adorns the sidelines opposite the team benches. 300 Wins in TBA Tennessee recorded its 300th win in ThompsonBoling 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 350-21(.942) record since the Orange and White moved into the Thompson-Boling Arena to start the 1987-88 season 25-years ago. Along the way, the Lady Vols have produced 10 flawless home records: in 1988-89 (15-0), 199192 (14-0), 1992-93 (13-0), 1993-94 (15-0), 199495 (15-0), 1997-98 (16-0), 1998-99 (14-0), 200001 (15-0), 2002-03 (16-0), 2009-10 (17-0) and 2010-11 (17-0). UT also registered a former NCAA record 69game home court-winning streak from Feb. 1, 1991 thru Jan. 2, 1996. Just 21 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 seven times. UT lost two games in TBA during the inaugural 1987-88 campaign, 1996-97, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06 and 2008-09 seasons. The 21 all-time losses at TBA have come at the hands of just 11 teams: Baylor (2011), Virginia (2008), Florida (2006), LSU (2008, 2006), Duke (2009, 2007, 2004), Connecticut (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 501-46 overall record. Home losses (in the Summitt era) include: six in Alumni Gym from 1974-76; 19 in Stokely Athletics Center from 1976-87; and 21 in ThompsonBoling Arena.
On the Court
100 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 century mark at Thompson-Boling Arena.
In Overtime Tennessee is 28-14 all-time in overtime games. UT’s most recent overtime affair 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 affair in Knoxville was a 8272 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 1,180 victories. The next closest program 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 1,180-261-2 (.827) all-time record. Staffers Have, But Never a Player No former Lady Vol who has joined the collegiate coaching ranks has ever beaten Head Coach Pat Summitt.
Lady Vol Honorees
Trio Named Lady Vol seniors Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen along with sophomore Meighan Simmons have been recognized among the group of players chosen for the 2011-12 preseason candidate list for the Naismith Trophy as announced 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 selection of the Midseason Top 30 List in February, and that list will be whittled to four finalists in March. The Naismith Trophy will be presented during the NCAA Women’s Final Four, April 1-3 in Denver. 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 Johnson 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 selected as a First Team Associated Press Preseason All-American. Also joining Stricklen on the five player team were Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Notre Dame’s Skylar 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 field. Johnson is one of three nominees from the SEC.
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence -community, classroom, character and competition. The CLASS award is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School and focuses on the total student-athlete. “Glory is an ideal candidate for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award,” Head Coach Pat Summitt said, “blending the perfect balance of excellence in the classroom, on the court and in the community. She is our first player ever to graduate in three years and that shows her dedication and discipline toward her academics.” Johnson captured All-SEC First Team honors in 2010-11 and was a finalist for the 2011 State Farm All-America Team. A Master of Science in Communication candidate, Johnson completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Programs with a Concentration 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 AllAmericans on their roster in 2011-12 with eight players. Tennessee’s McDonald’s All-Americans: Vicki Baugh, Glory Johnson, Alicia Manning, Meighan Simmons, Shekinna Stricklen, Taber Spani, Cierra Burdick and Ariel Massengale.
Preseason Predictions
SEC Coaches Tab Lady Vols The Southeastern Conference unveiled its eighth annual women’s basketball preseason All-SEC first 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. The Lady Vols returns the bulk of last year’s team. A five member senior-laden squad, UT will be led by 2011 State Farm All-American and SEC Preseason Player of the Year Shekinna Stricklen. The Lady Vols went 34-3, 16-0 in conference play, and won both the SEC regular season and tournament championships last year. Kentucky, Georgia, LSU, Florida and Vanderbilt round out the top half of the league with South Carolina, Arkansas, Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi 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 Russell, 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 Tiffany Clarke. School 1. Tennessee 2. Kentucky 3. Georgia 4. LSU 5. Florida 6. Vanderbilt 7. South Carolina 8. Arkansas 9. Auburn 10
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10. Alabama 11. Mississippi State 12. Ole Miss
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FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC Shekinna Stricklen, Tennessee LaSondra Barrett, LSU A’dia Mathies, Kentucky Glory Johnson, Tennessee C’iera Ricketts, Arkansas Stephanie Holzer, Vanderbilt Meighan Simmons, Tennessee Jasmine James, Georgia SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC La’Keisha Sutton, South Carolina Ieashia Walker, South Carolina Adrienne Webb, LSU Valencia McFarland, Ole Miss Ericka Russell, Alabama Jasmine Hassell, Georgia Tiffany Clarke, Vanderbilt Sarah Watkins, Arkansas PLAYER OF THE YEAR Shekinna Stricklen, Tennessee Glory Johnson, Tennessee Meighan Simmons, Tennessee Lasondra Barrett, LSU A’dia Mathies, Kentucky
POINTS 6 3 1 1 1
Lady Vols Picked #1 by SEC Media Tennessee was predicted to win the 2012 Southeastern Conference women’s basketball championship in a voting of a select panel of both SEC and national media members. Tennessee topped the order of finish with 264 points, with Georgia (228), Kentucky (212), LSU (189), Vanderbilt (172) and Florida (151) rounding out the top half of the league. Arkansas (142), South Carolina (107), Auburn (94), Alabama (55), Mississippi State (54) and Ole Miss (48) round out the bottom half. Tennessee’s Shekinna Stricklen was the overwhelming 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 Mathies, 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 Notes
BCS Schedule On the road...the Lady Vols traveled for three consecutive 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 final 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 Alabama. The arduous road swing concluded with a 67-50 win at #17/15 Georgia on Jan. 29. Before Bama, Last Four had not been Great Just 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 connected 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 Week Two 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. Been Gimpy and Limpy Lately Health 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 starting line-up after missing the LSU game with a knee sprain. Glory Johnson, who suffered a shoulder injury in the LSU contest on Jan. 19, was sporting and playing 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 following the game on Jan. 19 in Knoxville. UT started the game with nine healthy players and had three players suffer various injuries. Glory Johnson left the game with four minutes to go in the first half after suffering a left shoulder injury. 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 suffered 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 second half “one-armed.” The Phone a Friend Line-Up Three in Grad School Tennessee’s fifth 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 fifth year senior will have her master’s degree in May while Johnson and Manning will complete degree requirements for a M.S. next fall. Summitt versus Non-Conference Foes 774 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 record of 637-137 (.823) versus Notre Dame on
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 Jan. 23. When Ranked Number 9 Just 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 Competition Playing the Ranked Both Tennessee and Notre Dame have faced a number 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 Sheet How 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 five games with +20 miscues and has a 3-2 record in those games. Keep some Purell hand sanitizer ready for Notre Dame’s sticky fingers... 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 five game stretch. UT outrebounded Georgia by +20 and Arkansas by +23 during the rebounding run. In the last three games, Tennessee’s rebounding advantage has dropped to just +6.3 against Kentucky, Vanderbilt and LSU. Summer Teammates Five 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), Devereaux Peters (10.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg) and Natalie Novosel (4.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg)spent their August as teammates for USA Basketball. En route to a 6-0 record, the USA defeated opponents 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 Hampton 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 festivities 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 bringing awareness and recognition to the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and its fight
against Alzheimer’s disease. During the week of January 15-22, SEC member institutions supported the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund during their home basketball games. During the 17 women’s and 12 men’s games slated for the week, various efforts 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 Commissioner Mike Slive. “We are pleased that the Southeastern Conference can play a small part in helping Pat reach her goals for The Foundation Fund today and in the future.” M*A*S*H Stricklen was Day-to-day entering the LSU game Senior guard-forward-center Shekinna Stricklen suffered a sprained right knee in the game against #25/24-ranked Vanderbilt on Sun., Jan. 15. “Diagnostic testing and further evaluation confirmed that Shekinna suffered 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 suffered the knee sprain after a colliding with a Vanderbilt player while both were going after a rebound along the baseline in the second half. Stricklen had to be helped from the floor by the UT sports medicine staff after scoring a team leading 20 points in 35 minutes of action in the 87-64 victory 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 practice and took three weeks off to rest the limb. She practiced again for the first time on Jan. 22 and played nine minutes against Notre Dame. In the next game, at Alabama, Spani did not play. She is still listed as day-to-day. We Bounced Back...Again Loss 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 season and defeated Vanderbilt, 8764. The last time UT took (at least) four losses on the year was the 11 “L” season in 2008-09. Joined the Club 1,000 Career Rebounds -- After Glo Grabbed Four Grad student Glory Johnson grabbed her fourth rebound in the first half of the game against Arkansas and went over the 1,000 rebound threshold 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 Chattanooga, Georgia and Arkansas. For her efforts she was tabbed with her secondconsecutive SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week on Jan. 9. Johnson averaged 15.7 ppg and 13.3 rpg and added three assists and eight steals, while playing 27.3 mpg in the team’s three victories. Johnson had a monumental game against Arkansas, using 13 rebounds in her fifth consecutive double-double to reach the 1,000 rebound plateau. 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 dating 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. We were Defensive Solid“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 first 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 field (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 Pace Five Games between the Stanford & UK losses Since losing at #4-ranked Stanford and before losing 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 percent of her shots from the field 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 Johnson 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.
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 Shekinna Stricklen had 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Vicki Baugh lacked one bucket to tally a doubledouble finishing with eight points and 10 rebounds off the bench. Career Day for Two Rookies Rookies Ariel Massengale and Isabelle “Izzy” Harrison attended career day on Jan. 3, 2012. The duo posted career highs in points against Chattanooga with Massengale tossing in 19 points and Harrison adding 13 points. A Good Day in Tiger Town Sophomore Meighan Simmons had a solid performance 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. 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., native “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’ “grittiness 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. Sophomore Meighan Simmons holds the UT rookie record with 11 scoring passes against Alabama on Jan. 6, 2011. Simmons Slowly Heating it Up Sophomore guard Meighan Simmons has desperately struggled with her shot this season. “Speedy” had a field 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 senior forward Glory Johnson returned with strong performances against Old Dominion and Auburn. For her efforts, she was named the SEC Women’s Basketball 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 effort with 16 points and doubled up, pulling down 11 rebounds in just 26 minutes in the 90-37 win. Following her standout game against the Lady Monarchs, Johnson recorded her second-consecutive double-double and fourth of the season in the 73-52 victory at Auburn on Sunday. She finished 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. 12
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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 suffered a dislocated middle finger on her left hand in practice on Dec. 8. Three Losses Heading into January The last time Tennessee sported three losses heading 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, 5957, 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 first 10 games to open a season was in 199697. In that weird 29-10 overall record & NCAA title season, 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 suffered losses to #11/8-ranked Louisiana Tech, #5-ranked Georgia, and #1-ranked Stanford. The team headed into the 1997 portion of the schedule 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-rankedStanford 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 tournament. The Cardinal owned the boards against the Lady Vols with a 35-29 advantage. Stanford also dominated UT in the paint by a 4018 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 fighting stomach troubles which sent her to the locker room in the first half. In the come-from-behind victory at Rutgers, Stricklen 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 percent (19-of-25) of its shots in the first half eclipsing the previous record of 70.3 percent against Old Dominion(1/4/89). On the afternoon against UCLA, Tennessee shot 69.2 percent - the fourth-highest mark in program history. 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 first 10 games of the 2011-12 campaign marks the most since playing five teams in the AP poll in the first eight games of the 2007-08 season. Conference Carousel This season, the Lady Vols have faced a pair of teams from three different 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 first appearance in Los Angeles since her rookie season in 2007-08. Baugh is finishing 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 8461 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 “Stanford Comes A’ Callin’.” Over the last 20-plus years, Tennessee and Stanford have traditionally met in mid-December and typically served as a measuring stick for each other regardless 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 finger. 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 suffered a dislocated finger 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 first 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 offensive 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 first five minutes, all five 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. Despite shuffled line-ups in the second half, UT
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 committed just six turnovers in the next 20 minutes. Taber is Clutch Since suffering 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-for7 from the field 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 presented 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 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.) head coach inductees in Pat Head Summitt and C. Vivian Stringer. Summitt joined the Women’s HoF when she was selected as a member of the inaugural class of 1999, 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 first trip to The Garden. 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 AllAmerican 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 versus 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 Classic Classic Notes
This marks the second time the Lady Vols have participated 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 first 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 Round games. The night before the Tennessee vs. Army contest both coaching staffs 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 first appearance 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 Championship, 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 diploma from UT. The newly-minted graduate of the College of Education 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 Psychology. 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 percent graduation tradition among UT hoopsters. Manning then joined her teammates in Pratt Pavilion 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 five assists. That “must win” was followed by a solid effort in the 73-57 victory over #21/20 Texas on Dec. 4 in Knoxville. 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. Tennessee went on to a 30-5 overall record and captured 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 occurrence 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 suffered back-to-back losses three times in the 10 loss, 1996-97 NCAA Championship “Cinderella Season.” Of the 201 all-time losses for Summitt’s UT teams, they have lost back-to-back-to-back games just twice. In December 1984, the Lady Vols lost three consecutive games (all on the road) at #3-ranked Georgia, at #2-ranked Texas and at #7-ranked 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 nation’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 Today/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 oneranked 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 furious comeback rally. The Blue Devils opened the game with a nightmarish 19-0 run-out, as the Lady Vols fell into a 21-point hole (28-7 at 9:23 in the first half) before rallying to narrow the halftime deficit 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 appearance in the State Farm TipOff Classic and the fifth time to host the event. Tennessee now has a 6-2 record in TipOff games. Making a Claim In the first TipOff in 1993, Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt 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 first 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 Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Class. Also being inducted are: Nancy Fahey (Coach), Pamela McGee (Player), Inge Nissen (Player), Robin Roberts (Contributor), and Dawn Staley (Player). McGee was introduced at the 2011 TipOff in Knoxville. 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 first 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, Tiffani Johnson 1994, Bridgette
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012 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 first 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 Johnson (number 54), Briana Bass (55), Alicia Manning (56) and Kelley Cain (57) all earned starting assignments. 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 first tip on Nov. 10, 2002, taking on #22/19-ranked Oklahoma and registering a 94-68 win.
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012
LADY VOL DOUBLE-DOUBLES Freshmen (2 or more) Holdsclaw, Chamique 16 Frost, Sheila 11 Parker, Candace 10 Catchings, Tamika 9 Horton, Karla 7 Johnson, Tiffani 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, Tiffani 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, Tiffani 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 DD Clower, 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
AMAZING LADY VOL STREAKS No. 46 25 24 22 22 20 20 19 18 18 18 17 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 14 14 13 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10
