2014-15 LADY VOL BASKETBALL » UTSPORTS.COM » @LADYVOL_HOOPS EIGHT-TIME NCAA CHAMPS 1987 1989 1991 1996 1997 1998 2007 2008 34 COMBINED SEC REGULAR SEASON & TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS » 18 NCAA FINAL FOURS » 21 WBCA ALL-AMERICANS » 15 WNBA 1ST-ROUND PICKS 2014-15 » SCHEDULE & RECORD THE RECORD OVERALL RECORD: 24-4 SEC 14-1 NON-CONFERENCE 10-3 HOME 15-0 AWAY 9-4 NEUTRAL 0-0 THE SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT (TV/WEB) TIME/RESULT NOV. 9 CARSON-NEWMAN ^ (SECN+) W, 90-57 (Exh.) NOV. 14 PENN (SECN+) W, 97-52 NOV. 17 ORAL ROBERTS (SECN+) W, 91-39 NOV. 21 WINTHROP (SECN+) W, 81-48 NOV. 24 TENNESSEE ST. (SECN+) W, 97-46 Nov. 26 at Chattanooga (SoCon Digital Network) L, 63-67 Nov. 30 at #6/9 Texas (FOX Sports 1) L, 59-72 DEC. 3 SAINT FRANCIS (SECN+) W, 111-44 Dec. 7 at Lipscomb (ESPN3) W, 85-51 Dec. 14 at #17/19 Rutgers (ESPN2) W, 55-45 DEC. 16 WICHITA STATE (SEC NETWORK) W, 54-51 DEC. 20 #7/7 STANFORD (SEC NETWORK) W, 59-40 DEC. 28 #10/12 OREGON ST. (SEC NETWORK) W, 74-63 JAN. 2 MISSOURI * (SEC NETWORK) W, 63-53 Jan. 5 at Vanderbilt * (SEC Network) W, 57-49 JAN. 8 #9/8 TEXAS A&M * (SEC NETWORK) W, 81-58 Jan. 11 at #RV/NR Arkansas * (ESPNU) W, 60-51 Jan. 15 at Auburn * (FOX SportSouth) W, 54-42 Jan. 19 at #6/7 Notre Dame (ESPN2) L, 77-88 JAN. 22 #RV/RV LSU * (SEC NETWORK) W, 75-58 JAN. 25 #22/19 GEORGIA * (SEC NETWORK) W, 59-51 Jan. 29 at #10/10 Kentucky * (SEC Network) W, 73-72 FEB. 1 #18/18 MISSISSIPPI ST. * (SEC NETWORK) W, 79-67 Feb. 8 at Florida * (ESPNU) W, 64-56 Feb. 12 at Ole Miss * (SECN+) W, 69-49 FEB. 15 #10/10 KENTUCKY * (ESPN2) W, 72-58 FEB. 19 ALABAMA * (FOX SPORTSOUTH) W, 77-56 Feb. 23 at #2/2 South Carolina * (ESPN2) L, 66-71 Feb. 26 at Georgia * (SEC Network) W, 70-59 MAR. 1 VANDERBILT * (SEC NETWORK) 5 P.M. Mar. 6 TBD - SEC Tournament (SEC Network) 7 p.m. Mar. 20-23 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds (TBA) TBA Mar. 27-30 NCAA Regionals (TBA) TBA Apr. 5 & 7 NCAA Final Four (TBA) TBA ^ Exhibition Game, * SEC Game, All Times Eastern 2014-15 RECORD 24-4/14-1 SEC Preseason Rank: #4/4 2013-14 Record: 29-6 Conf. Rec./Finish: 13-3/2nd Starters Back/Lost: 4/1 Letterwinners Back/Lost: 8/1 Newcomers: 5 2014-15 RECORD 14-14/5-10 SEC Preseason Rank: NR/NR 2013-14 Record: 18-13 Conf. Rec./Finish: 7-9/t6th Starters Back/Lost: 3/2 Letterwinners Back/Lost: 8/4 Newcomers: 5 THE MATCHUP TENNESSEE VANDERBILT vs THE BASICS #6/6 TENNESSEE LADY VOLS (24-4/14-1) vs. VANDERBILT COMMODORES (14-14/5-10) MARCH 1 » THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA » KNOXVILLE, TN ON THE AIR TELEVISION SEC Network Paul Sunderland (play-by-play) Nell Fortner (analyst) ONLINE WatchESPN Paul Sunderland (play-by-play) Nell Fortner (analyst) RADIO Lady Vol Network Mickey Dearstone (play-by-play) GAME 29 SET-UP #6/6 Tennessee (24-4, 14-1 SEC) plays its third of three games this week and its final game of the regular season, as in-state rival Vanderbilt (14-14, 5-10 SEC) comes calling at Thompson-Boling Arena at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. It’s Senior Day at Rocky Top, and Cierra Burdick, Isabelle Harrison and Ariel Massen- gale will be honored before the final regular- season home game of their careers. Harrison will be unable to play due to a season-ending injury to her right knee. Sunday’s battle will be the second meet- ing between these teams in 2014-15, as (then) #7/9 UT improved to 2-0 in league play back on Jan. 5, when it turned back the Commo- dores at Memorial Gym, 57-49. This marks the 74th meeting between these schools, with UT holding a 64-9 record in the series, including 29-0 in Knoxville. The game will be televised by the SEC Network, with Paul Sunderland and Nell Fort- ner on hand to call the action. The contest also can be seen online via WatchESPN. A “Watch Live” link can be found on the Lady Vol Hoops Central page on UTSports.com. Mickey Dearstone’s Lady Vol Network call can be heard on the radio on network sta- tions statewide in Tennessee and via audio stream worldwide on UTSports.com. The Lady Vols have won the last two match-ups with the ‘Dores, starting that streak with an 81-53 victory over a (then) #18/19 Vandy squad at Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 10, 2014. UT enters Sunday’s game on the heels of a 70-59 road win at Georgia Thursday night. That victory over UGA improved the Lady Vols to 16-1 vs. unranked opponents this season, with the lone loss coming at Chat- tanooga (67-63 on Nov. 26), a team that now is ranked #18/19. The Lady Vols stand 8-3 vs. ranked teams in 2014-15, including 5-3 vs. top-10 squads, and those numbers are tops in the SEC. Vanderbilt has lost two in a row (both at home) and has dropped four of its last five and six of its past eight contests. The Commodores fell to Auburn on Thursday night in Nashville, 70-58, commit- ting 21 turnovers and surrendering 26 points off those miscues. SENIOR DAY/RIVALRY PROMO Seniors Cierra Burdick, Isabelle Harrison and Ariel Massengale will be honored before the game. Recognition will start with 15:00 remaining on the pregame clock. The first 500 to purchase the Volunteer State ticket for $15 will receive a 300 level reserved ticket and an orange t-shirt! STATISTICAL LEADERS SCORING #11 Cierra Burdick (11.0 ppg) REBOUNDING #11 Cierra Burdick (7.2 rpg.) ASSISTS #11 Cierra Burdick #5 Ariel Massengale (2.5 apg.) STEALS #14 Andraya Carter (2.5 spg.) BLOCKS #1 Nia Moore (0.8 bpg.) SCORING #1 Rebekah Dahlman (10.3 ppg.) REBOUNDING #25 Morgan Batey (5.1 rpg.) ASSISTS #41 Paris Kea (2.9 apg.) STEALS #25 Morgan Batey (1.3 spg.) BLOCKS #13 Audrey-Ann Caron- Goudreau (1.1 bpg.) INSIDE THE SERIES Overall: UT, 64-9 Home: UT, 29-0 Away: UT, 25-7 Neutral: UT, 10-2 Postseason: UT, 10-2 Overtime: UT, 1-0 Streak: UT, 2 games Last Meeting: #7/9 Ten- nessee defeated Vander- bilt, 57-49, in Nashville on Jan. 5, 2015. All-Time Record: 1,271-283 in 70th season @LadyVol_Hoops utsports.com STAY UPDATED www.facebook.com/ BallWithTheLadyVols
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#6/6 TENNESSEE LADY VOLS (24-4/14-1) vs. VANDERBILT COMMODORES (14-14/5-10)MARCH 1 » THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA » KNOXVILLE, TN
ON THE AIR
TELEVISION
SEC Network
Paul Sunderland (play-by-play) Nell Fortner (analyst)
ONLINE
WatchESPN
Paul Sunderland (play-by-play) Nell Fortner (analyst)
RADIO
Lady Vol Network
Mickey Dearstone (play-by-play)
GAME 29 SET-UP #6/6 Tennessee (24-4, 14-1 SEC) plays its
third of three games this week and its fi nal game of the regular season, as in-state rival Vanderbilt (14-14, 5-10 SEC) comes calling at Thompson-Boling Arena at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. It’s Senior Day at Rocky Top, and Cierra
Burdick, Isabelle Harrison and Ariel Massen-gale will be honored before the fi nal regular-season home game of their careers. Harrison will be unable to play due to a season-ending injury to her right knee. Sunday’s battle will be the second meet-
ing between these teams in 2014-15, as (then) #7/9 UT improved to 2-0 in league play back on Jan. 5, when it turned back the Commo-dores at Memorial Gym, 57-49. This marks the 74th meeting between
these schools, with UT holding a 64-9 record in the series, including 29-0 in Knoxville. The game will be televised by the SEC
Network, with Paul Sunderland and Nell Fort-ner on hand to call the action. The contest also can be seen online via
WatchESPN. A “Watch Live” link can be found on the Lady Vol Hoops Central page on UTSports.com. Mickey Dearstone’s Lady Vol Network call
can be heard on the radio on network sta-tions statewide in Tennessee and via audio stream worldwide on UTSports.com. The Lady Vols have won the last two
match-ups with the ‘Dores, starting that streak with an 81-53 victory over a (then) #18/19 Vandy squad at Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 10, 2014. UT enters Sunday’s game on the heels of
a 70-59 road win at Georgia Thursday night. That victory over UGA improved the
Lady Vols to 16-1 vs. unranked opponents this season, with the lone loss coming at Chat-tanooga (67-63 on Nov. 26), a team that now is ranked #18/19. The Lady Vols stand 8-3 vs. ranked teams
in 2014-15, including 5-3 vs. top-10 squads, and those numbers are tops in the SEC. Vanderbilt has lost two in a row (both at
home) and has dropped four of its last fi ve and six of its past eight contests. The Commodores fell to Auburn on
Thursday night in Nashville, 70-58, commit-ting 21 turnovers and surrendering 26 points off those miscues.
SENIOR DAY/RIVALRY PROMO Seniors Cierra Burdick, Isabelle Harrison
and Ariel Massengale will be honored before the game. Recognition will start with 15:00 remaining on the pregame clock. The fi rst 500 to purchase the Volunteer
State ticket for $15 will receive a 300 level reserved ticket and an orange t-shirt!
Last Meeting: #7/9 Ten-nessee defeated Vander-bilt, 57-49, in Nashville on Jan. 5, 2015.
All-Time Record: 1,271-283 in 70th season
@LadyVol_Hoops
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MEDIA INFORMATION
COVERING PRACTICEPlease contact Eric Trainer at the
Media Relations Offi ce at least a week in advance to arrange player or coach feature interviews. If you plan to cover a scheduled open practice session, please contact UT Media Relations Offi ce check about changes in the schedule.
PLAYER AND COACH INTERVIEWSMedia wishing to interview coaches
or players are encouraged to set up interviews in advance with the UT Media Relations Offi ce. Generally, the best time to conduct an interview is during a designated day with an open portion of practice and pre-practice media opportunity. The UT Media Relations Offi ce will help with all requests.
MEDIA CREDENTIALSMedia outlets interested in obtaining
credentials to cover Lady Vol basketball home games must apply for those online via Sports Systems. To apply, please visit: http://www.sportssystems.com/seccredentials. Applications for single-game credentials should be submitted fi ve days prior to a game. Once you receive your approval letter via email, you will be provided options for credential pick-up.
PHOTOGRAPHER CREDENTIALSCredentials will be issued only to
accredited photographers or those individuals on special assignment. During regular season games, work area includes the fl oor area at both ends of the court and alongside the corners of the playing fl oor opposite the team benches. Special arrangements for strobes or catwalk access must be made through the UT Media Relations and Arena Management Offi ces no later than one week in advance of the game. UT’s arena security policy requires that all photographers placing strobes will go through a screening process and must be accompanied by a UT police offi cer or representative when placing strobes.
MEDIA RELATIONS INFORMATIONLocation: Anderson Training Center, Ground LevelPhone: (865) 974-1212Fax: (865) 974-9496Mailing Address: P.O. Box 15016 Knox-ville, TN 37901Shipping Address: 1551 Lake Loudoun Blvd., Anderson Training Center, Knoxville, TN 37996-3110Thompson-Boling Arena Press Row: (865) 974-0110Arena Ticket Offi ce: (865) 656-HOOP
TENNESSEE ROSTERNo. Name Pos. Ht. Class Hometown/Previous School
0 Jordan Reynolds 5-11 G SO Portland, Ore./Central Catholic H.S.1 Nia Moore 6-3 C JR Chicago, Ill./Bolingbrook H.S.
2 Jasmine Jones 6-2 F JR Madison, Ala./Bob Jones H.S. 4 Jannah Tucker 6-0 G R-FR Baltimore, Md./New Town H.S. 5 Ariel Massengale 5-7 PG SR Bolingbrook, Ill./Bolingbrook H.S.10 Diamond DeShields 6-1 G SO Norcross, Ga./Norcross H.S.11 Cierra Burdick 6-2 F SR Charlotte, N.C./Butler H.S.12 Bashaara Graves 6-2 F JR Clarksville, Tenn./Clarksville H.S.13 Kortney Dunbar 6-2 G/F FR Edwardsville, Ill./Edwardsville H.S.14 Andraya Carter 5-9 G R-SO Flowery Branch, Ga./Buford H.S.20 Isabelle Harrison 6-3 C SR Nashville, Tenn./Hillsboro H.S.21 Mercedes Russell 6-6 C SO Springfi eld, Ore./Springfi eld H.S.31 Jaime Nared 6-2 G/F FR Portland, Ore./West View H.S.33 Alexa Middleton 5-9 G FR Murfreesboro, Tenn./Riverdale H.S.
COACHING STAFFHead Coach Holly Warlick Record at Tennessee (Years) 80-18Overall Record Same
Assistant Coach Kyra ElzyAssistant Coach Jolette Law Assistant Coach Dean LockwoodDirector of Basketball Operations Michael BeaumontAssistant to the Head Coach Janet McGeeVideo Coordinator Josh Boucher Strength & Conditioning Coach Lee Taylor Graduate Assistant Jasmine Jones
Eric Trainer Associate Media Relations Director Cell: 865.603.2916 Offi ce: 865.974.8173 Email: [email protected] Butler Graduate Assistant Cell: 623.399.7240 Offi ce: 865.974.1294 Email: [email protected]
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BY THE NUMBERS
» Ariel Massengale enters the game needing three assists to become only the third Lady Vol to tally 1,000 points and 500 as-sists in her career.
17» With 983 career points enter-ing the game, Tennessee senior Cierra Burdick needs only 17 points to become UT’s fourth 1,000-point scorer this season.
25» UT is seeking win number 25 in 2014-15, a total that would give the Lady Vols their sixth straight and 35th overall season with 25 or more victories.
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AIMING FOR MILESTONES With a win, Tennessee could acheive
25 victories in a season for the 35th time in school history, the third-straight season un-der Holly Warlick and sixth year in a row. The Lady Vols also could produce their
highest SEC victory total (15) of the Warlick era with a win on Sunday. They were 14-2 in 2012-13, 13-3 in 2013-14 and are 14-1 entering this game. A 15-1 record would be UT’s best confer-
ence eff ort (and tie for second-highest SEC win total ever) since the 2010-11 squad went 16-0 in league play and 34-3 overall.
THE SERIES VS. VANDY Tennessee holds a 64-9 all-time record
vs. Vanderbilt, dating back to Jan. 18, 1976. The Lady Vols are 25-7 vs. the Commo-
dores in Nashville, a perfect 29-0 in Knoxville and 10-2 at neutral sites, with the latter be-ing all postseason contests. These squads have been to overtime on
one occasion, with Tennessee seizing a 92-79 decision in Nashville on Jan. 19, 1997. Holly Warlick is 4-1 as head coach vs.
Vanderbilt, including 2-0 in Knoxville and 2-1 in Nashville. Tennessee’s senior class of Cierra
Burdick, Isabelle Harrison (Nashville’s Hill-sboro H.S.) and Ariel Massengale is 6-2 vs. Vanderbilt, including 3-0 in Knoxville, 2-2 in Nashville and 1-0 at neutral sites. One of those wins came earlier this sea-
son at Memorial Gym in Nashville, as the #7/9 Lady Vols held off Vanderbilt, 57-49, on Jan. 5, 2015. That 49-point total by Vandy was the
lowest scored by the Commodores in Nash-ville in the UT series since VU tallied 27 in a 96-27 loss on Jan. 18, 1976. UT’s 57-point sum earlier this season,
meanwhile, was the lowest ever by the Lady Vols in the series. Despite that victory, UT has taken it on
the chin in two of its last four trips to Memo-
rial Gymnasium, losing by 11 on Jan. 12, 2014, and by 14 on Feb. 9, 2012. In the last 10 meetings in Nashville, Ten-
nessee is 7-3 vs. Vandy, but UT is only 3-2 in its last fi ve visits to Memorial Gymnasium. Last season, #8/8 Tennessee saw a 20-
game win streak vs. unranked foes come to an end in Nashville on Jan. 12, 2014, 74-63. The #8/8 Lady Vols returned the favor
and remained unbeaten in 29 contests vs. the Commodores in Knoxville, though, defeating #18/19 VU, 81-53, on Feb. 10, 2014. Warlick had a hand as a player in the #4
Lady Vols’ 77-53 road victory over Vanderbilt on Nov. 21, 1979. The senior point guard dished out a
game-high 10 assists and added four points and a rebound with only one turnover in 27 minutes of action in her only career contest vs. the Commodores.
VS. VANDERBILT UT LEADS, 64-91/18/1976 A W 96-2711/21/1979 4/nr A W 77-5312/6/1981 10/nr H W 99-771/4/1982 20/nr A W 80-632/26/1982 8/nr N6 W 80-751/12/1983 11/nr H W 98-702/19/1983 4/nr A W 94-792/5/1984 7/nr A W 82-732/26/1984 10/nr H W 74-721/16/1985 nr/nr A L 77-842/16/1985 nr/nr 24/nr H W 82-712/15/1986 14/nr 14/nr H W 94-812/4/1987 5/14 6/13 A L 76-771/17/1988 4/nr 4/20 H W 104-671/26/1989 2/nr 2/23 A W 80-602/22/1990 4/nr 4/nr H W 88-7712/6/1990 6/nr 6/nr A L 66-803/2/1991 4/nr 4/nr N51 W 62-602/2/1992 4/13 4/11 H W 70-531/30/1993 2/1 2/1 A W 73-681/31/1994 2/9 2/10 A W 84-822/13/1994 2/12 2/11 H W 79-573/7/1994 1/13 1/13 N65 W 82-5712/31/1994 1/8 1/9 A W 72-702/12/1995 2/7 2/7 H W 75-55
3/6/1995 2/9 2/11 N65 L 61-671/19/1996 6/2 5/2 H W 85-822/25/1996 5/10 5/9 A W 79-711/19/1997 9/7 9/7 A W 92-79 (OT)2/17/1997 8/15 8/13 H W 64-591/25/1998 1/9 1/8 H W 86-542/16/1998 1/14 1/11 A W 91-602/28/1998 1/14 1/13 N82 W 106-452/7/1999 1/nr 1/nr A W 66-602/18/1999 1/nr 1/nr H W 89-532/4/2000 4/nr 4/nr H W 78-522/24/2000 2/nr 3/nr A W 59-573/4/2000 2/nr 3/nr N65 W 61-531/23/2001 3/16 3/17 A W 70-642/22/2001 1/18 1/17 H W 70-663/3/2001 1/15 1/15 N94 L 74-772/2/2002 2/8 2/6 A L 59-762/16/2002 3/6 4/6 H W 75-683/25/2002 6/4 6/4 N102 W 68-632/2/2003 4/17 4/17 A W 81-672/27/2003 3/17 3/18 H W 91-711/22/2004 2/nr 2/nr H W 79-542/15/2004 3/nr 3/nr A W 94-881/16/2005 8/17 10/15 A W 79-652/13/2005 5/21 5/20 H W 72-633/5/2005 5/18 4/17 N114 W 76-731/19/2006 1/19 1/19 A W 80-682/12/2006 5/22 5/20 H W 70-671/25/2007 4/15 4/14 A W 67-572/25/2007 2/12 2/12 H W 73-531/20/2008 2/nr 2/nr H W 79-632/17/2008 1/25 1/nr A W 81-683/8/2008 3/21 3/22 N101 W 63-481/11/2009 7/24 11/24 A L 58-743/1/2009 18/19 23/21 H W 75-661/17/2010 4/nr 4/22 H W 64-572/8/2010 5/nr 5/22 A W 69-603/6/2010 4/nr 4/nr N119 W 68-491/15/2011 5/nr 5/nr H W 68-562/13/2011 4/nr 4/nr A W 65-571/15/2012 6/25 7/24 H W 87-642/9/2012 11/nr 11/25 A L 79-933/2/2012 13/25 10/nr N101 W 68-571/24/2013 9/rv 9/rv A W 83-752/17/2013 12/nr 10/nr H W 83-641/12/2014 8/nr 8/nr A L 63-742/10/2014 8/18 8/19 H W 81-531/5/2015 7/nr 9/nr A W 57-49
ABOUT THE COMMODORES After starting the season 5-0, Vanderbilt
has gone 9-14 since then. As usual, Vanderbilt is tough to beat at
home, posting a 9-6 mark in Memorial Gym thus far, but the ‘Dores are 4-6 on the road. Vanderbilt was 18-13 overall and 7-9 in the
SEC last season in fi nishing tied for sixth. VU made the 2013-14 NCAA Tournament
but dropped a fi rst-round contest vs. No. 9 seed Arizona State, 69-61. Vandy returned three of fi ve starters this
season and eight of 12 letterwinners, and it added fi ve newcomers. Redshirt freshman Rebekah Dahlman has
emerged as Vanderbilt's top scorer, averaging 10.3 points per game. Melanie Balcomb is in her 13th season
at Vandy and has posted a 291-132 record in Nashville. Her career mark stands at 454-236 in her 22nd season.
* - Averages are from 2013-14 # - Averages from 2013-14 season at North Carolina
A LOOK AT THE LADY VOL LINEUP(Based On The Last Game)
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20 minutes was four points with fi ve minutes left in the game at 58-54. The Lady Vols led the rebounding battle,
35-29, led by Burdick’s 10. UT shot 54.3 per-cent for the game, its best mark away from home this season, while limiting Georgia to 37 percent. Both teams made eight 3-point-ers.
VU’S MOST RECENT GAME The Vanderbilt women couldn’t stop -- or
even slow down -- Auburn’s Jazmine Jones on Thursday night in the Commodores’ fi nal home game of the season. Jones, who came into the night averag-
ing 2.5 points per game, went 10-of-11 from the fl oor while scoring a game-high 21 points to lead the last-place Tigers to a 70-58 vic-tory over the Commodores at Memorial Gym. Jones also pulled down a team-high nine re-bounds and had three steals. The Tigers (11-17, 2-13) have now won two
straight games after opening SEC play with 13 straight losses. Auburn has also won two in a row against Vanderbilt after losing 21 consecutive games in the series prior to last season’s win at Memorial Gym. Auburn’s Brandy Montgomery fi nished
with 16 points and Katie Frerking had 13 points and seven rebounds. Marqu’es Webb led Vanderbilt with 13
points and nine rebounds before fouling out with 2:20 to play. Freshman Rachel Bell add-ed 13 points and fellow freshman Paris Kea had 12. The Commodores came into the night
hoping to improve their seeding for next week’s SEC Tournament. Instead, they are now likely headed for the play-in round of the tournament after losing for the sixth time in the past eight games.
SENIOR DAY FOR THREE LADY VOLS This will mark the fi nal regular season
home game for Cierra Burdick, Ariel Massen-gale and Isabelle Harrison. This group will be seeking their 108th win
together since they joined the program. UT’s seniors own a career record of 107-
27 overall and are 53-10 in SEC regular season play. They have forged a 6-2 record vs. Vandy,
including 3-0 in Knoxville, 2-2 in Nashville and 1-0 at neutral sites. The group has won two SEC Tournament
championships and a regular-season title and has fi nished in the NCAA Elite Eight twice and in the Sweet 16 once.