ALL-TIME WINNING STREAKS Began Broken Mar. 15, 1997 vs. Grambling (H) 91-54 ............................ Nov. 15, 1998 vs. Purdue (A) 68-78 Dec. 19, 2010 vs. Stanford (H) 82-72 .......................Mar. 28, 2011 vs. Notre Dame (N) 59-73 Nov. 16, 1998 vs. St. Joseph’s (H) 108-63 ................................Feb. 21, 1999 vs. LSU (A) 69-72 Feb. 2, 1989 vs. South Carolina (H) 60-54 ........... Dec. 9, 1989 vs. Louisiana Tech (H) 58-59 Jan. 11, 1988 vs. Georgia Tech (A) 96-79 ..............Apr. 1, 1988 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 59-68 Jan. 23, 2000 vs. Kentucky (A) 71-65 ......................... Apr. 2, 2000 vs. Connecticut (N) 52-71 Jan. 2, 1993 vs. Old Dominion (A) 68-60 ...........................Mar. 6, 1993 vs. Georgia (N) 72-73 Jan. 7, 2003 vs. Old Dominion (A) 91-63 ...................................Mar. 9, 2003 vs. LSU (N) 62-78 Nov. 20, 2005 vs. Stetson (H) 83-33 ........................................Jan. 23, 2006 vs. Duke (A) 53-75 Jan. 2, 2001 vs. Rutgers (N) 58-51...................................Mar. 3, 2001 vs. Vanderbilt (N) 74-77 Jan. 21,1992 vs. Florida Atlantic (H) 108-26Mar. 26, 1992 vs. Western Kentucky (N) 70-75 Jan. 20, 1994 vs. Virginia Tech (H) 88-51 ...........Mar. 24, 1994 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 68-71 Jan. 24, 2010 vs. LSU (A) 55-43 ......................................... March 27, 2010 vs. Baylor (N) 62-77 Mar. 18, 2007 vs. Drake (N) 76-37 ............................. Dec. 22, 2007 vs. Stanford (A) 69-73 OT Nov. 20, 1994 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 69-62 ............Jan. 16, 1995 vs. Connecticut (A) 66-77 Jan. 14, 1978 vs. Missouri (A) 101-83 ...........................Mar. 18, 1978 vs. Maryland (N) 69-75 Feb. 17, 2008 vs. Vanderbilt (A) 81-68..............................Nov. 17, 2008 vs. Virginia (H) 83-82 Jan. 28, 1980 vs. LSU (H) 96-73 ................................ Mar. 8, 1980 vs. Old Dominion (N) 67-68 Feb 2, 1981 vs. Southern California (H) 78-71.Mar. 29, 1981 vs. Louisiana Tech (N) 59-79 Nov. 21, 1993 vs. Ohio State (N) 80-45 .............................Jan. 17, 1994 vs. Rutgers (A) 77-87 Dec. 17, 1982 vs. LSU (A) 83-73 ............................. Feb. 14, 1983 vs. Old Dominion (A) 66-90 Jan. 21, 1995 vs. Mississippi State (H) 81-58...............Mar. 6, 1995 vs. Vanderbilt (N) 61-67 Jan. 2, 2008 vs. DePaul (A) 102-68.............................................Feb. 14, 2008 vs. LSU (H) 62-78 Dec. 9, 1990 vs. Maryland (H) 82-71 ..................................Jan. 19, 1991 vs. Auburn (A) 65-70 Jan. 25, 2007 vs. Vanderbilt (A) 67-57 ........................................Mar. 3, 2007 vs. LSU (N) 54-63 Dec. 5, 2006 vs. Tennessee-Martin (H) 85-29 ..................... Jan. 22, 2007 vs. Duke (H) 70-74 Dec. 30, 2003 vs. George Washington (A) 65-51 ... Feb. 5, 2004 vs. Connecticut (H) 81-67 Nov. 16, 2001 vs. Chattanooga (A) 97-57 .................Jan. 5, 2002 vs. Connecticut (H) 72-86 Nov. 18, 2000 vs. DePaul (H) 94-52 ..........................Dec. 30, 2000 vs. Connecticut (A) 76-81 Nov. 19, 1999 vs. Tennessee-Martin (H) 133-60 .....Jan. 8, 2000 vs. Connecticut (H) 67-74 Jan. 25, 1982 vs. South Carolina (A) 87-81 ..................Feb. 28, 1982 vs. Kentucky (A) 74-80 Nov. 25, 1988 vs. Illinois (N) 81-50 ....................................... Jan. 7, 1989 vs. Auburn (A) 59-67 Jan. 2, 2005 vs. Old Dominion (A) 68-58 .................................Feb. 10, 2005 vs. LSU (A) 58-68 Feb. 3, 1990 vs. Auburn (H) 76-65 ....................................... Mar. 5, 1990 vs. Auburn (N) 77-78 Feb. 8, 1985 vs. Florida State (A) 67-56 ..................... Mar. 22, 1985 vs. Mississippi (N) 60-63
No. 69 40 38 37 26 25 24 22 20 17 13 12 11 11 10 10 10 9
ALL-TIME HOME WINNING STREAKS Began Broken Feb. 2, 1991 vs. Tennessee Tech 94-67..............................Jan. 6, 1996 vs. Connecticut 53-59 Jan. 12, 1997 vs. Kentucky 84-61 ............................... Nov. 14, 1999 vs. Louisiana Tech 64-69 Feb. 22, 2009 vs. Mississippi State 82-68 .................................Nov. 27, 2011 vs. Baylor 67-76 Feb. 21, 1976 vs. Cumberland 90-42 ..........................Mar. 10, 1979 vs. Old Dominion 72-74 Jan. 10, 2000 vs. Arkansas 79-69 ........................................Jan. 5, 2002 vs. Connecticut 72-86 Jan. 14, 1988 vs. Old Dominion 91-68 ........................ Dec. 9, 1989 vs. Louisiana Tech 58-59 Feb. 16, 2002 vs. Vanderbilt 75-68 ...............................................Dec. 28, 2003 vs. Texas 60-70 Dec. 12, 2004 vs. DePaul 78-63 ...........................................................Feb. 9, 2006 vs. LSU 69-72 Jan. 2, 1990 vs. Illinois 84-57 ......................................................Jan. 28, 1991 vs. Georgia 74-81 Feb. 1, 2007 vs. South Carolina 72-36 ............................................ Feb. 14, 2008 vs. LSU 62-78 Jan. 11, 1996 vs. Old Dominion 69-47 ............................Dec. 8, 1996 vs. Georgia (OT) 93-94 Jan. 21, 1982 vs. Clemson 91-60 ........................Nov. 30, 1982 vs. Old Dominion (OT) 72-78 Jan. 28, 1980 vs. Louisiana State 97-73 ......................................... Jan. 3, 1981 vs. UCLA 62-65 Feb. 15, 1986 vs. Vanderbilt 94-81 ..................................... Jan. 31, 1987 vs. Mississippi 65-69 Jan. 10, 1981 vs. Illinois State 64-52 ....................Nov. 22, 1981 vs. Stephen F. Austin 74-80 Nov. 12, 2006 vs. Chattanooga 102-72........................................ Jan. 22, 2007 vs. Duke 70-74 Nov. 23, 2008 vs. Louisiana Tech 94-59 .......................................Feb. 16, 2009 vs. Duke 62-54 Feb. 2, 1987 vs. Georgia Tech 100-74 ............................................ Dec. 9, 1987 vs. Texas 78-97
No. 23 21 17 11 11
ALL-TIME AWAY WINNING STREAKS Began Broken Jan. 7, 2003 vs. Old Dominion 91-63...........................................Nov. 25, 2004 vs. Texas 59-74 Jan. 2, 2008 vs. DePaul 102-68 ....................................................... Dec. 14, 2008 at Texas 59-73 Jan. 7, 2001 vs. Arkansas 76-61 ..............................................Feb. 2, 2002 vs. Vanderbilt 59-76 Dec. 17, 2006 vs. Texas 67-46 ...............................................................Mar. 3, 2007 vs. LSU 54-63 Nov. 23, 1997 vs. UT-Martin 73-32 ........................................... Nov. 15, 1998 vs. Purdue 68-78 FOLLOW ON TWITTER @LADYVOL_HOOPS /// WWW.UTLADYVOLS.COM
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TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA FEB. 2, 2012
2011-12 BESTS & WORSTS 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 deficit..30, 2nd half (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12) Biggest lead in a loss...........9, 1st half (vs. SU, 12/20/11) Biggest deficit in a win....6, 1st half (vs. UM, 11/15/11) Biggest halftime lead ...........34 (vs. UTC, 1/3/12) Biggest halftime deficit.....10, (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12 Most first-half points .............50* (vs. UTC, 1/3/12) Best first-half FG% .........76.0 (vs. UCLA, 12/17/11) Fewest first-half points ....... 18 (vs. ND, 1/23/12) Worst first-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 deficit..............53, 2nd half (ODU, 12/28/11) Biggest lead in a loss .....6, 1st half (UM, 11/15/11) Biggest deficit in a win.........9, 1st half (SU, 12/20/11) Biggest halftime lead..10, (vs. Notre Dame) 1/23/12) Biggest halftime deficit ............34, (UTC, 1/3/12) Most first-half points .................. 48 (SU, 12/20/11) Best first-half FG% .......48.4, (Vanderbilt, 1/15/12) Fewest first-half points ....11 (Arkansas, 1/8/12) Worst first-half FG% .......10.0 (Arkansas, 1/8/12) Most second-half points ........ 49 (SU, 12/20/11) 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 first half of 21 games. Tennessee has trailed in the first half of 15 games. Tennessee led at halftime of 15 games. Tennessee has trailed at halftime of 3 games. Tennessee was tied at halftime of 3 games. Tennessee led in the second half of 18 games. Tennessee never trailed in the second half of 14 games. Tennessee led in rebounding in 16 games. Tennessee tied in rebounding in 1 game. Tennessee was outrebounded in 4 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 .....................................................Jan. 12, 2012 vs. Kentucky (UK 61, 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 ................................................................Dec. 20, 2011 vs. Stanford (SU 97, UT 80 ) 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 ....................................................................................................Never No Lady Vol scored in double figures......................................Mar. 29, 2002 vs. Connecticut (UCONN 79, UT 56) No opposing player scored in double figures..................................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......................................................................................................................Never An opposing player had 20 rebounds ............................Apr. 6, 2008 vs. LSU, Sylvia Fowles, 20, (UT 47, LSU 46) An opposing player had 25 rebounds ...................................................................................................Never A 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 ..................Nov. 27, 2010 vs. Georgetown, Rubylee Wright, 11, (GU 69, UT 58) An opposing player had 15 assists ..........................................................................................................Never A 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 ........................................................................................................Never An opp. player made 5+ three-pointers..................Jan. 23, 2012, Skylar Diggins, Notre Dame, 5, (ND 72, UT 44) 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 ......................................................................................Never Tennessee 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. 12, 2006, Vanderbilt, .566 (30-53), (UT 70, VU 67) 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 50 An 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 streak Tennessee won 15 games in a row ................................................ Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streak Tennessee won 10 games in a row ................................................ Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streak Tennessee lost 3 games in a row .......................................................Feb. 5, 1986-Feb. 10, 1986, 3-game streak Tennessee lost 5 games in a row ......................................................Jan. 28, 1970-Jan. 22, 1971, 5-game streak Tennessee won 60 home games in a row....................................... Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streak Tennessee won 50 home games in a row....................................... Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streak Tennessee won 40 home games in a row................................... Jan. 12, 1997-Nov. 14, 1999, 40-game streak Tennessee 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 streak Tennessee won 20 road games in a row ......................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streak Tennessee won 25 road games in a row ......................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streak Tennessee lost 3 road games in a row .............................................. Jan. 24 1986-Feb. 5, 1986, 3-game streak Tennessee lost 5 road games in a row ........................................... Jan. 25, 2009-Feb. 26, 2009, 5-game streak TOUGHEST PLACES TO PLAY
1. 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%) 16
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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%)
TENNESSEE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA ď‚Ą FEB. 2, 2012 2011-12 LADY VOL HIGHS AND LOWS
2011-12 OPPONENT 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 Free Throw Percentage (min. 4 att.)....................................................................100.0 (4-4) ...................................................................................................Vicki Baugh vs. Baylor 11/27/11 Offensive Rebounds .........................................................7, Alicia Manning vs. ODU 12/28/11 Defensive Rebounds ...................................................9, Alicia Manning vs. DePaul 12/11/11 Total Rebounds ...............................................................15, Alicia Manning vs. ODU 12/28/11 Assists .................................................................... 12, Ariel Massengale vs. Vanderbilt 1/15/12 Turnovers ....................................................................7, Ariel Massengale at Virginia 11/20/11 Blocks ............................................................................................... 3*, Glory Johnson 1/29/12 Steals ...................................................................................6, Alicia Manning vs ODU 12/28/11
INDIVIDUAL Points ........................................................................42, Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford 12/20/11 Field Goals ................................................................19, Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford 12/20/11 Field Goal Attempts ......................................................28, Riquna Williams, Miami 11/15/11 Field Goal Percentage (min. 10 att.)...............................................................................70.3 ..............................................................................(19-27), Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford 12/20/11 3-Pt Field Goals ...........................................................5*, Skylar Diggins, Notre Dame 1/23/12 3-Pt Field Goal Attempts ..................................................... 14, Kortni Jones, MTSU 11/29/11 3-Pt. Field Goal Percentage (min. 4 att.) .....66.7 (4-6), Ashleigh Fontenette, Texas 12/4/11 Free Throws ........................................................................ 14, Odyssey Sims, Baylor 11/27/11 Free Throw Attempts ........................................................ 15, Odyssey Sims, Baylor 11/27/11 Free Throw Percentage (min. 4 att.)....................................................................100.0 (5-5) .......................................................................................Riquna Williams, Pepperdine, 11/13/11 Offensive Rebounds ..................................................8, Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford 12/20/11 Defensive Rebounds .............................................11, Devereaux Peters, Notre Dame 1/23/12 Total Rebounds ........................................................17, Nnemka Ogumike, Stanford 12/20/11 Assists ................................................................................9*, Yvonne Anderson, Texas 12/4/11 Turnovers ........................................................................... 7*,Elan Brown, Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 Blocks .................................................................................. 7, Brittney Griner, Baylor 11/27/11 Steals .....................................................................................5,Lexie Gerson, Virginia, 11/20/11
TEAM HIGH 92, Miami 37, ODU 82, Baylor 69.2, UCLA 11*, Texas 24, Baylor 62.5, Pepperdine 28, Auburn1 35, DePaul 90.3, Auburn1 56, Baylor 26, ODU 24, Virginia 10, Pepperdine 16, ODU 23, Pepperdine 17,879 Vanderbilt 7,961 at Kentucky
TEAM HIGH 97, Stanford 37, Stanford 71, Miami 53.6, Stanford 9, Stanford 28, DePaul 43.8, Auburn 22, Baylor 27, Pepperdine 93.8, Arkansas 45, Miami 20, Stanford 25,Auburn 10, Baylor 13, Virginia 26*, Auburn
Points Field Goals Made Field Goals Attempted Field Goal Percentage 3-Point Field Goals Made 3-Point Field Goals Attempted 3-Point Field Goal Percentage Free Throws Made Free Throws Attempted Free Throw Percentage Rebounds Assists Turnovers Blocked Shots Steals Personal Fouls Home Attendance Away/Neutral Attendance
LOW 44, at Notre Dame 17, at Notre Dame 47, Georgia 27.9, Notre Dame 0, vs. DePaul 5, vs. DePaul 00.0 vs. DePaul 6, UCLA 10, UCLA 43.8, at Notre Dame 28, UCLA 9, vs. DePaul 8, Alabama 1, Vanderbilt1 5, Baylor 9, UCLA 11,754, UTC 2,025 at UCLA
* Indicates the most recent instance of a high/low that occurred more than one time during the season.
Points Field Goals Made Field Goals Attempted Field Goal Percentage 3-Point Field Goals Made 3-Point Field Goals Attempted 3-Point Field Goal Percentage Free Throws Made Free Throws Attempted Free Throw Percentage Rebounds Assists Turnovers Blocked Shots Steals Personal Fouls
LOW 37, ODU 10, Arkansas 51, Vanderbilt1 18.2, Arkansas 2, Georgia2 12*,Notre Dame 7.1 ,Alabama 3*, Georgia 6*, Georgia 50.0*, Alabama 24, Arkansas 5*, Kentucky 9*, Stanford 0*, Georgia2 2, Alabama 10, Baylor
* Indicates the most recent instance of a high/low that occurred more than one time during the season.
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2011-12 Lady Vol Basketball TENNESSEE Combined Team Statistics (as of Jan 30, 2012) All games
RECORD: ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE
OVERALL 16-5 7-1 9-4
HOME 9-1 3-0 6-1
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Player
gp-gs
Total 3-Point min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg%
40 25 10 13 21 05 11 15 20 01 04
STRICKLEN, Shekinna JOHNSON, Glory SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko Team Total.......... Opponents......
20-19 21-21 21-15 12-10 20-11 18-17 21-2 21-9 21-0 16-1 8-0
644 590 569 328 440 521 297 380 212 166 78
21 21
4225 4225
TEAM STATISTICS SCORING Points per game Scoring margin FIELD GOALS-ATT Field goal pct 3 POINT FG-ATT 3-point FG pct 3-pt FG made per game FREE THROWS-ATT Free throw pct F-Throws made per game REBOUNDS Rebounds per game Rebounding margin ASSISTS Assists per game TURNOVERS Turnovers per game Turnover margin Assist/turnover ratio STEALS Steals per game BLOCKS Blocks per game ATTENDANCE Home games-Avg/Game Neutral site-Avg/Game Score by Periods TENNESSEE Opponents
32.2 28.1 27.1 27.3 22.0 28.9 14.1 18.1 10.1 10.4 9.8
UT 1594 75.9 +16.6 572-1311 .436 122-339 .360 5.8 328-472 .695 15.6 936 44.6 +9.1 327 15.6 331 15.8 +1.4 1.0 192 9.1 96 4.6 138117 10-13812 -
1st 2nd 767 821 596 638
OT 6 11
114-259 102-181 77-230 44-103 67-110 50-126 38-88 36-88 24-73 13-30 7-23
.440 .564 .335 .427 .609 .397 .432 .409 .329 .433 .304
F-Throw ft-fta ft%
Totals 1594 1245
.344 47-61 .000 80-130 .317 40-55 .481 9-13 1.000 43-59 .373 24-37 .250 25-36 .333 17-25 .000 28-40 .375 11-12 .000 4-4
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NEUTRAL 1-0 0-0 1-0
Rebounds def tot avg
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Date 11/13/11 11/15/11 11/20/11 11/27/11 11/29/11 12/04/11 12/11/11 12/13/11 12/17/11 12/20/11 12/28/11 01/01/12 01/03/12 01/05/12 01/08/12 01/12/12 01/15/12 01/19/12 01/23/12 01/26/12 01/29/12
.770 .615 .727 .692 .729 .649 .694 .680 .700 .917
pf dq
48 78 126 6.3 47 78 120 198 9.4 49 14 36 50 2.4 31 12 28 40 3.3 13 57 94 151 7.6 47 11 35 46 2.6 35 16 37 53 2.5 30 35 59 94 4.5 28 32 37 69 3.3 29 2 10 12 0.8 5 1.000 9 2 11 1.4 5 48 38 86 572-1311 .436 122-339 .360 328-472 .695 362 574 936 44.6 319 461-1281 .360 96-380 .253 227-317 .716 293 451 744 35.4 384 OPP 1245 59.3 461-1281 .360 96-380 .253 4.6 227-317 .716 10.8 744 35.4 248 11.8 360 17.1 0.7 148 7.0 76 3.6 66867 10-6138 1-5486
32-93 0-0 32-101 25-52 1-1 19-51 2-8 2-6 0-1 9-24 0-2
AWAY 6-4 4-1 2-3
Opponent PEPPERDINE #7/7 MIAMI at Virginia #1/1 BAYLOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE #21/22 TEXAS vs #20/21 DePaul at #11/11 Rutgers at UCLA at #4/4 Stanford OLD DOMINION at Auburn CHATTANOOGA #16/15 GEORGIA at Arkansas at #9/8 KENTUCKY #25/24 VANDERBILT LOUISIANA STATE at #2/2 Notre Dame at Alabama at #17/15 Georgia
* = Conference game & = Maggie Dixon Classic (New York, N.Y.)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
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to blk stl
38 25 34 24 28 97 24 31 3 10 13
10 23 8 5 22 0 12 1 14 0 1
44 47 47 22 46 37 25 20 22 11 9 1 1 327 331 - 248 360
W W Lot L W W W W W L W W W W W L W W L W W
pts
avg
307 284 226 122 178 143 103 91 76 46 18
15.4 13.5 10.8 10.2 8.9 7.9 4.9 4.3 3.6 2.9 2.3
96 192 1594 76 148 1245
75.9 59.3
33 38 17 5 14 30 8 26 6 9 6
Score 89-57 92-76 64-69 67-76 82-43 73-57 84-61 67-61 85-64 80-97 90-37 73-52 90-47 80-51 69-38 60-61 87-64 65-56 44-72 86-56 67-50
Att. 12147 12151 6450 16623 11861 13465 5486 6368 2025 7329 15409 4269 11754 13721 5258 7961 17879 13107 9149 2049 10523
2011-12 Lady Vol Basketball TENNESSEE Combined Team Statistics (as of Jan 30, 2012) Conference games
RECORD: ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE
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Player
40 25 10 21 05 11 15 13 20 04 01
STRICKLEN, Shekinna JOHNSON, Glory SIMMONS, Meighan BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia SPANI, Taber HARRISON, Isabelle WILLIAMS, Kamiko BASS, Briana Team Total.......... Opponents......
HOME 3-0 3-0 0-0
AWAY 4-1 4-1 0-0
Total 3-Point min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg%
F-Throw ft-fta ft%
7-6 8-8 8-7 8-2 8-8 8-2 8-6 1-0 8-0 6-0 7-1
227 216 229 177 265 116 151 21 59 59 80
23-28 26-48 19-22 18-24 16-23 10-15 10-15 0-0 6-11 4-4 2-2
8 8
1600 1600
gp-gs
TEAM STATISTICS SCORING Points per game Scoring margin FIELD GOALS-ATT Field goal pct 3 POINT FG-ATT 3-point FG pct 3-pt FG made per game FREE THROWS-ATT Free throw pct F-Throws made per game REBOUNDS Rebounds per game Rebounding margin ASSISTS Assists per game TURNOVERS Turnovers per game Turnover margin Assist/turnover ratio STEALS Steals per game BLOCKS Blocks per game ATTENDANCE Home games-Avg/Game Neutral site-Avg/Game Score by Periods TENNESSEE Opponents
OVERALL 7-1 7-1 0-0
1st 2nd 260 327 214 214
32.4 27.0 28.6 22.1 33.1 14.5 18.9 21.0 7.4 9.8 11.4
UT 587 73.4 +19.9 211-487 .433 31-116 .267 3.9 134-192 .698 16.8 350 43.8 +10.4 125 15.6 125 15.6 +3.0 1.0 77 9.6 28 3.5 44707 3-14902 Totals 587 428
43-99 43-71 28-86 27-43 23-61 17-40 11-28 1-5 8-24 6-20 4-10
.434 8-34 .606 0-0 .326 12-41 .628 0-0 .377 5-22 .425 1-4 .393 1-3 .200 1-2 .333 0-0 .300 0-1 .400 3-9
211-487 .433 31-116 154-453 .340 30-138 OPP 428 53.5 154-453 .340 30-138 .217 3.8 90-128 .703 11.3 267 33.4 75 9.4 149 18.6 0.5 53 6.6 36 4.5 30060 5-6012 0-0
.235 .000 .293 .000 .227 .250 .333 .500 .000 .000 .333
Rebounds def tot avg
14 22 36 30 52 82 7 11 18 22 45 67 6 17 23 8 14 22 14 18 32 0 1 1 8 9 17 1.000 6 2 8 1.000 1 5 6 19 19 38 .267 134-192 .698 135 215 350 .217 90-128 .703 103 164 267
* * * * * * * *
Date 01/01/12 01/05/12 01/08/12 01/12/12 01/15/12 01/19/12 01/26/12 01/29/12
.821 .542 .864 .750 .696 .667 .667 .000 .545
off
NEUTRAL 0-0 0-0 0-0
5.1 10.3 2.3 8.4 2.9 2.8 4.0 1.0 2.1 1.3 0.9
pf dq
16 18 14 19 14 11 14 1 11 3 1
43.8 122 33.4 155
Opponent at Auburn #16/15 GEORGIA at Arkansas at #9/8 KENTUCKY #25/24 VANDERBILT LOUISIANA STATE at Alabama at #17/15 Georgia
* = Conference game & = Maggie Dixon Classic (New York, N.Y.)