UT SUCCESS ON SENIOR DAY Tennessee has won on Senior Day the
past eight games. Since 1974-75, Tennessee is 37-3 in its fi -
nal home game of the regular season. The fi nal regular-season home game
losses came in 2005-06, 1982-83 & 1974-75. During the Holly Warlick era, UT has
posted big wins on senior day. Last season, the runner-up Lady Vols
knocked off regular-season SEC champ #4/5 South Carolina, 73-61. In 2012-13, Warlick’s fi rst season as head
coach, UT defeated #13/15 Texas A&M, 78-65, to clinch the SEC regular season title at Thompson-Boling Arena. In 2011-12, UT said goodbye to fi ve se-
niors in Pat Summitt’s fi nal home game as head coach with a 75-59 win over Florida.
VOLUNTEER STATE PLAYERS Tennessee features three players from
the Volunteer State, including senior Isa-belle Harrison (Nashville/Hillsboro H.S.), junior Bashaara Graves (Clarksville/Clarks-ville H.S.) and freshman Alexa Middleton (Murfreesboro/Riverdale H.S.). Vanderbilt has only one in-state player:
freshman Rachel Bell (Cumberland Fur-nace/Creek Wood H.S.).
THE LAST TIME WE MET #7 Tennessee won its eighth game in a
row, as the Lady Vols stifl ed Vanderbilt, 57-49, at Memorial Gym. Tennessee moved to 12-2 overall and 2-0 in the SEC. Vanderbilt fell to 8-6 and 0-2 in the league. Once again, defense was the name of
the game for the Lady Vols. For the sev-enth time in the eight-game win streak, Tennessee held an opponent to less than 55 points. Vanderbilt’s 49 points were the fewest by a Lady Vols’ SEC foe since Ten-nessee beat Missouri, 84-39, on Jan. 10, 2013. Andraya Carter led Tennessee with a
career-high 19 points. Ariel Massengale had 12 and Jordan Reynolds tallied 11 points. Cierra Burdick added 10 points, all of which came in the fi rst half. Tennessee held Vanderbilt to 33.3%
from the fl oor and outrebounded the Commodores, 39-27. Vanderbilt was led by Christa Reed’s
13 points. The Lady Vols led by double fi gures for
most of the second half. They took a lead as large as 15 on Massengale’s 3-pointer with 14:40 left in the game, 35-20. Vanderbilt crept within seven points on
a 3-pointer by Rebekah Dahlman with 1:13 left in the contest, cutting their defi cit to 50-43. Carter made fi ve free throws in the fi -
nal 1:01 while the Commodores connected on three 3-pointers in the fi nal minutes to get within six points with 16 seconds re-maining. But the Lady Vols held on for the win.
LAST TIME IN KNOXVILLE #8 UT remained perfect vs. Vanderbilt
at home with an 81-53 victory on Feb. 10, 2014. The Lady Vols improved to 29-0 all-time against the Commodores in Knoxville dating to the fi rst meeting in 1981. The Lady Vols won their sixth game
in a row to move to 20-4 overall and 9-2
in the SEC. It marked the 38th consecutive season in which Tennessee won 20 or more games. The win by 28 points was the largest in
the series since UT won by 36 on Feb. 18, 1999. Vanderbilt was held to a season low in points with 53. The Commodores’ previous low was 54. Meighan Simmons tallied 22 for Ten-
nessee, as she connected on 4-of-6 from 3-point land. Redshirt freshman Andraya Carter added 11. Isabelle Harrison scored 18 points. The
game was a huge comeback for the junior from Nashville, who fouled out in just 10 minutes in the Lady Vols’ loss at Vanderbilt on Jan. 12. She connected on 8-of-10 from the fl oor in the game, making her fi rst seven attempts. Overall, the Lady Vols were 7-of-10 on
trifectas and made 58.2 of their shots from the fl oor. #16 Vanderbilt (17-6, 6-4 SEC) was led
by Christina Foggie, who had 22 points.
UT’S MOST RECENT GAME Tennessee returned to its winning ways
on Thursday night with a 70-59 victory over Georgia. The Lady Vols (24-4 overall, 14-1) bounced back after their fi rst conference loss of the season at #2 South Carolina on Monday with a well-balanced performance at Stegeman Coliseum. Senior Cierra Burdick posted a double-
double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. It was Burdick’s second double-double in a row. Classmate Ariel Massengale scored 17 points and handed out fi ve assists. Georgia (17-11, 5-9) was led by MacKen-
zie Engram’s 16 points and six rebounds. The Lady Vols have now won 21 of their
last 22 games vs. conference foes following the defeat at South Carolina. Tennessee jumped out to a 39-27 lead at
halftime, thanks to shooting a season-high 66.7 percent in the half. Burdick led all scor-ers with 12 fi rst-half points, as she knocked down 5-of-7. Massengale knocked down a 3-pointer
and a jumper to push the Lady Vols’ lead to 12 at intermission. That was the largest mar-gin of the game until the fi nal minute when Massengale made a pair of free throws with 55 seconds left. That put UT up 70-57. Georgia threatened Tennessee through-
out the second half, cutting its defi cit to two possessions on several occasions. The clos-est the Lady Bulldogs came over the fi nal
WEEK GAMES PLAYED RECORD AP/USA TODAYNov. 3-9 W vs. CARSON-NEWMAN (EXH.) ----- 4/4Nov. 10-16 W vs. PENN 1-0 4/4Nov. 17-23 W vs. ORU, W vs. WINTHROP 2-0 4/5Nov. 24-30 W vs. TENN. ST., L @Chattanooga, L @#6/9 Texas 1-2 4/5Dec. 1-7 W vs. SAINT FRANCIS, W @Lipscomb 2-0 14/14Dec. 8-14 W @#17/19 Rutgers 1-0 11/13Dec. 15-21 W vs. WICHITA ST., vs. W #7/7 STANFORD 2-0 11/12Dec. 28 W vs. #10/12 OREGON ST. 1-0 8/11Dec. 29-Jan. 4 W vs. MISSOURI 1-0 8/9Jan. 5-11 W @Vanderbilt, vs. W #9/8 TEXAS A&M, @RV/NR Arkansas 3-0 7/9Jan. 12-18 W @ Auburn 1-0 6/6Jan. 19-25 L @ #6/7 Notre Dame, W vs. #RV/RV LSU, W vs. #22/19 GEORGIA 2-1 5/7Jan. 26-Feb. 1 W @ #10/10 Kentucky, W vs. #18/18 MISSISSIPPI STATE 2-0 6/6Feb. 2-8 W @ Florida 1-0 6/6Feb 9-15 W @ Ole Miss, vs. W #10/10 KENTUCKY 2-0 6/6Feb. 16-22 W vs. ALABAMA 1-0 6/6Feb. 23-Mar. 1 L @ #2/2 South Carolina, W @ Georgia, vs. VANDERBILT 1-1 6/6
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OFF-THE-COURT ACCOLADES FOR C Cierra Burdick picked up some recogni-
tion this week for her work off the court. Burdick was named a second-team Co-
SIDA Academic All-American. She has a 3.86 grade point average in communication stud-ies. For the second year in a row, she was
named to the SEC Women’s Basketball Com-munity Service Team for her good works.
WARLICK BREAKS BONE IN WRIST Head coach Holly Warlick joined the in-
jury roll this week, but fortunately for UT, she won’t have to miss any games. The third-year head coach slipped on the
ice on campus on Wednesday and fell. Af-ter traveling to Georgia and coaching UT to victory on Thursday night, Warlick went to the doctor Friday. It was confi rmed she had a broken bone in her right wrist.
SEC TITLE STILL AT STAKE Though South Carolina has a one-game
lead, Tennessee still is pursuing its 18th SEC regular season title and 35th piece of hard-ware, including 17 SEC Tournament trophies. UT would need to beat Vanderbilt and
hope for USC to lose at Kentucky on Sunday. The Lady Vols have won three of the past
fi ve regular-season crowns and four of the last fi ve tournament titles. Holly Warlick guided UT to one regular-
season crown (2013) and one tourney title (2014) in her initial two seasons. In addition to 17 regular season crowns,
UT has fi nished second nine times and was an East runner-up when there were divisions. With every other team besides UT and
South Carolina featuring fi ve losses and the regular season ending Sunday, this will mark the sixth straight season Tennessee has fi n-ished either fi rst or second in the SEC race. The Lady Vols were projected to place
second behind South Carolina in the pre-season polls.
A-MASS 3 AWAY FROM 500/1,000 CLUB Ariel Massengale is closing in on mem-
bership in a very select group of players in Lady Vol basketball history. She could become only the third player
in program history to record 500 assists and score 1,000 points in her career at UT. Massengale reached 1,000 points vs.
Kentucky on Feb. 15 and is three assists away from membership through 114 career games. She could become the fastest Lady Vol
to get there, keeping in mind she missed 16 games her junior season due to injury. Lea Henry (1,128 pts., 587 assts., 1979-83)
and Alexis Hornbuckle (1,333 pts., 503 assts., 2004-08) are the only two players to accom-plish that feat in Tennessee’s rich history. It took Henry 116 games (15th game of
her senior season) to become UT’s fi rst in the 1000/500 club, scoring 11 points at Georgia (1/16/83) to surpass 1,000 points. She had reached 500 assists in 114 games (13th game of senior season) with eight vs. Ole Miss (1/8/83). Hornbuckle joined the 1000/500 club
in her 137th game (36th game of her se-nior year), when she had one assist vs. LSU on 4/6/08 in the NCAA Final Four semifi -nal game vs. LSU in New Orleans. She had scored 1000 points in her 105th game (4th game of senior season
FOURTH LADY VOL NEARS 1,000 PTS. Cierra Burdick (983) is approaching the
1,000-point plateau in her college career. Entering the Vanderbilt game she stands
17 points shy of becoming a UT-record fourth Lady Vol to score her 1,000th career point in the same season. She would become the 42nd player to hit that mark. Isabelle Harrison (1/29/15 at Kentucky),
Bashaara Graves (2/1/15 vs. Mississippi State) and Ariel Massengale (2/15/15 vs. Kentucky) already become the 39th, 40th and 41st players to accomplish that feat this season. With 10:28 remaining in the fi rst half at
Kentucky on Jan. 29, Harrison hit a layup and became the 39th Lady Vol to score 1,000 points in her career. Graves entered the Mississippi State
game needing 16 points to join the club and hit her 16th and 17th points on free throws with 15.8 seconds remaining to end the game at 1,001 points and become the 40th Lady Vol to join the 1K club. Ariel Massengale entered the Kentucky
game with 992 points, needing eight to be-come the third Lady Vol this season and the 41st overall to reach 1,000 career points She took care of business, fi ring in a three
with 13:33 to go in the game to hit 1,000. She fi nished with 17 points and bumped her ca-reer total to 1,009. There now have been 10 occasions where
Tennessee has had three players with 1,000 points on the same team. The last trio to do that prior to this sea-
son came in 2010-11, when Angie Bjorklund (1,469), Shekinna Stricklen (1,343) and Glory Johnson (1,132) accomplished that feat.
SEEKING 20TH STRAIGHT AT HOME The Lady Vols are 15-0 this season at
Thompson-Boling Arena and have won 19 in a row at home, beginning with a Feb. 20, 2014, win over Auburn in Knoxville. UT last won 19-straight at home when it
had a 45-game streak from Feb. 22, 2009, (W, Mississippi State) to Feb. 2, 2012 (L, South Carolina). The Tennessee women’s (10-0) and
men’s teams (7-0) combined for a 17-0 start at home this season before the guys fell to Alabama on Jan. 10, 56-38.
VERY TOUGH PLACE TO PLAY Thompson-Boling Arena and Knoxville
have long had a reputation as a diffi cult place for visitors to win.
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The Lady Vols are 399-28 all-time at Thompson-Boling Arena in 28 years, ranking the venue No. 3 behind UConn’s Gampel Pa-vilion and Florida Gulf Coast’s Alico Arena, which opened in 2007, in winning pct. In Knoxville venues, including Alumni
Gym, Stokely Athletics Center and Thomp-son-Boling Arena, UT is a remarkable 552-52 over the past 41 years (since 1974-75). That ranks Knoxville as the toughest city
in the nation to get an NCAA Division I wom-en’s basketball victory. UT has won 12 or more games in the
arena in each of its 28 years of existence af-ter doing so again in 2014-15 and has again claimed 15 victories for the 13th time in school history. Tennessee has posted 11 seasons with no
losses in the facility. The Big Orange women are 42-0 at
Thompson-Boling Arena during NCAA play, including 14-0 in the First Round, 22-0 in the Second Round, 3-0 in the Sweet 16 and 3-0 in the Elite 8.
HOLLY NEAR SEC LEAD IN 1ST 3 YRS. In only her third year as a head coach,
Holly Warlick entered 2014-15 with the sixth highest active win percentage in NCAA Di-vision I women’s basketball at .800 (56-14). She has improved that percentage to
.816 (80-18) with a 24-4 mark this season and compares very favorably to the most successful coaches in the SEC over the past three seasons, even though it’s only her third season as a head coach. Warlick’s teams won the 2012-13 SEC
regular season title in her fi rst season after returning 0 starters. They fi nished second in the regular season and won the SEC Tourna-ment in 2013-14 with three returning starters. Just for comparison’s sake, 15th-year
head coach Dawn Staley is 81-14 at South Carolina from 2012-15. She is in her seventh season there and has two SEC regular sea-son crowns to her credit. Those two have the best SEC record
during that three-year span, while 10th-year
head coach Matthew Mitchell is 76-23 at Kentucky over the past three seasons. He is in his eighth year at UK and has led the Wild-cats to one SEC regular season crown. Gary Blair has led Texas A&M to one SEC
tourney title during that time. Pat Summitt was 24-4 at this point in her
third season and stood 56-23 overall.
IMPRESSIVE WON-LOST RECORDS UT’s program has an all-time record of
1,271-283 in its 70th season. Tennessee won 20 straight games vs.
SEC opponents, including 13 this season, be-fore dropping a decision at USC on Feb. 23. Holly Warlick is 80-18 overall as head
coach, including 46-5 in Knoxville and 34-13 on the road during her third season. Warlick is 911-140 in 30 years as a mem-
ber of the UT coaching staff . UT’s seniors own a career record of 107-27
overall and 53-10 in SEC regular season play. Seniors Cierra Burdick, Isabelle Harrison
and Ariel Massengale are 6-2 vs. Vandy, in-cluding 3-0 in Knoxville, 2-2 in Nashville and 1-0 at neutral sites.
COMFORTS OF HOME Tennessee is averaging 78.0 points in its
15 home games, all victories, and allowing only 52.3 ppg. By contrast, the Lady Vols have scored
65.5 ppg. on the road and allowed 59.4. The UT women are hitting 44.8% from
the fi eld in games played at Thompson-Bol-ing Arena and 41.1% in road contests. UT is hitting 77.8% of its free throws at
home and 71.2% away. Most importantly, UT is 15-0 at home in
2014-15. The Lady Vols are 9-4 on the road.
UT HAS #1 SCHEDULE, #2 RPI UT’s strength of schedule, as provided
by the NCAA, is ranked No. 1 this week. Teams it faced have a 439-231 record. Schools Tennessee will play are 30-21. The Lady Vols are No. 2 in this week’s
NCAA RPI.
UT is 8-3 vs. ranked teams, including 5-3 vs. top-10 opponents this season.
UT, WARLICK SUCCESS VS. THE SEC Until South Carolina ended it on Feb. 23,
UT’s 20-game streak against conference foes was the longest active spree in the SEC. It started with a 93-63 home win over Auburn last season on Feb. 20, 2014. It was Tennessee’s longest win streak
over SEC opponents since winning 36 in a row from Jan. 24, 2010 to Jan. 12, 2012. UT is 511-77 vs. SEC schools all-time and
is 358-50 during regular season play. Tennessee is 203-17 (.923) during home
SEC games since the league began (1982-83). UT is 75-8 (.904) at home, including 35-4
(.897) in SEC games at Thompson-Boling Arena, over the last fi ve seasons through the Alabama game. Tennessee has gone unbeaten in league
play nine times through the years. Holly Warlick, meanwhile, is 45-7 vs. SEC
foes, including 41-6 during the regular sea-son in her fi rst three years as a head coach. She has 2013 regular season and 2014
tournament championships to her credit.
UT AT HOME IN SEC GAMES (SINCE 1982-83)
Team Home
Alabama 18-0 Arkansas 12-1 Auburn 18-2 Florida 19-1 Georgia 19-4 Kentucky 18-3LSU 17-3Ole Miss 16-2Mississippi St. 16-0 Missouri 2-0 South Carolina 18-1Texas A&M 2-0 Vanderbilt 28-0
UPPERCLASSMEN HAVE IZZY’S BACK With their teammate going down to a
knee injury, Tennessee seniors Ariel Massen-gale and Cierra Burdick, and junior Bashaara Graves have stepped up their games to help fi ll the void. Over the last four games, Burdick is lead-
ing UT at 16.0 points per contest, followed by Massengale at 14.8 and Graves at 13.0. Burdick is grabbing 9.5 rebounds and
shooting 53% from the fi eld, while Graves is pulling down 6.5 boards and hitting at a 49% clip. Massengale has scored 59 points com-
bined over the past four games after scor-ing 33 over the previous six contests. She’s scored 17 points in three of her past four games. Burdick has scored 14, 16, 16 and 18 in her
last four games and has double-doubles with 10 rebounds in each of the past two games. Graves had 20 points and seven boards
vs. #2 South Carolina on Feb. 23. The trio is combining to hit 33 of 39 from
the free throw line to pace UT to a 801% (58-73) team eff ort during that span.
BALL SECURITY BY GUARDS, TEAM Andraya Carter is at 2.0 (64 assts./32
TOs) in assist-to-turnover ratio. Carter has 10 games with 0 turnovers and eight others with only one miscue.
7 Oregon St 25-2 6098 Florida St 25-3 5629 Louisville 23-4 55810 Arizona St 24-4 49311 North Carolina 22-6 46212 Texas A&M 22-6 45213 Mississippi St 25-4 41214 Princeton 25-0 33215 Kentucky 19-8 32616 Iowa 21-6 31117 Duke 19-8 30118 Rutgers 20-7 19919 Chattanooga 25-3 18119 Stanford 20-8 18121 George Washington 24-3 14322 Florida Gulf Coast 25-2 11423 Nebraska 19-8 10424 Texas 18-8 6225 Seton Hall 24-4 54
NATIONAL RANKINGS
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Jordan Reynolds, meanwhile, has a 1.5 assist-to-turnover ratio (63 assts./41 TOs) and has committed 0 turnovers six times and one gaff e on 11 other occasions. In its biggest game of the year, Tennes-
see recorded a season-low turnover total of six vs. #2/2 South Carolina on Feb. 23. Cart-er and Ariel Massengale had no turnovers in 38 and 40 minutes, respectively. Tennessee has three single-digit turnover
totals this season and has done much better in recent games after having 22 at Kentucky on Jan. 29 and 21 at Florida on Feb. 8.
CLIMBING CAREER LEADER LISTS Tennessee has players moving up the
career lists in assists, blocks and three-point shooting, including Ariel Massengale (assists, three-point fi eld goals made, three-point fi eld goals attempted) who will become only the fi fth Lady Vol player to hit 500 assists.
THE BEAST IS BACK Over her last fi ve games, Bashaara Graves
has been an All-SEC caliber player. She is averaging 13.8 points and 6.0 rebounds per contest during that span, shooting 57% from the fi eld and 71% from the free throw line. She also has nine assists to her credit in those contests. Graves produced a season high and No. 2
career scoring total of 22 points (with eight rebounds) vs. #6/7 Notre Dame on Jan. 19. Graves was strong against South Caro-
lina as well, leading Tennessee with 20 points and adding seven rebounds. She had rebound season highs of 11 vs.
Missouri and Saint Francis. Graves was, as Holly Warlick put it, “en
fuego” vs. Ole Miss. Seven-of-seven from the fi eld for 17 points, four rebounds, two steals and an assist in UT’s 20-point win. Versus Alabama, she hit 6-of-10 shots
and fi nished with 14 points, adding three re-bounds and an assist. Graves had 11 points vs. Kentucky,
grabbed nine rebounds, dished out four as-sists and blocked a shot. While her scoring average isn’t high in
SEC play at 9.3 ppg., Graves is shooting a team-leading 56.8% over 15 games, is grab-bing 5.3 rpg., and is third in assists with 35 and fourth in steals with 12. She also is hitting 83.0 percent of her free throw tries. Graves, nicknamed “beast” by her team-
mates as a freshman for her tough play, has recorded points/rebounds double-doubles in six games thus far and missed by one re-bound on two other occasions. That total of six surpasses her tally of
three for her sophomore season in 2013-14.
Graves had 10 double-doubles her fi rst season at UT en route to SEC Freshman of the Year and fi rst-team All-SEC honors. Her career total now equals 19, ranking
her 16th all-time at UT though she’s only a junior.
1 T.O. IN 122:47 MINUTES FOR DRAYA Andraya Carter entered the Ole Miss
game committing only one turnover in her last 122 minutes and 47 seconds of play, cov-ering the Kentucky, Mississippi State, Geor-gia and Florida games. She committed two in the fi rst half vs.
Ole Miss, which proved to be her fi nal total. Carter hadn’t committed a turnover since
the 18:47 mark of the fi rst half of the Georgia game on Jan. 25, meaning she went 93 min-utes, 47 seconds without a turnover entering the Florida game and extended that to 114 minutes and 18 seconds before committing her lone miscue with 9:29 to go in the game. Carter played 35 minutes on the road vs.
Kentucky and 33 minutes at home vs. Missis-sippi State, dealing fl awlessly with two of the league’s best and most-aggressive defenses. Against Georgia, Carter committed only
2014 LADY VOL SIGNEES On national signing day on Nov. 12, third-year head coach Holly Warlick and her staff , who
already will add talented transfer Diamond DeShields into the mix next fall after a redshirt season, signed 5-foot-8 point guard Te’a (TAY-uh) Cooper of McEachern (mick-EE-churn) High School in Powder Springs, Ga., and 5-11 wing Jamasha (juh-ME-sha) “MeMe” Jackson of Blackman High in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
TE’A COOPER >> 5-8 >> PG >> POWDER SPRINGS, GA. >> MCEACHERN H.S.> Ranked No. 1 overall and No. 1 point guard by D1Spects.com> Ranked No. 3 overall and No. 1 point guard by ProspectsNation.com> Ranked No. 4 by Full Court> Ranked No. 7 by All Star Girls Report> Ranked No. 16 by Blue Star> Ranked No. 19 by espnW HoopGurlz> Rated as a fi ve-star recruit on that list> Named to the 2014 USA Basketball Women’s U17 World Championship Team but had to
withdraw due to illness during training camp> Participated in the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team Trials> McDonald’s All-American (2015)> MaxPreps Third-Team All-American (2014)> Georgia Sports Writers Association Miss Basketball (2014)> American Family Insurance USA Today All-USA Georgia First Team (2014)> Georgia Class 6A All-State First Team (2014)> Atlanta Tipoff Club Girls Metro Player of the Year (2014) & All-Metro Second Team (2013)> Marietta Daily Journal Cobb County Player of the Year (2014)> MVP of the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association’s North-South All-Star Game after scor-
ing 39 points and making eight 3-pointers> Three year-starter who led her team to Georgia 6A state titles in 2012 (33-0) & 2014 (29-2)> Averaged 19.6 ppg., 5.0 rpg., 6.0 apg., 5.0 spg. and 1.0 bpg. as a junior> Averaged 18.5 ppg., 5.0 apg., 4.3 spg. as a sophomore> Averaged 11.2 ppg., 4.7 apg., 3.0 spg. and shot 65 percent from the fi eld> Subject of the MTV reality show “True Life”
MEME JACKSON >> 5-11 >> G/F >> MURFREESBORO, TENN. >> BLACKMAN H.S.> Ranked No. 21 by Blue Star> Ranked No. 25 by All Star Girls Report> Ranked No. 35 overall & the No. 7 ranked wing in espnW HoopGurlz Top 100 Class of 2015> Rated as a fi ve-star recruit on that list> Ranked No. 37 overall and the No. 9 wing by ProspectsNation.com> Ranked No. 39 overall by D1Spects.com> Tennessee Sportswriters Association All-State Team (2014)> TSSAA State Championship All-Tournament Team (2014)> District MVP (2014)> All-District (2014)> All-Region (2014)> Led BHS to a 34-1 record in 2013-14 and a TSSSAA state championship> Her team was the No. 1-ranked team in the country by ESPN, USA Today and MaxPreps> Started all 35 games as a junior and averaged 9.4 ppg,. 4.4 rpg., 3.4 apg. and 2.3 spg. on
a team featuring fi ve NCAA Division I prospects
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Number 22. Only two players have ever had a Lady Vol game jersey with that number on it. After the jersey was retired on Feb. 18, 1980, no basketball player has had a No. 22 Tennessee jersey since then. There wasn’t supposed to be another one until Lauren Hill came along.