pts
avg
13 2 14 117 19 10 21 112 18 1 6 87 19 7 5 72 16 0 11 67 10 4 2 45 9 0 5 33 1 1 1 3 10 2 2 22 7 1 4 16 2 0 6 13 1 0 125 125 28 77 587 - 75 149 36 53 428
16.7 14.0 10.9 9.0 8.4 5.6 4.1 3.0 2.8 2.7 1.9
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
a
to blk stl
16 10 11 8 50 5 11 2 0 9 3
W W W L W W W W
Score 73-52 80-51 69-38 60-61 87-64 65-56 86-56 67-50
73.4 53.5
Att. 4269 13721 5258 7961 17879 13107 2049 10523
2011-12 Lady Vol Basketball TENNESSEE Points-Rebounds-Assists (as of Jan 30, 2012) All games
Opponent
Date
Score
PEPPERDINE #7/7 MIAMI at Virginia #1/1 BAYLOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE #21/22 TEXAS vs #20/21 DePaul at #11/11 Rutgers at UCLA at #4/4 Stanford OLD DOMINION at Auburn CHATTANOOGA #16/15 GEORGIA at Arkansas at #9/8 KENTUCKY #25/24 VANDERBILT LOUISIANA STATE at #2/2 Notre Dame at Alabama at #17/15 Georgia
11/13/11 11/15/11 11/20/11 11/27/11 11/29/11 12/04/11 12/11/11 12/13/11 12/17/11 12/20/11 12/28/11 01/01/12 01/03/12 01/05/12 01/08/12 01/12/12 01/15/12 01/19/12 01/23/12 01/26/12 01/29/12
89-57 92-76 64-69 67-76 82-43 73-57 84-61 67-61 85-64 80-97 90-37 73-52 90-47 80-51 69-38 60-61 87-64 65-56 44-72 86-56 67-50
Opponent
Date
Score
PEPPERDINE #7/7 MIAMI at Virginia #1/1 BAYLOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE #21/22 TEXAS vs #20/21 DePaul at #11/11 Rutgers at UCLA at #4/4 Stanford OLD DOMINION at Auburn CHATTANOOGA #16/15 GEORGIA at Arkansas at #9/8 KENTUCKY #25/24 VANDERBILT LOUISIANA STATE at #2/2 Notre Dame at Alabama at #17/15 Georgia
11/13/11 11/15/11 11/20/11 11/27/11 11/29/11 12/04/11 12/11/11 12/13/11 12/17/11 12/20/11 12/28/11 01/01/12 01/03/12 01/05/12 01/08/12 01/12/12 01/15/12 01/19/12 01/23/12 01/26/12 01/29/12
89-57 92-76 64-69 67-76 82-43 73-57 84-61 67-61 85-64 80-97 90-37 73-52 90-47 80-51 69-38 60-61 87-64 65-56 44-72 86-56 67-50
W W L L W W W W W L W W W W W L W W L W W
W W L L W W W W W L W W W W W L W W L W W
01 BASS,BRIAN
04 WILLIAMS,K
05 10 MASSENGALE SIMMONS,ME
10-0-0 DNP 0-0-0 DNP 4-2-3 0-0-0 0-1-1 DNP 1-0-0 DNP 9-0-2 DNP 9-3-1 0-0-0 2-2-0 0-0-0 3-2-1 0-2-1 0-0-0 8-0-1 0-0-0
DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 2-3-4 2-2-2 0-1-1 4-3-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 10-1-5 DNP
2-3-5 11-4-9 2-4-7 4-1-4 14-4-5 10-3-5 DNP DNP DNP 0-1-1 11-1-5 4-4-2 19-1-2 19-3-9 7-2-5 6-4-5 6-2-12 8-2-3 3-1-4 1-2-11 16-4-3
13-3-1 18-4-3 3-1-0 2-3-3 5-1-2 10-1-1 9-3-2 13-6-1 18-4-3 13-2-4 12-0-1 20-4-2 10-2-2 10-2-1 7-1-1 3-2-1 10-3-1 19-5-4 13-2-0 9-1-0 9-0-1
20 HARRISON,I
21 BAUGH,VICK
25 JOHNSON,GL
40 STRICKLEN,
5-8-0 4-2-0 6-7-0 0-7-1 7-9-0 1-4-0 6-2-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 10-3-1 2-2-0 13-8-1 4-1-0 2-3-0 0-3-0 2-0-0 2-1-0 2-0-0 10-6-0 0-1-0
8-7-3 6-4-3 DNP 17-10-3 2-3-0 17-11-2 6-0-0 6-7-3 14-12-2 2-3-0 11-12-2 4-9-0 9-9-1 8-10-0 8-4-1 16-9-0 16-7-2 6-14-3 8-6-1 8-6-2 6-8-0
17-13-0 16-9-0 15-5-3 9-11-2 9-9-2 11-10-1 16-9-0 9-6-1 17-5-2 18-6-0 16-11-1 14-13-2 10-13-2 22-13-0 15-14-1 17-7-0 16-13-2 10-6-1 9-9-1 13-8-1 5-8-3
13-6-2 15-7-1 16-14-1 25-12-1 12-5-0 20-8-3 12-9-3 22-9-2 11-1-1 27-3-2 8-4-0 17-1-3 4-5-3 12-8-3 19-8-3 11-5-3 20-3-2 DNP 5-7-3 14-4-0 24-7-2
11 BURDICK,CI
13 SPANI,TABE
15 MANNING,AL
7-1-2 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-0-0 14-10-0 0-3-3 15-2-0 0-1-0 4-0-0 2-0-0 4-5-9 2-2-0 8-3-2 3-2-0 6-2-1 0-1-0 6-0-0 15-6-1 4-5-2 9-3-2 4-6-1
11-4-5 20-5-3 22-3-0 10-2-0 8-4-2 4-5-1 8-4-1 13-5-3 14-0-4 9-5-2 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 0-2-1 DNP 3-1-2
3-6-2 2-0-0 0-3-1 0-1-1 7-5-1 0-0-0 12-12-2 4-6-1 6-3-4 9-4-2 9-15-5 10-5-3 6-5-1 0-5-1 3-5-3 3-1-0 8-5-2 5-6-2 0-2-0 4-5-0 0-0-0
2011-12 Lady Vol Basketball TENNESSEE Team Game-by-Game Comparison (as of Jan 30, 2012) All games
Opponent PEPPERDINE #7/7 MIAMI Virginia #1/1 BAYLOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE #21/22 TEXAS #20/21 DePaul #11/11 Rutgers UCLA #4/4 Stanford OLD DOMINION Auburn CHATTANOOGA #16/15 GEORGIA Arkansas #9/8 KENTUCKY #25/24 VANDERBILT LOUISIANA STATE #2/2 Notre Dame Alabama #17/15 Georgia
1st 36/21 42/42 29/29 33/31 48/24 41/32 41/29 33/28 45/34 41/48 50/20 31/29 50/16 36/27 31/11 21/25 39/36 26/26 18/28 47/32 29/28
2nd 53/36 50/34 29/29 34/45 34/19 32/25 43/32 34/33 40/30 39/49 40/17 42/23 40/31 44/24 38/27 39/36 48/28 39/30 26/44 39/24 38/22
Score 89-57 92-76 64-69 67-76 82-43 73-57 84-61 67-61 85-64 80-97 90-37 73-52 90-47 80-51 69-38 60-61 87-64 65-56 44-72 86-56 67-50
Mar +32 +16 (5) (9) +39 +16 +23 +6 +21 (17) +53 +21 +43 +29 +31 (1) +23 +9 (28) +30 +17
Total FG 29-59/19-67 33-69/29-71 24-59/25-62 24-82/25-60 26-58/15-63 25-68/22-59 29-61/21-68 21-55/27-67 36-52/25-68 26-53/37-69 37-75/15-59 21-65/19-51 34-72/17-56 28-66/22-63 27-54/10-55 23-60/20-58 36-68/23-51 21-56/21-61 17-61/30-59 32-71/22-55 23-47/17-59
Note: Game totals are displayed in the format TEAM/OPPONENT for each category
FG Pct .492/.284 .478/.408 .407/.403 .293/.417 .448/.238 .368/.373 .475/.309 .382/.403 .692/.368 .491/.536 .493/.254 .323/.373 .472/.304 .424/.349 .500/.182 .383/.345 .529/.451 .375/.344 .279/.508 .451/.400 .489/.288
3-Pointers 10-16/4-20 11-22/6-23 5-24/3-12 8-24/4-15 6-14/4-25 11-21/7-18 0-5/7-28 9-18/3-17 7-14/7-18 6-20/9-21 6-17/4-16 3-16/7-16 9-20/3-17 4-13/4-21 4-16/3-20 2-7/4-21 4-16/5-16 5-17/4-12 3-8/5-12 4-19/1-14 5-12/2-18
3FG Pct .625/.200 .500/.261 .208/.250 .333/.267 .429/.160 .524/.389 .000/.250 .500/.176 .500/.389 .300/.429 .353/.250 .188/.438 .450/.176 .308/.190 .250/.150 .286/.190 .250/.313 .294/.333 .375/.417 .211/.071 .417/.111
Free Throws 21-29/15-27 15-20/12-14 11-21/16-22 11-15/22-24 24-29/9-13 12-20/6-10 26-35/12-18 16-25/4-8 6-10/7-8 22-29/14-16 10-14/3-6 28-31/7-12 13-17/10-12 20-28/3-6 11-18/15-16 12-19/17-22 11-19/13-16 18-31/10-15 7-16/7-11 18-25/11-22 16-21/14-19
FT Pct .724/.556 .750/.857 .524/.727 .733/.917 .828/.692 .600/.600 .743/.667 .640/.500 .600/.875 .759/.875 .714/.500 .903/.583 .765/.833 .714/.500 .611/.938 .632/.773 .579/.813 .581/.667 .438/.636 .720/.500 .762/.737
Rebounds 54/34 +20 38/45 (7) 44/38 +6 56/42 +14 53/30 +23 49/38 +11 46/42 +4 45/38 +7 28/31 (3) 29/35 (6) 54/32 +22 49/31 +18 55/28 +27 52/32 +20 47/24 +23 41/37 +4 39/30 +9 45/39 +6 35/44 (9) 40/40 37/34 +3
Assist T/Over 20/10 22/16 19/12 13/21 13/12 24/15 15/17 11/9 15/5 21/22 16/15 9/16 9/10 19/24 11/13 16/9 16/15 15/11 11/20 13/9 26/8 11/23 12/13 18/25 19/11 13/17 16/7 11/12 16/5 20/18 10/5 20/16 22/14 13/24 15/13 16/18 12/25 19/19 22/10 8/22 12/8 19/14
Block 10/0 2/0 7/2 5/10 8/2 4/8 3/1 5/1 3/2 3/7 5/2 1/9 9/0 1/6 6/3 5/4 1/1 4/9 4/5 3/4 7/0
Steal 8/9 6/7 8/13 5/5 15/9 9/4 13/8 5/8 6/7 6/4 16/3 12/7 10/7 6/3 6/7 8/9 14/8 13/7 8/11 11/2 7/10
Fouls 23/25 15/21 19/19 20/10 15/24 14/16 16/26 12/19 9/9 16/16 10/15 14/26 12/13 9/21 15/15 17/18 16/18 15/19 16/16 16/21 20/17
SENIOR
BRIANA BASS
5-2 /// Guard Indianapolis, Ind. (North Central H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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)
2011-12 SEASON HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
10 3 3 5 0 3 3 4 29
Pepperdine, 11/13/11 Chattanooga, 1/3/12 MTSU, 11/29/11 Alabama, 1/26/12 Alabama, 1/26/12* Chattanooga, 1/3/12 Pepperdine, 11/13/11 Alabama, 1/26/12
CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
14 6 8 5 0 4 3 6 37
Duke, 2/16/09 Texas, 12/14/08 DePaul 11/30/08 Alabama, 1/26/12
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 Old Dominion, 12/30/09 arc in 17 minutes of action against Chattanooga (1/3) Chattanooga, 1/3/12* • Tallied nine points against Old Dominion (12/28) on Duke, 2/16/09 3-8 shooting, seeing a season-high 19 minutes Old Dominion, 12/18/08 • Came off the bench for the final minute of the UCLA game (12/17), making a trip to the free throw line and SEC HIGHS hitting one of two shots from the stripe Points 8 Alabama, 1/26/12 • Saw eight minutes against DePaul (12/11), dishing Rebounds 3 Kentucky, 2/19/09 out an assist and picking up a defensive board Assists 4 Alabama, 2/12/09 • Came off the bench to see two minutes of action Steals 5 Alabama, 1/26/12 against Texas (12/4) Blocks 0 • Saw a season-high 16 minutes off the bench versus Field Goals 3 Alabama, 1/26/12 the Middle Tennessee (11/29), tallying four points 3-Pointers 2 Alabama, 1/26/11 • Came up with two rebounds and three assists, also Free Throws 4 Arkansas, 1/22/09 season highs, in the contest Minutes 29 Alabama, 1/26/12* • Saw seven minutes of action against Virginia (11/20); *indicates most recent occurrence TENNESSEE Individual Game-by-Game Jan (a 29, 2012) went 0-1 from(as theoffloor three-point attempt) and All games
BASS’ 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E a t V irg in ia M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l at U C LA O L D D O M IN IO N CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KANSAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
D ate
1 1 /1 3 / 1 1 /2 0 / 1 1 /2 9 / 1 2 /0 4 / 1 2 /1 1 / 1 2 /1 7 / 1 2 /2 8 / 0 1 /0 3 / 0 1 /0 5 / 0 1 -0 8 0 1 /1 2 / 0 1 /1 5 / 0 1 /1 9 / 0 1 /2 3 / 0 1 /2 6 / 0 1 /2 9 /
gs
* 1
m in
12 7 16 2 8 1 19 17 3 18 5 12 9 4 29 4 166
#01 BASS, Briana
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th ro w s fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a p c t ft-fta pct
2-2 0-1 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-8 3-5 0-0 0-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-0 3-6 0-0 13-30
1.00 .0 0 .2 5 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .3 7 .6 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 1.00 .0 0 .0 0 .5 0 .0 0 .4 3
2-2 0-1 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-4 3-5 0-0 0-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-0 2-5 0-0 9-24
G a m e s p la ye d : 1 6 M in u te s/g a m e : 1 0 .4 P o in ts/g a m e : 2.9 F G P ct: 4 3 .3 3 F G P ct: 3 7 .5 F T P ct: 9 1 .7
1.00 4-4 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 2 5 2-2 . 6 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 . 0 0 0-0 1.00 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 4 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 3 7 11-12
1.00 .0 0 1.00 .0 0 .0 0 .5 0 1.00 .0 0 .0 0 1.00 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .9 1
o ff
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
R eb o u n d s d ef to t av g
0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 10
0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 12
0 .0 0 .0 0 .7 0 .5 0 .6 0 .5 0 .4 0 .8 0 .7 0 .8 0 .7 0 .8 0 .9 0 .9 0 .8 0 .8 0 .8
pf
a t/o b lk s tl
p ts av g
a t/o b lk s tl
p ts av g
2 0 2 0 0 2 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 10 11
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 9
10 0 4 0 0 1 9 9 0 2 0 3 0 0 8 0 46
10.0 5 .0 4 .7 3 .5 2 .8 2 .5 3 .4 4 .1 3 .7 3 .5 3 .2 3 .2 2 .9 2 .7 3 .1 2 .9 2 .9
R ebounds/gam e: 0 .8 A ssists/gam e: 0 .6 T urnovers/gam e: 0 .7 A ssist/turnove r ratio: 0 .9 S teals/gam e: 0 .6 #04 W IL L IA M S, K am ik o
O p p o n en t
CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KANSAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y
D ate
0 1 /0 3 / 0 1 /0 5 / 0 1 -0 8 0 1 /1 2 /
gs
m in
16 9 7 17
To tal 3-Po in ters Free th ro w s fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a p c t ft-fta pct
1-2 0-5 0-0 2-8
.5 0 .0 0 .0 0 .2 5
0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
.0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0
0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0
.0 0 1.00 .0 0 .0 0
o ff
3 2 0 3
R eb o u n d s d ef to t av g
0 0 1 0
3 2 1 3
3 .0 2 .5 2 .0 2 .3
pf
1 0 1 2
4 2 1 1
1 0 4 1
0 0 0 1
2 1 0 2
2 2 0 4
2 .0 2 .0 1 .3 2 .0
1
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)
RS SENIOR
VICKI BAUGH
6-4 /// Forward Sacramento, Calif. (Sacramento H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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-consecutive 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 managed to pull down nine boards in the win
2011-12 SEASON HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
17 14 3 2 3 8 1 4 35
Texas, 12/4/11* LSU, 1/19/12 LSU, 1/19/12* Chattanooga, 1/3/12* Rutgers, 12/13/11* Texas, 12/4/11 Baylor, 11/27/11 DePaul, 12/11/11* Texas, 12/4/11
CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
17 16 4 4 4 8 1 5 35
Texas, 12/4/11* Louisiana Tech, 11/26/07 Vanderbilt, 1/20/08 Kentucky, 2/3/08 Texas, 12/14/08 Texas, 12/4/11 Baylor, 11/27/11 Vanderbilt, 1/20/08 Texas, 12/4/11
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 Chattanooga (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 Stanford (12/20) and played only 16 minutes in the start • Contributed rebounds, two points and a steal TEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am e (as o fthree J an 29, 2012) ines her time on the floor A ll g am
SEC HIGHS
Points 16 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12* Rebounds 14 LSY, 1/19/12 Assists 4 Vanderbilt, 1/20/08 Steals 4 Kentucky, 2/3/08 Blocks 3 Georgia, 2/21/11* Field Goals 4 Alabama, 1/26/12* 3-Pointers 0 Free Throws 5 Vanderbilt, 1/20/08 Minutes 25 Kentucky, 2/3/08 * indicates most recent high
BAUGH’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS O p p o n en t
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• 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, going 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 double-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 limited floor time • Posted first double-double since the 2008-09 season 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
FRESHMAN
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CIERRA BURDICK 6-2 /// Forward Charlotte, N.C. (Butler H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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 shooting • 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 minutes 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
2011-12 SEASON/CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
15 10 9 2 3 5 1 7 31
LSU, 1/19/12* MTSU, 11/29/11 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 Notre Dame, 1/24/12 MTSU, 11/29/11 LSU, 1/19/12* LSU, 1/19/12* DePaul, 12/11/11 Alabama, 1/26/12*
SEC HIGHS Points 15 LSU, 1/19/12 Rebounds 6 Georgia, 1/29/12* Assists 2 Alabama, 1/26/12 Steals 1 LSU, 1/19/12* Blocks 1 LSU, 1/19/12* Field Goals 5 LSU, 1/19/12 3-Pointers 1 LSU, 1/19/12 Free Throws 4 LSU, 1/19/12 Minutes 31 Alabama, 1/26/12* * indicates most recent high
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 Chattanooga (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), contributing four points on 2-4 shooting in the contest. • Came in off the bench to see nine minutes of acTEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am e (as o f J an 29, 2012) tion against Rutgers (12/13) where she came up A ll g am es
BURDICK’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS#11 B U R D IC K , C ierra O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia B A Y LO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KAN SAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
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with a defensive rebound and a block in the win • Saw 24 minutes off the bench against #20/21 DePaul (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 rebound and dished out an assist in 10 minutes of action 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
FRESHMAN
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ISABELLE HARRISON 6-3 /// Forward/Center Nashville, Tenn. (Hillsboro H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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), putting up two points and pulling down two rebounds in the win.