Hill, a freshman basketball player at Mount St. Joseph University, joins third-year UT head coach Holly Warlick (1976-80) and Joy Scruggs (1971-75) as the only basket-ball players to possess a Tennessee uniform with double deuces. Hill’s inspirational story moved Warlick, Tennes-see’s third-year head coach, and Michael Beaumont, the team’s director of operations, to fi nd a way to show Tennessee’s admiration and support for Hill in any way they could.
“We were all very touched and moved by Lauren’s story and her desire to play one more basketball game,” Warlick said. “We’ve talked a lot this preseason about being thankful for what we’ve been given and taking advantage of every day, because you never know what can happen.
“Lauren’s attitude and fi ght and spirit embody exactly what we’ve been trying to convey, so we couldn’t help but connect and relate to her immediately. She’s one of us.”
one turnover in 27 minutes of action, and it came in the game’s opening 1:13. Carter now has 10 games without a turn-
over this season. She also has eight games with only one miscue.
POINT GUARD COLLEGE GRADS During the summer, sophomores Andra-
ya Carter and Jordan Reynolds each attend-ed Point Guard College Basketball camps in Atlanta and Portland, respectively. PGC Basketball provides an intense, no-
nonsense basketball education for male and female players, as well as coaches. Courses are designed to teach players of all posi-tions to play smart basketball, to be coaches on the court, and to be leaders in practices, games, and in everyday life. The organization vows to teach campers
how to play smart, tough, intelligent basket-ball, communicate effi ciently, develop the DNA of a champion and lead their team ef-fectively. Carter is known as Tennessee’s best de-
fensive player, while Reynolds is appreciated greatly for pushing tempo on off ense and taking care of the ball while doing so.
TEAM EFFORT Tennessee started the season with 14 on
its roster, with 12 active players, and now is down to nine players who are seeing action. With starters Isabelle Harrison and Jas-
mine Jones fi nished for the season, everyone has had to pitch in and keep this team mov-ing toward its goals. A good example of that eff ort occurred
vs. Alabama, as all nine Lady Vols who played broke into the scoring and rebound-ing stat categories and seven of nine had at least one assist. To shake things up and try diff erent
personnel in diff erent roles, Tennessee em-ployed its 10th diff erent starting lineup of the season and third variation in the last three games vs. Bama. The starting fi ve vs. the Tide included Nia
Moore, Cierra Burdick, Jaime Nared, Andraya Carter and Ariel Massengale. That unit got UT off to a 16-2 start in the opening eight minutes. Holly Warlick has since sent out an 11th
diff erent lineup, starting Burdick, Graves, Carter, Massengale and Reynolds vs. USC and Georgia.
RECORD-SETTING FT SHOOTERS Through 28 games, this is the second-
best free throw shooting team in Tennessee history at 74.9 percent. Holly Warlick’s fi rst team in 2012-13 shot 75.9 over 35 contests. UT ranks No. 1 in the SEC and 19th nation-
ally in free throw percentage. The 18-for-18 eff ort at the line vs. Ala-
bama on Feb. 19 tied the SEC single game record at 100%, matching four other perfect shooting games by Mississippi State (18-18, 2012), Ole Miss (17-17, 2003), Alabama (20-20, 1992) and LSU (20-20, 1988), with 15 or more attempts. The performance stands atop the Ten-
nessee record book for most free throw at-tempts (18) without a miss. There had been three other 100% UT shooting games, but 10-of-10 vs. LSU (2/22/10) had stood as the most makes in perfection. Seven of UT's nine players shot at least
two free throws each vs. Alabama. Tennessee nearly broke the record vs.
Georgia on Jan. 25, connecting on 20 of 20 before missing the 21st attempt. UT also made 19 of 21 vs. LSU the game
before on Jan. 22. The Lady Vols are making 15.1 free throws
per contest. UT players have spent extra time outside
practice working on their free throws, and it is paying off . In fact, their profi ciency helped them beat Georgia on Jan. 25.
FINDING NI-MO Filling in for Isabelle Harrison will be a
committee eff ort, but junior Nia (NEE-uh) Moore did her best to make up some num-bers vs. Alabama and again vs. Georgia. Moore recorded a career-high six blocked
shots vs. the Crimson Tide and also chipped in six points, seven rebounds and two steals in 22 minutes. It was the ninth start of the season for
Moore, who got the nod the fi rst eight games of the season while Harrison was dealing with a knee sprain. At Georgia on Feb. 26, Moore hit four-
of-four shots from the fi eld and tallied eight points in 10 minutes. It should be noted that Moore averaged
20.8 points and 9.5 rebounds per contest over her fi rst four games this season, with games of 24 (Penn), 20 (Oral Roberts) and 25 (Tennessee State) to her credit.
Those averages had dropped to 4.8 ppg.and 3.2 rpg. before Harrison was injured.
ASSISTING EACH OTHER Tennessee surpassed the 20-assist pla-
teau for the eighth time this season with 20 vs. Alabama on Feb. 19. Freshman Jaime Nared led the way with
a career-best fi ve vs. Bama Cierra Burdick chipped in four vs. the
Crimson Tide and is second on the team with 65 through 28 games. Jordan Reynolds was tops vs. South Car-
olina with three of UT’s 10 helpers. Massengale is trying to become only the
second Lady Vol (Dawn Marsh) to lead the team in assists all four years of her career.
WARLICK 23-14 VS. TOP 25 TEAMS During the Holly Warlick era, UT is 23-14
vs. ranked teams. Tennessee is 8-3 vs. ranked teams this
season, taking down #7/7 Stanford, #10/12 Oregon State, #9/8 Texas A&M, #22/19 Georgia, #18/18 Mississippi State and #10/10 Kentucky at home, and #17/19 Rutgers and #10/10 Kentucky on the road, while losing at #6/9 Texas, #6/7 Notre Dame and #2/2 South Carolina.
AP Top 25: 22-14 (.611) AP Ranked 1: 0-1 (.000) AP Ranked 2: 0-3 (.000) AP Ranked 3: 0-1 (.000) AP Ranked 1-5: 1-5 (.200) AP Ranked 1-10: 7-9 (.438) AP Ranked 11-25: 15-5 (.750)
USA TODAY Top 25: 23-14 (.622) USA TODAY Ranked 1: 0-1 (.000) USA TODAY Ranked 2: 0-2 (.000) USA TODAY Ranked 3: 0-2 (.000) USA TODAY Ranked 1-5: 1-6 (.143) USA TODAY Ranked 1-10: 5-10 (.333) USA TODAY Ranked 11-25: 18-4 (.818)
UT ALL-TIME VS. TOP 25 TEAMS Overall: 463-182 (.718) AP Ranked 1-10 : 183-134 (.577) AP Ranked 11-25: 251-43 (.854) USA TODAY Ranked 1-10: 141-92 (.605) USA TODAY Ranked 11-25: 221-31 (.877)
8-3 VS. TOP-10, 5-3 VS. TOP-20 In #2/2 South Carolina, UT is faced its
eighth top-10, 11th top-20 and fi rst top-fi ve team this year. Tennessee fell to 5-3 vs. top-10 oppo-
nents this season, including 4-0 at home and 1-3 on the road. The Lady Vols defeated #7/7 Stanford,
#10/12 Oregon State, #9/8 Texas A&M and #10/10 Kentucky at home on Dec. 20 (59-40), Dec. 28 (74-63), Jan. 8 (81-58) and Feb. 15 (72-58), and #10/10 Kentucky on the road (73-72), but fell to #6/9 Texas (72-59) on Nov. 30, #6/7 Notre Dame (88-77) on Jan. 19 and #2/2 South Carolina (71-66) on Feb. 23 on the road. UT is 8-3 vs. all ranked foes this season,
with a 55-45 win at #17/19 Rutgers on Dec. 14 and home wins vs. #22/19 Georgia (59-51) and #18/18 Mississippi State (79-67) to its credit on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1. Tennessee’s 11 games and eight wins vs.
ranked teams as well as its eight games and fi ve wins vs. top-10 foes are the best in the SEC this season.
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Tennessee’s has matched its victory total vs. top-20 programs from all of last season, when the Lady Vols were 8-5 vs. ranked foes. UT was 1-3 vs. top-10 teams a year ago.
ANOTHER 20-WIN SEASON FOR UT Tennessee’s victory over Kentucky was
its 22nd of the year. This is the 39th straight season and 40th time overall that the Lady Vols have won at least 20 games. It is Holly Warlick’s third year in a row of
claiming 20+ victories. Pat Summitt’s teams won 20 or more
games the fi nal 36 years of her 38-yr. career. Warlick’s teams have won 25 or more in
her fi rst two seasons and just missed hitting 30 for the fi rst time last season. Summitt’s squads recorded 25 or more
victories on 31 occasions and won 30 or more games 20 times.
UT’S 2ND STINGIEST DEFENSE Holly Warlick wants her teams to em-
brace playing defense with great passion, energy and eff ort, and it appears the 2014-15 Lady Vols have bought in since losing back-to-back games vs. Chattanooga and Texas. Tennessee ranks No. 5 in the SEC and
No. 22 nationally in scoring defense, allowing 55.6 points per contest. This against one of the strongest schedules in the nation and in the best league in the country. If the season ended today, Tennessee’s
55.6 points allowed per game average would be the second-lowest in school history (since 1974-75). The NCAA Champion 2006-07 team allowed opponents a current program record of only 55.5 ppg. over 37 contests. Tennessee has held 21 of 28 foes this sea-
son under 60 points in a contest, including 12of 15 SEC games. UT has held nine teams under 50 points. During Tennessee’s 11-game winning
streak from Dec. 3 to Jan. 15, the Lady Vols allowed only 49.7 points per contest and 33.5 fi eld goal pct. by their opponents. UT has allowed only fi ve opponents
(#10/12 Oregon State-63, #6/7 Notre Dame-88, #10/10 Kentucky-72, #18/18 Miss. State-67 and #2/2 South Carolina-71 to score more than 58 points in a game since Nov. 30. In 28 games, Tennessee has allowed only
13 teams to score more than 53 points, in-cluding Chattanooga (L, 67-63), #6/9 Texas (L, 72-59), #10/12 Oregon State (W, 74-63),
#9/8 Texas A&M (W, 81-58), #6/7 Notre Dame (L, 78-88), LSU (W, 75-58), #10/10 Kentucky (W, 73-72), #18/18 Mississippi State (W, 79-67), Florida (W, 64-56), #10/10 Ken-tucky (W, 72-58), Alabama (W, 77-56), #2/2 South Carolina (L, 66-71) and Georgia (W, 70-59). Only six teams have scored more than
63 vs. UT this season (Chatt., Texas, N.D., Ky., Miss. State, S.C.). The Lady Vols held Vanderbilt to 49
points on Jan. 5, marking the lowest point total the Commodores have scored at home in the 73-game series since 27 points in 1976. UT limited #7/7 Stanford to 40 points in
the Lady Vols’ 59-40 win in Knoxville to stop a three-game losing skid to the Cardinal.
GREAT STARTS UT went 13-0 in SEC play for the fi rst time
in the Holly Warlick era and for the fi rst time since 2010-11 (fi nished 16-0) before falling to South Carolina on Feb. 23. The 14-1 record now leaves the Big Or-
ange women alone in second place with one-game remaining in the regular seaosn. Every other team has at least fi ve losses. The Lady Vols were off to an 8-0 league
start in 2012-13 before being upset on the road by Missouri, 80-63, on Feb. 3. Before losing to Notre Dame on Jan. 19,
UT, at 15-2, was off to its best start in a sea-son since 2010-11, when the Lady Vols were 34-2 before losing in the NCAA Regional fi -nal to Notre Dame, 73-59, on March 28.
IT’S NOT PERSONAL; IT’S BUSINESS Against teams with former Lady Vol play-
ers and/or staff ers, Warlick is 19-4, including 1-0 vs. Alcorn State (Tonya Edwards), 3-2 vs. Kentucky (Matthew Mitchell, Shalon Pillow), 2-0 vs. Lipscomb (Greg Brown), 4-1 vs. LSU (Nikki Caldwell, Tasha Butts), 1-0 vs. Middle Tennessee (Alex Fuller), 2-0 vs. North Caro-lina (Sylvia Hatchell), 3-0 vs. Ole Miss (Alex Fuller Simmons), 2-1 vs. South Carolina (Nikki McCray) and 1-0 vs. Wichita State (Jody Ad-ams, Bridgette Gordon). Against teams with former Lady Vols on
the staff , Warlick is 13-4, including 4-1 vs. LSU (Nikki Caldwell, Tasha Butts), 2-1 vs. South Carolina (Nikki McCray), 1-0 vs. Middle Ten-nessee (Dustin Edwards, Alex Fuller), 3-0 vs. Ole Miss (Alex Fuller Simmons), 1-0 vs. Al-corn State (Tonya Edwards), 1-0 vs. Wichita
State (Jody Adams, Bridgette Gordon) and 1-2 vs. Kentucky (Shalon Pillow). Against teams with former UT staff
members coaching, Warlick is 11-3, including 3-2 vs. Kentucky (Matthew Mitchell), 2-0 vs. Lipscomb (Greg Brown), 4-1 vs. LSU (Nikki Caldwell, Tasha Butts) and 2-0 vs. North Car-olina (Sylvia Hatchell). Against former Lady Vols as head coaches,
Warlick is 6-1, including 4-1 vs. Nikki Caldwell (LSU), 1-0 vs. Tonya Edwards (Alcorn St.) and 1-0 vs. Jody Adams (Wichita St.).
GOOD STREAKS, BAD STREAKS In addition to putting together positive
win streaks this season, UT has broken down some bad ones and is eyeing others. Tennessee beat Kentucky in Lexington
for the fi rst time since Feb. 7, 2011, topping the Wildcats 73-72 on Jan. 29 in a down-to-the-wire aff air. It was Tennessee’s fi rst win over a top-10
team on the road since beating #9/10 Duke, 67-64, in Durham, N.C., on Jan 28, 2008, a span of 2,558 days. That victory broke an 0-14 spell vs. top-10
teams on the road. Earlier this season, the Lady Vols beat
Stanford for the fi rst time since 2010 (59-40 on Dec. 20) and stopped a three-game los-ing skid in the series. UT next takes aim at an 0-11 losing skid
vs. top-fi ve teams on the road since its last win of that sort. A #4/4 Tennessee team won the last road
contest over a top-fi ve foe on Jan. 6, 2007, at #5/5 UConn, 70-64. That was UT’s third-straight win over the Huskies and the last meeting between the programs. Tennessee’s last top-fi ve win at home
came vs. #4/5 South Carolina in Knoxville last season, 73-61, on March 3, 2014. UT has played none at home since then. UT is 9-18 overall vs. top fi ve teams (6-5
at home, 0-11 on the road, 3-2 at neutral sites) since that UConn game in 2007.
SUMMITT DISCIPLE There’s no question Holly Warlick em-
ploys some of the same principles learned from her friend, mentor, co-worker and coach, Pat Summitt. A favorite Summitt saying was “Off ense
sells tickets, defense wins games and re-bounding wins championships.”
Off ensive Opportunities Tennessee shooting from the fi eld (all games):20%FG: @RUT (.275)30%FG: MIZ (.313), UGA (.340), @ARK (.347), @TEX (.350), @VAN (.362), @UTC (.377),
@FLA (.379), STAN (.383), WIN (.397) 40%FG: ALA (.406), WSU (.408), UK (.419), @AUB (.423), @ND (.432), @USC (.433), OSU (.441), @LIP (.446), PENN (.482), @UK (.483), TSU (.493), ORU (.494) 50%FG: SFU (.500), A&M (.524), @OM (.528), @UGA (.543), LSU (.556), MSU (.569) 60%FG: None
Dee -- FenseOpponents shooting from the fi eld (all games):10%FG: None20%FG: SFU (.224), ORU (.250), STAN (.255), @OM (.298)30%FG: @RUT (.311), @ARK (.317), TSU (.321), @AUB (.322), PENN (.328), @VAN (.333), @FLA (.344), WIN & @LIP (.345), UK (.354), ALA (.356), WSU (.364), UGA (.368), MIZ (.385), @UGA (.373), @UK (.386)40%FG: OSU & A&M (.424), @USC (.429), LSU (.460), MSU (.467), ND @TEX (.492)50%FG: @UTC (.533), @ND (.582),
Leading at the Break (18): SFU (+32), @LIP (+24), PENN (+22), ORU (+27), A&M (+16), WIN (+15), TSU & @OM (+17), STAN & @UGA (+12), ALA (+11), @VAN, @AUB & LSU (+8), UGA & MSU (+5), WSU (+3), OSU (+1)Tied at the Break (1): UKTrailing at the Break (9): @UTC (-16), @TEX (-10), @UK (-6), MIZ (-4), @RUT, @ARK, @ND & @USC (-3), @FLA (-2)
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It’s easy to see the apple didn’t fall far from the tree when listening to Warlick talk about how her team let its off ense aff ect its defense in a game in which it allowed only 42 points to Auburn. Much of her point in the displeasure with
her team in that game pertained to defensive rebounding, with UT allowing 18 off ensive re-bounds to the Tigers and the Lady Vols los-ing the overall battle on the boards, 39-33.
A LOT OF SUCCESS TO SELL During the Holly Warlick era, Tennessee
is 80-18, has made two NCAA appearances, won an SEC regular season title (2013) and an SEC tournament title (2014). The program maintains a 100 percent
graduation rate for players who fi nish their eligibility at Tennessee. Warlick has sent two players to the
WNBA over the last two seasons and the program has had 15 all-time fi rst round picks and 38 players in the league. UT had the SEC Player of the Year in 2013
and 2014, the SEC Freshman of the Year in 2013, the SEC Tournament MVP in 2014 and the SEC Coach of the Year in 2013. Tennessee has won eight NCAA Cham-
pionships, claiming titles in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007 and 2008. The Lady Vols have appeared in 22 Final
Fours, including 18 NCAA and 4 AIAW. UT has played in 13 NCAA title games. Tennessee is the only school to appear in
all 33 NCAA Tournaments and has won more tourney games than any other school (142). The Lady Vols have won a combined 34
SEC titles, including 17 regular season and 17 tournament championships. UT has had 21 players honored as WBCA
All-Americans. Ten with UT ties have been inducted into
the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Seven women are recognized with ban-
ners of honor hanging at Thompson-Boling Arena, including Holly Warlick, Bridgette Gordon, Daedra Charles, Chamique Hold-sclaw, Tamika Catchings, Pat Summitt and Candace Parker.
HARRISON LOST TO TORN ACL After being injured vs. Kentucky on Feb.
15, Isabelle Harrison was offi cially lost for the season on Feb. 16 when it was announced she had suff ered a torn ACL in her right knee. Harrison left the game with 19:01 remain-
ing in the second half. Over her last six games before the injury,
Harrison had been averaging 17.0 points and 9.7 rebounds. The senior was shooting 60.9% (39-64)
from the fi eld and 68.6% (24-35) from the free throw line during that six-game span. In 20 games this season, Harrison aver-
aged 12.8 points and 9.1 rebounds per con-test, shooting 47.1% from the fi eld and 64.4% from the free throw line. Harrison fi nished with seven double-dou-
bles this season and 31 for her career, fi nish-ing sixth in Tennessee history with the latter number. She scored in double fi gures in 14 of 20
games this year. Harrison was named the SEC Player of
the Week on Jan. 27. She also was honored on Dec. 29. She tallied 1,071 points and 778 rebounds
during her career, shooting 50.4% from the
fi eld and 66.0% from the free throw line while starting 68 of 111 games played. Harrison had a season best and was one
off her career high in scoring vs. LSU on Jan. 22, fi ring in 25 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the fi eld and 7-of-7 marksmanship from the free throw line. At Ole Miss on Feb. 8, the senior center
hit 9-of-14 shots to tally 21 points and add 14 boards for her seventh double-double of the season and 31st of her career. She had a 15/10 double-double by halftime. Tennessee’s preseason All-American
and team leader, Harrison suff ered a right leg injury with 3:26 remaining in the season opener vs. Penn and had to be helped from the fl oor. She was diagnosed with a sprained medial collateral ligament in her right knee and missed fi ve games before returning to action vs. Saint Francis on Dec. 3. Harrison had a breakout junior year,
earning All-SEC First Team and SEC Tourna-ment MVP honors as well as third-team Full Court All-America and honorable mention A-A from AP and the WBCA. For those and a few other reasons, ESPN
tabbed Harrison as one of its “Need To Know” players this season. Harrison ranked fi rst in the SEC last sea-
son in fi eld goal percentage (57.7%) and dou-ble-doubles (18), second in rebound average (9.3) and 18th in scoring average (13.6). She set a Tennessee junior record with
those 18 double-doubles, passing the previ-ous record holder, Chamique Holdsclaw, who had 16 in 1997-98. Only Candace Parker had more double-doubles in a season for UT, tal-lying 21 as a sophomore in 2006-07. Harrison earned 2014 SEC Tournament
MVP honors after leading Tennessee to its 17th postseason league title, averaging 19.0 points and 10.0 rebounds per game in the tournament.
WARLICK: JONES DONE FOR YEAR In addition to the news on Feb. 16 about
Harrison’s knee, Holly Warlick announced that Jasmine Jones would be sitting out the rest of the 2014-15 campaign. UT will request a medical hardship waiver
for her and hope to get her year of eligibility restored. Jones suff ered a mild concussion in the
fi rst half of the opener vs. Penn and played only seven minutes this season. After missing the next three games, Jones returned to ac-tion off the bench vs. Chattanooga and pro-pelled a furious second-half UT comeback. The 6-2 junior forward connected for a
career-high 19 points, with 16 of them com-ing in the second half as UT erased a 16-point halftime defi cit before falling, 67-63. She followed that eff ort with 10 points
and three boards in 25 minutes vs. Texas, marking the fi rst time in her career she hit double fi gures in back-to-back games. She made it three double-digit scoring
eff orts in a row, hitting for 16 points and add-ing eight rebounds vs. Saint Francis. Jones hit double digits in points for the
fourth time in 2014-15 with 12 and added six boards in the win over Rutgers before col-liding with another player and missing the Wichita State game due to a head injury. She played 15 minutes vs. Stanford and has not played since. The junior averaged a career-best 9.4
points along with 4.6 rebounds per contest
through seven games this season, starting six of those contests.
WHAT IF? Tennessee is having a fanastic season
and doing quite well with its core of players who are seeing playing time. But one can’t help but wonder ‘what if” it had three of its top-10 recruits available this season. Added to the “what if” list are two more
players, starters Isabelle Harrison (torn right ACL) and Jasmine Jones (concussion-like symptoms), who are lost for the season due to injuries. Harrison, who was injured vs. Kentucky
on Feb. 15, was averaging a team-leading 12.8 ppg. and 9.1 rpg. in 20 games. Jones was averaging a career-high 9.4
ppg. and 4.6 rpg., and was a player UT could assign to defend the best player on the op-posing team. What if 6-foot-6 center Mercedes Rus-
sell didn’t require foot surgery and miss the 2014-15 campaign? The 2013 espnW HoopGurlz No. 1 recruit
averaged 6.3 ppg. and 5.0 rpg while shoot-ing 59.6% last season as a rookie. What if 6-1 guard Diamond DeShields had
signed with UT out of high school as she in-tended and was in her second year as a Lady Vol instead of redshirting after transferring? The 2013 espnW HoopGurlz No. 3 recruit
averaged 18.0 ppg. and 5.4 rpg. last season at North Carolina, and she was a fi rst-team All-ACC selection and consensus national freshman of the year. What if Jannah Tucker hadn’t injured her
left knee playing for USA Basketball, missed her senior season of high school and then had to have a follow up procedure on that knee in spring 2014? Tucker was the 2013 espnW HoopGurlz
No. 8 recruit and averaged 30 ppg., 6 apg. and 4 spg. as a high school junior. Tucker is shaking off the rust and trying
to earn more playing time this season, but next season off ers great promise as all of these players except for senior Harrison hit the ground running for Tennessee.
SHUFFLING THE STARTING LINEUP In 28 games thus far, Holly Warlick has
sent 11 diff erent lineups out to the center cir-cle for the opening tip, including four varia-tions over four of the last fi ve games. In game 12, UT fi nally found its consistent
starting fi ve, and that unit started 12 games in a row until Bashaara Graves was not on the fl oor for the opening tip vs. Ole Miss after be-ing late to a team function. It marked the fi rst time all season she did not start, and Ariel Massengale got the nod instead. Graves returned to the starting lineup
for the win vs. Kentucky in Knoxville, so that starting group of Bashaara Graves, Cierra Burdick, Isabelle Harrison, Jordan Reynolds and Andraya Carter produced a 13-1 record with its only blemish coming against #6/7 Notre Dame. With Isabelle Harrison suff ering a season
ending injury vs. UK, that lineup has made its last start together. Jordan Reynolds was the only player
to start every game she played through 25 contests, but Warlick sending Nia Moore, Burdick, Jaime Nared, Carter and Ariel Massengale to the jump circle vs. Alabama brought that streak to a halt.
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2014-15 SEC STANDINGS (THROUGH 2/26/15)
SEC OVERALL W-L Pct. H A W-L Pct. H A N L5 StkSouth Carolina 15-0 1.000 8-0 7-0 27-1 .964 14-0 9-1 4-0 5-0 W5Tennessee 14-1 .933 7-0 7-1 24-4 .857 15-0 9-4 0-0 4-1 W1
Warlick changed it up again, going with a three-guard lineup vs. South Carolina, with Carter, Massengale and Reynolds at guard and Burdick and Graves playing down low. She repeated that group at Georgia. From the Saint Francis through the Stan-
ford games, though, Warlick sent fi ve diff er-ent new starting lineups onto the court be-fore she used a repeat of the Wichita State fi ve (Graves/Burdick/Harrison/Reynolds/Carter) vs. Oregon State. That same unit started vs. Missouri and Vandy. The lineup changes were due to injuries
to players and because of early-season play-er punishments for team class attendance policy violations during the off season. Through the South Carolina game, six
Lady Vols combined to miss 43 games. The missed games breakdown includes
Jasmine Jones (21), Jannah Tucker (10), Isa-belle Harrison (8), Cierra Burdick (2), Andra-ya Carter (1) and Ariel Massengale (1). UT defeated Lipscomb, #17/19 Rutgers,
Wichita State and #7/7 Stanford in consecu-tive games with four diff erent starting fi ves.
LEADS, DEFICITS, COMEBACKS Tennessee has seven wire-to-wire wins
(ORU, SFU, Stanford, Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss, Bama) and has trailed in 21 of its 28 games this season. Tennessee has trailed in 11 of 15 SEC
games (MU-7, @VU-1, @ARK-9, @AU-3, UGA-8, @UK-6, MSU-3, @UF-5, UK-3, USC-11, @UGA-5) this season, winning all but the USC game. UT has led at halftime 18 times with its
largest margin being 32 (53-21) over SFU and the least being one vs. Oregon State (35-34). Tennessee has been tied once at the
break, matching #10/10 Kentucky at the half in Knoxville (31-31) on Feb. 12. The Lady Vols have trailed at the half
nine times (UTC-16, Tex.-10, Rut.-3, Miz.-4 Ark.-3, N.D.-3, Ky.-6, Fla.-2, USC-3), with the largest halftime defi cit being 16 vs. UTC. UT is 5-4 when trailing at the break, having lost to UTC, Tex., N.D. and USC. UT’s largest fi rst-half defi cit of the year
was 17 vs. Chattanooga, and the Lady Vols erased that entire defi cit (4:31/2nd/57-all) and tied it three times before falling 63-67. UT has trailed in the second half in 11
games this season (UTC-16, Tex.-15, Rut.-4, OSU-3, Miz.-4, Ark.-9, N.D.-14, Ga.-5, Ky.-6, Fla.-5, USC-11), including seven SEC games. The largest second-half defi cit was 16 to
Chattanooga, and the Lady Vols lost, 67-63, after tying the game four times. Tennessee’s biggest come-from-behind
win this season came at Arkansas, where the Lady Vols were down by nine twice in the second half (11:26 the latest time) before ral-lying to win, 60-51. The latest in a game this season UT has
taken the lead for good was 3:47 vs. Ken-tucky in a 73-72 win on Jan. 29. The biggest defi cit (23) and halftime
defi cit (20) ever overcome for a victory by UT were vs. Rutgers (55-51) on Jan. 3, 2009. The biggest defi cit overcome for a win-
during the Holly Warlick era was 15 in the fi rst half vs. both Alabama (Feb. 2, 2014) and LSU (March 7, 2014) during the 2013-14 season. The biggest halftime defi cit overcome
(12) during the Warlick era was against Mid-dle Tennessee on Nov. 8, 2013. The largest second-half defi cit overcome
with Warlick as coach was at Auburn on Jan. 17, 2013, when UT was down 12 with 14:29 re-maining in the game. UT also trailed Middle Tennessee briefl y in the opening seconds of the second half on Nov. 8, 2013. The largest positive turnaround (31
points) of the Warlick era occured when Ala-bama led Tennessee by 15 in the fi rst half and then trailed UT by as many as 16 in the sec-ond half en route to a 10-point UT win. The largest negative turnaround game
under Warlick occurred vs. #2/2 Notre Dame on Jan. 20, 2014 (29), when UT led by 12 in the fi rst half and trailed by as many as 17 in the second half on its way to a 16-point loss. Tennessee’s largest margin of victory un-
der Holly Warlick was 68 (11 0-42) vs. Lip-scomb on Dec. 29, 2013. UT’s highest point total scored was 111
vs. Saint Francis on Dec. 3, 2014, and that 67-point margin of victory is second most. Tennessee’s largest margin of defeat
during the Warlick era was 23 at #3/3 Bay-lor (53-76) on Dec. 18, 2012. That game also produced the worst halftime defi cit in school history (25) and the lowest point total under Warlick (53).
HERE COMES THE RUN Tennessee’s ball pressure, up-tempo
pace and three-point shooting abilities have sparked runs that break open games. In 28 games, the Lady Vols have made 28
runs of 10-0 or longer this season, including unchecked sprees of 26, 22, 19, and 17 points. UT was down fi ve at Florida on Feb. 8,
36-31, when an 11-0 run propelled the Lady Vols to a 42-36 lead en route to a 64-56 win. In a strange turn of events, UT had a 14-0
run late in the fi rst half vs. Georgia to over-come an eight-point defi cit and take a fi ve-point lead at the half. To open the second half, UGA went on a 10-0 run, but UT coun-tered with a 12-0 spree of its own to take control for good. UT trailed Missouri, 25-18, with :28 re-
maining in the fi rst stanza before going on a defense-fueled 14-0 spree that bridged the half and sent UT to a 32-25 advantage with 17:51 left in the game. After Texas A&M cut a 16-point lead to
nine with 9:59 to go in the game, Isabelle Har-rison responded with a baseline jumper that ignited a 12-0 run that staved off a comeback and sent UT on its way to a 23-point win.
The Lady Vols trailed Lipscomb, 3-2, with 17:21 remaining in the opening half before bursting to a 26-0 spree that put them up 28-3 with 8:09 to go in the half. The Lady Vols trailed 43-39 with 7:13 to
go in the game vs. Rutgers, when UT scored 10 straight points and fi nished the game on a 16-2 run to close out a 55-45 road victory. Tennessee trailed by eight points
(15:44/1st) to Tennessee State before reeling off 22-straight points to fl ip the script. All told, the Lady Vols had runs of 22-0,
19-0, 11-0 and 10-0 vs. the Lady Tigers. UT had a 14-0 blast, a pair 10-0 sprees
and smaller runs in the opener vs. Penn. The 14-0 run helped the Lady Vols over-
come a three-point defi cit to Penn with 11 minutes to go in the fi rst half and win the game, 97-52. Leading 10-7 vs. Winthrop, Tennessee’s
17-0 run broke the game open, thanks to Ar-iel Massengale’s trio of three-pointers during that outburst.
DRAYA TOPS THE SEC IN STEALS Andraya Carter leads the SEC and is 36th
nationally with 2.5 steals per game. Her total of 68 steals also is the most of
any league player this season. In 28 games played, her theft total of 68
has passed the 56 she tallied a year ago in 35 games. She actually passed it in 22 games. Carter has 14 steals over the last six
games, including fi ve vs. Florida.
TEAM BONDING Holly Warlick, her players and outside
observers have commented on how close this Lady Vol team is. Doing things together has been a com-
mon theme, and the team enjoyed yet anoth-er team-bonding activity on Feb. 4, as UT star and Canadian Football League Hall of Famer Condredge Holloway spoke to the team. Holloway, a former Vols quarterback and
current UT Athletics administrator, was fea-tured in the 2011 Kenny Chesney-produced SEC Storied fi lm “The Color Orange” as the fi rst African-American starting quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. On Jan. 12, the team attended the movie
“Selma” together that afternoon in Knoxville. The team has done community service
activities together, and former Vanderbilt football player Brad Gaines, one of the sub-
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jects of the SEC Storied fi lm “It’s Time” spoke to the team and has remained in contact throughout the season, attending the team’s games at Lipscomb and Vanderbilt.
MOVING UP THE CHARTS Three Lady Vols have at least 700+ re-
bounds, including Harrison (778), Burdick (722) and Graves (704) and it takes 811 or more to break into the all-time UT leaders. On the Tennessee career double-dou-
bles list, Harrison ranks sixth with 31, while Bashaara Graves (19) and Cierra Burdick (18) stand No. 16 and No. 17, respectively. Massengale is attempting to become
only the second Lady Vol to lead the team in assists four straight seasons. Dawn Marsh (1984-88) is the only one to do it. On the career free throw pct. list, Mas-
sengale entered the year at No. 10 at .796. Massengale also has moved into the top
10 on two other lists, including three-point fi eld goals made and attempted. Harrison is ranked in career blocks and is
No. 7 in career block average at 1.15. Graves began the year ranked No. 10 on
UT’s career rebound list at 7.4 per contest.
NO. 2 IN ATTENDANCE RIGHT NOW Tennessee is averaging 10,772 per game
in home attendance to rank second nation-ally behind South Carolina (12,347). UT has had seven crowds in excess of
10,000, including Georgia (13,428), Stan-ford (13,056), LSU (11,612), Mississippi State (11,507), Oregon State (11,123), Texas A&M (10,507) and Kentucky (16,013). A season-best audience of 16,013 was
on hand for the Kentucky game, marking the largest WBB crowd at Thompson-Boling Arena since 18,563 saw UT beat Florida on Feb. 26, 2012, which was Senior Day and Pat Summitt’s fi nal regular season home game. In 2013-14, UT led the NCAA in atten-
dance for the 11th straight year and the 17th time in the past 18 seasons.
ARIEL DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES After coming off the bench in 21 of 22
games, Ariel Massengale’s role has changed. She has started three of the past four games and could fi nd herself beginning games in the jump circle for the remainder of the year after Isabelle Harrison’s injury. Holly Warlick has liked what Massengale
brought off the bench, and the senior was happy to help the team any way she could. She’ll be fi ne with starting, too, if that’s what it takes. Massengale took that attitude to another
level in the second half vs. Oregon State ear-lier this season, grabbing a quick-dry mop from the baseline and blotting up some moisture on the fl oor to prevent Harrison from slipping and getting hurt. She has scored in double fi gures in 11 of
the last 18 games. Massengale had never scored in double
fi gures in fi ve straight games until doing so from the Stanford to Texas A&M match-ups. Massengale moved past Kellie Jolly (452)
into sixth place in career assists at UT with 454 total after dishing three vs. Mizzou, moved to 455 vs. Vandy and vaulted past Kara Lawson (456), who was in attendance, with three vs. Texas A&M to run her total to 458. She now is in fi fth place with 497. She ranks second on the team in active
scorers at 10.8 per game and is UT’s leading three-point threat. Massengale has a 37.6 fi eld goal percent-
age, including 37.2% on threes (55-148). Massengale hit eight of 12 shots from the
fi eld and was 4-of-4 from the free throw line to pace UT with 21 points vs. Oral Roberts. She also added three rebounds, two assists and a steal in 23 minutes. She followed that by hitting a career-high
six threes, including fi ve in quick succession, and fi nishing with 20 points vs. Winthrop. She now has two 20-plus point eff orts
this season and fi ve for her career. Massengale hit fi ve treys vs. Alabama on
Feb. 19 to lead the team with 17 points for the second game in a row. With classmate Isabelle Harrison going
down with an injury vs. Kentucky on Feb. 15, Massengale fi red in a game-high 17 points to aid the victorious cause. Over the fi rst 19 games last year, before
concussion-like symptoms ended her sea-son, Massengale averaged 12.5 points and 5.8 assists per game. She had three games of scoring 20 or more points and made the all-tournament team at the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas.
CAN UT HANG TOUGH ON BOARDS? Tennessee stands No. 2 in the SEC in re-
bounds per game at 42.2 and is second in rebounding margin in the SEC at 7.8. UT has lost the SEC’s third-leading re-
bounder, Isabelle Harrison, who was pulling down 9.1 per contest. Still, after a stretch where it had fewer
than 40 rebounds in eight of nine games, Tennessee has pulled down 40 or more in four of its last six contests. UT is No. 5 in the SEC in off ensive re-
bounds at 15.6 per game. Bashaara Graves is seventh in the SEC in
off ensive boards per game at 3.0. Tennessee has out-rebounded 21 of 28
opponents, and the Big Orange women have an 7.8 rebounding margin, holding a 42.2 to 34.5 advantage on the glass. #6/9 Texas (39-38), Tennessee State
(42-37), Arkansas (42-38), Auburn (39-33), #6/7 Notre Dame (36-34), #10/10 Kentucky (39-38) and #2/2 South Carolina (46-33) outworked the Lady Vols on the glass this season. Two of those games occurred before Isabelle Harrison returned to the lineup from her early season injury and one occurred af-ter she was lost for the year with an ACL tear. The Lady Vols have had the upper hand
in second chance points in 23 of 28 games this season. UT leads in that category, 388-249, and has allowed only 188 second-chance points over the last 22 games while scoring 265 of its own. Tennessee recorded 71 rebounds vs. Saint
Francis, tying for the fourth-most in school history and highest total since UT posted 74 last season vs. Troy.
SHARING THE ROCK Through 28 games, UT has 416 assists
compared to only 304 for its opponents. Cierra Burdick (2.5), Ariel Massengale
(2.5), Andraya Carter (2.4) and Jordan Reyn-olds (2.3) are pacing the Big Orange in as-sists averages. Tennessee has had eight games of 20 or
more assists this season, including its 24-as-sist eff ort vs. Texas A&M on Jan. 8.
That 24-assist performance vs. the Ag-gies ranks second-best this year behind the 27 registered vs. Penn in the season opener. UT had at least 20 assists in each of its
fi rst four games of the year, marking the fi rst time the Lady Vols had put together that many in a row since the 1987-88 season, when the Lady Vols had a streak of six from Jan. 11 to Jan. 27. They also had a run of fi ve from Dec. 13 to Jan. 3 that season. UT’s streak of three in a row 20+ assist
games was the fi rst since the team had three straight 20-assist games vs. George Wash-ington (23, 11/26/02), Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (27, 11/29/02) and Army (21, 11/30/02). There were two other instances of four or
more straight 20-assist games for the Lady Vols, and those were fi ve-game runs from Dec. 9, 1985, to Jan. 4, 1986, and Feb. 6, 1981, to Feb. 21, 1981. Middleton recorded 11 assists in her fi rst
game, the most ever by a Lady Vol in her freshman debut.
UT PROJECTED AS NO. 1 SEED The NCAA released its projected NCAA
top 20 teams and top four seeds on Feb. 12, and Tennessee was listed as the fourth No. 1 seed in the tournament. If that were to come to fruition when the
bracket is announced at 7 p.m. ET on March 16, it would mark Tennessee’s 23rd time as a No. 1 seed and second straight season. Last year, UT drew the top spot in the Louisville Regional.
2ND LARGEST SEC ROAD WIN MARGIN The 20-point win over Ole Miss on Feb. 12
tied for the second largest victory margin in an SEC road win during the Holly Warlick era. It matched a 20-point win at #18/15 South
Carolina on Jan. 3, 2013, Holly Warlick’s fi rst conference game and win, and it ranked sec-ond to a 21-point victory at #17/15 Texas A&M on Jan. 26, 2014. Illustrating how challenging life on the
road in the SEC has been for Tennessee, the 20-point win over Ole MIss was only the sev-enth double-digit road win over a league op-ponent during the Holly Warlick era. After the Ole Miss triumph, UT has had at
least two double-digit SEC road wins in each of Holly Warlick’s three seasons and is 18-3 on the road in league play through the Feb. 12 game vs. the Rebels.
GETTING A JUMP ON OPPONENTS Tennessee is 20-8 on opening tips. UT is 18-2 when it wins the tip and is 6-2
when it loses. UT lost the opening tip vs. Penn, ORU,
Tennessee State, Texas, Rutgers and South Carolina. It also lost the tip vs. Auburn and Alabama, after a UT player tipped it out of bounds. Isabelle Harrison returned to the starting
lineup vs. Rutgers on Dec. 14 and was 15-2 on opening tips before her season came to an end vs. Kentucky on Feb. 15. UT was 14-1 when Harrison won the tip
and 2-0 when she didn’t (Rutgers, Auburn).
WE DO DOUBLE-DOUBLES Tennessee has had 22 double-doubles
this season, led by seven from Bashaara Graves and Isabelle Harrison and six from Cierra Burdick.
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while Arkansas (20-18), Kentucky (24-11), Mississippi State (17-16), Alabama (31-25) and South Carolina (15-2) also came out on top. Georgia matched UT (25-25) on Jan. 25. UT has outscored opponents, 671 to 384. Tennessee has had nine diff erent play-
ers lead the team in scoring this season, with Jordan Reynolds (11 vs. Auburn) the most re-cent to join the club. Tennessee didn’t have its full comple-
ment of players on the roster (12) available until Jannah Tucker (who worked her way back from an off season procedure on her left knee) played vs. Stanford on Dec. 20. Tucker, though, has only played in two games.
UT GUARDS HAVE STEPPED UP With defenses focusing their eff orts on
swarming Isabelle Harrison and Bashaara Graves in the paint early in the season, Holly Warlick needed her guards to score more. They did just that, with the trio of Andra-
ya Carter (13.7 ppg.), Ariel Massengale (13.3) and Jordan Reynolds (9.3) leading the team in scoring during the fi rst three games of the SEC schedule. Through 15 games in SEC play, Massen-
gale leads the guards at 10.2, Carter is at 8.9 and Reynolds is at 8.5. The trio scored 40 of UT’s 63 points vs.
Missouri on Jan. 2 and contributed 42 of UT’s 57 at Vanderbilt on Jan. 5. The scoring was down to 27 vs. Texas
A&M, but the trio combined for 13 assists vs. the Aggies. Carter had her best-ever back-to-back
games, tying her career high of 14 vs. Mis-souri and then breaking it with 19 at Vandy. Reynolds scored 10 vs. Missouri and then
matched her (then) career best with 11 vs. Vanderbilt, marking the fi rst back-to-back double-fi gure points eff orts of her career and only the second and third double-digit scoring totals of the season for her. Reynolds then moved her career best to
15 points, hitting that mark vs. Georgia with 11 of those coming in the fi rst half. Massengale has hit double fi gures 15
times this year, doing so in 10 of the last 18 games with 18, 11, 14, 12, 14, 16, 11, 10, 17, 17 and 17 vs. Stanford, Oregon State, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Georgia, Kentucky (home), Alabama and Georiga (road). It marked the fi rst time in Massengale’s
career she had scored in double fi gures in more than fi ve straight games, when she put together six in a row from 12/20/14 (Stan-ford) to 1/11/15 (Arkansas.
STEALS = POINTS Tennessee is averaging 9.5 steals per
game through the fi rst 28 contests, thanks to totals of 21 swipes against Oral Roberts, 19 vs. Winthrop and 21 vs. Tennessee State. Only four other times since 2000 had the
Lady Vols registered 21 or more steals., UT had 23 vs. George Wash. (11/27/01),
22 vs. La. Tech (11/28/06) and Alcorn State (11/25/12), and 21 vs. Chattanooga (11/11/07). UT had six steals vs. Texas A&M and a
20-8 points-off -turnovers advantage. UT has 11 games with double-digit steal
totals this season after registering 10 vs. Ala-bama, led by three from Cierra Burdick. Andraya Carter is averaging 2.5 steals
(68 total) per contest to lead the SEC.
Nared followed up with six points vs. Mississippi State on Feb. 1 and 10 points and seven rebounds vs. Florida on Feb. 8, mark-ing her best four-game scoring run since the season’s fi rst four contests. Against Kentucky in Knoxville, Nared
stepped up and provided 10 points, four re-bounds, two blocks and a steal in 28 minutes. Dunbar was good for fi ve points and a
board at Ole Miss on Feb. 12. Middleton had seven points and Nared
had a career-best fi ve assists vs. Alabama. Nared was the No. 6 ranked recruit by
espnW HoopGurlz in 2014, while Middleton was rated No. 28 and Dunbar 78.
IT ALL CAME TOGETHER VS. A&M Tennessee played well in defeating #7/7
Stanford and #10/12 Oregon State, but its best all-around game of the season came on Jan. 8 vs. #9/8 Texas A&M. That 81-58 win enabled Tennessee to
beat three top-10 teams in a single season for the fi rst time since the 2007-08 season, when UT defeated eight. UT shot its best fi eld percentage of any
half (at that point) at 58.8 in the opening 20 minutes and fi nished at a (then) season-high 52.4%. Those marks were later topped vs. Mississippi (60% second half/56.9% game). Tennessee did that against a team ranked
No. 1 in the nation in fi eld goal percentage defense at 32.3% and allowing only 54.9 points per contest. The Lady Vols matched their season low
for turnovers with only eight. They had their second-highest assist
mark of the year at 24. UT shot 84.6% from the free throw line. Isabelle Harrison broke out of a mini-
slump with a season-high 21 points. Cierra Burdick had her fourth double-
double of the campaign. Ariel Massengale scored in double fi g-
ures for the fi fth straight game, marking the fi rst time she has done that. The win was the 500th by Tennessee vs.
current members of the SEC.
BIG LINEUP WORKED, TOO The Lady Vol skipper went with her
biggest lineup of the season vs. Stanford, penciling in 6-2 Bashaara Graves, 6-2 Jas-mine Jones, 6-3 Isabelle Harrison, 6-2 Cierra Burdick and 5-11 Jordan Reynolds. The lineup was problematic for Stanford,
which struggled to 15 points on 23.8% shoot-ing in the fi rst half and fi nished with a sea-son-low 40 points on 25.5% accuracy. Stanford’s high-scoring guard tandem
of Amber Orrange and Lili Thompson were stymied, combining for only 17 points on 6 of 24 shooting.
THE DEPTH IS DWINDLING Tennessee has 10 of 12 players averag-
ing 4.2 or more points per game, but two of those players, Isabelle Harrison and Jasmine Jones, now are out for the year due to inju-ries. With Jannah Tucker only appearing in
two games earlier in the season, the bench now will be four deep. The Lady Vol reserves have outscored
their opponents in 21 of 28 games, with Vandy becoming the fi rst team this season to out-point UT’s bench (38-12 on Jan. 5),
Graves had only three all last season. Harrison’s 31 career double-doubles rank
her third in the SEC among active players and sixth all-time at Tennessee. Graves (19) and Burdick (18) rank 16th
and 17th, respectively, on UT’s career list. The top fi ve at UT are Chamique Hold-
sclaw (57), Candace Parker (45), Glory John-son (36), Mary Ostrowski (35) and Tamika Catchings (32). Tennessee set a program record in the
opener vs Penn, with four Lady Vols record-ing double-doubles in a game for the fi rst time in school history. Nia Moore had career highs of 24 points
and 14 rebounds to card her second career double-double, Alexa Middleton had 20 points and 11 assists to open her career with a double-double, Bashaara Graves posted 16 points and 10 rebounds for the (then) 14th double-double of her career, Isabelle Harri-son came off the bench to round up 12 points and 10 boards.