2011-12 SEASON/CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
13 9 1 1 2 5 0 5 20
Chattanooga, 1/3/12 MTSU, 11/29/11 Chattanooga, 1/3/12* LSU, 1/19/12* Chattanooga, 1/3/12* Chattanooga, 1/3/12* Pepperdine, 11/13/11 Chattanooga, 1/3/12
SEC HIGHS Points 10 Alabama, 1/26/12* Rebounds 6 Alabama, 1/26/12* Assists 0 Steals 1 LSU, 1/19/12 Blocks 2 Alabama, 1/26/12 Field Goals 3 Alabama, 1/26/12 3-Pointers 0 Free Throws 4 Alabama, 1/26/12 Minutes 19 Alabama, 1/26/12 * indicates most recent high
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 minutes • 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 TEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am e (as o f J an 29, 2012) the A ll g am esfloor
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P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia BAYLO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KANSAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
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• 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 respectively • 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 Virginia (11/20), pulling down seven boards • Went 2-4 from the floor and 2-5 from the line, chipping 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 charity 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 Mason
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GLORY JOHNSON 6-3 /// Forward Knoxville, Tenn. (The Webb School)
In SEC Play
two blocks against the Cardinal • Tallied 17 points in 38 minutes at UCLA (12/17), tying a season high with seven made field goals (7-9); came up with her second block of the season in the win 2011-12 SEASON HIGHS • Scored nine points against #11 Rutgers (12/13), tyPoints: 22 Georgia, 1/5/12 ing her season best with five free throws (5-6); conRebounds: 14 Arkansas, 1/8/12 tributed six rebounds -- three offensive and three Assists: 3 Virginia, 11/20/11 defensive • Led Tennessee in scoring versus #20/21 DePaul Steals: 5 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 (12/11), dropping 16 points on the Blue Demons on Blocks: 2 LSU, 1/19/12* 6-13 shooting; pulled down nine rebounds and came Field Goals: 8 Georgia, 1/5/12 up with two steals in the contest 3-Pointers: 0 • Put up the 25th double-double of her career against Free Throws: 10 Stanford, 12/20/11 #21/22 Texas, contributing 11 points and 10 boards Minutes: 39 Virginia, 11/20/11 • Righted the ship from the free throw line, hitting 5-6 • Recorded nine points and as many rebounds in 25 CAREER HIGHS minutes against Middle Tennessee (11/29), tacking Points: 25 Florida, 3/4/11 on a season-high three steals; recovered from free Rebounds: 18 Mississippi State, 1/23/11* throw woes to go 5-6 (.833) from the charity stripe Assists: 7 Mississippi State, 1/23/11 in the win Steals: 5 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12* • Against #1 Baylor (11/27), fell a point shy of her secBlocks: 4 Mississippi State, 1/23/11 ond double-double of the season, recording nine Field Goals: 10 Middle Tennessee, 11/25/09 points and 11 boards against the Lady Bears; added 3-Pointers: 1 Auburn, 1/28/10 two assists, two blocks and a steal in the performance • Went 5-6 from the floor against Virginia (11/20), Free Throws: 11 Florida, 3/4/11 contributing 15 total points; added six rebounds, Minutes: 40 Georgia, 1/21/10 three assists and a block in the losing effort • Against #7 Miami (11/15), fell one rebound shy of Versus Non-Conference Opponents SEC HIGHS her second-consecutive double-double, putting up • Tallied nine points and nine boards in the start at Points: 25 Florida, 3/4/11 16 points and nine boards in the contest; went 7-10 Rebounds: 18 Mississippi State, 1/23/11 Notre Dame (1/24); added two steals in the effort. from the floor and tacked on two steals and a block Assists: 7 Mississippi State, 1/23/11 • Eclipsed the 1,300-point mark with 10 points, 13 • Recorded her 24th career double-double against Steals: 5 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 rebounds against Chattanooga (1/3); recorded third- Pepperdine (11/13), dropping 17 points and 13 Blocks: 4 Mississippi State, 1/23/11 consecutive double-double against the Lady Mocs boards in the contest ; was named Player of the Field Goals: 8 Georgia, 1/5/12* • Led UT in scoring against Old Dominion (12/28) Game four her double-digit dazzle. 3/Pointers: 1 Auburn, 1/28/10 with 16 points on a 6-12 effort from the floor; put up Free Throws: 11 Florida, 3/4/11 a double-double with 11 boards on the night Awards & Honors Minutes: 40 Georgia, 1/21/10 • Put up a season-high 18 points against #4 Stanford • Tabbed SEC Player of the Week consecutive weeks: *Indicates most recent high (12/20) on(as 4-5ofshooting a season-best 10 free Jan. 2 and Jan. 9 TENNESSEE Individual Game-by-Game Feb 01,and 2012) throws; also contributed six rebounds, two steals and • Named to the 2011-12 Preseason All-Southeastern All games Conference First Team #25 JOHNSON, Glory JOHNSON’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS • Recognized as one of 30 nominees for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. To tal 3-Po in ters Free th ro w s R eb o u n d s • Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch O p p o n en t D ate g s m in fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a p c t ft-fta p c t o ff d ef to t av g p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts av g List and was named to the 20-member mid-season P E P P E R D IN E 1 1 /1 3 / * 27 7-11 . 6 3 0-0 . 0 0 3-3 1.00 5 8 13 13.0 3 0 2 0 0 17 17.0 M IA M I 1 1 /1 5 / * 27 7-10 . 7 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-5 .4 0 5 4 9 11.0 4 0 0 1 2 16 16.5 list
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* 39 5-6 .8 3 * 28 3-8 .3 7 * 25 2-3 .6 6 * 27 3-9 .3 3 * 29 6-13 .4 6 * 27 2-4 .5 0 * 38 7-9 .7 7 * 33 4-5 .8 0 * 26 6-12 .5 0 * 32 5-9 .5 5 * 20 4-8 .5 0 * 32 8-11 .7 2 * 30 6-9 .6 6 * 29 7-14 .5 0 * 33 6-10 .6 0 * 24 3-6 .5 0 * 28 3-12 .2 5 * 15 6-10 .6 0 * 21 2-2 1.00 2 1 590 102-181 . 5 6
• 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 minutes • 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-double (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 performances against Old Dominion and Auburn
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9 .3 4 3 1 2 1 15 9 .8 3 2 2 2 1 9 9 .6 2 2 2 1 3 9 9 .7 3 1 3 0 0 11 9 .6 2 0 3 0 2 16 9 .1 4 1 5 0 0 9 8 .7 2 2 0 1 1 17 8 .4 3 0 3 2 2 18 8 .6 0 1 2 1 0 16 9 .0 3 2 4 0 3 14 9 .3 0 2 1 2 3 10 9 .6 1 0 2 1 2 22 9 .9 2 1 3 2 3 15 9 .7 2 0 4 2 2 17 9 .9 2 2 3 0 5 16 9 .7 2 1 0 2 3 10 9 .6 1 1 4 1 2 9 9 .6 2 1 1 0 1 13 9 .5 4 3 2 3 2 5 9 .5 49 25 47 23 38 284
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SENIOR
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ALICIA MANNING 6-1 /// Forward Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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), contributing 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
2011-12 SEASON HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
12 15 5 6 1 6 0 1 32
DePaul, 12/11/11 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 MTSU, 11/29/11 DePaul, 12/11/11 Old Dominion, 12/28/11* DePaul, 12/11/11
CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers O pFree p o n enThrows t P EMinutes P P E R D IN E
Versus Non-Conference Opponents 22 South Carolina, 2/17/11 • Saw 12 minutes in the start against Notre Dame, 15 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 (1/24) 7 Dayton, TEN N3/22/10 ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-bpicking y -G am eup (astwo o f Jrebounds an 29, 2012) • es Scored six points and pulled down five boards 6 Old Dominion, 12/28/11 A ll g am 2 San Francisco, 11/15/08 against Chattanooga (1/3) Tab er her first start of 2011-12 against ODU (12/28), 8 South Carolina, 2/17/11 #13 SPA N•I,Made 3 South Carolina,To2/17/11* mark tal 3-Po in ters setting Free th roa w scareerR eb o u n d sin rebounds with 15; fell one 9 D ate Alabama, g s m in 1/6/11 fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a p c t point ft-fta shy p cof t othe ff ddouble-double ef to t av g p f aand t/o bdished lk s tl p ts g outavfive 1 1 /1 3 / * 27 4-11 . 3 6 3-5 . 6 0 0-1 . 0 0 1 3 4 4 .0 0 5 3 2 2 11 11.0 34 Dayton, 3/22/10* assists in the rounded effort
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. 5 0 2-3 .6 6 1 4 5 4 .5 1 3 2 0 1 20 15.5 off the1 bench see2270 minutes . 4 0 • Came 2-2 1.00 2 3to4 .0 2 1 0 against 22 17.7 #4 . 4 0 Stanford 0-1 . 0(12/20), 0 0 2tying 2 a 3 .5season 3 0 high, 1 0 dishing 0 10 15.8 out . 6 6 2-2 1.00 0 4 4 3 .6 1 2 2 0 1 8 14.2 four . 5 0 two 1-2assists; . 5 0 also 3 contributed 2 5 3 .8 nine 1 1 points 1 1 and 0 4 12.5re. 0 0 bounds 0-0 .0 0 1 the 3 Cardinal 4 3 .9 0 1 3 0 0 8 11.9 against . 6 0 0-0 .0 0 3 2 5 4 .0 2 3 1 0 0 13 12.0 Went .a0 0 perfect UCLA . 6 6 • 0-0 0 0 3-30 from 3 .6 the 1 4 floor 3 0against 0 14 12.2 . 3 3 (12/17) 2-2 1.00 2 3 5 3 .7 1 2 season 2 0 0 high 9 11.9 and doubled her previous with . 0 0 four 0-0assists . 0 0 in the 0 win 2 2 3 .5 0 1 1 0 0 0 10.8 . 5 0 0-0 .0 0 0 1 1 3 .3 1 2 1 1 1 3 10.2 Came off #11 . 4 8 • 9-13 . 6 9 the 12 bench 28 40to 3play .3 132324minutes 22 5 against 5 122 10.2
Rutgers (12/13); went to the glass, pulling down three
R ebounds/gam e: 3 .3 Aoffensive ssists/gam e:and 2 .0 three defensive boards. T•urnovers/gam e: 1 .8 Was named AutoZone Player of the Game against A ssist/turnover ratio: 1 .1 #20/21 DePaul (12/11) for her 12 point, 12 rebound S teals/gam e: 0 .4 B locks/gam e: 0 .4
MANNING’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS#15 M A N N IN G , A lic ia O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia BAYLO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KAN SAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
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performance off the bench -- both totals were season 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 seasonhigh 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 Pepperdine (11/13): two offensive and four defensive
FRESHMAN
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ARIEL MASSENGALE 5-6 /// Point Guard Bolingbrook, Ill. (Bolingbrook H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS 2011-12 SEASON/CAREER HIGHS Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Field Goals 3-Pointers Free Throws Minutes
19 Georgia, 1/5/12* 4 Kentucky, 1/12/12* 12 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 4 Old Dominion, 12/28/11* 0 8 Georgia, 1/5/12 4 Chattanooga, 1/3/12 3 Chattanooga, 1/3/12* 36 Kentucky, 1/12/12*
SEC HIGHS Points 19 Georgia, 1/5/12 Rebounds 4 Kentucky, 1/12/12* Assists 12 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 Steals 1 Auburn, 1/1/12 Blocks 0 Field Goals 8 Georgia, 1/5/12 3-Pointers 2 Georgia, 1/5/12 Free Throws 2 Auburn, 1/1/12 Minutes 36 Kentucky, 1/12/12* * indicates most recent high
• Used a 4-6 shooting effort to tally 16 points at Georgia (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 Georgia (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 Cardinal; 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), contributing a ecareer-high 142012) points in the win ; dished TEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am (as o f J an 29, five Aout ll g am es helpers and snagged two steals on the night
#05 M A SSEN G A L E, A riel MASSENGALE’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS O p p o n en t
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without committing a turnover • Had four points against #1 Baylor (11/29) in 31 minutes 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.
SOPHOMORE
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MEIGHAN SIMMONS 5-9 /// Guard Cibolo, Texas (Byron P. Steele II H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• Went 3-8 from the floor against Georgia (1/29), putting together nine points in the win • Used a 3-8 shooting effort to tally nine points off the 2011-12 SEASON HIGHS bench at Alabama (1/26) Points 20 Auburn, 1/1/12 • Led UT in scoring with 19 points on 6-16 shooting Rebounds 6 Rutgers, 12/13/11 against LSU (1/19) Assists 4 Stanford, 12/20/11 • Recorded 10 points and three steals in the win over Steals 3 Vanderbilt, 1/15/12 Vanderbilt (1/15) Blocks 2 Chattanooga, 1/3/12 • Recorded three points and two boards in 24 minutes Field Goals 8 UCLA, 12/17/11* with the start at Kentucky (1/12) 3-Pointers 3 Rutgers, 12/13/11* • Scored seven points and added a helper in the start Free Throws 7 Auburn, 1/1/12 against Arkansas (1/8) Minutes 40 Rutgers, 12/13/11 • Put up 10 points on a 3-11 shooting performance TEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -GGeorgia am e (as o(1/5) f J an 29, 2012) against CAREER HIGHS A ll• Led g amUT es in scoring against Auburn (1/1) with 20 points Points 28 Lamar, 12/1/10 -- a season and SEC high mark; was named AutoZone Rebounds 8 Louisville, 11/12/10 #05 M A SSEN G A L E, A riel Player of the Game for her performance in the win Assists
11 Alabama, 1/6/11 To tal 3-Po in ters Free th ro w s R eb o u n d s 3 D ate Vanderbilt, 1/15/12* g s m in fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a p c t ft-fta p c t o ff d ef to t av g p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts av g P EBlocks P P E R D IN E 1 1 /1 3 / * 20 1-3 . 3 3 0-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 3 3 3 .0 Opponents 2 5 1 0 2 2 2 .0 Versus Non-Conference 2 Chattanooga, 1/3/12* M IA M I 1 1 /1 5 / * 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 .5 • Led UT in scoring for the second-consecutive game Field Goals 10 Lamar, 12/1/10* a t V irg in ia 1 1 /2 0 / * 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 .0 8 1 1 /2 7 /Lamar, B A3-Pointers YLO R * 3112/1/10 1-10 . 1 0 1-6 at. 1Notre 6 1-2Dame, . 5 0 tallying 0 1 13 1points 3 .0 (1/24) 4 4 1 0 0 4 4 .8 M ID D LEThrows T E N N E S S E 8 E 1 1 /2 9 /Baylor, * 2312/14/10 6-9 . 6 6 1-3 • .Against 3 3 1-1 Chattanooga 1.00 2 2 (1/3), 4 3recorded .2 0 5 10 0 points 0 2 14 Free and6 .6 TEXAS 4/ * 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 .2 Minutes 40 11 22 /0 Ohio State, 3/26/11* high a t S ta n fo rd /2 0 / 11 0-1 . 0 0 0-1 two . 0 0 boards; 0-0 .tied 0 0 a1career 0 1 2 .9with 1 two 1 0 blocks 0 0 in 0the 6 .1
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O L D D O M IN IO N 1 2 /2 8 / * 21 4-6 . 6 6 3-3 a t SEC A u b u rn HIGHS 0 1 -0 1 - * 36 1-5 . 2 0 0-1 CHATTANOOGA 0 1 /0 3 / * 23 6-6 1.00 4-4 # 1Points 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA 20 0 1 /0 5 /Auburn, * 35 1/1/12 8-12 . 6 6 2-3 a t Rebounds ARKANSAS * 29 3-82/17/11* . 3 7 1-2 5 0 1 -0 8 -South Carolina, a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y 2/ * 36 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 Assists 11 00 11 /1 Alabama, 1/6/11 V A N D E R B IL T /1 5 / * 35 3-10 . 3 0 0-4 1/15/12 L OSteals U IS IA N A S T A T E 3 0 1 /1 9 /Vanderbilt, * 31 2-11 . 1 8 0-6 a t Blocks N o tre D a m e 35 1-3 . 3 3 1-2 1 0 1 /2 3 /Vanderbilt, 2/13/11* a t A la b a m a 6/ * 28 0-4 . 0 0 0-3 Field Goals 8 00 11 /2 Ole Miss, 1/9/11 a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia /2 9 / * 35 4-6 . 6 6 2-2 4 Vanderbilt, 1/15/11*. 3 9 19-51 T o3-Pointers ta ls 1 6 521 50-126
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1.00 over 0-0 the .Lady 00 0Mocs 1 1 2 .6 1 5 0 0 4 11 6 .8 Preseason Accolades win . 0 0 2-3 .6 6 1 3 4 2 .8 3 2 2 0 1 4 6 .4 • Named to the 2011-12 Preseason All-SEC First Team •1.00 Put up 12 points on 5-13 shooting in the start against 3-5 .6 0 0 1 1 2 .6 1 2 4 0 2 19 7 .7 Old . 6 6 Dominion 1-1 1.00(12/28) 2 1 3 2 .6 1 9 1 0 0 19 8 .7 • Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List . 5 0 0-2 #4 Stanford .0 0 1 (12/20), 1 2 2tallied13 .6 2 5 points 0 0 1on 5-12 7 8 .6 • Against . 0 0 2-3 .6 6 0 4 4 2 .7 1 5 3 0 1 6 8 .4 shooting also 2 0 2contributed 2 .6 1 12 a 3 season-high 0 2 6 8 .2 . 0 0 0-0 in the . 0 0 start; . 0 0 assists 4-4 1.00 two 0 boards 2 2 in2 .6 3 3 0 3 8 8 .2 four and the 3effort . 5 0 0-1 .0 0 0 1 1 2 .5 2 4 2 0 2 3 7 .9 • Led UT in scoring versus UCLA (12.17), tying her sea. 0 0 1-2 .5 0 0 2 2 2 .5 2 11 1 0 2 1 7 .5 son 1.00 high 6-8 with . 7 518 points 0 4 on48-14 2 .6 scoring 1 3 3in the 0 1win 16 7 .9 3 7 24-37out .three 6 4 11assists 35 46 2 .6 35 97to37a block 0 30 and 143 a 7 .9 • .Dished in addition steal against the Bruins R ebounds/gam e: 2 .6 • Tied a season A ssists/gam e: 5 .4high with three treys against No. 11 T urnovers/gam 2 .1 route to a 13-point performance; Rutgers (12/13)e:en A ssist/turnover ratio: 2 .6 pulled down a season-high six rebounds (five defenS teals/gam e: 1 .7 sive), playing all 40 minutes in the win
SIMMONS’ 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS#10 SIM M O N S, M eig h an
O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia B A Y LO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KANSAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
G a m e s p la ye d : 2 1 M in u te s/g a m e : 2 7 .1 P o in ts/g a m e : 1 0 .8 F G P ct: 3 3 .5 3 F G P ct: 3 1 .7 F T P ct: 7 2 .7
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20 36 * 21 16 21 18 * 20 * 40 * 39 * 37 * 20 * 37 * 24 * 29 * 20 * 24 * 30 * 38 28 13 * 38 1 4 569
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4-9 5-11 1-7 1-12 0-7 3-11 4-7 4-12 8-14 5-12 5-13 6-15 4-14 3-11 2-9 1-6 4-13 6-16 5-15 3-8 3-8 77-230
. 4 4 2-4 . 4 5 3-5 . 1 4 1-5 . 0 8 0-3 . 0 0 0-2 . 2 7 3-7 . 5 7 0-0 . 3 3 3-8 . 5 7 2-5 . 4 1 1-5 . 3 8 2-7 . 4 0 1-5 . 2 8 2-6 . 2 7 2-7 . 2 2 1-6 . 1 6 1-2 . 3 0 2-6 . 3 7 3-7 . 3 3 1-3 . 3 7 1-4 . 3 7 1-4 . 3 3 32-101
• 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), hitting 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 versus Virginia (11/20), where she knocked down a threepointer 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 total 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
. 5 0 3-4 . 6 0 5-6 . 2 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 5-7 . 4 2 1-2 . 0 0 1-2 . 3 7 2-6 . 4 0 0-0 . 2 0 2-3 . 2 8 0-0 . 2 0 7-8 . 3 3 0-0 . 2 8 2-2 . 1 6 2-2 . 5 0 0-0 . 3 3 0-0 . 4 2 4-6 . 3 3 2-3 . 2 5 2-2 . 2 5 2-2 . 3 1 40-55
.7 5 .8 3 .0 0 .0 0 .7 1 .5 0 .5 0 .3 3 .0 0 .6 6 .0 0 .8 7 .0 0 1.00 1.00 .0 0 .0 0 .6 6 .6 6 1.00 1.00 .7 2
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3 4 1 1 1 1 2 5 4 2 0 3 0 2 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 36
R ebounds/gam e: 2 .4 A ssists/gam e: 1 .6 T urnovers/gam e: 2 .2 A ssist/turnover ratio: 0 .7 S teals/gam e: 0 .8 B locks/gam e: 0 .4
3 4 1 3 1 1 3 6 4 2 0 4 2 2 1 2 3 5 2 1 0 50
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p ts av g
1 0 13 0 1 18 1 0 3 0 2 2 0 2 5 1 2 10 0 2 9 1 0 13 1 1 18 0 0 13 0 1 12 0 1 20 2 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 7 0 0 3 1 3 10 0 2 19 0 0 13 0 0 9 0 0 9 8 17 226
13.0 15.5 11.3 9 .0 8 .2 8 .5 8 .6 9 .1 10.1 10.4 10.5 11.3 11.2 11.1 10.9 10.4 10.4 10.8 10.9 10.9 10.8 10.8
JUNIOR
TABER SPANI
6-1 /// Forward/Guard Lee’s Summit, Mo. (Homeschooled)
Versus Non-Conference Opponents
BY THE NUMBERS
• Saw 21 minutes off the bench at Georgia (1/29); hit a trey and dished out a pair of assists in the win • Returned to action versus Notre Dame (1/24) • Used 3-6 shooting against #4 Stanford (12/20) to tal2011-12 SEASON HIGHS ly nine points in the start; came up with five rebounds Points 22 Virginia, 11/20/11 and dished out two assists against the Cardinal Rebounds 5 Rutgers, 12/13/11* • Logged 29 minutes in the start against UCLA (12/17), Assists 5 Pepperdine, 11/13/11 putting up 14 points and tying her season high for Steals 2 Pepperdine, 11/13/11 treys, hitting 4-6; distributed the ball, tallying four Blocks 2 Pepperdine, 11/13/11 helpers in the win Field Goals 8 Virginia, 11/20/11 • Against #11 Rutgers (12/13). went 3-5 from behind 3-Pointers 4 UCLA, 12/17/11* Free Throws 4 Pepperdine, 11/13/11 the arc, totaling 13 points; tied a season high with five Minutes 42 Virginia, 11/20/11 rebounds in the contest • Went 4-9 from the floor against #20/21 DePaul CAREER HIGHS (12/11), tallying eight points in 30 minutes of action; tacked on four rebounds and an assist in the win Points 22 Virginia, 11/20/11* Rebounds 12 ETSU, 12/22/10 • Tied her season-high rebound total against #21/22 Assists 5 Pepperdine, 11/13/11* Texas (12/4), pulling five boards; came up with TEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am e (as o f J andown 29, 2012) Steals 2 Pepperdine, 11/13/11* assist A llan g am es and a block to go with her four-point outing Blocks 2 Pepperdine, 11/13/11* • Versus Middle Tennessee (11/29), went 2-3 from beField Goals 8 Virginia, 11/20/11 #13 SPA N I,the Tabarc er and 2-2 from the charity stripe to contribhind 3-Pointers 4 Virginia, 11/20/11* ute eight came To tal 3-Po in ters Free th points; ro w s R eb o uup n d s with four boards and two Free Throws 7 D ate Alabama, 1/6/11 O p p o n en t g s m in fg -fg a p c t 3fg -fg a assists p c t ft-fta p c tthe o ffBlue d ef Raiders to t av g p f a t/o b lk s tl p ts av g against 42 P EMinutes P P E R D IN E 1 1 /1 3 / Virginia, * 27 11/20/11 4-11 . 3 6 3-5 . 6 0 0-1 .0 0 1 3 4 4 .0 0 5 3 2 2 11 11.0 • Played 31 minutes agains #1 Baylor (11/27), chipping M IA M I 1 1 /1 5 / * 39 7-14 . 5 0 4-8 . 5 0 2-3 .6 6 1 4 5 4 .5 1 3 2 0 1 20 15.5 a t V irg in ia 1 1 /2 0 / * 42 8-17 . 4 7 4-10 in . 4 10 0 points 2-2 1.00 1 2 3 4 .0 against 2 0 the 2 1Lady 0 Bears 22 17.7 and two rebounds B ASEC Y LO R HIGHS 1 1 /2 7 / * 31 4-12 . 3 3 2-5 . 4 0 0-1 .0 0 0 2 2 3 .5 3 0 1 0 0 10 15.8 • Tied a career high with 22 points against Virginia M ID D L E T E N N E S S E E18 1 1 /2 9 / Arkansas, * 18 1/30/11* 2-4 . 5 0 2-3 . 6 6 2-2 1.00 0 4 4 3 .6 1 2 2 0 1 8 14.2 Points TEXAS 1 2 /0 4 / * 26 1-4 . 2 5 1-2 . 5 0 1-2 going . 5 0 8-17 3 from 2 5the3 .8floor, 1 hitting 1 1 1 four 0 from 4 12.5 (11/20), 6 1 2 /1 1 / Georgia, vs Rebounds D ePaul * 30 3/5/11* 4-9 . 4 4 0-3 . 0 0 0-0 .0 0 1 3 4 3 .9 0 1 3 0 0 8 11.9 long range; added two rebounds and a block in a 5 1 2 /1 3 / Alabama, a t Assists R u tg e rs * 31 1/6/11 5-12 . 4 1 3-5 . 6 0 0-0 .0 0 3 2 5 4 .0 2 3 1 0 0 13 12.0 career-high 42 minutes of action a t Steals U C LA 1 2 /1 7 / * 29 5-7 . 7 1 4-6 . 6 6 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 0 3 .6 1 4 3 0 0 14 12.2 2 Auburn, 1/23/11* a t S ta n fo rd 0/ * 25 3-6 . 5 0 1-3 3 2-2 2 3 205 points 3 .7 1 against 2 2 0 #70 Miami 9 11.9 • . 3Put up a1.00 team-high Blocks 2 10 21 /2 Vanderbilt, 3/6/10 a t N o tre D a m e /2 3 / 9 0-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 2 2 3 .5 0 1 1 0 0 0 10.8 (11/15) dropping four of eight shots from behind Field Goals 7 Mississippi St., 1/27/11* a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia 0 1 /2 9 / 21 1-5 . 2 0 1-2 . 5 0 0-0 .0 0 0 1 1 3 .3 1 2 1 1 1 3the 10.2 T o3-Pointers ta ls 1 0 328 44-103 . 4 2 25-52 . 4 8 9-13 . 6 9 12 28 40 3 .3 13 24 22 5 5 122 10.2 arc; contributed five boards and three assists in 39 3 Arkansas, 1/20/11* Free Throws 7 Alabama, 1/6/11 minutes R ebounds/gam e: 3 .3 G a m e s p la ye d : 1 2 Arkansas 1/30/11 • Was productive A ssists/gam e: 2 .0on both sides of the ball against PepM inMinutes u te s/g a m e : 2 7 .3 39 T urnovers/gam e: 1notching .8 P o *indicates in ts/g a m e : 1most 0 .2 recent occurrence perdine (11/13), 11 points, five assists and
F G P ct: 4 2 .7 3 F G P ct: 4 8 .1 F T P ct: 6 9 .2
A ssist/turnover ratio: 1 .1 S teals/gam e: 0 .4 B locks/gam e: 0 .4
SPANI’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia BAYLO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KAN SAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T L O U IS IA N A S T A T E a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
G a m e s p la ye d : 2 1 M in u te s/g a m e : 1 8 .1 P o in ts/g a m e : 4.3 F G P ct: 4 0 .9 3 F G P ct: 3 3 .3 F T P ct: 6 8 .0
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1-3 1-2 0-1 0-1 3-8 0-0 6-12 1-3 3-3 4-9 4-10 3-6 2-5 0-4 1-2 1-3 3-5 2-4 0-3 1-4 0-0 36-88
.3 3 .5 0 .0 0 .0 0 .3 7 .0 0 .5 0 .3 3 1.00 .4 4 .4 0 .5 0 .4 0 .0 0 .5 0 .3 3 .6 0 .5 0 .0 0 .2 5 .0 0 .4 0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-0 2-6
. 0 0 1-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-1 . 0 0 2-3 . 0 0 0-0 . 3 3 0-0 . 0 0 1-1 . 0 0 4-4 . 0 0 2-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 1-2 . 0 0 1-2 . 0 0 2-5 . 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-2 . 0 0 0-0 . 3 3 17-25
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4 0 3 1 3 0 9 3 3 2 8 2 4 3 4 0 3 3 1 3 0 59
R ebounds/gam e: 4 .5 A ssists/gam e: 1 .5 T urnovers/gam e: 1 .0 A ssist/turnover ratio: 1 .6 S teals/gam e: 1 .2 B locks/gam e: 0 .0
6 0 3 1 5 0 12 6 3 4 15 5 5 5 5 1 5 6 2 5 0 94
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0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 26
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3 .0 2 .5 1 .7 1 .3 2 .4 2 .0 3 .4 3 .5 3 .8 4 .3 4 .7 5 .2 5 .2 4 .9 4 .7 4 .6 4 .8 4 .8 4 .6 4 .6 4 .3 4 .3
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SENIOR
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SHEKINNA STRICKLEN 6-2 /// Guard Morrilton, Ark. (Morrilton H.S.)
In SEC Play
and 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 season-high three assists in the win 2011-12 SEASON HIGHS • Scored a team-high 20 points against #21/22 Texas Points 27 Stanford, 12/20/11 (12/4) on a season-best five treys; also set season highs Rebounds 14 Virginia, 11/20/11 in assists and blocks, coming up with three of each Assists 3 Georgia, 1/5/12* • Versus Middle Tennessee (11/29), recorded her fifth Steals 3 Auburn, 1/1/12* double-digit scoring effort in only the fifth game of Blocks 3 Texas, 12/4/11 the season, putting up 12 points; added five boards, Field Goals 10 Stanford, 12/20/11 two blocks and two steals in the win • Led the team in scoring against #1 Baylor (11/27) with 3-Pointers 5 Texas, 12/4/11 her headlining double-double performance; contribFree Throws 6 DePaul, 12/11/11 uted 25 points and 12 boards on the night Minutes 43 Virginia, 11/20/11 • Added two blocks and an assist to her effort • Recorded a double-double against Virginia (11/20), CAREER HIGHS contributing 16 points and a team-high 14 rebounds; Points 27 Stanford, 12/20/11 snagged two steals and dished out an assist in a caRebounds 16 South Carolina, 1/20/11 reer-high 43 minutes Assists 12 Oklahoma, 1/3/10 • Made her 105th consecutive start and played 30 Versus Non-Conference Opponents Steals 5 Oklahoma, 2/2/09* minutes against #7 Miami (11/15), scoring 15 points; • Pulled down seven rebounds and tallied five points at Blocks 5 Marquette, 3/21/11 pulled down seven boards and tacked on a steal and Notre Dame (1/24) Field Goals 10 Stanford, 12/20/11* an assist in the effort • Had a sub-par night against Chattanooga (1/3), going • Made the start against Pepperdine (11/13) and broke 3-Pointers 6 Arkansas, 1/30/11 2-7 from the floor for four points; tied a season-best into double digit scoring with 13 points against the Free Throws 11 Rutgers, 12/13/09 with three assists in the win Minutes 43 Virginia, 11/20/11 Waves; tacked on six rebounds and two assists in 27 • Missed double-digit scoring for the first time in 2011- minutes of action in the win 12 against Old Dominion (12/28), tallying 8 points on Preseason Accolades SEC HIGHS • Stricklen was named to the 2011-12 Preseason All3-7 shooting; pulled down four boards in the win Points 26 Arkansas, 1/30/11* • Set a career high with 27 points against #4 Stanford SEC First Team and was tabbed the league’s preseason Rebounds 16 South Carolina, 1/20/11 (12/20), tying a career high with 10 field goals; played player of the year Assists 8 Ole Miss, 2/11/10 all 40 minutes of the contest where she dished out two • Recognized by the AP with preseason All-America Steals 4 Mississippi St., 1/27/11* laurels, being named to the first team assists and came up with two steals Blocks 3 Kentucky, 3/6/11* • Against UCLA (12/17), kept her double-digit scoring • Named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List Field Goals 10 Arkansas, 1/30/11* streak alive, contributing 11 points despite missing and was named to the 20-member mid-season list 3-Pointers 6 Arkansas, 1/30/11 portion of the first half due to illness; went 5-6 from Free Throws 10 Mississippi St., 1/15/09 the floor in the win over the Bruins Minutes 40 Vanderbilt, 2/8/10* • Put up 22 points on #11 Rutgers (12/13) on 8-18 scor* indicates most recent occurrence ing in 40- minutes; fell a rebound shy of a double-douTEN N ESSEE In d iv id u al G am e-b y -G am e (as o f J an 29, 2012) ble, pulling down nine rebounds in the winning effort A ll g am es
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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), totaling 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
#40 STR IC K L EN , Sh ek in n a STRICKLEN’S 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS O p p o n en t
P E P P E R D IN E M IA M I a t V irg in ia B A Y LO R M ID D LE T E N N E S S E E TEXAS vs D e P a u l a t R u tg e rs at U C LA a t S ta n fo rd O L D D O M IN IO N a t A u b u rn CHATTANOOGA # 1 6 /1 5 G E O R G IA at AR KANSAS a t # 9 /8 K E N T U C K Y V A N D E R B IL T a t N o tre D a m e a t A la b a m a a t # 1 6 /1 5 G e o rg ia T o ta ls
D ate
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27 5-13 30 6-13 43 7-15 39 9-22 21 5-7 37 6-14 34 3-11 40 8-18 33 5-6 40 10-17 24 3-7 36 5-18 21 2-7 36 5-15 34 8-12 31 3-12 35 8-15 28 2-10 15 5-9 * 40 9-18 1 8 644 114-259
. 3 8 3-4 . 4 6 2-4 . 4 6 0-6 . 4 0 4-9 . 7 1 2-2 . 4 2 5-9 . 2 7 0-2 . 4 4 3-5 . 8 3 1-2 . 5 8 3-8 . 4 2 0-3 . 2 7 2-9 . 2 8 0-2 . 3 3 0-3 . 6 6 2-6 . 2 5 1-4 . 5 3 1-5 . 2 0 1-3 . 5 5 1-3 . 5 0 1-4 . 4 4 32-93
. 7 5 0-2 . 5 0 1-1 . 0 0 2-3 . 4 4 3-4 1.00 0-0 . 5 5 3-4 . 0 0 6-6 . 6 0 3-5 . 5 0 0-0 . 3 7 4-6 . 0 0 2-2 . 2 2 5-5 . 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 2-3 . 3 3 1-2 . 2 5 4-4 . 2 0 3-3 . 3 3 0-0 . 3 3 3-4 . 2 5 5-7 . 3 4 47-61
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5 6 5 7 8 14 6 12 3 5 5 8 8 9 6 9 0 1 2 3 2 4 0 1 3 5 6 8 5 8 3 5 1 3 4 7 4 4 3 7 79 126
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JUNIOR
KAMIKO WILLIAMS 5-11 /// Guard Clarksville, Tenn. (Northeast H.S.)
In SEC Play
BY THE NUMBERS
• 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 rebounds • 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
2011-12 SEASON HIGHS Points 10 Rebounds 3 Assists 5 Steals 2 Blocks Field Goals 4 3-Pointers Free Throws 2 Minutes 17
Alabama, 1/26/12 Kentucky, 1/12/12* Alabama, 1/26/12 Kentucky, 1/12/12* Alabama, 1/26/12 Georgia, 1/5/12 Kentucky, 1/12/12
CAREER HIGHSTENNESSEE Individual Game-by-Game (as of Jan 29, 2012)
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0 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 10
0 0 3 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 12
0 .5 0 .4 0 .8 0 .7 0 .8 0 .7 0 .8 0 .9 0 .9 0 .8 0 .8 0 .8
0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 10 11
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 9
1 9 9 0 2 0 3 0 0 8 0 46
2 .5 3 .4 4 .1 3 .7 3 .5 3 .2 3 .2 2 .9 2 .7 3 .1 2 .9 2 .9
R ebounds/gam e: 0 .8 A ssists/gam e: 0 .6 T urnovers/gam e: 0 .7 A ssist/turnove r ratio: 0 .9 S teals/gam e: 0 .6
WILLIAMS’ 2011-12 SEASON STATISTICS #04 W IL L IA M S, K am ik o O p p o n en t
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G a m e s p la ye d : 8 M in u te s/g a m e : 9.8 P o in ts/g a m e : 2.3 F G P ct: 3 0 .4 3 F G P ct: 0 .0 F T P ct: 1 0 0 .0
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.0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0 .0 0
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GAME 1
GAME 2
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics MIAMI vs TENNESSEE
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics PEPPERDINE vs TENNESSEE 11/13/11 4:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
#3 UT vs. Pepperdine // Nov. 13, 2011
Tenn, #311/15/11 UT 6:03 vs.p.m. #7at Thompson-Boling Miami // Arena, Nov.Knoxville, 15, 2011 MIAMI 76 • 1-1
PEPPERDINE 57 • 0-1 ## 15 20 05 23 32 01 02 04 11 12 22 24 25
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
Player
BARNETT, Skye f 2-3 McNORTON, Jade c 0-1 JACKSON, Jazmine g 6-14 MENTON, Katie g 2-10 BELL, Lauren g 2-9 MAYBERRY, Robie 2-9 LANSBACH, Dori 0-0 BAUGHN, Grace Leah 0-1 SHOUSHTARI, Ea 0-1 PATRICK, Kelsey 0-6 COONEY-WILLIAMS,Sh 2-8 SHEALY, T'Keyah 0-2 EMERSON, Tessa 3-3 Team Totals 19-67
FG % 1st Half: 8-31 3FG % 1st Half: 0-7 FT % 1st Half: 5-11
25.8% 0.0% 45.5%
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-5 2-5 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-3 0-0 0-0
4-20
TP
3-4 0-0 5-11 2-3 2-4 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 1-1
2 3 5 0 0 1 1 3 2 3 5 1 1 1 2 3 0 2 2 3 2 3 5 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 4 2 1 5 6 2 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 15-27 14 20 34 25
2nd half: 11-36 30.6% 2nd half: 4-13 30.8% 2nd half: 10-16 62.5%
7 0 17 6 8 7 0 0 0 0 4 1 7
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
3 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 57 10 16
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Min
13 11 34 26 36 21 1 3 9 9 16 12 9
9 200
Game: 19-67 28.4% Game: 4-20 20.0% Game: 15-27 55.6%
Deadball Rebounds 7
TENNESSEE 89 • 1-0 ## 25 40 21 05 13 01 10 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel SPANI, Taber BASS, Briana SIMMONS, Meighan BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-26 42.3% 3FG % 1st Half: 2-6 33.3% FT % 1st Half: 12-18 66.7%
32 34 01 03 42 10 12 23 33 40 50
f f c g g
7-11 5-13 3-3 1-3 4-11 2-2 4-9 2-3 1-3 0-1
0-0 3-4 0-0 0-1 3-5 2-2 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
TP
5 8 13 3 1 5 6 4 4 3 7 4 0 3 3 2 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 3 0 1 1 3 2 4 6 1 1 7 8 1 1 2 3 29-59 10-16 21-29 15 39 54 23
2nd half: 18-33 54.5% 2nd half: 8-10 80.0% 2nd half: 9-11 81.8%
17 13 8 2 11 10 13 7 3 5
A TO Blk Stl
0 2 3 5 5 0 1 2 2 0
2 1 2 1 3 2 2 4 3 2
0 1 3 0 2 0 1 2 0 1
89 20 22 10
0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 1
Min
27 27 19 20 27 12 20 16 19 13
8 200
Game: 29-59 49.2% Game: 10-16 62.5% Game: 21-29 72.4%
Deadball Rebounds 3
1st
21 36
2nd
36 53
Last FG - PEP 2nd-03:35, UT 2nd-01:35. Largest lead - PEP None, UT by 35 2nd-11:02.
Total
57 89
STROMAN, Morgan BULLOCK, Sylvia WILLIAMS, Riquna YDERSTORM, Stefanie JOHNSON, Shenise WOODS, Michelle SAUNDERS, Krystal WILLIAMS, Shanel MCGUIRE, Suriya WILSON, Shawnice BROWN, Maria Team Totals
40 21 05 13 10 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel SPANI, Taber SIMMONS, Meighan BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 16-36 3FG % 1st Half: 7-13 FT % 1st Half: 3-4
In Paint 24 28
Off T/O 18 16
2nd Fast Chance Break 7 2 7 20
Bench 19 38
3-4 0-0 8-28 2-6 8-19 0-0 1-3 0-0 1-1 2-5 4-5
0-0 0-0 3-12 2-5 1-5 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
29-71
6-23
PF
TP
2 1 3 3 0 1 1 3 1 3 4 4 0 2 2 1 6 3 9 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 11 0 1 2 3 3 3 6 9 12-14 19 26 45 21
2nd half: 14-34 41.2% 2nd half: 0-9 0.0% 2nd half: 6-8 75.0%
5-5 0-0 5-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-1 0-0
11 0 24 6 17 0 2 0 4 4 8
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 6 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
Min
1 1 3 6 4 2 0 0 0 1 3
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0
76 12 21
0
7 200
Game: 29-71 40.8% Game: 6-23 26.1% Game: 12-14 85.7%
18 14 33 20 38 6 12 3 12 27 17
Deadball Rebounds 0
44.4% 53.8% 75.0%
f f c g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot
7-10 6-13 3-4 3-11 7-14 5-11 0-0 1-2 1-4
0-0 2-4 0-0 2-4 4-8 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-1
PF
TP
5 4 9 4 2 5 7 3 1 3 4 3 1 3 4 3 1 4 5 1 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 1 3 33-69 11-22 15-20 13 25 38 15
2nd half: 17-33 51.5% 2nd half: 4-9 44.4% 2nd half: 12-16 75.0%
2-5 1-1 0-0 3-3 2-3 5-6 0-0 0-0 2-2
16 15 6 11 20 18 0 2 4
A TO Blk Stl
0 1 3 9 3 3 0 0 0
Min
0 0 3 5 2 2 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
92 19 13
2
6 200
Game: 33-69 47.8% Game: 11-22 50.0% Game: 15-20 75.0%
27 30 19 31 39 36 2 7 9
Deadball Rebounds 2
Officials: Tina Napier, Bryan Enterline, Felicia Grinter Technical fouls: MIAMI-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 12151 Score by periods MIAMI TENNESSEE
Points PEP UT
40.5% 42.9% 100.0
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot
TENNESSEE 92 • 2-0
25
3-3 0-2 2-2 0-0 0-1 4-4 3-4 3-5 1-2 5-6
Player
FG % 1st Half: 15-37 3FG % 1st Half: 6-14 FT % 1st Half: 6-6
##
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
Officials: Beverly Roberts, Brian Hall, Bruce Morris Technical fouls: PEPPERDINE-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 12147 PU #25 fouls out @ 2:28/2 Score by periods PEPPERDINE TENNESSEE
##
1st
42 42
2nd
34 50
Total
76 92
Last FG - UM 2nd-00:22, UT 2nd-00:32. Largest lead - UM by 6 1st-18:08, UT by 19 2nd-00:32.
Points UM UT
In Paint 30 34
Off T/O 13 23
2nd Fast Chance Break 15 13 12 19
Bench 18 24
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 4 times.
Score tied - 0 times. Lead changed - 0 times.
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.
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 evening at Thompson-Boling Arena.
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.
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.
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.
But the Hurricanes came storming back, eventually getting as close as 73-68. That’s when Spani saved her best for her last shot.
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 Massengale 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.
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.