POINTS IN THE PAINT Tennessee is winning the points in the
paint battle 938 to 702 through 28 games. Texas, Oregon State, Missouri, Auburn,
Notre Dame, Georgia, Alabama, South Caro-lina and Georgia are the only teams to out-point UT in the paint, with the Longhorns winning that battle, 38-26, OSU (36-32), Mizzou (22-14), Auburn (28-24), Notre Dame (46-36), Georgia (28-24), Alabama (34-24), South Carolina (44-30) and Georgia (22-20). Rutgers tied UT (22). The 14 paint points vs. Mizzou were the
fewest of the season for Tennessee. 56 vs. Penn was UT’s highest paint points
total, while the 48 at Ole Miss stands as the best in SEC play.
JORDAN IS FINDING HER GROOVE Sophomore Jordan Reynolds has been
rock steady at point guard this season. Reynolds is averaging 8.5 ppg. in 15 SEC
games and is third on the team in steals (16). She was one of UT’s underclass perform-
ers making an impact in the win over Geor-gia, scoring 11 points in the fi rst half en route to a career-high 15 for the game. Reynolds has scored in double fi gures
seven times this season, with three of those eff orts equaling or bettering her career best. She had eight points, three assists, three
rebounds, two steals and a last-second block of a game-winning-shot attempt at UK. She was clutch with 10 second-half points
to fi nish with 13 vs. Florida in a come-from-behind win on Feb. 8. Reynolds tossed in 10 at South Carolina. She has six games with 0 turnovers and
11 others with only one miscue.
UT YOUTH PROVIDING BOOST Tennessee’s freshmen provided a huge
spark in the Jan. 25 win over Georgia, with Jaime Nared (7), Alexa Middleton (5) and Kortney Dunbar (3) combining for 15 points. All 15 points came in the fi rst half, as UT
overcame an eight-point defi cit and zoomed to a fi ve-point lead at intermission. Twenty-eight of Tennessee’s 30 points at
the half came from freshmen or sophomores. Against Kentucky on Jan. 29, Nared
stepped up again, hitting a pair of critical buckets and adding three steals, two re-bounds and an assist.
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Tennessee has a 266 to 194 advantage on steals against its opponents, leading to a 532-301 margin on points off turnovers. Many of those points are of the fast break
variety, with Tennessee leading its fi rst 28op-ponents, 228-153, in that category.
MAKE ‘EM TURN IT OVER Tennessee has forced 481 turnovers in its
fi rst 28 games, causing opponents to aver-age 17.2 miscues per contest. The Lady Vols posted a program fi rst on
Nov. 24 vs. Tennessee State, causing their third consecutive opponent to commit 30 or more turnovers. The TSU Lady Tigers fi nished with 38
turnovers, following a 34-turnover eff ort by Winthrop and 30 miscues by Oral Roberts. With the back-to-back 30s from ORU
and Winthrop, it marked the fi rst time since 2006-07 Tennessee had forced 30 or more turnovers in back-to-back games. UT last accomplished consecutive games
of forcing 30 turnovers vs. Alabama (30) on Jan. 28, 2007, and South Carolina (34) on Feb. 1, 2007. UT harrassed Saint Francis, Lipscomb
and Stanford into 21, 24 and 20 miscues on Dec. 3, Dec. 7 and Dec. 20, marking the fourth, fi fth and sixth times this season an opponent had more than 20 TOs. Florida became the seventh with 21 on Feb. 5, while Oregon State, Kentucky and Alabama just missed with 19.
IMPROVED FROM LONG RANGE The nine three-pointers vs. Missouri were
the most since the Florida game (10) on Jan. 23, 2014, and the 24 attempts were the most since 26 vs. Virginia on Nov. 28, 2013. The Lady Vols nailed eight threes at
Georgia on Feb. 26, marking the sixth time this season UT has connected for seven or more treys and the third time of eight or more. Prior to the SEC slate beginning, the
Lady Vols had hit only seven total in four games vs. Rutgers (1-10), Wichita State (1-7), Stanford (5-17) and Oregon State (0-3). Ariel Massengale has at least one three-
pointer in 24 of 28 games, has 18 games of two or more treys and has knocked down four or more on four occasions after draining fi ve vs. Alabama on Feb. 19. She had a season-best of six vs. Win-
throp (including fi ve straight at one point) and also four vs. Stanford and Arkansas. Before this 14-game stretch of improved
shooting, UT was 0-for-3 on treys vs. Oregon State, marking the fi rst time since March 7, 2014, vs. LSU in the SEC tourney that the Lady Vols didn’t hit at least one three. The Lady Vols are 124 of 372 (33.3%) on
treys through 28 games, with eight diff erent players hitting at least one from long range.
BASH, IZZY ON THREE WATCH LISTS Senior center Isabelle Harrison and junior
forward Bashaara Graves have been named to preseason watch lists for national awards and Harrison has been announced on one midseason team. On Nov. 24, Harrison and Graves were
named to the John R. Wooden Award Pre-season Top 30. On Jan. 21, Harrison was an-nounced as one of 20 on the midseason list. On Nov. 25, both players were named to
the “Wade Watch” list for the Wade Trophy. On Dec. 10, both were included in the
Naismith Trophy Women’s 50 Watch List. Graves was on all three lists last season,
while Harrison is a fi rst-time member.
ABC’S ROBIN ROBERTS AT RU GAME ABC’s Good Morning America co-host
Robin Roberts made the trip to Piscataway to watch Tennessee play Rutgers on Dec. 14. While Roberts has had a previous media
presence and interest in women’s basketball, her attendance this time was personal. Roberts and several Good Morning
America staff ers and interns made the trip to Piscataway to see UT’s Cierra Burdick (a 2014 GMA summer intern) play, and they sat in the UT section behind the team bench. Roberts made a point to stay afterward
and congratulate Burdick on UT’s victory.
LADY VOL 20-20 CLUB Nia Moore is in some good company with
her back-to-back 20+ point scoring eff orts to open the campaign. Moore had 24 vs. Penn and 20 vs. Oral
Roberts, becoming just the sixth Lady Vol to accomplish 20-point games in the fi rst two games of the season. Only two Lady Vols have ever had more
than two 20+ games to open a campaign, and they were Lady Vol legends Candace Parker (4) and Chamique Holdsclaw (3). Ariel Massengale notched back-to-back
20-point games after sitting out the fi rst game of the season.
20-POINT UT FRESHMEN Alexa Middleton (20 vs. Penn) and Jai-
me Nared (20 vs. Saint Francis) each have had 20-point games this season, marking the fi rst time UT had has a pair of 20-point freshmen scorers in the same season since 2008-09 when Shekinna Stricklen (4 times) and Glory Johnson (once) met or surpassed that point total. Middleton and Nared are the only the
third rookie duo at UT since 2000 and sixth duo or trio since 1981-82 to net 20 points in a single game. Besides Johnson and Stricklen in 2008-09, Shyra Ely (three times) and Brit-tany Jackson (once) accomplished that feat in 2001-02. Others tandems since 1981-82 include Se-
meka Randall (12 times) and Tamika Catchings (18 times) in 1997-98; Peggy Evans (once) and Nikki Caldwell (once) in 1990-91; and Sheila Frost (2 times), Bridgette Gordon (9 times) and Melissa McCray (once) in 1985-86. Kortney Dunbar, UT’s third active rookie
this season has a 15-point game to her credit and could eventually help her class become the second rookie trio to boast 20-point games along with the 1985-86 unit of Frost, Gordon and McCray. Middleton and Nared also are among
only 12 Tennessee rookies since 1999-2000 to score 20 in their fi rst season. The club also includes Bashaara Graves (2012-13, twice),
WE’LL LEARN FROM IT Prior to dropping consecutive games vs.
Chattanooga and #6/9 Texas, the Lady Vols had lost back-to-back games in a season only once during the Holly Warlick era, including setbacks to #3/3 Baylor on the road (76-53) on Dec. 18, 2012, and vs. #1/1 Stanford (73-60) in Knoxville on Dec. 22, 2012. After beating Alabama on Feb. 19 (after
losing at South Carolina on Feb. 23), Ten-nessee is 16-2 coming off losses under Holly Warlick, and is 2-0 coming off back-to-back defeats. Consecutive losses also occurred un-
der Pat Summitt during the 2011-12 season (once), 2008-09 (twice), 2005-06 (once), 1996-97 (three times), 1995-96 (once), 1989-90 (once), 1985-86 (once-three games in a row), 1984-85 (three times-one of them was three in a row), 1983-84 (twice), 1982-83 (once), 1981-82 (twice), 1980-81 (once), 1979-80 (once), 1978-79 (twice), 1977-78 (once) and 1976-77 (four times).
SENSATIONAL ROOKIE DEBUTS For only the second time in school histo-
ry, three Lady Vol freshmen scored in double fi gures in the same game during their regular season debuts. Alexa Middleton tossed in 20 points,
Kortney Dunbar scored 15 and Jaime Nared added 10 to accomplish the feat. The fi rst trio to do it made it happen
vs. East Carolina on Nov. 24, 1985, as Sheila Frost (16), Bridgette Gordon (13) and Melissa McCray (10) spurred #9/11 UT to a 74-56 vic-tory in Knoxville. Frost, Gordon and McCray went on to
lead UT to NCAA titles in 1987 and 1989. Middleton also posted a single-game
best for most assists in a Lady Vol debut, dishing out 11 to surpass the nine Jody Ad-ams had as #1/1 Tennessee beat Stetson on Nov. 26, 1989, 112-39. That assist total ties for the second most
ever by a freshman in any game. Ariel Mas-sengale holds the record with 12 vs. Vander-bilt on Jan. 15, 2012. Massengale also had 11 vs. Alabama on Jan. 26, 2012, while Meighan Simmons had 11 vs. Alabama on Jan. 6, 2011. Middleton’s 20 points were the most in a
rookie debut since Meighan Simmons came off the bench to score 22 for #4/4 Tennessee in a 63-50 win at Louisville on Nov. 12, 2012. Middleton is only the fi fth Lady Vol rook-
ie to score 20 or more points in her debut. With her points/assists double-double,
Middleton became the seventh Lady Vol freshman and fi rst rookie guard to post a double-double in her fi rst game. The previous rookie debut double-dou-
ble was Glory Johnson’s 17/12 eff ort vs. San Francisco in 2008. In addition to Middleton and Johnson,
the other freshman debut double-doubles, all of them of the points/rebounds variety, were by Mary Ostrowski (15/10 vs. Alabama in 1980), Lisa Harrison (13/12 vs. Stetson in 1989), Tiff any Johnson (18/17 vs. La. Tech in
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The consensus national freshman of the year for the Tar Heels, DeShields averaged a team-leading 18.0 ppg., 5.4 rpg., 2.6 apg. and 1.7 spg. in 2013-14. She earned honorable mention All-Amer-
ica honors from AP. and Full Court and was both All-ACC First
Team and All-Freshman. She set four ACC freshman marks, includ-
ing points (648), fi eld goals (248), fi eld goals attempted (582) and double-fi gure scoring games (32). DeShields’ mother, Tisha (Milligan)
DeShields, was a track & fi eld All-American at Tennessee (heptathlon) in 1991.
UT’S RECRUITING RANKINGS UT signed the No. 1 espnW HoopGurlz
recruiting class in 2011, No. 5 in 2012, No. 3 in 2013 and No. 6 in 2014. The top-ranked 2011 group, this year’s se-
niors, included No. 3 Cierra Burdick, No. 4 Ar-iel Massengale and No. 29 Isabelle Harrison. The 2013 class included No. 1 Mercedes
Russell, No. 8 Jannah Tucker and No. 42 Jor-dan Reynolds, but they now can add that year’s No. 3 recruit, Diamond DeShields. The top signees from 2012 and 2014 are
Bashaara Graves (No. 5) and Jaime Nared (No. 6), respectively.
EIGHT MCDONALD’S A-AS ON ROSTER Tennessee has eight McDonald’s All-
Americans on its roster, and six of those play-ers are expected to see the fl oor this season. The eight players are Cierra Burdick,
Diamond DeShields, Bashaara Graves, Ariel Massengale, Alexa Middleton, Jaime Nared, Jordan Reynolds and Mercedes Russell. DeShields and Russell are redshirting. Russell was the 2013 McDonald’s Game
MVP, leading the West to a win with 16 points. Nared led the West to a win in 2014 with
15 points but came up short in MVP voting. Tennessee now has had 26 McDonald’s
All-Americans through the years.
TALL TENNESSEE TEAM Tennessee has 14 players on its roster,
marking the most since having 15 in 2004-05. Twelve are active this season. UT has 10 players on its roster who stand
6-0 or taller, the most in school history. There are eight Lady Vols 6-2 or taller on
the roster, also the most in school history.
THE LOGO REMAINS THE SAME UT announced a branding restructure on
Nov. 10, and the decision will allow the Lady Volunteers to continue using their highly-recognizable and successful brand. The restructure won’t take place un-
til July 1, 2015, but the university and all other athletics teams at Tennessee, except for women’s basketball, will then utilize the “Power T” logo. The women’s basketball program was
excluded from the transition because of the accomplishments and legacy of the champi-onship program built by Coach Pat Summitt and her former players.
TENNESSEE NO. 2 IN SEC POLLS Tennessee was picked by both the me-
dia (Oct. 21) and coaches (Nov. 5) to fi nish second in the Southeastern Conference race behind South Carolina. USC won the SEC regular season trophy,
and UT claimed the tourney title a year ago. Tennessee won the regular season fi nale
over the Gamecocks last season in Knoxville, 73-61, on March 2. Texas A&M and Kentucky rounded out
the top four in both preseason SEC polls.
PRESEASON SEC HONORS FOR TWO League coaches named senior center Is-
abelle Harrison and junior forward Bashaara Graves to the preseason All-SEC First Team. The media, which picks only a fi ve-player
preseason All-SEC Team, included Harrison in their all-star quintet.
UT BEGAN AT NO. 4 IN RANKINGS UT entered the year ranked No. 4 in both
the AP and USA Today Coaches Polls, which came out on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4, respectively. A year ago, UT also entered the cam-
paign ranked fourth by AP and the coaches. Tennessee fi nished the 2013-14 campaign
ranked fourth by AP and third by USA Today.
OTHER PRESEASON PREDICTIONS The Lady Vols were ranked fi fth in the
espnW.com preseason poll. UT was fi fth in Lindy’s Sports Annuals
Preseason Top 25. Graham Hays of espnW.com has the Big
Orange at seventh. Athlon had Tennessee at No. 7, while The
Sporting News ranked the Lady Vols No. 8.
SIXTH-RANKED FRESHMAN CLASS No. 6-rated Jaime Nared, a 6-2 guard/
forward from Portland, Ore./Westview H.S. is UT’s top-ranked signee and averaged 30.0 ppg. as a senior there. In-state product Alexa Middleton, ranked
No. 28 by espnW HoopGurlz, is a 5-9 guard who led her Murfreesboro, Tenn./Riverdale H.S. squad to a pair of state titles. Three-point marksman Kortney Dunbar
joins UT as the No. 78 signee. She drained 57 treys and averaged 16.8 ppg. and 9.7 rpg. as a senior at Edwardsville (Ill.) H.S. Nared and Middleton were 2014 McDon-
ald’s High School All-Americans, with Nared leading the West to victory with 15 points. Middleton won the Powerade Jam Fest
skills competition and three-point shootout in conjunction with the McDonald’s Game. She became the fi rst McDonald’s All-
American to win two contests at the Pow-erade Jam Fest.
DESHIELDS TRANSFERS TO UT After previously announcing her depar-
ture from North Carolina, Diamond DeShields shared her decision to transfer to UT from UNC on June 12, 2014, and enrolled here for the second session of summer school. DeShields, a 6-0 sophomore guard from
Norcross, Ga., will sit out this season at UT, per NCAA transfer rules. DeShields expressed interest in Tennes-
see coming out of high school but opted for UNC on signing day.
1994), Chamique Holdsclaw (13/10 vs. Vir-ginia in 1995) and Candace Parker (19/10 vs. Stetson in 2005).
ROOKIE FIRST-GAME STARTS Alexa Middleton became the 18th fresh-
man to start her fi rst game as a Lady Vol. She did quite nicely, fi nishing with a
double-double of 20 points and 11 assists to go along with six rebounds, three steals and zero turnovers in 32 minutes. Andraya Carter was the last rookie to
draw a starting nod, reporting for the open-ing tip at Chattanooga in 2012. Senior Ariel Massengale also started her
fi rst game in 2011-12, as (then) head coach Pat Summitt predicted before Massengale arrived on campus. Massengale made her debut vs. Pepper-
dine in Knoxville in 2011, tallying two points, three rebounds, fi ve assists and two steals. A year ago, Mercedes Russell had 11
points, seven rebounds, an assist, three blocks and a steal in UT’s opening-game win at Middle Tennessee. In 2012 Bashaara Graves came off the
bench to tally 14 points and eight rebounds in Tennessee’s opening-night loss at Chatta-nooga.
TUCKER MAKES DEBUT Redshirt freshman Jannah Tucker en-
tered the Stanford game to a big ovation from Lady Vol fans with two minutes re-maining and saw her fi rst action since Aug. 16, 2012, when she injured her left knee in a Group A preliminary round game vs. Argen-tina while playing alongside (then) future UT teammate Bashaara Graves at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Tucker was the No. 8 ranked recruit in
the 2013 espnW HoopGurlz Top 100, but her journey to playing at Tennessee was side-tracked by two unfortunate situations. First she suff ered the previously men-
tioned knee injury and sat out her senior year of high school rehabbing. Expected to begin attending school at
UT during summer 2013, Tucker didn’t arrive on campus until Jan. 2014. It was later learned her delay in coming
to UT was the result of her being the victim of domestic violence. Tucker quickly fi t in with her teammates
and was an encourager on the bench for the squad in 2013-14. A procedure to clean up the knee oc-
curred during summer 2014, and Tucker con-tinues to work on returning to the form she displayed at New Town (Md.) High School.
KUDOS FOR HARRISON, GRAVES The fi ve-player AP preseason All-Amer-
ica team was released on Nov. 4. While Isa-belle Harrison wasn’t one of those fi ve, she was among 12 other players who garnered votes for the team. espnW.com ranked its top 25 players in
advance of the 2014-15 season, and Isabelle Harrison is the No. 9 ranked player. Harrison was an espnW preseason All-
America second team choice. Bashaara Graves was the No. 23 ranked
player, according to espnW.com.
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tory in 1977. She had no trouble adjusting her enthusiasm and knowledge of the game into the coaching role. In 19 of the past 33 years Warlick has been affi liated with UT, she has found herself at the Final Four as a player (1977, 1979, 1980) or as a coach (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008). Her best Final Four showing as a player was national championship runner-up in her senior season. As a coach, she has helped the Lady Vols win all eight times (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007 and 2008). A three-time All-American while playing for Summitt from 1976-80, Warlick previously held UT records for most assists in a game (14), most steals in a contest (nine), most assists in a season (225) and most games in a career (142). She continues to hold the Lady Vol single-season steals record with 141 in 1978-79. Warlick possesses vast international experience as well. A member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic basketball team, Warlick also participated in the Jones C up, Pan American Games and World Championship competition. In addition, she was a WPBL All-Star, leading the Nebraska Wranglers to the championship of the Women’s Professional Basket-ball League in 1981. She has served as a player representa-tive on the USA BASKETBALL council and was a member of the USOC Advisory Council for Basketball. In recognition of being a former Olympian, Warlick earned the distinct honor of running the Olympic torch through Knoxville as it made its way to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga. Prior to joining the Tennessee staff for the 1985-86 season, Warlick gained experience at two other stops on the coaching circuit. She was an assistant at Virginia Tech from 1981-83 and an assistant from 1983-85 at Nebraska. A native of Knoxville, Warlick earned her B.S. in mar-keting from Tennessee in 1981 and her master’s degree in athletic administration from Virginia Tech in 1983. Warlick added “biker” to her vitae in 2001. To commemorate her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, a number of Warlick’s friends got together and presented her with a Harley-Davidson “Sportster” motorcycle. Just six years later, Warlick already was using her love of the bike towards a greater cause, establishing the Champions For A Cause Foundation with Caldwell.
WARLICK’S CAREER
HEAD COACH HOLLY WARLICK
THE WARLICK FILE
Born: June 11, 1958Education:
Bearden High School (Knoxville, Tenn.),‘76 B.S., Tennessee, ‘81 M.S., Virginia Tech, ‘83Playing Career:
University of Tennessee (1976-80): three-time All-American, Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, 1980 Olympic Team, fi rst player at UT to have her jersey (#22) retired
For more than three decades, Holly Warlick has been instrumental in the phenomenal success story that is Ten-nessee Lady Vols basketball. Her impact on the program stretches from her ground-breaking days as a three-time All-America point guard at UT (1976-80), to her 27 highly-productive years as a loyal assistant for Hall of Fame coach Pat Summitt, to her ascension to the head coaching posi-tion at UT. Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Dave Hart named Warlick head coach of the Lady Vols on April 18, 2012, as Summitt stepped into the role of head coach emeritus. In a touching and symbolic gesture the following day at a press conference announcing the changes, Sum-mitt presented her coaching whistle to her long-time aide and former fl oor general. Warlick proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was up to the task with her debut eff ort in 2012-13. Despite having a young, inexperienced team that was picked to fi nish as low as fi fth in the SEC and 20th nationally, the fi rst-year head coach impressively directed her troops to a 27-8 overall record and a 14-2 mark in league play. That ef-fort earned Tennessee its 17th all-time SEC regular season title, and it enabled a team that saw injuries force players to miss a combined total of 53 games to advance to the NCAA Elite Eight for the 26th time in school history. Improvement demonstrated by players not only translated into wins on the court, it also resulted in post-season attention. Meighan Simmons was named a third-team AP All-American, SEC Co-Player of the Year and fi rst-team All-SEC. Bashaara Graves was chosen a Full Court Freshman All-American, SEC Freshman of the Year and fi rst-team All-SEC. Kamiko Williams, meanwhile, was taken in the second round of the WNBA Draft by the New York Liberty. Warlick also was singled out for her performance, which included scoring a top-three recruiting class com-plete with the nation’s No. 1-ranked player in 6-foot-6 Mer-cedes Russell. The members of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association named her the Spalding Maggie Dix-on Division I Rookie Coach of the Year. She was selected by AP and league coaches as the SEC Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year, and members of the Tennessee Sports Writers Association also chose her as TSWA Women’s Bas-ketball Coach of the Year. In year two, Warlick directed the team to a 29-6 re-cord and the program’s second SEC trophy in as many years with the capturing of the 2014 SEC Tournament. Among her top players were AP SEC Player of the Year Meighan Simmons, who was a third-round WNBA Draft pick of the New York Liberty, and Isabelle Harrison, a fi rst-team All-SEC choice and the SEC tourney’s MVP. Warlick and her staff also continued building for the future, landing the nation’s number six signing class in 2014. Anchoring that group are McDonald’s All-Americans Jaime Nared and Alexa Middleton, the nation’s No. 6 and No. 28 ranked players. After Warlick helped shape the direction of Lady Vol basketball as an assistant on Summitt’s staff for more than a quarter of a century, the pupil took on greater responsi-bility and oversaw daily supervision of the basketball of-fi ce during the 2011-12 season. She also handled a large measure of the media obligations after Summitt’s Aug.