GAME 3
GAME 4
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics UT vs Virginia 11/20/11 2:00 PM at Charlottesville, Va. (JPJA)
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics BAYLOR vs UT 11/27/11 2:02 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
#3 UT at Virginia // Nov. 20, 2011
#6/7 UT vs. #1 Baylor // Nov. 27, 2011
UT 64 • 2-1 ## 25 40 05 10 13 01 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber BASS, Briana BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 9-24 3FG % 1st Half: 3-9 FT % 1st Half: 8-15
37.5% 33.3% 53.3%
f f g g g
BAYLOR 76 • 6-0
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
5-6 7-15 1-6 1-7 8-17 0-1 0-2 0-1 2-4
24-59
0-0 0-6 0-2 1-5 4-10 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 5-24
TP
5-13 2-3 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3
4 1 5 4 6 8 14 3 1 3 4 5 0 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 0 3 4 7 2 3 3 6 11-21 18 26 44 19
2nd half: 13-29 44.8% 2nd half: 0-10 0.0% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0%
OT: OT: OT:
2-6 2-5 0-0
33.3% 40.0% 0.0%
15 16 2 3 22 0 0 0 6
A TO Blk Stl
3 1 7 0 0 0 1 1 0
1 4 7 4 2 2 1 0 3
64 13 24
2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 7
Game: 24-59 40.7% Game: 5-24 20.8% Game: 11-21 52.4%
1 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
Min
39 43 34 21 42 7 10 10 19
8 225 Deadball Rebounds 2
Virginia 69 • 4-0 ## 50 04 01 15 23 14 21 30
Player
Chelsea Shine Simone Egwu China Crosby Ariana Moorer Ataira Franklin Lexie Gerson Jazmin Pitts Telia McCall Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-34 32.4% 3FG % 1st Half: 3-7 42.9% FT % 1st Half: 4-5 80.0%
10 42 00 01 03 20 32
f c g g g
7-15 0-2 3-8 3-16 5-10 4-6 2-3 1-2
0-1 0-0 1-3 0-4 0-2 2-2 0-0 0-0
25-62
3-12
3 6 9 0 1 1 2 2 1 4 5 2 3 7 10 2 3 1 4 3 0 3 3 4 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 16-22 13 25 38 19
2nd half: 12-23 52.2% 2nd half: 0-4 0.0% 2nd half: 5-7 71.4%
4-6 0-0 6-7 4-6 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
OT: OT: OT:
2-5 0-1 7-10
40.0% 0.0% 70.0%
18 0 13 10 12 10 4 2
A TO Blk Stl
2 0 4 2 2 1 0 1
0 4 4 3 2 1 1 0
69 12 15
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Min
0 45 1 15 2 39 3 402 28 5 35 0 10 0 13
2 13 225
Game: 25-62 40.3% Game: 3-12 25.0% Game: 16-22 72.7%
Deadball Rebounds 4
1st
29 29
2nd
29 29
OT
6 11
Total
Williams, Destiny Griner, Brittney Sims, Odyssey Hayden, Kimetria Madden, Jordan Condrey, Terran Pope, Brooklyn Team Totals
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
f 1-5 c 11-19 g 4-15 g 2-6 g 4-7 2-4 1-4
25-60
0-0 0-0 1-6 2-4 1-3 0-2 0-0
0-0 4-4 14-15 2-2 2-3 0-0 0-0
4-15
22-24
2nd half: 15-31 48.4% 2nd half: 3-9 33.3% 2nd half: 12-13 92.3%
1 5 6 2 2 4 6 3 3 5 8 1 0 1 1 1 0 7 7 1 0 4 4 0 1 4 5 2 2 3 5 9 33 42 10
TP
2 26 23 8 11 4 2
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 9 2 3 1 2
76 17
1 2 3 2 1 0 0
Min
0 7 0 0 3 0 0
1 30 0 402 36 0 25 2 38 0 18 0 13
9 10
5 200
Game: 25-60 41.7% Game: 4-15 26.7% Game: 22-24 91.7%
Deadball Rebounds 0
UT 67 • 2-2
25
TP
Player
FG % 1st Half: 10-29 34.5% 3FG % 1st Half: 1-6 16.7% FT % 1st Half: 10-11 90.9%
##
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
Officials: Joe Cunningham, Lawson Newton, Jennifer Rezac Technical fouls: UT-None. Virginia-None. Attendance: 6450 UVa: Pitts fouled out at 8:15 (II) Tenn: Massengale fouled out at 00:27.6 (OT) Score by periods UT Virginia
##
40 21 05 13 10 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel SPANI, Taber SIMMONS, Meighan BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-44 25.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-9 44.4% FT % 1st Half: 7-8 87.5%
f f c g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-8 9-22 6-11 1-10 4-12 1-12 0-0 0-1 0-6
0-0 4-9 1-1 1-6 2-5 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
24-82
8-24
5 6 6 6 3 7 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 3 8 1 11-15 28 28
2nd half: 13-38 34.2% 2nd half: 4-15 26.7% 2nd half: 4-7 57.1%
3-4 3-4 4-4 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
11 3 12 4 10 2 1 4 2 3 3 1 0 0 1 1 7 2 9 56 20
Game: 24-82 29.3% Game: 8-24 33.3% Game: 11-15 73.3%
TP
9 25 17 4 10 2 0 0 0
A TO Blk Stl
2 1 3 4 0 3 0 1 1
Min
2 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 1
2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0
28 39 32 31 31 16 3 4 16
67 15 11
5
5 200 Deadball Rebounds 1
Officials: Lisa Mattingly, Cameron Inouye, Amy Bonner Technical fouls: BAYLOR-None. UT-None. Attendance: 16623 CORRECTED BOX SCORE Score by periods BAYLOR UT
1st
31 33
2nd
45 34
Total
76 67
64 69
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Chelsea Shine scored 18 points, including a key basket in overtime, 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.
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 Tennessee and the UT Medical Center with money raised from sales of “WE BACK PAT” shirts.
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.
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.
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.
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, Tennessee went on to win its third NCAA Championship with a 30-5 record.
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 Tennessee with a short baseline jumper, and Crosby hit 3 of 4 free throws to make it 67-61.
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.
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.
Tennessee continued to pressure in the final minutes, but missed several shots as the Lady Vols shot just 29.3 percent in the game.
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.
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.
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.
Baugh (17 points, 11 rebounds) and Stricklen both bombed a 3-pointers in the final 44 seconds, but it wasn’t enough as the Bears posted the win to drop the Lady Vols to 2-2.
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 second 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.
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 sevenpoint 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.
GAME 5
GAME 6
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics MIDDLE TENNESSEE vs TENNESSEE 11/29/11 7:04 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TEXAS vs TENNESSEE 12/04/11 2:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE 43 • 4-3
TEXAS 57 • 5-2
#8 UT vs. Middle Tennessee // Nov. 29, 2011
## 13 21 05 24 52 01 11 14 23 34 42 44
Player
ELIE,Icelyn ROWE,Ebony CASON,Shanice JONES,Kortni LEONARD,Laken BRINKLEY,Janay AJANAKU,Jamila RAYNOR,Dymon MARCH,Lauren MYERS,Stephanie STEWART,KeKe MCFADDEN,Molly Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 8-28 3FG % 1st Half: 2-12 FT % 1st Half: 6-6
28.6% 16.7% 100.0
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
1-7 5-8 1-9 6-25 1-4 0-1 0-2 0-0 1-6 0-0 0-1 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-3 3-14 1-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
4-4 0-3 2-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0
15-63
4-25
9-13
2nd half: 2nd half: 2nd half:
7-35 2-13 3-7
20.0% 15.4% 42.9%
TP
4 1 5 3 5 3 8 2 1 4 5 5 1 4 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 15 15 30 24
6 10 4 16 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
43
#8 UT vs. #21/22 Texas // Dec. 4, 2011
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 3 5 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 22
Min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1 1 4 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
2
9 200
Game: 15-63 23.8% Game: 4-25 16.0% Game: 9-13 69.2%
22 39 35 38 20 8 3 1 15 1 13 5
Deadball Rebounds 2
TENNESSEE 82 • 3-2 ## 25 40 21 05 13 01 10 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel SPANI, Taber BASS, Briana SIMMONS, Meighan BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 16-27 59.3% 3FG % 1st Half: 6-9 66.7% FT % 1st Half: 10-10 100.0
22 45 12 24 33 03 11 21 25 44
f f c g g
2-3 5-7 0-2 6-9 2-4 1-4 0-7 5-6 3-8 2-8
0-0 2-2 0-0 1-3 2-3 0-3 0-2 1-1 0-0 0-0
26-58
6-14
3 6 9 2 2 3 5 1 2 1 3 4 2 2 4 0 0 4 4 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 2 8 10 2 2 3 5 2 4 5 9 2 1 0 1 24-29 18 35 53 15
2nd half: 10-31 32.3% 2nd half: 0-5 0.0% 2nd half: 14-19 73.7%
5-6 0-0 2-2 1-1 2-2 2-2 5-7 3-4 1-1 3-4
9 12 2 14 8 4 5 14 7 7
A TO Blk Stl
2 0 0 5 2 3 2 0 1 0
2 2 4 0 2 3 2 2 2 2
82 15 21
1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1
3 2 0 2 1 1 2 0 3 1
Min
25 21 8 23 18 16 21 26 23 19
8 15 200
Game: 26-58 44.8% Game: 6-14 42.9% Game: 24-29 82.8%
Deadball Rebounds 4
1st
24 48
2nd
19 34
Total
43 82
Last FG - MT 2nd-01:36, UT 2nd-01:26. Largest lead - MT by 3 1st-17:46, UT by 39 2nd-00:45.
Points MT UT
GAYLE, Ashley REED, Cokie ANDERSON, Yvonne FUSSELL, Chassidy FONTENETTE, Ashleigh ENEMKPALI, Nneka BASS, Chelsea PEOPLES, Cassie MAJOR, Ronisha HARTUNG, Anne Marie Team Totals
40 21 05 13 01 10 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki MASSENGALE, Ariel SPANI, Taber BASS, Briana SIMMONS, Meighan BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 15-38 39.5% 3FG % 1st Half: 7-13 53.8% FT % 1st Half: 4-8 50.0%
Off T/O 11 18
2nd Fast Chance Break 12 0 18 10
2-3 2-9 1-9 5-12 8-19 1-1 2-3 0-1 0-0 1-2
0-0 0-0 0-2 1-6 4-6 0-0 2-3 0-1 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0 3-3 2-4 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-2 0-0
22-59
7-18
6-10
2nd half: 11-27 40.7% 2nd half: 1-5 20.0% 2nd half: 2-5 40.0%
1 5 6 4 3 2 5 3 2 2 4 1 1 2 3 2 1 6 7 0 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 2 2 4 6 11 27 38 16
TP
4 4 2 14 22 2 7 0 0 2
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 9 1 3 0 0 2 0 0
Min
6 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 1
6 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
57 15 16
8
4 200
Game: 22-59 37.3% Game: 7-18 38.9% Game: 6-10 60.0%
34 20 34 36 33 14 11 6 2 10
Deadball Rebounds 1
f f c g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-9 6-14 8-10 4-10 1-4 0-0 3-11 0-6 0-0 0-4
0-0 5-9 0-0 2-3 1-2 0-0 3-7 0-0 0-0 0-0
2 8 10 3 3 5 8 2 5 6 11 0 0 3 3 2 3 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 4 0 4 25-68 11-21 12-20 20 29 49 14
2nd half: 10-30 33.3% 2nd half: 4-8 50.0% 2nd half: 8-12 66.7%
5-6 3-4 1-2 0-2 1-2 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-2
Game: 25-68 36.8% Game: 11-21 52.4% Game: 12-20 60.0%
TP
11 20 17 10 4 0 10 0 0 1
A TO Blk Stl
Min
1 3 2 5 1 0 1 3 0 0
3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
0 3 1 2 0 0 2 0 1 0
27 37 35 27 26 2 18 11 3 14
73 16
9
4
9 200 Deadball Rebounds 4
Officials: Dee Kantner, Denise Brooks, Laura Morris Technical fouls: TEXAS-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 13465 Score by periods TEXAS TENNESSEE
In Paint 18 28
f c g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
TENNESSEE 73 • 4-2
25
TP
Player
FG % 1st Half: 11-32 34.4% 3FG % 1st Half: 6-13 46.2% FT % 1st Half: 4-5 80.0%
##
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
Officials: Mark Zentz, Jesse Dickerson, Charlie Hust Technical fouls: MIDDLE TENNESSEE-BRINKLEY,Janay. TENNESSEE-BAUGH, Vicki; HARRISON, Isabelle. Attendance: 11861 Score by periods MIDDLE TENNESSEE TENNESSEE
##
1st
32 41
2nd
25 32
Total
57 73
Bench 4 37
Score tied - 1 time. Lead changed - 1 time.
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.
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 doubledoubles. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Blue Raiders responded with an 11-5 run to bring their deficit back within single digits at 27-18 with 7:08 left.
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.
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.
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 Tennessee takes on #22 DePaul in the Maggie Dixon Classic. Tip-off is set for 1:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU.
GAME 7
GAME 8
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics DePaul vs TENNESSEE 12/11/11 1pm at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs Rutgers 12/13/11 7 p.m. at Piscataway, N.J. - The RAC
#7 UT vs. #20/21 DePaul // Dec. 11, 2011
#6 UT vs. #11 Rutgers // Dec. 13, 2011
DePaul 61 ## 24 51 05 12 20 21 25 31 33
Player
HAMPTON, KEISHA HARRY, KATHERINE MARTIN, ANNA HRYNKO, BRITTANY REYNOLDS, KELSEY ROGOWSKI, MEGAN GABRIEL, KARIMA PENNY, JASMINE MULCHRONE, MAUREE Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 10-37 27.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-15 26.7% FT % 1st Half: 5-8 62.5%
f f g g g
TENNESSEE 67 • 6-2
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
5-13 2-7 4-14 2-13 0-4 1-4 0-1 6-7 1-5
2-4 0-0 1-4 2-9 0-2 1-4 0-0 0-0 1-5
21-68
7-28
TP
2-3 3-4 1-2 2-2 0-0 0-1 0-0 4-6 0-0
2 4 6 5 5 2 7 5 1 3 4 3 2 5 7 4 1 0 1 3 2 2 4 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 4 3 1 3 4 2 3 1 4 12-18 20 22 42 26
2nd half: 11-31 35.5% 2nd half: 3-13 23.1% 2nd half: 7-10 70.0%
14 7 10 8 0 3 0 16 3
A TO Blk Stl
0 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 2
3 4 7 6 2 0 0 1 0 1 61 10 24
Min
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 2
1
8 200
Game: 21-68 30.9% Game: 7-28 25.0% Game: 12-18 66.7%
23 30 30 35 20 11 3 25 23
Deadball Rebounds 2,1
TENNESSEE 84 ## 21 25 40 10 13 01 11 15 20
Player
BAUGH, Vicki JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber BASS, Briana BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 16-32 50.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 0-2 0.0% FT % 1st Half: 9-12 75.0%
f f f g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
1-1 6-13 3-11 4-7 4-9 0-0 4-6 6-12 1-2
0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
29-61
0-5
0 0 0 2 6 3 9 2 1 8 9 0 1 2 3 2 1 3 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 2 3 9 12 4 1 1 2 4 1 3 4 26-35 14 32 46 16
A TO Blk Stl
6 16 12 9 8 0 15 12 6
0 0 3 2 1 1 0 2 0
2 3 3 4 3 1 1 2 0
84
9 19
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 2 2 2 0 0 3 4 0
Min
12 29 34 20 30 8 24 32 11
3 13 200
Game: 29-61 47.5% Game: 0-5 0.0% Game: 26-35 74.3%
Deadball Rebounds 3
1st
29 41
2nd
32 43
Total
61 84
Last FG - DPU 2nd-00:19, UT 2nd-00:43. Largest lead - DPU by 4 1st-16:35, UT by 25 2nd-00:43.
25 10 13 40 11 15 20
Player
BAUGH, Vicki JOHNSON, Glory SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber STRICKLEN, Shekinna BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 9-29 3FG % 1st Half: 4-11 FT % 1st Half: 11-13
f f g g g
31.0% 36.4% 84.6%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
1-4 2-4 4-12 5-12 8-18 0-2 1-3 0-0
0-0 0-0 3-8 3-5 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
21-55
9-18
TP
5 2 7 1 3 3 6 4 1 5 6 2 3 2 5 2 3 6 9 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 6 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 4 16-25 19 26 45 12
2nd half: 12-26 46.2% 2nd half: 5-7 71.4% 2nd half: 5-12 41.7%
4-5 5-6 2-6 0-0 3-5 0-0 2-3 0-0
6 9 13 13 22 0 4 0
A TO Blk Stl
3 1 1 3 2 0 1 0
Min
2 5 3 1 3 0 1 1
3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 28 0 27 0 40 0 31 3 400 9 1 23 0 2
67 11 16
5
5 200
Game: 21-55 38.2% Game: 9-18 50.0% Game: 16-25 64.0%
Deadball Rebounds 1,1
Rutgers 61 • 9-2
24 25 34 01 11 03 15 20 22 44
Player
SYKES, April CANTY, Briyona OLIVER, Monique RUSHDAN, Khadijah SPEED, Nikki WHEELER, Erica DAVIS, Syessence EVANS, Christa RICHARDSON, Shakena LANEY, Betnijah Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 12-33 3FG % 1st Half: 1-6 FT % 1st Half: 3-4
36.4% 16.7% 75.0%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
f 12-23 f 0-3 f 2-4 g 7-16 g 0-3 3-9 0-0 2-3 0-0 1-6
3-10 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
0-1 0-0 1-1 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2
27-67
3-17
4-8
2nd half: 15-34 44.1% 2nd half: 2-11 18.2% 2nd half: 1-4 25.0%
TP
3 4 7 3 3 4 7 4 3 3 6 2 2 3 5 4 0 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 16 22 38 19
27 0 5 16 0 6 0 4 0 3
A TO Blk Stl
Min
1 3 1 4 1 2 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
61 13
9
1
8 200
Game: 27-67 40.3% Game: 3-17 17.6% Game: 4-8 50.0%
38 28 24 38 14 24 0+ 16 2 16
Deadball Rebounds 1,1
Officials: Dennis DeMayo, May Forsberg, Susan Blauch Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. Rutgers-None. Attendance: 6368
Officials: Denise Brooks, Mark Zentz, Bryan Enterline Technical fouls: DePaul-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 5486 Maggie Dixon Classic Score by periods DePaul TENNESSEE
21
##
TP
4-5 4-5 6-6 1-2 0-0 0-0 7-10 0-1 4-6
2nd half: 13-29 44.8% 2nd half: 0-3 0.0% 2nd half: 17-23 73.9%
##
Points DPU UT
In Paint 18 50
Off T/O 13 23
2nd Fast Chance Break 16 0 16 6
Bench 22 33
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 4 times.
Score by periods TENNESSEE Rutgers
1st
33 28
2nd
34 33
Total
67 61
Last FG - UT 2nd-01:53, RU 2nd-00:08. Largest lead - UT by 13 1st-06:53, RU by 5 2nd-15:38.
Points UT RU
In Paint 18 38
Off T/O 9 12
2nd Fast Chance Break 18 10 12 10
Bench 4 13
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 6 times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 women’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.
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 Simmons 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 illustrious 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 downtown 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.
GAME 9
GAME 10
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs UCLA 12/17/11 2:00 p.m. at Wooden Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs Stanford 12/20/11 7:00 pm at Stanford, Calif. (Maples Pavilion)
TENNESSEE 85 • 7-2
TENNESSEE 80 • 7-3
#6 UT vs. UCLA // Dec. 17, 2011
## 21 25 10 13 40 01 11 15 20
Player
BAUGH, Vicki JOHNSON, Glory SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber STRICKLEN, Shekinna BASS, Briana BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 19-25 76.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 6-9 66.7% FT % 1st Half: 1-1 100.0
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
6-9 7-9 8-14 5-7 5-6 0-0 2-4 3-3 0-0
0-0 0-0 2-5 4-6 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2-3 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
36-52
7-14
6-10
2nd half: 17-27 63.0% 2nd half: 1-5 20.0% 2nd half: 5-9 55.6%
1 11 12 1 4 5 0 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 24 28
#6 UT vs. #4 Stanford // Dec. 20, 2011
TP
A TO Blk Stl
2 2 3 4 1 0 0 4 0
Min
1 2 0 1 3 0 1 0 1
14 17 18 14 11 1 4 6 0
3 0 3 3 3 0 2 1 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
9
85 16 15
3
6 200
Game: 36-52 69.2% Game: 7-14 50.0% Game: 6-10 60.0%
26 38 39 29 33 1 11 19 4
Deadball Rebounds 4
11 20 01 05 35 00 10 23 34
Player
Nyingifa, Atonye Gardner, Rhema Lemberger, Thea Williams, Mariah Gardner, Rebekah Faulk, Moriah Swain, Kacy Walker, Markel Costa, Corinne Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 15-34 44.1% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-7 57.1% FT % 1st Half: 0-0 0.0%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
4-9 1-4 5-12 0-4 9-18 1-5 2-4 3-11 0-1
0-0 0-0 1-6 0-1 5-9 0-1 0-0 1-1 0-0
2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 4-4 0-0
25-68
7-18
7-8
2nd half: 10-34 29.4% 2nd half: 3-11 27.3% 2nd half: 7-8 87.5%
3 0 3 3 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 4 1 2 3 1 1 2 0 2 2 7 1 8 0 0 0 1 4 5 19 12 31
TP
A TO Blk Stl
1 0 6 3 1 0 0 4 0
Min
0 1 0 2 3 0 0 3 0
10 2 11 0 24 2 4 11 0
2 0 4 1 2 1 0 1 0
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 0
9
64 15 11
2
7 200
Game: 25-68 36.8% Game: 7-18 38.9% Game: 7-8 87.5%
27 12 39 29 37 9 10 31 6
Deadball Rebounds 1
Officials: Michael Price, Brenda Pantoja, Cathi Cornell Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. UCLA-None. Attendance: 2025 Score by periods TENNESSEE UCLA
25 40 21 10 13 05 11 15 20
Player
JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna BAUGH, Vicki SIMMONS, Meighan SPANI, Taber MASSENGALE, Ariel BURDICK, Cierra MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 16-26 3FG % 1st Half: 3-8 FT % 1st Half: 6-8
61.5% 37.5% 75.0%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot
f 4-5 f 10-17 c 0-2 g 5-12 g 3-6 0-1 0-0 4-9 0-1
26-53
0-0 3-8 0-0 1-5 1-3 0-1 0-0 1-3 0-0
6-20
10-12 4-6 2-4 2-3 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0
PF
TP
1 5 6 3 1 2 3 4 2 1 3 4 0 2 2 0 2 3 5 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 22-29 11 18 29 16
2nd half: 10-27 37.0% 2nd half: 3-12 25.0% 2nd half: 16-21 76.2%
18 27 2 13 9 0 2 9 0
A TO Blk Stl
0 2 0 4 2 1 0 2 0
Min
3 3 1 4 2 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
80 11 13
3
6 200
Game: 26-53 49.1% Game: 6-20 30.0% Game: 22-29 75.9%
33 40 16 37 25 11 8 27 3
Deadball Rebounds 2
Stanford 97 • 8-1
UCLA 64 • 5-4 ##
##
1st
45 34
2nd
40 30
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:32, UCLA 2nd-01:40. Largest lead - UT by 23 2nd-09:38, UCLA None.
Total
85 64
Points UT UCLA
In Paint 36 16
Off T/O 14 15
2nd Fast Chance Break 4 12 17 0
## 04 13 30 15 31 21 25 33 41 42 44
Player
Greenfield, Taylor Ogwumike, Chiney Ogwumike, Nnemkadi La Rocque, Lindy Kokenis, Toni James, Sara Payne, Erica Orrange, Amber Samuelson, Bonnie Boothe, Sarah Tinkle, Joslyn Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 19-40 3FG % 1st Half: 5-12 FT % 1st Half: 5-5
47.5% 41.7% 100.0
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot
f 2-3 f 6-12 f 19-27 g 1-4 g 8-18 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-4 0-0 0-1
2-3 0-0 0-0 1-4 5-10 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-1
37-69
9-21
PF
TP
1 1 2 1 2 3 5 4 8 9 17 3 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 5 14-16 14 21 35 16
2nd half: 18-29 62.1% 2nd half: 4-9 44.4% 2nd half: 9-11 81.8%
0-0 2-2 4-4 0-0 5-6 1-2 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0
6 14 42 3 26 1 0 0 5 0 0
A TO Blk Stl
4 1 3 4 4 0 0 3 0 0 1
97 20
0 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 9
Min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4
1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
7
4 200
Game: 37-69 53.6% Game: 9-21 42.9% Game: 14-16 87.5%
25 30 39 25 38 1 1 8 11 6 16
Deadball Rebounds 2
Officials: Lisa Jones, Marianne Karp, Robert Scofield Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-HARRISON, Isabelle. Stanford-None. Attendance: 7329 Bench 11 17
Score tied - 0 times. Lead changed - 0 times.
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.
Score by periods TENNESSEE Stanford
1st
41 48
2nd
39 49
Total
80 97
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:05, STAN 2nd-01:27. Largest lead - UT by 9 1st-13:21, STAN by 19 2nd-02:06.
Points UT STAN
In Paint 18 40
Off T/O 13 14
2nd Fast Chance Break 10 4 14 4
Bench 11 6
Score tied - 4 times. Lead changed - 1 time.
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.
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.
Shekinna Stricklen scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Lady Vols, who had their five-game winning streak snapped.
The win was the fourth straight for the Lady Vols (7-2) and their 18th in 19 meetings alltime against UCLA. It also raised Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt’s career record to 1,078-201.
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.
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.
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. Ogwumike’s two free throws with 3:49 left topped her previous best outing of 38 points on April 4, 2010, against Oklahoma.
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.
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 offering 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 Alzheimer’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 dislocated 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.
GAME 11
GAME 12
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Old Dominion vs TENNESSEE 12/28/11 7:00 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs Auburn 01-01-12 2:05 p.m. at Auburn, Ala. -- Auburn Arena
Old Dominion 37 • 3-10
TENNESSEE 73 • 9-3, 1-0 SEC
#7/8 UT vs. Old Dominion // Dec. 28, 2011
## 53 44 11 14 23 03 04 12 25 30 32 50
Player
RICHARDS, Shakeva LEWIS, Tia BETZ-WHITE, Ashley COOK, Jackie GUILFORD, JoNiquia BUCHAN, Mairi ALLISON, Rebecca HALL, Myeisha CAMPBELL, Brittany WASHINGTON, Brianca MINOR, Tiffany JACKSON, Tiye Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 8-32 3FG % 1st Half: 1-6 FT % 1st Half: 3-4
25.0% 16.7% 75.0%
f c g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
0-2 4-12 3-9 5-10 1-7 2-4 0-1 0-6 0-0 0-0 0-5 0-3
15-59 2nd half: 2nd half: 2nd half:
0-0 0-0 3-6 1-5 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-1
0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
4-16
3-6
7-27 3-10 0-2
25.9% 30.0% 0.0%
TP
0 1 1 1 6 2 8 4 2 2 4 1 3 1 4 3 2 2 4 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 2 1 3 19 13 32 15
#7/8 UT at Auburn // Jan. 1, 2012
A TO Blk Stl
Min
0 8 9 13 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1
1 5 4 4 2 2 2 1 0 0 2 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
37
8 23
2
3 200
Game: 15-59 25.4% Game: 4-16 25.0% Game: 3-6 50.0%
24 34 27 33 23 13 3 20 2 1 13 7
Deadball Rebounds 1
15 25 40 05 10 01 11 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 20-40 50.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 6-12 50.0% FT % 1st Half: 4-5 80.0%
25 05 10 40 11 20 21
f f f g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
4-10 6-12 3-7 4-6 5-13 3-8 2-4 5-7 5-8
0-0 0-0 0-3 3-3 2-7 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
37-75
6-17
7 8 5 6 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 5 7 3 0 10-14 27 27
2nd half: 17-35 48.6% 2nd half: 0-5 0.0% 2nd half: 6-9 66.7%
1-1 4-5 2-2 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 1-4
TP
15 0 11 0 4 2 1 1 0 3 0 0 5 3 3 0 12 1 3 54 10
9 16 8 11 12 9 4 10 11
A TO Blk Stl
5 1 0 5 1 2 9 1 2
0 2 1 0 2 0 3 1 2
90 26 11
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
6 0 2 4 1 1 1 1 0
Min
29 26 24 21 20 19 24 14 23
5 16 200
Game: 37-75 49.3% Game: 6-17 35.3% Game: 10-14 71.4%
Deadball Rebounds 2
1st
20 50
2nd
17 40
Total
37 90
Last FG - ODU 2nd-03:51, UT 2nd-00:46. Largest lead - ODU by 4 1st-19:11, UT by 53 2nd-00:44.
Points ODU UT
In Paint 8 46
Off T/O 1 26
2nd Fast Chance Break 12 2 23 12
Bench 4 34
Score tied - 0 times. Lead changed - 3 times.
KNOXVILLE - Behind double-doubles from seniors Vicki Baugh and Glory Johnson, the seventhranked 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 rebounds. 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 ourselves 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.
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan STRICKLEN, Shekinna BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 10-34 29.4% 3FG % 1st Half: 1-11 9.1% FT % 1st Half: 10-11 90.9%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-6 5-9 1-5 6-15 5-18 0-3 1-4 0-5
0-0 0-0 0-1 1-5 2-9 0-1 0-0 0-0
21-65
3-16
TP
4-4 4-5 2-3 7-8 5-5 2-2 0-0 4-4
3 2 5 2 6 7 13 3 1 3 4 3 1 3 4 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 6 9 2 6 3 9 28-31 23 26 49 14
2nd half: 11-31 35.5% 2nd half: 2-5 40.0% 2nd half: 18-20 90.0%
10 14 4 20 17 2 2 4
A TO Blk Stl
3 2 2 2 3 0 0 0
1 4 2 5 0 0 2 4
73 12 18
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 3 1 1 3 1 0 1
Min
25 32 36 37 36 13 5 16
1 12 200
Game: 21-65 32.3% Game: 3-16 18.8% Game: 28-31 90.3%
Deadball Rebounds 1
Auburn 52 • 8-6, 0-1 SEC ## 23
Officials: Laura C. Morris, Brian Hall, Rob Fessler Technical fouls: Old Dominion-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 15409 Score by periods Old Dominion TENNESSEE
15
14
TENNESSEE 90 • 8-3 ##
##
00 02 04 03 11 22 25 32 34
Player
Alverson, Blanche Hilliard, Chantel Muhammad, Hasina Jennings, Morgan Simmons, Parrisha Ouardad, Najat Strain, Courtney Glymph, Camille Williams, Jassany Tanner, Tyrese Davis, Peyton Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 10-25 40.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-9 44.4% FT % 1st Half: 5-7 71.4%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
2-7 2-2 3-11 0-5 0-0 0-0 0-1 7-14 2-5 3-6 0-0
19-51 2nd half: 2nd half: 2nd half:
1-2 0-0 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 5-10 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-1 1-2 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-5 0-0
7-16
7-12
9-26 3-7 2-5
34.6% 42.9% 40.0%
TP
1 5 6 3 1 1 2 5 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 2 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 2 5 5 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 9 22 31 26
6 5 7 1 0 0 0 21 4 8 0
A TO Blk Stl
2 0 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Min
2 3 6 5 1 2 1 1 1 2 1
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1
0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 1
52 13 25
9
7 200
Game: 19-51 37.3% Game: 7-16 43.8% Game: 7-12 58.3%
26 14 29 33 12 8 2 29 17 26 4
Deadball Rebounds 2,1
Officials: Bryan Enterline (R), Gina Cross, Michael McConnell Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. Auburn-None. Attendance: 4269 Southeastern Conference Opener Score by periods TENNESSEE Auburn
1st
31 29
2nd
42 23
Total
73 52
Points UT AU
In Paint 26 16
Last FG - UT 2nd-02:39, AU 2nd-00:19. Largest lead - UT by 24 2nd-00:31, AU by 4 1st-10:27.
Off T/O 27 15
2nd Fast Chance Break 30 4 14 0
Bench 8 33
Score tied - 6 times. Lead changed - 2 times.
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 happens.” 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.
GAME 13
GAME 14
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Chattanooga vs TENNESSEE 01/03/12 7:05 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics #16/15 Georgia vs TENNESSEE 01/05/12 7:05 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boling Arena
#6/7 UT vs. Chattanooga // Jan. 3, 2012
#6/7 UT vs. #16/15 Georgia // Jan. 5, 2012
Chattanooga 47 • 8-4 ## 25 31 03 05 22 02 11 12 21 32 34
Player
HOOD, Whitney HALL, Taylor CHRISTOPHER, Kayla TOWNSEND, Tenisha LAMBERT, Kylie SOUTHERN, Ashley TOWNS, Ka'Vonne DOWNES, Meghan BLACK, Alex FREEMAN, Kayla DUPREE, Faith Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 6-29 3FG % 1st Half: 0-8 FT % 1st Half: 4-4
20.7% 0.0% 100.0
f f g g g
#16/15 Georgia 51 • 12-3, 1-1 SEC
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
4-7 1-7 1-9 1-5 2-7 0-2 0-3 1-5 0-1 0-0 7-10
0-0 0-1 0-4 1-5 1-4 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1
17-56
3-17
TP
2-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 3-4 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
2 1 3 4 1 3 4 0 1 2 3 2 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 2 4 3 7 10-12 10 18 28 13
2nd half: 11-27 40.7% 2nd half: 3-9 33.3% 2nd half: 6-8 75.0%
10 4 2 3 8 0 1 2 0 0 17
A TO Blk Stl
1 0 6 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
0 1 2 1 4 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 47 11 17
Min
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0
0
7 200
Game: 17-56 30.4% Game: 3-17 17.6% Game: 10-12 83.3%
17 21 33 28 31 4 15 16 12 5 18
Deadball Rebounds 0
TENNESSEE 90 • 10-3 ## 15 25 40 05 10 01 04 11 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 18-32 56.3% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-8 50.0% FT % 1st Half: 10-12 83.3%
f f f g g
0-0 0-0 0-2 4-4 2-6 3-5 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-0
34-72
9-20
TP
1 4 5 1 5 8 13 0 2 3 5 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 2 3 1 3 0 3 1 2 1 3 1 3 5 8 1 3 6 9 3 2 1 3 13-17 24 31 55 12
2nd half: 16-40 40.0% 2nd half: 5-12 41.7% 2nd half: 3-5 60.0%
2-2 2-2 0-0 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-4 3-4
6 10 4 19 10 9 2 8 13 9
A TO Blk Stl
1 2 3 2 2 1 4 2 1 1
2 1 2 4 0 0 1 1 0 2
90 19 13
0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 2
1 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2
Min
21 20 21 23 24 17 16 19 20 19
9 10 200
Game: 34-72 47.2% Game: 9-20 45.0% Game: 13-17 76.5%
Deadball Rebounds 0
Officials: Billy Smith, Angel Stanton, Carla Fountain Technical fouls: Chattanooga-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 11754 Score by periods Chattanooga TENNESSEE
1st
16 50
2nd
31 40
Total
47 90
Last FG - UTC 2nd-00:14, UT 2nd-00:23. Largest lead - UTC by 2 1st-19:22, UT by 46 2nd-00:23.
Points UTC UT
12 01 03 10 11 04 15 23 31
In Paint 12 30
Off T/O 6 19
2nd Fast Chance Break 9 0 30 6
Bench 20 41
Player
HASSELL,Jasmine MILLER,Khaalidah ARMSTRONG,Anne Mari JAMES,Jasmine MITCHELL,Meredith BENNETT,Danielle DONALD,Krista WILLIS,Tamika FORD,Erika Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-31 35.5% 3FG % 1st Half: 3-10 30.0% FT % 1st Half: 2-4 50.0%
f g g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
4-7 1-8 4-7 3-12 6-16 1-5 1-3 1-1 1-4
0-0 1-6 1-2 0-2 1-5 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-2
0-0 0-0 0-0 2-4 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
22-63
4-21
3-6
2nd half: 11-32 34.4% 2nd half: 1-11 9.1% 2nd half: 1-2 50.0%
TP
2 0 2 4 0 2 2 2 1 4 5 2 0 3 3 2 3 4 7 3 0 2 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 3 3 1 1 3 4 9 23 32 21
A TO Blk Stl
Min
8 3 9 8 14 3 2 2 2
0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 2 3 3 1 0 0
0 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0
0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
51
7 12
6
3 200
Game: 22-63 34.9% Game: 4-21 19.0% Game: 3-6 50.0%
24 25 24 34 38 9 16 17 13
Deadball Rebounds 2
TENNESSEE 80 • 11-3, 2-0 SEC ##
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
2-5 4-8 2-7 6-6 4-14 3-5 1-2 4-9 5-12 3-4
##
15 25 40 05 10 01 04 11 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 14-27 51.9% 3FG % 1st Half: 3-6 50.0% FT % 1st Half: 5-6 83.3%
f f f g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
0-4 8-11 5-15 8-12 3-11 0-0 0-5 1-2 1-4 2-2
0-0 0-0 0-3 2-3 2-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
28-66
4-13
0-0 6-11 2-3 1-1 2-2 0-0 2-2 1-2 2-3 4-4
2 3 5 4 9 13 2 6 8 2 1 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 8 10 3 3 6 20-28 19 33 52
2nd half: 14-39 35.9% 2nd half: 1-7 14.3% 2nd half: 15-22 68.2%
TP
A TO Blk Stl
1 0 3 9 1 0 2 0 0 0
Min
0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 2
0 22 12 19 10 0 2 3 4 8
2 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
9
80 16 11
1
6 200
Game: 28-66 42.4% Game: 4-13 30.8% Game: 20-28 71.4%
20 32 36 35 29 3 9 9 7 20
Deadball Rebounds 4
Officials: Tina Napier, Mary Day, Bob Trammell Technical fouls: #16/15 Georgia-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 13721 Score by periods #16/15 Georgia TENNESSEE
1st
27 36
2nd
24 44
Total
51 80
Last FG - GA 2nd-00:56, UT 2nd-00:18. Largest lead - GA by 2 1st-19:09, UT by 31 2nd-02:25.
Points GA UT
In Paint 12 42
Off T/O 4 9
2nd Fast Chance Break 6 2 20 12
Bench 9 17
Score tied - 1 time. Lead changed - 1 time.
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 1 time.
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 Knoxville for a 7 p.m., tip-off on CSS.
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 careerhighs with 19 points and 9 assists.
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.
The Lady Vols improved to 11-3 overall and 2-0 in the SEC with its fourth win a row. Georgia suffered 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.
For Johnson, it was her third straight double-double and sixth of the season.
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.
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-of10 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.
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 scorers 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.
GAME 15
GAME 16
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs Arkansas
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs #9/8 KENTUCKY 01/12/12 7:05 pm at Memorial Coliseum-Lexington, KY
01-08-12 2:30 p.m. at Fayetteville, Ark. (Bud Walton Arena) #6/7 UT vs. Arkansas // Jan. 8, 2012
#6/7 UT vs. #9/8 Kentucky // Jan. 12, 2012
TENNESSEE 60 • 12-4, 3-1
TENNESSEE 69 • 12-3, 3-0 SEC ## 15 25 05 10 40 01 04 11 20 21
Total 3-Ptr FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan STRICKLEN, Shekinna BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals FG % 1st Half: 12-23 3FG % 1st Half: 1-6 FT % 1st Half: 6-10
f f g g g
52.2% 16.7% 60.0%
1-2 6-9 3-8 2-9 8-12 0-2 0-0 3-5 1-4 3-3
0-0 0-0 1-2 1-6 2-6 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
1-2 3-6 0-2 2-2 1-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2
27-54
4-16
11-18
2nd half: 15-31 2nd half: 3-10 2nd half: 5-8
48.4% 30.0% 62.5%
Rebounds Off Def Tot PF
1 4 5 2 6 8 14 2 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 3 5 8 3 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 1 3 4 0 2 3 5 16 31 47 15
Game: 27-54 Game: 4-16 Game: 11-18
TP
A TO Blk
3 15 7 7 19 2 0 6 2 8
3 1 5 1 3 0 1 1 0 1
Stl
Min
##
22 30 29 20 34 18 7 9 13 18
15
1 3 0 3 4 0 4 1 1 3
0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
69 16 20
6
6 200
50.0% 25.0% 61.1%
Deadball Rebounds 5,2
04 12 21 22 33 01 02 03 11 14 24 42
Total 3-Ptr FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA
Player
WATKINS, Sarah DANIELS, Ashley ROBINSON, Dominique RICKETTS, C'eira HARRIS, Lyndsay PEAK, Keira HATCHER, Kelsey TOWNSEND, Jamesha BERNA, Calli GATLING, Erin WILLIAMS, Quistelle BOWEN, Jhasmin Team Totals FG % 1st Half: 3FG % 1st Half: FT % 1st Half:
3-30 2-11 3-4
f f f g g
10.0% 18.2% 75.0%
0-2 2-5 0-8 1-11 4-14 0-5 0-0 0-0 0-2 1-1 2-6 0-1
0-0 0-0 0-4 0-0 3-10 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-3 0-0
2-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 3-4 4-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0
10-55
3-20
15-16
2nd half: 7-25 2nd half: 1-9 2nd half: 12-12
28.0% 11.1% 100.0%
Rebounds Off Def Tot PF
0 0 0 4 1 0 1 4 1 2 3 0 2 0 2 1 0 3 3 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 5 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 12 12 24 15
Game: 10-55 Game: 3-20 Game: 15-16
18.2% 15.0% 93.8%
TP
A TO Blk
2 6 0 2 14 4 2 0 0 2 6 0
0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
38
1 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 3 2 1 0 3 5 18
05 10 01 04 11 20 21
FG % 1st Half: 9-32 3FG % 1st Half: 0-4 FT % 1st Half: 3-5
Stl
Min
##
1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0
19 18 20 21 28 15 5 16 22 9 21 6
40
3
7 200 Deadball Rebounds 1,1
Officials: Bryan Enterline, Roy Gulbeyan, Ed Sidlasky Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. Arkansas-None. Attendance: 5258 Estimated Actual Attendance: 5,258 Score by periods TENNESSEE Arkansas
40
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory STRICKLEN, Shekinna MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals 28.1% 0.0% 60.0%
f f f g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
1-3 7-14 3-12 2-5 1-6 0-0 2-8 0-3 0-1 7-8
0-0 0-0 1-4 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
23-60
2-7
TP
1-2 3-7 4-4 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3
1 0 1 1 2 5 7 2 2 3 5 3 0 4 4 1 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 7 2 9 4 3 3 6 12-19 20 21 41 17
2nd half: 14-28 50.0% 2nd half: 2-3 66.7% 2nd half: 9-14 64.3%
3 17 11 6 3 0 4 0 0 16
A TO Blk Stl
0 0 3 5 1 0 1 0 0 0
Min
2 4 5 3 0 0 1 1 3 1
0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
0 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1
60 10 20
5
8 200
Game: 23-60 38.3% Game: 2-7 28.6% Game: 12-19 63.2%
19 29 31 36 24 5 17 5 5 29
Deadball Rebounds 5,1
#9/8 KENTUCKY 61 • 15-2, 4-0
Arkansas 38 • 11-4, 0-3 SEC ##
25
Player
1st
31 11
2nd
38 27
Total
69 38
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Shekinna Stricklen made sure she went out in style in her last performance 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 (123, 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.