23, 2011, announcement regarding the diagnosis of early-onset dementia, “Alzheimer’s type.” Providing an excellent example of how people rally around each other, the Tennessee staff members pulled together remarkably in the face of that adversity. The end result was a 27-9 overall record, a league-best 16th SEC Tournament Championship and advancement to the NCAA Regional Final. It’s worth noting that Warlick was by Summitt’s side, either as a player or an assistant, for 949 of the coach’s NCAA-record 1,098 wins and all eight NCAA National Championships. Her value to the program has been evi-dent for some time, as she had held the role of associate head coach since the 2005-06 campaign. The WBCA also had recognized Warlick’s contribu-tions to Tennessee’s success through the years, naming Warlick the nation’s top assistant coach after she helped lead UT to its seventh national title in 2007. The NCAA Division I women’s basketball coaches also recognized Warlick as one of the nation’s top assistants in 1998, rank-ing her prominently in The Women’s Basketball Journal poll. In addition to the NCAA title and coaching honor in 2007, Warlick also teamed up for the fi rst time with former fellow Lady Vol player and assistant Nikki Caldwell, the current head coach at LSU, to pursue her other passion. That pursuit is riding a motorcycle and raising money for the fi ght against breast cancer. Warlick and Caldwell created the Champions For A Cause Foundation, a long haul motorcycle ride dedicated to raising funds and awareness for a cure for breast cancer. The charitable organization has raised and donated more than $150,000. Past trips include the inaugural ride from San Francisco to Knoxville as well as trips from the Bad-lands to Las Vegas and from Knoxville to Key West, Fla., New Orleans, Niagara Falls and, most recently in 2013 and 2014, Panama City, Fla. With all of her accomplishments in coaching and in her charitable endeavors it might be easy to overlook the fact that Warlick left just as powerful a mark on women’s hoops as a player at UT. It doesn’t seem that long ago that the charismatic Knoxville native was fl ying up and down the court as an All-America Lady Vol point guard. For more than three decades, Warlick has been con-sidered the fi nest point guard ever to play for the Lady Vols. In addition to being selected to the CONVERSE/Lady Vol Team of the Decade for the 1980s in January of 1994, fi ve diff erent halls of fame opened their doors to her. On Feb. 27, 2004, she was inducted into the Tennes-see Sports Hall of Fame. In October 2002, she became a member of the University of Tennessee Lady Vol Hall of Fame in the second class of inductees. In June 2001, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame selected Warlick as one of 10 inductees enshrined into the Hall for the Class of 2001. For the hometown girl, who grew up in the Rocky Hill section of Knoxville and graduated from Bearden High School, it was a dream-come-true. In the summer of 1994, Warlick gained admission to her fi rst hall of fame. She was honored as one of the City of Knoxville’s fi nest all-time athletes with her inclusion in the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Including the 2013-14 season, Warlick has invested 33 years in the program, having helped shape UT into a national powerhouse with tenure as both a player and a coach. Warlick’s expertise and major contributions to the team as an assistant came from her work with the guards. In 2010-11, Simmons was the SEC Rookie of the Year, and guard Shekinna Stricklen was the 20th Lady Vol named to the WBCA/State Farm All-America Team. Additionally, Warlick has been a highly-successful re-cruiter for the backcourt, attracting some of the nation’s fi nest players to UT to continue the excellence she helped establish as a player. The Lady Vols welcomed another top fl ight guard to the Orange and White for 2010-11 when she landed McDonald’s All-American Ariel Massengale. As a rookie in 2011-12, Massengale lived up to her billing, earning Full Court Freshman All-America and SEC All-Freshman Team honors. The point guard posted a UT freshman record of 162 assists, ranking second in the SEC in that category, and leading the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.1. Warlick’s tutelage also helped to strengthen the game of four-time All-SEC selection Angie Bjorklund, Kodak All-American and four-time Lady Vol All-SEC performer Kara Lawson and three-time All-SEC selection Shanna Zolman. That trio accounts for the school records for most of UT’s three-point marks. Warlick’s association with the Lady Vols started in 1976 when she joined the program as a scholarship 400-meter track athlete who ended up walking on to the basketball team. Soon, she would become the most pro-lifi c player in the history of Tennessee Lady Vol basketball. Warlick was the fi rst player in Tennessee athletics (men or women) to have her jersey retired (number 22) at the end of her career in 1980. Bearden, her prep alma ma-ter in Knoxville, retired Warlick’s high school jersey (also No. 22) prior to a home football game on Oct. 26, 2012. Known as a play-making wiz during her four years as UT’s point guard, Warlick was once tabbed the “best player in the South.” As a rookie, Warlick helped lead the Lady Vols to their fi rst Final Four appearance in school his-
SCHOOL YEARS RECORDat Tennessee 1976-77 28-5(player) 1977-78 27-4 1978-79 30-9 1979-80 33-5Totals 4 years 118-23
at Virginia Tech 1981-82 16-12(assistant) 1982-83 13-12Totals 2 years 29-24
at Nebraska 1983-84 16-12(assistant) 1984-85 10-18Totals 2 years 26-30
Career Totals 38 years 1084-217 (.833)Overall record as a head coach: 80-18 (.816)Overall record as an assistant coach: 886-176 (.834) Overall record as a player: 118-23
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CIERRA BURDICK, F• CoSIDA Academic All-American 2nd Tm. (2/26/15)• SEC Community Service Team (2/26/15)• CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 (2/5/15)• SEC Player of the Week (2/2/15)• College Sports Madness SEC & National Player of
the Week (2/2/15)• SEC Co-Player of the Week (1/12/15)
BASHAARA GRAVES, F• Naismith Trophy Women’s 50 Watch List• Wade Trophy Watch List• John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top-30 List• Coaches Preseason All-SEC First Team• College Sports Madness Preseason All-SEC 4th Tm• No. 23 ranked player in 2014 espnW Top 25.
ISABELLE HARRISON, C• John R. Wooden Award Late Season Top-20 List• Naismith Trophy Midseason Top-30 List• Senior CLASS Award Finalist• espnW Midseason No. 1 WNBA Draft Pick• SEC Player of the Week (1/26/15)• John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top-20 List• SEC Player of the Week (12/29/14)• College Sports Madness SEC POTW (12/29/14)• Naismith Trophy Women’s 50 Watch List• Wade Trophy Watch List• John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top-30 List• espnW Preseason All-America Second Team• College Sports Madness Preseason All-America
First Team• Media Preseason All-SEC First Team• Coaches Preseason All-SEC First Team• College Sports Madness Preseason All-SEC 1st Tm• No. 9 ranked player in 2014 espnW Top 25.
ARIEL MASSENGALE, G• College Sports Madness Preseason All-SEC Third
Team
THE LAST TIME
LAST TIME A TENNESSEE PLAYER...Scored 30 points ...................................March 30, 2014 vs. Maryland, Meighan Simmons, 31, (UM 73, UT 62)Scored 40 points ................................................Mar. 3, 1985 vs. Mississippi, Shelia Collins, 40, (UT 79, UM 71) Scored 50 points .......................................... Nov. 13, 1976 vs. Kentucky, Patricia Roberts, 51, (UT 107, UK 53)Had 20 rebounds ................................................... Mar. 19, 2012 vs. DePaul, Glory Johnson, 21, (UT 63, DU 48)Had 25 rebounds .........................................................................................................................................................NeverHad 10 assists .............................................................Nov. 14, 2014 vs. Penn, Alexa Middleton, 11, (UT 97, UP 52)Had 15 assists .............................................................. Mar. 6, 1988 vs. Georgia, Dawn Marsh, 18, (UT 82, UG 76)Made 5+ three-pointers ..................................Feb. 19, 2015 vs. Alabama, Ariel Massengale, 5, (UT 77, UA 56)Made 8 three-pointers ................................Nov. 28, 2013 vs. Virginia, Meighan Simmons, 8, (UT 76, UVa 67)Made 10 three-pointers ..............................................................................................................................................NeverNo Lady Vol scored in double fi gures ..............................Mar. 29, 2002 vs. Connecticut (UCONN 79, UT 56)
LAST TIME TENNESSEE...Scored 100 points ............................................................................Dec. 3, 2014 vs. Saint Francis (UT 111, SFU 44)Scored 90 points .............................................................................Dec. 3, 2014 vs. Saint Francis (UT 111, SFU 44)Scored 60 points or less .......................................................... Jan. 26, 2015 vs. #22/19 Georgia (UT 59, UGA 51)Scored 50 points or less ...................................................................Jan. 23, 2012 at Notre Dame (ND 72, UT 44)Scored 40 points or less ......................................................Feb. 19, 1972 at UNC Greensboro (UNCG 51, UT 36)Shot 60 percent FG ................................................ Jan. 30, 2014 vs. Arkansas, .622 (28-45), (UT 70, ARK 60)Shot 55 percent FG ........................................................ Feb. 1, 2015 vs. Miss. St., .569 (29-51), (UT 79, MSU 67)Shot 40 percent FG or lower ..........................................Feb. 19, 2015 vs. Florida, .406 (26-64), (UT 77, UA 56)Shot 30 percent FG or lower ..........................................Dec. 14 2014 vs. Rutgers, .275 (19-69), (UT 55, RU 45)Shot 25 percent FG or lower ...........................................Dec. 14, 2010 at Baylor, .250 (18-72), (BU 65, UT 54)Won 20 games in a row .......................................................................Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streakWon 15 games in a row ........................................................................Dec.19, 2010-Mar. 28, 2011 25-game streakWon 10 games in a row...........................................................................Dec. 3, 2014-Jan. 15, 2015 11-game streakLost 3 games in a row ............................................................................Feb. 5, 1986-Feb. 10, 1986, 3-game streakLost 5 games in a row ........................................................................... Jan. 28, 1970-Jan. 22, 1971, 5-game streakWon 60 home games in a row ............................................................ Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streakWon 50 home games in a row ............................................................ Feb. 2, 1991-Jan. 6, 1996, 69-game streakWon 40 home games in a row ....................................................... Feb. 22, 2009-Feb. 2, 2012, 45-game streakWon 10 road games in a row .......................................................... Jan. 2, 2008-Dec. 14, 2008, 19-game streak Won 15 road games in a row .........................................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakWon 20 road games in a row........................................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakWon 25 road games in a row ........................................................Jan. 23, 2000-Jan. 27, 2002, 26-game streakLost 3 road games in a row ...................................................................Jan. 24 1986-Feb. 5, 1986, 3-game streakLost 5 road games in a row ............................................................ Jan. 25, 2009-Feb. 26, 2009, 5-game streakLost consecutive SEC games Dec. 8, 1996 vs. UGA (UGA 94, UT 93, OT) & Dec. 29, 1996 at AR (AR 77, UT 75) Gave up 100 points ................................................................................... Mar. 6, 1987 vs. Auburn (AU 102, UT 96)Gave up 90 points ................................................................................. Feb. 9, 2012 vs. Vanderbilt (VU 93, UT 79)Gave up 60 points or less ....................................................................Feb. 26, 2015 vs. Georgia, (UT 70, UGA 59)Gave up 50 points or less ........................................................................Feb. 12, 2015 at Ole Miss, (UT 69, UM 49)Gave up 40 points or less .....................................................................Dec. 20, 2014 vs. Stanford, (UT 59, SU 40)Defeated Top 5 Team At Home .....................................March 2, 2014 vs. #4/5 South Carolina (UT 73, SC 61)Defeated Top 5 Team On The Road .............................................. Jan. 6, 2007, at #5/5 UConn (UT 70, UC 64)Defeated Top 10 Team At Home ............................................ Feb. 15, 2015 vs. #10/10 Kentucky, (UT 72, UK 58)Defeated Top 10 Team On The Road ....................................Jan. 29, 2015 at #10/10 Kentucky (UT 73, UK 72)Lost To An Unranked Team ...........................................................Nov. 27, 2014 vs. Chattanooga (UTC 67, UT 63)
LAST TIME AN OPPOSING PLAYER...Scored 30 points........................................... Jan. 19, 2015, Jewell Loyd, #6/7 Notre Dame, 34 (ND 88, UT 77)Scored 40 points ..............................................Dec. 20, 2011, Nneka Ogwumike, Stanford, 42, (SU 97, UT 80) Scored 50 points .........................................................................................................................................................NeverHad 20 rebounds ..............................................Dec. 21, 2013, Chiney Ogwumike, Stanford, 20, (SU 76, UT 70)Had 25 rebounds .........................................................................................................................................................NeverHad 10 assists ...................................................March 8, 2014, Jordan Jones, Texas A&M, 10, (UT 86, TAMU 77)Had 15 assists ................................................................................................................................................................NeverMade 5+ three-pointers ......................................................... Jan. 2, 2014, Morgan Eye, Missouri, 5, (UT 63, MU 53)Made 8 three-pointers ......................................Dec. 21, 1992, Molly Goodenbour, Stanford, 9, (UT 84, SU 79)Made 10 three-pointers ..............................................................................................................................................NeverNo opposing player scored in double fi gures ..................................Feb. 12, 2015 vs. Ole Miss (UT 69, UM 49)
LAST TIME AN OPPONENT...Shot 60 percent FG ............................................................. Nov. 25, 2004, Texas, .604 (29-48), (TX 74, UT 59)Shot 55 percent FG ........................................... Jan. 19, 2015, #6/7 Notre Dame, .582 (32-55), (ND 88, UT 77)Shot 50 percent FG ........................................... Jan. 19, 2015, #6/7 Notre Dame, .582 (32-55), (ND 88, UT 77)Shot 40 percent FG or lower .....................................Feb. 26, 2015 vs. Georgia, .373 (22-59), (UT 70, UGA 59) Shot 30 percent FG or lower ....................................................... Feb. 12, 2015 vs. Ole Miss, .298 (UT 69, UM 49)Shot 20 percent FG or lower ............................Dec. 17, 2013 vs. Tennessee State, .189 (14-74), (UT 94, TSU 43)
SEASON HONORS
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Jump Balls ControlledTennessee 20Opponents 8
Scored UT’s First PointsBashaara Graves 8Isabelle Harrison 7Cierra Burdick 3Jordan Reynolds 3Nia Moore 3Jasmine Jones 2Andraya Carter 2
How Scored First PointsLay-up 18Jump Shot 93-Pointer 1Free Throw -Free Throw (Technical) -
First Off UT Bench^Ariel Massengale 19Jaime Nared 7Cierra Burdick 4Alexa Middleton 4Andraya Carter 3Isabelle Harrison 2Nia Moore 2Bashaara Graves 1Jordan Reynolds 1^ includes multiple subs
Points Leader* Isabelle Harrison 7Ariel Massengale 6Cierra Burdick 4Andraya Carter 3Bashaara Graves 3Nia Moore 2Jordan Reynolds 2Jasmine Jones 1Jaime Nared 1
Leading at halftime .................................................. 18-0Trailing at halftime .....................................................5-4Tied at halftime ........................................................... 1-0
Leading with 10:00 remaining ..............................21-0Trailing with 10:00 remaining .................................3-4Tied with 10:00 remaining ......................................0-0
Leading with 5:00 remaining ............................... 23-0Trailing with 5:00 remaining ....................................1-4Tied with 5:00 remaining ........................................0-0
In Overtime ..................................................................0-0
Tennessee out-rebounds opponent....................20-1Tennessee is out-rebounded ..................................4-3Same amount of rebounds .....................................0-0
Tennessee commits more turnovers .....................9-1Opponent commits more turnovers ................... 14-2Same amount of turnovers ........................................1-1
Tennessee shoots 50 percent or better ............. 6-0Opponent shoots 50 percent or better .............. 0-2
Tennessee shoots 50 percent or less ................. 19-4Opponent shoots 50 percent or less ..................23-2
Tennessee shoots better than opponent ........... 21-1Opponent shoots better than Tennessee............3-3Same shooting percentage ....................................0-0
Tennessee has more free-throw attempts......... 19-1Opponent has more free-throw attempts ...........1-2Same amount of free-throw attempts ..................4-1
Tennessee bench outscores opponent bench ... 18-3Opponent bench outscores Tennessee bench .....5-1Benches score the same ........................................... 1-0
Tennessee scores less than 50 ..............................0-0Tennessee scores between 50-59 ..........................6-1Tennessee scores between 60-69 ........................4-2Tennessee scores between 70-79 ..........................7-1Tennessee scores between 80-89........................ 3-0Tennessee scores between 90-99 ....................... 3-0Tennessee scores 100 or more ............................... 1-0
Opponent scores less than 50 ............................... 9-0Opponent scores between 50-59 ....................... 12-0Opponent scores between 60-69 ..........................2-1Opponent scores between 70-79 ...........................1-2Opponent scores between 80-89 ......................... 0-1Opponent scores between 90-99 ........................0-0Opponent scores 100 or more ...............................0-0
In November ................................................................4-2In December ................................................................ 6-0In January ......................................................................8-1In February ....................................................................6-1In March ........................................................................0-0In April...........................................................................0-0
CAREER HONORS• CoSIDA Academic All-American -2015• SEC Community Service Team - 2015• CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 - 2015• SEC Player of the Week (2/2/15)• College Sports Madness SEC & National Player of the
Week (2/2/15)• SEC Co-Player of the Week (1/12/15)• All-State, WBCA Good Works Team Nominee - 2014• SEC All-Tournament Team - 2014• SEC Community Service Team - 2014• SEC Player of the Week (3/4/13)• SEC Player of the Week (2/3/14) • SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2013• SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll - 2012• SEC Freshman of the Week (2/20/12)
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Burdick is 17 pts. away from reaching 1,000 career pts.• Notched her sixth double-double of the season after
shooting 8-for-13, including two treys, for a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds at Georgia. Stole a career-high four balls and dished out three assists.
• Carded her fi fth double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds vs. #2/2 S. Carolina. Dished out two assists.
• Tied a career high with three steals vs. Alabama. Added 16 points, going 6-for-9, nine rebounds and four assists with a block.
• Scored 14 points, including 4-for-4 from the charity line, along with tallying nine rebounds and an assist in the win over #10/10 Kentucky on Feb. 15.
Points: 21 // St. John’s, 3/24/14Rebounds: 11 // St. John’s, 3/24/14Assists: 3 // Northwestern St., 3/22/14Steals: 2 // Oklahoma, 3/31/13Blocks: 2 // DePaul, 3/19/12Field Goals: 10 // St. John’s, 3/24/143-Pointers: 1 // St. John’s, 3/24/14*Free Throws: 5 // Oklahoma, 3/31/13Minutes: 34 // St. John’s, 3/24/14
*Indicates most recent high
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Had a Double-Double 6 18Scored 10+ Points 16 44Scored 20+ Points 1 3Led UT in Scoring 4 8Led UT in 3-pt Made -- 7Led UT in Rebounding 10 29Led UT in Steals 6 11Made 3+ 3-pt -- 2Had 3+ Steals 4 8
• Was No. 6 on #SCTop10 for her no-look pass to Bashaara Graves vs. Florida.
• Tied her personal SEC-high with 14 rebounds and produced eight points, including 4-for-4 from the charity stripe, and two assists against Florida.
• Had a career night vs. #18/18 Mississippi St., reaching a career-high 24 points, three steals and a season-high six as-sists in 35 minutes played.
• Produced 16 points, her 11th game scoring in double digits, four rebounds and an assist in the win over #10/10 Kentucky.
• Grabbed six rebounds and scored four points in the win over #22/19 Georgia.
• Earned her fi fth consecutive double-digit scoring game for the fi rst time in her career, producing 15 points, four re-bounds and three assists vs. #6/7 Notre Dame.
• Notched a career-high 17 rebounds and scored 10 points for her third double-double of the season in her third start against Wichita State.
AT TENNESSEE• Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member.• Named to SEC All-Tournament Team in 2013-14, averaging
8.3 points and 10.3 rebounds per game in Duluth, Ga.• Averaged 8.4 points and 6.6 rebounds in 2012-13, playing in
27 games and starting 16 of them.
PERSONAL• Earned an internship with ABC’s Good Morning America for
summer 2014.• Created a community outreach program called “DREAM”
Team with other UT student-athletes.• Had open heart surgery (ASD repair) when she was two
CAREER HONORS• SEC All-Freshman Team - 2014• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014• SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll - 2013
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Scored nine points and added two rebounds, two assists
and a steal in 33 minutes at Georgia.• Scored 10 points, including 2-for-2 from the charity
stripe vs. #2/2 S. Carolina. Added two rebounds, two as-sists and two steals.
• Produced nine points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals in the win over Alabama.
• One of fi ve LVs to score in double digits in the win over #10/10 Kentucky. Produced 11 points, four rebounds, two steals and three assists in an all-around eff ort.
• Tallied fi ve points, four assists, three rebounds, two steals and a block vs. Ole Miss.
• Tied her personal SEC-high in steals with fi ve vs. Florida. Also added seven points, four rebounds and four assists.
• Recorded the fi nal block preventing the winning shot against #10/10 Kentucky. Accumulated eight points, three rebounds, three assists and a steal with 0 turn-overs in 35 minutes.
• Had a near-perfect shooting night (5-for-6) and hit a personal SEC and season high with three treys to score 13 points. Also grabbed three rebounds, three steals and an assist vs. LSU.
• Played a team-high 35 minutes vs. Auburn and co-led the team with 11 points, four assists, four steals and a rebound.
Points: 7 // St. John’s, 3/24/14*Rebounds: 2 // St. John’s, 3/24/14*Assists: 3 // Maryland, 3/30/14*Steals: 4 // St. John’s, 3/24/14Blocks: 1 // St. John’s ,3/24/14Field Goals: 3 // Northwestern St., 3/22/143-Pointers: 1 // Northwestern St., 3/22/14Free Throws: 3 // St. John’s, 3/24/14Minutes: 39 // St. John’s, 3/24/14
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• Racked up a career-high three blocks against Arkansas. Also added three rebounds, an assist and steal in the win.
• Had career-best back-to-back scoring games with a new career-high 19 points scored vs. Vanderbilt. She added four rebounds, two steals and an assist.
• Played a key part in the win of the SEC opener vs. Missouri playing the most minutes (35), tying a career high with 16 points, posting a career-high seven rebounds and an SEC high in fi eld goals (6) and three pointers (3).
AT TENNESSEE• After taking over the point guard reins during the Florida
game on Jan. 23, she piloted Tennessee to a 14-2 record over the fi nal 16 games.
• Ranked second on the team in assists, dishing out 2.3 per game during the 2013-14 season.
• Started the fi rst fi ve games and played in seven contests as rookie before redshirting due to injury.
• Had surgery on that shoulder on Dec. 13, 2012, to repair a labral tear and missed remainder of the year.
• Became the 17th freshman to start her fi rst career game as a Lady Vol against Chattanooga.
PERSONAL• Born on Nov. 12, 1993, in Decatur, Ga., and signed with UT
on her 18th birthday.• Has a pet snake named Nothing.• Majoring in communication studies. • Is learning sign language this year. • Follow @DrayaNichole on Twitter. and @drayanichole on Instagram.
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Sitting out the 2014-15 season after transferring to UT from
North Carolina.• Chosen as one of three SEC student-athletes to represent
the league on proposed governance rule changes under the NCAA’s Div. I autonomy process.
CAREER HONORS (UNC)• USBWA National Freshman of the Year - 2014 • espnW National Freshman of the Year - 2014 • Full Court National Freshman of the Year - 2014•Full Court Freshman All-America First Team - 2014 • Full Court All-America Honorable Mention - 2014• AP All-America Honorable Mention Team - 2014• ACC Rookie of the Year - 2014 • All-ACC First Team - 2014• ACC All-Freshman Team - 2014 • All-ACC Tournament - 2014• Three-time ACC Rookie of the Week - 2014 • ACC Player of the Week - 2013-14 (Feb. 11)• NCAA.com Nat’l. Player of the Week - 2013-14 (Feb. 11)• USBWA and espnW National Player of the Week - 2013-14
(Feb. 17 & 18) • John R. Wooden Top-15 List - 2014• Naismith Award Midseason Top-30 List -2014• Preseason All-ACC - 2013-14• ACC Newcomer Preseason Watch List - 2013-14
2013-14 HIGHLIGHTS (UNC)• Only fi rst-year player on 2014 John R. Wooden Top-15 List.• Averaged 18.0 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.7
steals per game as a freshman at UNC in 2013-14.• Set four ACC freshman marks, including points (648), fi eld
goals (248), fi eld goals attempted (582) and double fi gure
Had a Double-Double N/A 0Scored 10+ Points N/A 28Scored 20+ Points N/A 14Led UT in Scoring N/A N/ALed UT in 3-pt Made N/A N/ALed UT in Rebounding N/A N/ALed UT in Steals N/A N/AMade 3+ 3-pt N/A 5Had 3+ Steals N/A 8
scoring games (32).• Averaged 21.3 points per contest during the ACC Tour-
nament for North Carolina, earning all-tourney honors.• In ACC play, she averaged 19.8 points per contest to lead
all freshmen.• Named espnW National Player of the Week on Feb. 16
after her 38-point eff ort (the highest single-game eff ort ever by a UNC freshman) keyed the Tar Heels to an 89-82 win at NC State.