01 13 24 32 03 04 10 20 23 50
Player
Henderson, Brittany Mathies, A'dia Goss, Bria Smith, Amber Evans, Kastine Riley, Crystal Snowden, Keyla Pinkett, Bernisha Conwright, Maegan Walker, Samarie Bishop, Azia Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 9-31 3FG % 1st Half: 2-14 FT % 1st Half: 5-8
29.0% 14.3% 62.5%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
f 0-0 g 11-20 g 2-10 g 1-5 g 0-3 2-3 3-13 0-1 0-1 1-1 0-1
20-58
0-0 2-7 1-6 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-6 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
4-21
TP
0-0 10-11 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-1 4-4 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0
1 4 5 3 4 5 9 1 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 1 4 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 1 5 2 7 17-22 18 19 37 18
2nd half: 11-27 40.7% 2nd half: 2-7 28.6% 2nd half: 12-14 85.7%
A TO Blk Stl
Min
0 34 8 2 0 4 11 0 0 2 0
0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 0 0 1
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 0
61
5 16
4
9 200
Game: 20-58 34.5% Game: 4-21 19.0% Game: 17-22 77.3%
18 36 34 17 15 5 22 6 18 19 10
Deadball Rebounds 3
Officials: Mark Zentz, Sue Blauch, Denise Brooks Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. #9/8 KENTUCKY-None. Attendance: 7961 Score by periods TENNESSEE #9/8 KENTUCKY
1st
21 25
2nd
39 36
Total
60 61
Last FG - UT 2nd-02:06, UK 2nd-00:05. Largest lead - UT by 3 2nd-02:06, UK by 12 2nd-07:46.
Points UT UK
In Paint 36 24
Off T/O 17 20
2nd Fast Chance Break 10 12 12 0
Bench 20 17
Score tied - 8 times. Lead changed - 5 times.
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 Thursday 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 threepoint 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
They had no such chance against the suffocating defense of Tennessee, which held Arkansas’ 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.
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.
GAME 17
GAME 18
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Vanderbilt vs TENNESSEE 01/15/12 2:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Louisiana State vs TENNESSEE 01/19/12 7:05 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, Tenn.
Vanderbilt 64 • 14-3, 2-2
Louisiana State 56 • 13-5, 4-2 SEC
#6/7 UT vs. #25/24 Vanderbilt // Jan. 15, 2012
## 34 05 10 11 30 12 21 32 55
Player
CLARKE, Tiffany SCHRANN, Kady FOGGIE, Christina LISTER, Jasmine BROWN, Elan COLEMAN, Jordan HOLZER, Stephanie SMITH, Gabby WATKINS, Clair Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 15-31 48.4% 3FG % 1st Half: 4-9 44.4% FT % 1st Half: 2-2 100.0
f g g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-6 1-7 8-16 2-8 1-3 1-1 7-10 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 5-12 0-2 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2-2 0-0 6-8 5-5 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
23-51
5-16
13-16
2nd half: 8-20 40.0% 2nd half: 1-7 14.3% 2nd half: 11-14 78.6%
TP
2 5 7 4 1 1 2 1 2 2 4 2 0 2 2 0 1 4 5 2 0 1 1 3 2 1 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 6 9 21 30 18
8 2 27 9 2 2 14 0 0
#9 UT vs. LSU // Jan. 19, 2012
A TO Blk Stl
0 2 3 5 2 0 0 1 1
Min
1 2 3 4 7 1 3 0 3
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 1 3 1 1 0 2 0 0
64 14 24
1
8 200
Game: 23-51 45.1% Game: 5-16 31.3% Game: 13-16 81.3%
16 31 37 34 31 10 24 10 7
Deadball Rebounds 0
TENNESSEE 87 • 13-4, 4-1 ## 15 40 25 05 10 01 04 11 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia STRICKLEN, Shekinna JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 16-32 50.0% 3FG % 1st Half: 2-6 33.3% FT % 1st Half: 5-8 62.5%
f f c g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-5 8-15 6-10 3-10 4-13 1-1 0-0 3-3 1-1 7-10
0-0 1-5 0-0 0-4 2-6 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
36-68
4-16
TP
2 3 5 2 2 1 3 4 5 8 13 2 2 0 2 1 2 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 7 3 1 2 3 11-19 17 22 39 16
2nd half: 20-36 55.6% 2nd half: 2-10 20.0% 2nd half: 6-11 54.5%
2-5 3-3 4-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3
A TO Blk Stl
8 2 20 2 16 2 6 12 10 1 3 1 0 0 6 0 2 0 16 2
1 1 3 3 1 1 1 0 1 1
87 22 13
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 5 2 3 0 0 0 0 1
Min
19 35 33 35 30 12 5 4 4 23
1 14 200
Game: 36-68 52.9% Game: 4-16 25.0% Game: 11-19 57.9%
Deadball Rebounds 2
Officials: Cameron Inouye, Jesse Dickerson, Maj Forsberg Technical fouls: Vanderbilt-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 17879 VU #21 fouls out @8:07/2 Score by periods Vanderbilt TENNESSEE
1st
36 39
2nd
28 48
Total
64 87
Last FG - VANDY 2nd-03:58, UT 2nd-00:12. Largest lead - VANDY by 4 1st-14:06, UT by 23 2nd-00:12.
Points VANDY UT
In Paint 28 46
Off T/O 10 28
2nd Fast Chance Break 11 2 21 10
Bench 16 27
Score tied - 6 times. Lead changed - 4 times.
## 22 55 05 10 20 03 12 23 24 25 35
Player
JONES, Courtney BARRETT, LaSondra KENNEY, Jeanne WEBB, Adrienne HUGHES, Destini LUTLEY, Bianca FORTHAN, Krystal McKINNEY, Shanece PLAISANCE, Theresa BLACK, Swayze TURNBOW, Taylor Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-32 34.4% 3FG % 1st Half: 2-5 40.0% FT % 1st Half: 2-4 50.0%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
6-10 1-9 0-0 5-9 1-7 1-6 3-10 1-4 3-5 0-0 0-1
1-2 1-2 0-0 0-1 1-3 0-1 0-1 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0
21-61
4-12
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. Tennessee had 14 steals and shot 52.9 from the floor. It was the third time this season, Tennessee 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.
3 5 8 3 5 2 7 5 0 1 1 0 2 3 5 3 0 2 2 2 3 1 4 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 4 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 10-15 18 21 39 19
2nd half: 10-29 34.5% 2nd half: 2-7 28.6% 2nd half: 8-11 72.7%
16 6 0 12 5 2 6 2 7 0 0
A TO Blk Stl
1 4 0 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 1
Min
3 2 0 2 3 5 1 0 1 0 1
1 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 0
56 13 18
9
7 200
Game: 21-61 34.4% Game: 4-12 33.3% Game: 10-15 66.7%
31 28 2 38 18 23 19 16 15 4 6
Deadball Rebounds 0
TENNESSEE 65 • 14-4, 5-1 SEC ## 15 21 25 05 10 01 04 11 20
Player
MANNING, Alicia BAUGH, Vicki JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra HARRISON, Isabelle Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 9-28 3FG % 1st Half: 4-10 FT % 1st Half: 4-7
32.1% 40.0% 57.1%
f f f g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
2-4 2-6 3-6 2-11 6-16 0-1 0-0 5-10 1-2
1-2 0-0 0-0 0-6 3-7 0-1 0-0 1-1 0-0
21-56
5-17
TP
3 3 6 0 6 8 14 3 1 5 6 2 0 2 2 3 3 2 5 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 3 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 18-31 18 27 45 15
2nd half: 12-28 42.9% 2nd half: 1-7 14.3% 2nd half: 14-24 58.3%
0-0 2-6 4-8 4-4 4-6 0-0 0-0 4-6 0-1
5 6 10 8 19 0 0 15 2
A TO Blk Stl
2 3 1 3 4 1 0 1 0
1 3 0 3 5 0 1 2 1
65 15 16
0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 1
Min
28 33 24 31 38 9 2 31 4
4 13 200
Game: 21-56 37.5% Game: 5-17 29.4% Game: 18-31 58.1%
Deadball Rebounds 9
Officials: Tina Napier, Eric Brewton, Kelly Johnson Technical fouls: Louisiana State-None. TENNESSEE-None. Attendance: 13107 LSU #55 fouls out at 1:39/2 Score by periods Louisiana State TENNESSEE
1st
26 26
2nd
30 39
Total
56 65
Last FG - LSU 2nd-01:27, UT 2nd-02:40. Largest lead - LSU by 3 1st-18:13, UT by 9 2nd-00:35.
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 contributed 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.
TP
3-4 3-4 0-0 2-2 2-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Points LSU UT
In Paint 19 20
Off T/O 8 14
2nd Fast Chance Break 9 5 17 12
Bench 17 17
Score tied - 11 times. Lead changed - 6 times.
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-toback 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 regulation. 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 6053 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.
GAME 19
GAME 20
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Tennessee vs Notre Dame 01/23/12 7 p.m. at Notre Dame, Ind. (Purcell Pavilion)
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics TENNESSEE vs Alabama 01/26/12 8 p.m. at Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Foster Auditorium)
Tennessee 44 • (14-5, 5-1)
TENNESSEE 86 • 15-5, 6-1 SEC
#9 UT vs. #2 Notre Dame // Jan. 23, 2012
## 15 25 05 10 40 01 04 11 13 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan STRICKLEN, Shekinna BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra SPANI, Taber HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 7-35 3FG % 1st Half: 0-2 FT % 1st Half: 4-10
20.0% 0.0% 40.0%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
0-3 3-12 1-3 5-15 2-10 0-0 0-1 2-6 0-2 0-0 4-9
0-0 0-0 1-2 1-3 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 3-10 0-1 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0
17-61
3-8
7-16
2nd half: 10-26 38.5% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0%
TP
1 1 2 1 3 6 9 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 3 4 7 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 2 6 3 1 0 1 15 20 35 16
0 9 3 13 5 0 0 4 0 2 8
#7/9 UT vs. Alabama // Jan. 26, 2012
A TO Blk Stl
0 1 4 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 1
Min
0 4 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 3
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
0 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0
44 12 19
4
8 200
Game: 17-61 27.9% Game: 3-8 37.5% Game: 7-16 43.8%
12 28 35 28 28 4 3 18 9 9 26
Deadball Rebounds 5
14 04 21 22 23 03 11 12 15 34 44
Player
PETERS, Devereaux DIGGINS, Skylar NOVOSEL, Natalie MALLORY, Brittany McBRIDE, Kayla HOLLOWAY, Whitney ACHONWA, Natalie MILLER, Fraderica TURNER, Kaila WRIGHT, Markisha BRAKER, Ariel Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-31 35.5% 3FG % 1st Half: 2-6 33.3% FT % 1st Half: 4-5 80.0%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
f 8-13 g 10-17 g 2-8 g 0-4 g 7-12 0-0 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
30-59
0-0 5-7 0-2 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 2-3 0-1 1-2 3-3 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
5-12
7-11
2nd half: 19-28 67.9% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0%
TP
5 11 16 1 1 4 5 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 8 11 33 44 16
16 27 4 1 17 0 7 0 0 0 0
A TO Blk Stl
6 5 3 2 5 0 3 1 0 0 0
2 5 2 5 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 72 25 19
3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Min
34 37 23 28 38 2 11 9 3 10 5
5 11 200
Game: 30-59 50.8% Game: 5-12 41.7% Game: 7-11 63.6%
Deadball Rebounds 2
Officials: Dee Kantner, Denise Brooks, Sue Blauch Technical fouls: Tennessee-None. Notre Dame-None. Attendance: 9149 Score by periods Tennessee Notre Dame
1st
18 28
2nd
26 44
01 05 11 21 25 04 10 15 20 40
Player
BASS, Briana MASSENGALE, Ariel BURDICK, Cierra BAUGH, Vicki JOHNSON, Glory WILLIAMS, Kamiko SIMMONS, Meighan MANNING, Alicia HARRISON, Isabelle STRICKLEN, Shekinna Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 19-39 48.7% 3FG % 1st Half: 1-8 12.5% FT % 1st Half: 8-12 66.7%
* * * * *
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
3-6 0-4 3-10 4-5 6-10 4-7 3-8 1-4 3-8 5-9
2-5 0-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-4 0-1 0-0 1-3
32-71
4-19
TP
0-0 1-2 3-5 0-0 1-1 2-2 2-2 2-2 4-7 3-4
0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 3 3 0 1 5 6 2 4 4 8 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 3 5 4 3 3 6 2 0 4 4 2 1 3 4 18-25 12 28 40 16
2nd half: 13-32 40.6% 2nd half: 3-11 27.3% 2nd half: 10-13 76.9%
A TO Blk Stl
Min
8 1 1 11 9 2 8 2 13 1 10 5 9 0 4 0 10 0 14 0
1 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
5 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
86 22
8
3 11 200
Game: 32-71 45.1% Game: 4-19 21.1% Game: 18-25 72.0%
29 28 31 18 15 19 13 13 19 15
Deadball Rebounds 4
Alabama 56 • 10-11, 0-7 SEC
Notre Dame 72 • (20-1, 7-0) ##
##
Total
44 72
Last FG - TENN 2nd-00:17, ND 2nd-01:36. Largest lead - TENN by 2 1st-19:34, ND by 30 2nd-03:01.
Points TENN ND
In Paint 20 48
Off T/O 13 26
2nd Fast Chance Break 8 2 11 12
Bench 14 7
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 1 time.
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 freethrow 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.
## 03 05 10 21 22 01 12 14 15 33
Player
Robinson, Jasmine Farmer, Celiscia Perkins, Meghan Crosby, Kyra Lee, Khristin Daniels, Aneesah Myers, Shafontaye Hogue, Erin Waters, Erika Merritt, Jessica Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-26 42.3% 3FG % 1st Half: 1-5 20.0% FT % 1st Half: 9-19 47.4%
* * * * *
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
1-6 3-7 3-7 7-13 0-2 2-4 1-7 2-3 0-0 3-6
0-1 0-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-6 0-0 0-0 0-2
22-55
1-14
TP
0 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 2 5 7 3 2 3 5 2 1 4 5 4 0 4 4 4 0 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 3 3 6 11-22 10 30 40 21
2nd half: 11-29 37.9% 2nd half: 0-9 0.0% 2nd half: 2-3 66.7%
0-0 0-0 2-2 1-3 4-6 2-4 0-0 1-3 0-0 1-4
2 6 8 15 4 6 3 5 0 7
A TO Blk Stl
1 0 2 0 4 1 1 0 0 1
2 2 4 1 5 3 1 2 1 0 1 56 10 22
Min
0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
4
2 200
Game: 22-55 40.0% Game: 1-14 7.1% Game: 11-22 50.0%
21 23 23 25 30 16 13 23 3 23
Deadball Rebounds 6
Officials: Felicia Grinter, Wesley Dean, Bill Larance Technical fouls: TENNESSEE-None. Alabama-None. Attendance: 2049 Score by periods TENNESSEE Alabama
1st
47 32
2nd
39 24
Total
86 56
Points UT UA
In Paint 34 26
Last FG - UT 2nd-03:49, UA 2nd-00:03. Largest lead - UT by 33 2nd-02:32, UA None.
Off T/O 25 2
2nd Fast Chance Break 14 12 6 4
Bench 47 21
Score tied - 0 times. Lead changed - 0 times.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The #7/9 Tennessee women’s basketball team got back on the winning 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.
GAME 21
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics Tennessee vs Notre Dame 01/23/12 7 p.m. at Notre Dame, Ind. (Purcell Pavilion)
#7/9 UT vs. #17/15 Georgia // Jan. 29, 2012
Tennessee 44 • (14-5, 5-1) ## 15 25 05 10 40 01 04 11 13 20 21
Player
MANNING, Alicia JOHNSON, Glory MASSENGALE, Ariel SIMMONS, Meighan STRICKLEN, Shekinna BASS, Briana WILLIAMS, Kamiko BURDICK, Cierra SPANI, Taber HARRISON, Isabelle BAUGH, Vicki Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 7-35 3FG % 1st Half: 0-2 FT % 1st Half: 4-10
20.0% 0.0% 40.0%
f f g g g
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
0-3 3-12 1-3 5-15 2-10 0-0 0-1 2-6 0-2 0-0 4-9
0-0 0-0 1-2 1-3 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 3-10 0-1 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-0
17-61
3-8
7-16
2nd half: 10-26 38.5% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0%
TP
1 1 2 1 3 6 9 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 3 4 7 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 2 6 3 1 0 1 15 20 35 16
0 9 3 13 5 0 0 4 0 2 8
A TO Blk Stl
0 1 4 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 1
Min
0 4 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 3
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
0 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0
44 12 19
4
8 200
Game: 17-61 27.9% Game: 3-8 37.5% Game: 7-16 43.8%
12 28 35 28 28 4 3 18 9 9 26
Deadball Rebounds 5
Notre Dame 72 • (20-1, 7-0) ## 14 04 21 22 23 03 11 12 15 34 44
Player
PETERS, Devereaux DIGGINS, Skylar NOVOSEL, Natalie MALLORY, Brittany McBRIDE, Kayla HOLLOWAY, Whitney ACHONWA, Natalie MILLER, Fraderica TURNER, Kaila WRIGHT, Markisha BRAKER, Ariel Team Totals
FG % 1st Half: 11-31 35.5% 3FG % 1st Half: 2-6 33.3% FT % 1st Half: 4-5 80.0%
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF
f 8-13 g 10-17 g 2-8 g 0-4 g 7-12 0-0 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1
30-59
0-0 5-7 0-2 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 2-3 0-1 1-2 3-3 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
5-12
7-11
2nd half: 19-28 67.9% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0% 2nd half: 3-6 50.0%
TP
5 11 16 1 1 4 5 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 5 8 11 33 44 16
16 27 4 1 17 0 7 0 0 0 0
A TO Blk Stl
6 5 3 2 5 0 3 1 0 0 0
2 5 2 5 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 72 25 19
3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Min
34 37 23 28 38 2 11 9 3 10 5
5 11 200
Game: 30-59 50.8% Game: 5-12 41.7% Game: 7-11 63.6%
Deadball Rebounds 2
Officials: Dee Kantner, Denise Brooks, Sue Blauch Technical fouls: Tennessee-None. Notre Dame-None. Attendance: 9149 Score by periods Tennessee Notre Dame
1st
18 28
2nd
26 44
Total
44 72
Last FG - TENN 2nd-00:17, ND 2nd-01:36. Largest lead - TENN by 2 1st-19:34, ND by 30 2nd-03:01.
Points TENN ND
In Paint 20 48
Off T/O 13 26
2nd Fast Chance Break 8 2 11 12
Bench 14 7
Score tied - 2 times. Lead changed - 1 time.
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’ defensive 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.