USA/AAU BASKETBALL• Led Team USA to the gold medal at the 2012 FIBA Un-
der-17 World Championships and was named MVP.• Won gold at the 2012 USA 3x3 U18 World Champion-
ships, as the youngest member of the 2011 U19 World Championship Team and with the 2010 U18 Champion-ship Team.
• Played for the Georgia Pistols (2007 AAU national champions), Georgia Elite (2008 AAU national runners-up) and Georgia Ice (2009 AAU national champs).
PERSONAL• Full name is Diamond Danae-Aziza DeShields.• Announced decision to transfer to UT from UNC on June
12, 2014, and enrolled in school in July for the second semester of summer school.
• Mother was an All-America track & fi eld athlete (hep-tathlon, 1991) at Tennessee.
• Father played 13 years of Major League Baseball with stints in Montreal, L.A. (Dodgers), St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago (Cubs).
• Majoring in journalism and electronic media.• Follow @DDeShields23 on Twitter and @dddeshields on
Instagram.
2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATSOPPONENT DATE MIN FG-FGA PCT 3FG-FGA PCT FT-FTA PCT OR DR TR PF-FO A TO BLK STL PTSvs. Penn 11/14/14 DNPvs. Oral Roberts 11/17/14 DNPvs. Winthrop 11/21/14 DNPvs. Tennessee St. 11/24/14 DNPat Chattanooga 11/26/14 DNPat Texas 11/30/14 DNPvs. St. Francis 12/3/14 DNPat Lipscomb 12/7/14 DNPat Rutgers 12/14/14 DNPvs. Wichita St. 12/16/14 DNPvs. Stanford 12/20/14 DNPvs. Oregon St. 12/28/14 DNPvs. Missouri 1/2/15 DNPat Vanderbilt 1/5/14 DNPvs. Texas A&M 1/8/14 DNPat Arkansas 1/11/14 DNPat Auburn 1/15/14 DNPat Notre Dame 1/19/14 DNPvs. LSU 1/22/14 DNPvs. Georgia 1/25/14 DNPat Kentucky 1/29/14 DNPvs. Miss. St. 2/1/14 DNPat Florida 2/8/14 DNPat Ole Miss 2/12/14 DNPvs. Kentucky 2/15/14 DNPvs. Alabama 2/19/14 DNPat S Carolina 2/23/14 DNPat Georgia 2/26/14 DNPvs. Vanderbilt 3/1/14 DNP
Had a Double-Double -- --Scored 10+ Points 2 2Scored 20+ Points -- --Led UT in Scoring -- --Led UT in 3-pt Made 3 3Led UT in Rebounding -- --Led UT in Steals -- --Made 3+ 3-pt 1 1Had 3+ Steals -- --
• McDonald’s All-American nominee (2014).• Associated Press Class 4A All-State First Team (2014)
and Second Team (2013).• Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Class 4A
All-State First Team (2014) and Second Team (2013).• Selected to play in IBCA All-Star Game (2014).• Champaign News-Gazette All-State First Team (2014).• Chicago Tribune All-State Girls Basketball Second Team
(2014).• Edwardsville Intelligencer Girls Basketball MVP (2014).• Southwestern Conference All-Conference First Team
USA/AAU BASKETBALL• Played for Midwest Elite-Platinum AAU team.• Participated in 2013 USA 3-on-3 U18 Team Trials.
PERSONAL• Full name is Kortney Nicole Dunbar.• Nicknames include Kort and KD.• Born on July 3, 1996, in Florissant, Mo.• Parents are Mark and Christine Dunbar.• Has an older sister, Kirstin.• Majoring in recreation and sport management.• Follow @Kortney_Dunbar1 on Twitter and @kdunbar13
CAREER HONORS• Naismith Trophy Women’s 50 Watch List - 2014• John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top-30 List - 2014• Wade Trophy Watch List - 2014• Coaches Preseason All-SEC First Team - 2014• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014• Naismith Trophy Early Season Watch List - 2013• Coaches SEC Freshman of the Year - 2013• Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 - 2013• AP SEC Newcomer of the Year - 2013• “Wade Watch” List - 2013• Coaches All-SEC First Team - 2013• Media & Coaches Preseason All-SEC - 2013• Associated Press All-SEC Second Team - 2013• Full Court National Freshman of the Year - 2013• Coaches SEC All-Freshman Team - 2013• Full Court First-Team Freshman All-American - 2013• SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll - 2013
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Contributed seven points, seven rebounds and two as-
sists in the win at Georgia.• Scored a game-high 20 points and tallied seven re-
bounds and an assist vs. #2/2 South Carolina. • In 15 minutes vs. Alabama, produced 14 points, going
6-for-10 from the fi eld, three rebounds and an assist. • Tallied 11 points, nine rebounds, four assists and a block
in the home win over #10/10 Kentucky.• Was perfect from the fi eld going 7-for-7 for 17 points
while adding four rebounds, two steals and an assist vs. Ole Miss.
• Collected eight points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal in the win over Florida.
• Became the 40th Lady Vol to score 1,000 points, do-
Had a Double-Double 6 19Scored 10+ Points 14 58Scored 20+ Points 2 6Led UT in Scoring 1 14Led UT in 3-pt Made -- --Led UT in Rebounding 7 30Led UT in Steals 2 12Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals 1 10
ing so vs. #18/18 Mississippi St. Accumulated 17 points, including a season-best 7-for-7 from the charity stripe, and tied her career-high in assists (5).
• Produced 11 points, was 5-for-5 from the charity stripe, and had seven rebounds, two assists and a career-high-tying two blocks vs. #10/10 Kentucky.
• Made a career-high 10 fi eld goals to score a season-high 22 points vs. #6/7 Notre Dame. Carded eight rebounds, three assists and a steal as well.
• Carded her sixth double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds, adding two steals and an assist vs. #7 Stanford.
AT TENNESSEE• Became the 40th Lady Vol to reach the 1,000 point club
on Feb. 1, 2015 vs. Mississippi St.• Set a school record with 14 off ensive rebounds against
Georgia Tech. Recorded 18 total rebounds, the most by a Lady Vol since Glory Johnson on March 19, 2012.
• Was the Lady Vols’ No. 1 rebounder (8.0) and No. 2 scor-er (13.2) as a rookie in 2012-13, ranking seventh and 11th overall (No. 1 in both among freshmen), respectively, in the SEC in those categories in 2012-13.
• In UT history, only Chamique Holdsclaw (16) and Sheila Frost (11) had more double-doubles as freshmen than Graves, who tied Candace Parker with 10 and was one ahead of Tamika Catchings (9).
PERSONAL• Full name is Bashaara Keyana Graves• Majoring in sociology.• Admires Clarksville native and U.S. Olympian Wilma Ru-
CAREER HONORS• John R. Wooden Award Late Season Top-20 List - 2015• Naismith Trophy Women’s Midseason 30 List - 2015• Senior CLASS Award Finalist - 2015• espnW Midseason No. 1 WNBA Draft Pick - 2015• SEC Player of the Week - (1/26/15)• John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top-20 List - 2015• SEC Player of the Week - (12/29/14)• Naismith Trophy Women’s 50 Watch List - 2014• John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top-30 List - 2014• Wade Trophy Watch List - 2014• espnW Preseason All-America Second Team - 2014• Coaches Preseason All-SEC First Team - 2014 • Media Preseason All-SEC First Team - 2014• Full Court Third-Team All-American - 2014 • SEC Tournament MVP - 2014• AP Honorable Mention All-American - 2014 • SEC All-Tournament Team - 2014• WBCA Honorable Mention All-American - 2014 • SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014• WBCA All-Region 3 Team - 2014 • SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2013• AP & Coaches All-SEC First Team - 2014 • SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll - 2012
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Suff ered a torn ACL in her right knee vs. Kentucky on Feb.
15 and will miss the remainder of the season• In her fi nal game as a Lady Vol, scored six points and add-
ed seven rebounds and a block in 15 minutes of play.• Led the team vs. Ole Miss with 21 points and 14 points for
her seventh double-double of the season. Added an assist
Had a Double-Double 7 31Scored 10+ Points 14 62Scored 20+ Points 4 10Led UT in Scoring 8 19Led UT in Steals -- 7Led UT in Rebounding 8 37Led UT in Blocks 9 50Made 3+ Steals -- 4Had 3+ Blocks 1 14
and two blocks.• Despite foul trouble, played an effi cient 17 minutes to tally
a team-high 17 points and seven rebounds vs. Florida. • Carded her sixth double-double of the season with 11
points and 10 rebounds vs. #18 Mississippi State. Totaled three blocks and two steals as well.
• Became the 39th Lady Vol to reach 1,000 career points after producing 19 points vs. Kentucky. Earned her fi fth double-double of the season adding 10 rebounds. Also had two blocks and an assist.
• Stands in ninth place on the UT career blocks list (131).
AT TENNESSEE• Became the 39th Lady Vol to reach 1,000 career points at
Tennessee on Jan. 29, 2015.• From Dec. 14, 2014 to Jan. 9, 2014, posted seven-straight
games with double-doubles, setting a Lady Vol program record for consecutive double-doubles.
• Set a Tennessee junior season record with 18 double-doubles, passing the previous record holder, Chamique Holdsclaw, who had 16 in 1997-98. That is the second-best season total in school history.
• Ended up posting six double-doubles as a sophomore and notched double-digit scoring performances on 14 occa-sions and rebounding eff orts 10 times.
PERSONAL• Full name is Isabelle Hannah “Izzy” Harrison.• Has 11 siblings, including DeeDee, who played volleyball at UT.• Her father, Dennis, played in the NFL for 10 seasons. with the Philadelphia Eagles, the then-Los Angeles Rams,
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JASMINE JONESJunior • 6-2 • ForwardMadison, Ala. • Bob Jones H.S. 22
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Has not played since Dec. 20 vs. Stanford due to linger-
ing concussion-like symptoms and will miss remainder of the season.
• UT will seek a medical hardship waiver to restore a year of her eligibility.
• Added another start to her career along with two points and two rebounds in 15 minutes vs. #7/7 Stanford.
• Missed last fi ve games due to concussion-like symptons.• Produced 12 points, six rebounds, a season-high two
steals and a block in the win over #17/19 Rutgers.• Against Lipscomb, accumulated a career-high four assists.
Added seven points, a block and steal.• Tallied a double-digit score for the third consecutive game
for the fi rst time in her career. She fi lled the stat sheet with 16 points, eight rebounds and a steal in the win over Saint Francis.
• Scored 10 points and added three rebounds in her second start of the season at #6/9 Texas. She has had back-to-back double-fi gure scoring outputs for the fi rst time in her career.
• Tallied a career-high 19 points in the game vs. UTC and added eight rebounds, two assists and a steal.
• Added a rebound and assist in seven minutes against Penn before sitting out the rest of the game and next three contests due to a mild concussion.
2013-14 HIGHLIGHTS• Recorded four outings with 10 or more points.• Against Maryland in the Sweet 16, put up 11 points, going
Had a Double-Double -- --Scored 10+ Points 4 13Scored 20+ Points -- --Led UT in Scoring 1 1Led UT in 3-pt Made - 1Led UT in Rebounding 1 5Led UT in Steals - 10Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals -- 5
4-of-6 in fi eld goals and 3-of-4 from the free throw line, while also grabbing two rebounds and one steal in 17 minutes.
• Contributed six points and four boards while dishing out two assists in the Lady Vols’ SEC Tournament title victory over Kentucky.
• Pulled down a team-best six rebounds and tied her season high in scoring with 13 points against Vander-bilt while adding a block and a steal.
• Led the team in rebounding on two occasions.• Tallied three games with a team-best steals total, in-
cluding two contests with three or more swipes.
AT TENNESSEE• Was Tennessee’s fi rst player off the bench in 18 of 35
games as a freshman, and she played in all 35 con-tests.
• Perhaps the most athletic player on the roster, she hit double fi gures in scoring on fi ve occasions and in rebounding once.
• Averaging 4.7 points and 3.9 rebounds for the entire season, she elevated her numbers to 6.0 points and 4.0 rebounds in NCAA tournament play.
• Scored a career-high 14 points and added eight points, four blocks an assist and a steal vs. Alabama, which happens to be her mom’s alma mater.
PERSONAL• Mother is Latrish Jones, a former standout player at
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ARIEL MASSENGALESenior • 5-7 • Point GuardBolingbrook, Ill. • Bolingbrook H.S. 55CAREER HONORS• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014• Naismith Trophy Early Season Watch List - 2014• SEC Player of the Week (11/11/13-11/18/13)• NCAA Women’s Basketball Player of the Week (11/11/13-
11/18/13)• Junkanoo Jam All-Tournament Team (11/29/13)•Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List - 2014
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Has 497 assists to rank No. 5 on UT’s career list and stands
just behind Alexis Hornbuckle (503).• Needs three assists to become only the third Lady Vol
with 1,000 points and 500 assists. The others are Lea Hen-ry (1,128/587 - 1979-83) and Alexis Hornbuckle (1,333/503 - 2004-08).
• Moved into the No. 7 position on three-point shots made with a career total of 145.
• Helped lead UT to a win at Georgia, tallying 17 points, in-cluding three treys, two rebounds and a steal. Dished out a season-high fi ve assists.
• Played a game-high 40 minutes and came away with eight points, two rebounds and an assist vs. #2/2 South Carolina.
• Led the team in minutes played (31) and earned her third start of the season. Tied her personal SEC high in three-point shots made (5) going 5-for-11 for a total of 17 points. She added three assists and two rebounds.
• Became the 41st Lady Vol to score 1,000 career points at Tennessee with 17 points vs. #10/10 Kentucky. Scored 15 of her 17 points in the second half for the game-high sum. Tied a season high with four assists and added fi ve re-bounds and a steal in that Feb. 15 contest.
• Totaled eight points, fi ve rebounds and four assists vs.
Had a Double-Double -- 3Scored 10+ Points 13 49Scored 20+ Points 2 5Led UT in Scoring 6 16Led UT in 3-pt Made 14 41Led UT in Rebounding -- --Led UT in Steals 2 21Made 3+ 3-pt 8 16Had 3+ Steals -- 11
#18/18 Mississippi St. Has dished out four-plus rebounds fi ve times this season.
• One of two Lady Vols to score double-digit points vs. #22/19 Georgia. Tallied 10 along with a season-high six rebounds.
• Produced her sixth consecutive game with double digits with 16 points, including 4-for-4 from the free throw line. Also grabbed three rebounds and had four assists and a steal vs. Arkansas.
• Against Winthrop, she made a career-high six treys and led UT in scoring with 20 points while adding three steals.
• Massengale returned to the court for the fi rst time since Jan. 23, 2014. She produced 21 points to lead the team and added three rebounds, two assists and a steal.
AT TENNESSEE• Became the 41st Lady Vol to score 1,000 career points at
Tennessee with 17 points vs. #10/10 Kentucky on Feb. 15.• Dished out fi ve or more assts. in 14 of 19 games as a junior.• Scored in double fi gures 13 times and led the team in
three-pointers on 10 occasions while averaging 7.9 points and 4.5 assists per contest as a sophomore in 2012-13.
• Recorded 162 assists as a rookie, the most-ever by a UT freshman and the eighth-best total in school history and followed that up with 158 as a sophomore.
PERSONAL• Ariel is majoring in recreation and sport management.• Played on the same high school squad with Lady Vol
teammate Nia Moore and Moore’s twin sister, Annaya, a manager on the team.
• Her brother Avery played college football, as did her dad.
Had a Double-Double 1 1Scored 10+ Points 5 5Scored 20+ Points 1 1Led UT in Scoring -- --Led UT in 3-pt Made -- --Led UT in Rebounding -- --Led UT in Steals 3 3Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals 3 3
and 11 assists vs. Penn, and co-led the team in steals (3).• Middleton’s 11 assists vs. Penn are the second most ever
for a Lady Vol freshman.
USA/AAU BASKETBALL• Played for the Tennessee Flight AAU team.
HIGH SCHOOL• Ranked No. 28 in 2014 espnW HoopGurlz Top 100.• Rated as a fi ve-star recruit on that list and the No.
4-ranked guard.• Blue Star rated her as the No. 22 player in the country.• Full Court ranked her the No. 32 player in the nation.• All-Star Girls Report had her 46th.• WBCA All-American (2014).• McDonald’s All-American (2014).• Had three points, fi ve assists and four rebounds in 20
minutes in the 2014 McDonald’s All-American Game.• Won Powerade Jam Fest skills competition and three-
point shootout in conjunction with the McDonald’s Game.
• Became fi rst McDonald’s All-American to win two con-tests at the Powerade Jam Fest.
• USA TODAY All-American - Third Team (2014).
PERSONAL• Full name is Alexa C. Middleton.• Born on Oct. 31, 1995, in Nashville, Tenn.• Parents are Michael and Celeste Middleton.• Celeste played basketball at Murfreesboro Oakland High
School and at Lipscomb University.• Has an older brother, Killen.
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS • In 10 minutes at Georgia, shot 4-for-4 to contribute eight
points and a rebound in the win.• Earned her fi rst start since Lipscomb, blocking six shots
and scoring six points to go with seven rebounds and two steals vs. Alabama.
• Tallied two points, four rebounds, an assist and steal in the win over Ole Miss.
• Produced two rebounds, an assist and a steal in the win over #22/19 Georgia.
• Grabbed three rebounds and recorded a block in nine min-utes vs. LSU.
• In eight minutes vs. #6/7 Notre Dame, managed to post four points and grab four rebounds and an assist.
• Scored her most points since getting 25 vs. Tennessee St., notching nine points against #9/8 Texas A&M. She was 4-for-4 on fi eld goals and added a personal-SEC-high fi ve rebounds in the win.
• Managed to grab two defensive rebounds in three minutes vs. Vanderbilt.
• Tallied two points and two rebounds in the win over #7/7 Stanford.
• One of only six players in UT history to record back-to-back 20-point games to open a season.
• Lassoed eight points, four rebounds, two assists, two blocks and a steal vs. Lipscomb. She shot 3-for-3 from the fi eld and 2-for-2 from the line.
• Produced a career-high 25 points and three steals and added 11 rebounds vs. Tennessee State for her second double-double of the season.
• Had her third double-digit scoring game of the season and added four rebounds and a block and steal vs. Winthrop.
Had a Double-Double 2 3Scored 10+ Points 4 78Scored 20+ Points 3 3Led UT in Scoring 2 2Led UT in Blocks 4 12Led UT in Rebounding 2 4Led UT in Steals -- 2Made 3+ Blocks 4 5Had 3+ Steals 1 1
• Accumulated 20 points, nine rebounds, four blocks and two steals in her third career start against Oral Roberts.
• Made her second career start and earned new career highs in points (24), rebounds (14), blocks (4), fi eld goals made (12) and minutes played (31) vs. Penn. Moore led in both points and rebounds and had her second career double-double.
AT TENNESSEE• Led the team in blocked shots on six occasions as a sopho-
more, including a three-block outing against Tennessee State.
• Saw action in 20 games as a freshman and was in the start-ing lineup vs. Davidson.
• First double-fi gure scoring game came vs. Alcorn State, when she rang up 10 points and added a career-best seven boards in a career-high 18 minutes of action.
• Had the highest free throw percentage on the team at .944, hitting four-of-four charity tries vs. North Carolina, Missis-sippi State and Ole Miss.
• Originally signed with Illinois, but asked for, and was grant-ed, a release.
PERSONAL• Twin sister, Annaya, is a manager for the Lady Vol basketball
team.• Played with Annaya and Lady Vol teammate Ariel Massen-
gale at Bolingbrook (Ill.) High School.• Majoring in psychology.• Follow @niamoore1 on Instagram.
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Played for 21 minutes at Georgia, grabbing four rebounds
and dishing out an assist.• In 16 minutes vs. #2/2 South Carolina, grabbed fi ve re-
bounds and added two points, an assist and the only UT block of the game.
• Dished out a career-high fi ve assists and added four points and three rebounds vs. Alabama.
• One of fi ve LVs to earn double-digit scoring totals vs. #10/10 Kentucky. Tossed in 10 points and provided four rebounds, a steal and a game-high two blocks on Feb. 15.
• Came up with fi ve rebounds, a personal SEC-high two as-sists and a block vs. Ole Miss.
• Grabbed a career-high seven rebounds and personal SEC-high 10 points in 24 minutes vs. Florida. Was 5-for-7 from the free throw line.
• Produced six points, including going 2-for-2 from the char-ity stripe, in 12 minutes of play vs. #18/18 Mississippi St.
• Had 12 minutes of gritty play and tallied four points, an SEC personal-high three steals, two rebounds and an assist vs. Kentucky.
• Tied her career high in blocks with two against #22/19 Georgia. Added a personal SEC-high seven points, includ-ing going 5-for-5 from the charity stripe.
• Fired in her fi rst points since Texas A&M against LSU. Pro-duced four points, three rebounds, an assist and a steal.
• Added two points, two rebounds and an assist in the win over #9/8 Texas A&M. Was 2-for-2 from the free throw line.
• In her fi rst SEC game vs. Missouri, managed to grab four rebounds and score fi ve points.
• Played 10 minutes, but snared six rebounds (5 off .), scored two points and dished out two assists in win over Rutgers.
Had a Double-Double -- --Scored 10+ Points 6 6Scored 20+ Points 1 1Led UT in Scoring 1 1Led UT in 3-pt Made -- --Led UT in Rebounding -- --Led UT in Steals 3 3Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals 3 3
• Racked up a career-high 20 points to become the second freshman to do so this season. She added six rebounds and four steals with an assist vs. Saint Francis.
USA/AAU BASKETBALL• Participated in 2012 USA U17 World Championship Team
Trials along with current Lady Vols Alexa Middleton, Mer-cedes Russell and Jannah Tucker.
• Participated in the 2011 USA U16 Team Trials.• Played for Team Concept AAU team with current Lady
Vol teammates and fellow Oregonians Russell and Jordan Reynolds.
HIGH SCHOOL• Ranked No. 6 in 2014 espnW HoopGurlz Top 100.• Rated as a fi ve-star recruit on that list and the No. 1 wing.• Full Court ranks her the No. 9 player in the nation.• The All-Star Girls Report had her at No. 25 in the country.• McDonald’s All-American (2014).• Tallied a team-leading 15 points, four rebounds and two
steals in 17 minutes to help the West to victory in the 2014 McDonald’s All-American Game.
• Gatorade Oregon Girls Basketball Player of the Year (2014).
• Featured in New York Times, Good Morning America and CNN in 2008 as a 12-year-old for being banned from a boys basketball league for being too good.
PERSONAL• Jaime Nicole Nared was born Sept. 14, 1995, in Portland,
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JORDAN REYNOLDSSophomore• 5-11 • GuardPortland, Ore. • Central Catholic H.S.00CAREER HONORS• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Produced eight points, including fi ve from the charity
stripe, six rebounds, two assists and a steal at Georgia. Also tied her season high in blocks with one.
• Scored 10 points for her seventh game this season with 10-plus and dished out a team-high three assists vs. #2/2 S. Carolina.
• Grabbed a personal SEC-high seven rebounds and had two points, two assists and a steal in win over Alabama.
• Was 4-for-5 from the fi eld to score eight points in the win over Ole Miss. Also had two rebounds and a steal.
• Scored 10 of her 13 points in the second half vs. Florida. Tallied three steals and two rebounds.
• Got her second block of the season, and with two sec-onds left in the game, to prevent #10/10 Kentucky from a winning shot. Tallied eight points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals in her most minutes played (34).
• Had a career night with a high of 15 points, including 5-for-5 from the charity line. Produced four rebounds, two steals and an assist.
• Was 4-for-4 from the free throw line to contribute nine points vs. LSU. Added a rebound and assist.
• Tied her career high with 11 points vs. Auburn. Grabbed fi ve rebounds and added two assists and a personal SEC-high three steals.
• In a personal SEC high of 33 minutes played, Reynolds grabbed another SEC high of six rebounds and added eight points in the win over Arkansas.
• Produced a personal SEC high six assists in the win over
Had a Double-Double -- --Scored 10+ Points 7 8Scored 20+ Points -- --Led UT in Scoring 2 2Led UT in 3-pt Made 1 4Led UT in Rebounding -- --Led UT in Steals 6 10Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals 7 10
#9/8 Texas A&M. Tallied seven points and added a steal in an SEC-high 31 minutes played.
• With 11 points vs. Vandy, Reynolds earned her fi rst back-to-back double-fi gure scoring games of her career. Went 4-for-4 from the free throw line and added a rebound and assist.
• Notched a season-high 10 points along with four rebounds and three assists in the SEC opener vs. Missouri.
• Added seven points, four rebounds, three steals and an as-sist vs. #10/12 Oregon State.
AT TENNESSEE• In 34 games, she posted 62 assists compared to only 34
turnovers during her fi rst college season.• That diff erential resulted in a 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio,
which ranked her second on the team behind Ariel Massen-gale.
• Was nationally trending on Twitter following her career-high outing against Kentucky in the SEC Tournament champion-ship game.
• Connected on 18-of-23 free throw attempts, making her fi nal 14 shots of the season to fi nish at 78.3 percent for the year.
• Led the team in steals on four occasions, including three outings with three or more swipes.
PERSONAL• Parents are Kimberly James and Gary Thomas, and her step-
father is Mark James.• Her mom played at San Diego State, and her aunt, Deborah
Lange, played at Oregon.• Reynolds’ sister, Ariel, is a 6-2 forward at the University of
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2121MERCEDES RUSSELLSophomore • 6-6 • CenterSpringfi eld, Ore. • Springfi eld H.S.CAREER HONORS• SEC Academic Honor Roll - 2014 • SEC Freshman of the Week (12/23-12/30)
2014-15 HIGHLIGHTS• Redshirting after having surgery on both feet during the off season.
2013-14 HIGHLIGHTS• Notched nine double-digit scoring outings as a freshman.
• Shot a team-leading 59.6 percent from the fi eld (93-156) for the season.
• Led the team in blocks on 17 occasions while re-cording fi ve games with three or more blocks.
• Her 1.1 blocks per game led all Lady Vols for the 2013-14 season.
• In NCAA games, averaged 5.3 points and 5.3 re-bounds.
• Shot 77.8 precent from the fi eld (7-for-9) in NCAA postseason action.
• Had a team-best 12 points against Northwestern State, going 5-for-6 from the fi eld and a perfect 2-for-2 from the free throw line. It was the fi rst time in her career that she led the team in scor-ing.
• Instrumental in UT’s SEC Semifi nal win vs. Texas A&M scoring 11 points, going a perfect 4-for-4 in
Had a Double-Double N/A --Scored 10+ Points N/A 9Scored 20+ Points N/A --Led UT in Scoring N/A 1Led UT in Blocks N/A 17Led UT in Rebounding N/A 3Led UT in Steals N/A 2Made 3+ Blocks N/A 5Had 3+ Steals N/A --
FGs and 3-for-3 from the FT line; also grabbed six rebounds.
• Tied her career high in rebounds with 11 at Missouri, leading the team in boards for the third time this season.
• Picked up SEC Freshman of the Week honors (Dec. 30) after scoring 12 points with seven rebounds and fi ve blocks against Lipscomb.
• Produced two double-fi gure rebounding games and led UT in boards in three contests.
USA BASKETBALL• Has won two gold medals in international play with USA Basketball, playing for former Lady Vol Jill Rankin-Schneider on both occasions.
PERSONAL• Shoots right-handed but writes with her left hand.• Lists Candace Parker as a role model.• Joins Kelley Cain and Vonda Ward as the three tall-est players in UT history at 6-6.
• Majoring in communication studies.• Follow @MerSladezz on Twitter and @mersladezz on Instagram.
2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATSOPPONENT DATE MIN FG-FGA PCT 3FG-FGA PCT FT-FTA PCT OR DR TR PF-FO A TO BLK STL PTSvs. Penn 11/14/14 DNPvs. Oral Roberts 11/17/14 DNPvs. Winthrop 11/21/14 DNPvs. Tennessee St. 11/24/14 DNPat Chattanooga 11/26/14 DNPat Texas 11/30/14 DNPvs. St. Francis 12/3/14 DNPat Lipscomb 12/7/14 DNPat Rutgers 12/14/14 DNPvs. Wichita St. 12/16/14 DNPvs. Stanford 12/20/14 DNPvs. Oregon St. 12/28/14 DNPvs. Missouri 1/2/15 DNPat Vanderbilt 1/5/14 DNPvs. Texas A&M 1/8/14 DNPat Arkansas 1/11/14 DNPat Auburn 1/15/14 DNPat Notre Dame 1/19/14 DNPvs. LSU 1/22/14 DNPvs. Georgia 1/25/14 DNPat Kentucky 1/29/14 DNPvs. Miss. St. 2/1/14 DNPat Florida 2/8/14 DNPat Ole Miss 2/12/14 DNPvs. Kentucky 2/15/14 DNPvs. Alabama 2/19/14 DNPat S Carolina 2/23/14 DNPat Georgia 2/26/14 DNPvs. Vanderbilt 3/1/14 DNP* indicates game started
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44JANNAH TUCKERRedshirt Freshman • 6-0 • GuardBaltimore, Md. • New Town H.S.
2014-15 AT TENNESSEE• Has seen brief action in two games this season.• Made her Lady Vol debut at the end of the game vs. #7/7 Stanford. Tucker produced her fi rst career rebound.
2013-14 AT TENNESSEE• Redshirted the 2013-14 season.• Enrolled at UT in January 2014 after signing in No-vember 2012.
• Attended fi rst offi cial practice as a Lady Vol on Dec. 27, 2013, and participated in fi rst workout on Dec. 28, 2013.
USA/AAU BASKETBALL• Part of gold-medal-winning USA U18 unit at the FIBA Americas Championship in August 2012.
• Teamed with UT teammate Bashaara Graves on that squad before suff ering an ACL tear to her left knee.
• Played two games, starting one, before being in-jured and averaged 4.0 points and 3.0 rebounds.
• Also won a gold medal in Merida, Mexico, with the
Had a Double-Double -- --Scored 10+ Points -- --Scored 20+ Points -- --Scored 30+ Points -- --Led UT in Scoring -- --Led UT in 3-pt Made -- --Led UT in Steals -- --Made 3+ 3-pt -- --Had 3+ Steals -- --
USA U16 team at the FIBA Americas Champion-ship in June 2011, playing with Lady Vol classmate Mercedes Russell.
• Started all fi ve games and averaged 9.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.0 steals and 2.6 assists for the American squad.
• Played for former Lady Vol Jill Rankin Schneider on that team.
• Played AAU ball for the Philly Belles.
PERSONAL• Full name is Jannah Sabree Tucker.• Nickname is “JT.”• Born on May 17, 1995, in Baltimore, Md.• Parents are Robert and Cynthia Tucker.• Siblings include Robbie, Amirah, Mayah and Kho-ri.
• Father played basketball at the University of Richmond and Loyola College; sister, Amirah, plays basketball at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; uncle, Jason Tucker, played basketball at Nichols State; and aunt, Alisha Johnson, played basketball at Lincoln University.
• Majoring in psychology
2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATSOPPONENT DATE MIN FG-FGA PCT 3FG-FGA PCT FT-FTA PCT OR DR TR PF-FO A TO BLK STL PTSvs. Penn 11/14/14 DNPvs. Oral Roberts 11/17/14 DNPvs. Winthrop 11/21/14 DNPvs. Tennessee St. 11/24/14 DNPat Chattanooga 11/26/14 DNPat Texas 11/30/14 DNPvs. St. Francis 12/3/14 DNPat Lipscomb 12/7/14 DNPat Rutgers 12/14/14 DNPvs. Wichita St. 12/16/14 DNPvs. Stanford 12/20/14 2 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0vs. Oregon St. 12/28/14 DNPvs. Missouri 1/2/15 DNPat Vanderbilt 1/5/14 DNPvs. Texas A&M 1/8/14 2 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0at Arkansas 1/11/14 DNPat Auburn 1/15/14 DNPat Notre Dame 1/19/14 DNPvs. LSU 1/22/14 DNPvs. Georgia 1/25/14 DNPat Kentucky 1/29/14 DNPvs. Miss. St. 2/1/14 DNPat Florida 2/8/14 DNPat Ole Miss 2/12/14 DNPvs. Kentucky 2/15/14 DNPvs. Alabama 2/19/14 DNPat S Carolina 2/23/14 DNPat Georgia 2/26/14 DNPvs. Vanderbilt 3/1/14* indicates game started
TEAM STATISTICS UT OPPSCORING 2022 1556 Points per game 72.2 55.6 Scoring margin +16.6 -FIELD GOALS-ATT 737-1708 601-1628 Field goal pct . 4 3 1 . 3 6 93 POINT FG-ATT 124-372 124-413 3-point FG pct . 3 3 3 . 3 0 0 3-pt FG made per game 4.4 4.4FREE THROWS-ATT 424-566 230-353 Free throw pct . 7 4 9 . 6 5 2 F-Throws made per game 15.1 8.2REBOUNDS 1182 965 Rebounds per game 42.2 34.5 Rebounding margin +7.8 -ASSISTS 416 304 Assists per game 14.9 10.9TURNOVERS 393 481 Turnovers per game 14.0 17.2 Turnover margin +3.1 - Assist/turnover ratio 1.1 0.6STEALS 266 194 Steals per game 9.5 6.9BLOCKS 106 94 Blocks per game 3.8 3.4ATTENDANCE 161576 67651 Home games-Avg/Game 15-10772 13-5204 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 0-0
Score by Periods 1st 2nd TotalsTennessee 918 1104 2022Opponents 723 833 1556
Date Opponent Score Att.11/14/14 PENN W 97-52 970611/17/14 ORAL ROBERTS W 91-39 886111/21/14 WINTHROP W 81-48 926711/24/14 TENNESSEE STATE W 97-46 913711/26/14 at Chattanooga L 63-67 416011/30/14 at Texas L 59-72 419812/03/14 SAINT FRANCIS W 111-44 912612/07/14 at Lipscomb W 85-51 274212/14/14 at Rutgers W 55-45 434512/16/14 WICHITA STATE W 54-51 902612/20/14 STANFORD W 59-40 1305612/28/14 OREGON STATE W 74-63 11123
* 01/02/15 MISSOURI W 63-53 9570* 01/05/15 at Vanderbilt W 57-49 7212* 01/08/15 TEXAS A&M W 81-58 10507* 01/11/15 at Arkansas W 60-51 2344* 01/15/15 at Auburn W 54-42 2590
01/19/15 at Notre Dame L 77-88 9149* 01/22/15 LSU W 75-58 11612* 01/25/15 GEORGIA W 59-51 13428* 01/29/15 at Kentucky W 73-72 7407* 02/01/15 MISSISSIPPI STATE W 79-67 11507* 02/08/15 at Florida W 64-56 3439* 02/12/15 at Ole Miss W 69-49 2051* 02/15/15 KENTUCKY W 72-58 16013* 02/19/15 ALABAMA W 77-56 9637* 02/23/15 at South Carolina L 66-71 14390* 02/26/15 at Georgia W 70-59 3624
* = Conference game
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2014-15 SEC STATISTICS
2014-15 Tenn. Women's BasketballTennessee Combined Team Statistics (as of Feb 26, 2015)
Conference games
RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRALALL GAMES 14-1 7-0 7-1 0-0CONFERENCE 14-1 7-0 7-1 0-0NON-CONFERENCE 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
TEAM STATISTICS UT OPPSCORING 1019 850 Points per game 67.9 56.7 Scoring margin +11.3 -FIELD GOALS-ATT 364-830 333-889 Field goal pct . 4 3 9 . 3 7 53 POINT FG-ATT 70-201 63-213 3-point FG pct . 3 4 8 . 2 9 6 3-pt FG made per game 4.7 4.2FREE THROWS-ATT 221-286 121-187 Free throw pct . 7 7 3 . 6 4 7 F-Throws made per game 14.7 8.1REBOUNDS 587 509 Rebounds per game 39.1 33.9 Rebounding margin +5.2 -ASSISTS 216 177 Assists per game 14.4 11.8TURNOVERS 217 208 Turnovers per game 14.5 13.9 Turnover margin -0.6 - Assist/turnover ratio 1.0 0.9STEALS 107 110 Steals per game 7.1 7.3BLOCKS 49 44 Blocks per game 3.3 2.9ATTENDANCE 82274 43057 Home games-Avg/Game 7-11753 8-5382 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 0-0
Score by Periods 1st 2nd TotalsTennessee 458 561 1019Opponents 386 464 850
Date Opponent Score Att.* 01/02/15 MISSOURI W 63-53 9570* 01/05/15 at Vanderbilt W 57-49 7212* 01/08/15 TEXAS A&M W 81-58 10507* 01/11/15 at Arkansas W 60-51 2344* 01/15/15 at Auburn W 54-42 2590* 01/22/15 LSU W 75-58 11612* 01/25/15 GEORGIA W 59-51 13428* 01/29/15 at Kentucky W 73-72 7407* 02/01/15 MISSISSIPPI STATE W 79-67 11507* 02/08/15 at Florida W 64-56 3439* 02/12/15 at Ole Miss W 69-49 2051* 02/15/15 KENTUCKY W 72-58 16013* 02/19/15 ALABAMA W 77-56 9637* 02/23/15 at South Carolina L 66-71 14390* 02/26/15 at Georgia W 70-59 3624
* = Conference game
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POINTS, REBOUNDS, ASSISTS
2014-15 Tenn. Women's BasketballTennessee Points-Rebounds-Assists (as of Feb 27, 2015)
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HIGHS & LOWS
TENNESSEE INDIVIDUAL GAME HIGHS
POINTS 25 Harrison, Isabelle vs LSU (01/22/15) 25 Moore, Nia vs Tennessee State (11/24/14)FIELD GOALS MADE 12 Moore, Nia vs Penn (11/14/14)FIELD GOAL ATT. 20 GRAVES, BASHAARA AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15) 20 HARRISON, ISABELLE VS TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)FG PCT (MIN 5 MADE) 1.000 (7-7) GRAVES, BASHAARA AT OLE MISS (2/12/15)3-POINT FG MADE 6 MASSENGALE, ARIEL VS WINTHROP (11/21/14)3-POINT FG ATT. 10 MASSENGALE, ARIEL VS WINTHROP (11/21/14)3-PT FG PCT (MIN 2 MADE) 1.000 (3-3) CARTER, ANDRAYA VS LSU (01/22/15) 1.000 (2-2) REYNOLDS, JORDAN AT TEXAS (11/30/14)
1.000 (2-2) DUNBAR, KORTNEY VS ORAL ROBERTS (11/17/14) 1.000 (2-2) MIDDLETON, ALEXA VS PENN (11/14/14)FREE THROWS MADE 10 BURDICK, CIERRA AT ARKANSAS (01/11/15)FREE THROW ATT. 11 BURDICK, CIERRA AT ARKANSAS (01/11/15) 11 HARRISON, ISABELLE VS OREGON STATE (12/28/14) FT PCT (MIN 4 MADE) 1.000 (9-9) BURDICK, CIERRA VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14) 1.000 (7-7) GRAVES, BASHAARA VS MISSISSIPPI STATE (02/01/15) 1.000 (7-7) HARRISON, ISABELLE VS LSU (01/22/15)
1.000 (6-6) MASSENGALE, ARIEL AT VANDERBILT (01/05/15) 1.000 (5-5) MIDDLETON, ALEXA VS ALABAMA (02/19/15) 1.000 (5-5) GRAVES, BASHAARA AT #10/10 KENTUCKY (01/29/15) 1.000 (5-5) REYNOLDS, JORDAN VS GEORGIA (01/25/15) 1.000 (5-5) NARED, JAIME VS GEORGIA (01/25/15) 1.000 (5-5) NARED, JAIME VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14) 1.000 (4-4) BURDICK, CIERRA VS KENTUCKY (02/15/15) 1.000 (4-4) BURDICK, CIERRA AT FLORIDA (02/08/15) 1.000 (4-4) REYNOLDS, JORDAN VS LSU (01/22/15) 1.000 (4-4) MASSENGALE, ARIEL AT ARKANSAS (01/11/15) 1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA VS TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)
1.000 (4-4) REYNOLDS, JORDAN AT VANDERBILT (01/05/15) 1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA VS MISSOURI (01/02/15) 1.000 (4-4) BURDICK, CIERRA VS STANFORD (12/20/14) 1.000 (4-4) MASSENGALE, ARIEL VS STANFORD (12/20/14) 1.000 (4-4) MASSENGALE, ARIEL AT RUTGERS (12/14/14) 1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA AT LIPSCOMB (12/07/14)
1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA AT CHATTANOOGA (11/26/14)1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA VS TENNESSEE STATE (11/24/14)
1.000 (4-4) MASSENGALE, ARIEL VS ORAL ROBERTS (11/17/14) 1.000 (4-4) GRAVES, BASHAARA VS PENN (11/14/14)REBOUNDS 17 BURDICK, CIERRA VS WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)ASSISTS 11 Middleton, Alexa vs Penn (11/14/14)STEALS 7 Reynolds, Jordan vs Oral Roberts (11/17/14)BLOCKED SHOTS 6 MOORE, NIA VS ALABAMA (02/19/15)TURNOVERS 6 HARRISON, ISABELLE AT FLORIDA (02/08/15) 6 JONES, JASMINE AT RUTGERS (12/14/14) 6 HARRISON, ISABELLE VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)
TENNESSEE TEAM GAME HIGHS
POINTS 111 SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)FIELD GOALS MADE 40 PENN (11/14/14)FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS 83 PENN (11/14/14)FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE .569 (29-51) MISSISSIPPI STATE (02/01/15)3 PT FIELD GOALS MADE 9 MISSOURI (01/02/15)3 PT FG ATTEMPTS 24 MISSOURI (01/02/15) 24 WINTHROP (11/21/14)3 PT FG PERCENTAGE .667 (4-6) MISSISSIPPI STATE (02/01/15)FREE THROWS MADE 28 SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)FREE THROW ATTEMPTS 38 SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)FREE THROW PERCENTAGE 1.000 (18-18) ALABAMA (02/19/15)REBOUNDS 71 SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)ASSISTS 27 PENN (11/14/14)STEALS 21 TENNESSEE STATE (11/24/14) 21 ORAL ROBERTS (11/17/14)BLOCKED SHOTS 9 at ARKANSAS (01/11/15) 9 at Lipscomb (12/07/14) 9 PENN (11/14/14)TURNOVERS 22 at #10/10 Kentucky (01/29/15)FOULS 21 at Chattanooga (11/26/14)
TENNESSEE TEAM GAME LOWS
POINTS 54 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)FIELD GOALS MADE 17 at Vanderbilt (01/05/15)FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS 45 LSU (01/22/15)FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE .275 (19-69) at Rutgers (12/14/14)3 PT FIELD GOALS MADE 0 OREGON STATE (12/28/14)
3 PT FG ATTEMPTS 3 OREGON STATE (12/28/14)3 PT FG PERCENTAGE .000 (0-3) OREGON STATE (12/28/14)FREE THROWS MADE 5 at Auburn (01/15/15)FREE THROW ATTEMPTS 6 at Auburn (01/15/15)FREE THROW PERCENTAGE .520 (13-25) at Texas (11/30/14)REBOUNDS 29 LSU (01/22/15)ASSISTS 3 at Texas (11/30/14)STEALS 2 at #2/2 South Carolina (02/23/15)BLOCKED SHOTS 0 STANFORD (12/20/14)TURNOVERS 6 at #2/2 South Carolina (02/23/15)FOULS 9 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)
OPPONENT INDIVIDUAL GAME HIGHS
POINTS 34 JEWELL LOYD AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15)FIELD GOALS MADE 13 JEWELL LOYD AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15)FIELD GOAL ATT. 24 WALKER, COURTNEY VS TEXAS A&M (01/08/15) FG PCT (MIN 5 MADE) 1.000 (5-5) TAYLOR, BRIANNA AT TEXAS (11/30/14) .727 (8-11) LANG, KELSEY AT TEXAS (11/30/14)3-POINT FG MADE 6 HAYWARD, ALEXA VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)3-POINT FG ATT. 19 HAYWARD, ALEXA VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)3-PT FG PCT (MIN 2 MADE) 1.000 (3-3)FRIZZELL,GRACIE AT OLE MISS (2/12/15)
1.000 (3-3) EPPS, MAKAYLA AT #10/10 KENTUCKY (01/29/15) 1.000 (2-2) MICHAELA MABREY AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15) 1.000 (2-2) JACOBS, KELSEY VS WICHITA STATE (12/16/14) 1.000 (2-2) SMITH, KELLI AT LIPSCOMB (12/07/14)FREE THROWS MADE 6 PEOPLES,CASSIE AT FLORIDA (02/08/15) 6 JEWELL LOYD AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15)FREE THROW ATT. 9 JEWELL LOYD AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15)FT PCT (MIN 3 MADE) 1.000 (5-5) HALEY CLARK AT GEORGIA (02/26/15) 1.000 (5-5) LINDSAY ALLEN AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15) 1.000 (4-4) MADISON CABLE AT NOTRE DAME (01/19/15) 1.000 (4-4) WIESE, SYDNEY VS OREGON STATE (12/28/14) 1.000 (4-4) HAYWARD, ALEXA VS SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14) 1.000 (3-3) SESSOM,SHANDRICKA AT OLE MISS (2/12/15) 1.000 (3-3) DOYLE, JORDAN VS ORAL ROBERTS (11/17/14)REBOUNDS 15 NUNN, SCHAQUILLA VS WINTHROP (11/21/14)ASSISTS 8 JONES, JORDAN VS TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)STEALS 7 HARDEN, ALEX VS WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)BLOCKED SHOTS 6 Stipanovich, Sydney vs Penn (11/14/14)TURNOVERS 10 Doyle, Jordan vs Oral Roberts (11/17/14)
OPPONENT TEAM GAME HIGHS
POINTS 88 at Notre Dame (01/19/15FIELD GOALS MADE 32 at Notre Dame (01/19/15)FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS 70 at #2/2 South Carolina (02/23/15) 70 at Kentucky (01/29/15)FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE .582 (32-55) at Notre Dame (01/19/15)3 PT FIELD GOALS MADE 9 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)3 PT FG ATTEMPTS 34 SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)3 PT FG PERCENTAGE .571 (4-7) WINTHROP (11/21/14)FREE THROWS MADE 20 at Notre Dame (01/19/15)FREE THROW ATTEMPTS 27 at Notre Dame (01/19/15)FREE THROW PERCENTAGE 1.000 (2-2) WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)REBOUNDS 46 at #2/2 South Carolina (02/23/15)ASSISTS 18 at Notre Dame (01/19/15)STEALS 13 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)BLOCKED SHOTS 9 PENN (11/14/14)TURNOVERS 38 TENNESSEE STATE (11/24/14)FOULS 28 OREGON STATE (12/28/14) 28 TENNESSEE STATE (11/24/14)
OPPONENT TEAM GAME LOWS
POINTS 39 ORAL ROBERTS (11/17/14)FIELD GOALS MADE 13 STANFORD (12/20/14)FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS 45 at Chattanooga (11/26/14)FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE .224 (15-67) SAINT FRANCIS (12/03/14)3 PT FIELD GOALS MADE 0 TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)3 PT FG ATTEMPTS 3 TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)3 PT FG PERCENTAGE .000 (0-3) TEXAS A&M (01/08/15)FREE THROWS MADE 2 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)FREE THROW ATTEMPTS 2 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14FREE THROW PERCENTAGE .333 (2-6) at Auburn (01/15/15)REBOUNDS 24 WICHITA STATE (12/16/14)ASSISTS 2 STANFORD (12/20/14)STEALS 2 PENN (11/14/14)BLOCKED SHOTS 1 WINTHROP (11/21/14)
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2014-15 BOX SCORES
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsPenn vs Tennessee11/14/14 7:03 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Roy Gulbeyan, Troy Winders, Charlie HustTechnical fouls: Penn-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 9706
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalPenn 25 27 52Tennessee 47 50 97
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchPENN 20 7 9 2 13UT 56 23 28 14 37
Last FG - PENN 2nd-02:52, UT 2nd-00:06.Largest lead - PENN by 3 1st-11:05, UT by 45 2nd-00:06.PENN led for 03:33. UT led for 35:19. Game was tied for 01:08.
Score tied - 4 times.Lead changed - 9 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsOral Roberts vs Tennessee11/17/14 7:03 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Dee Kantner, Cameron Inouye, Eric KochTechnical fouls: Winthrop-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 9267
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalWinthrop 25 23 48Tennessee 40 41 81
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchWU 24 7 16 4 12UT 42 36 20 8 32
Last FG - WU 2nd-01:42, UT 2nd-01:14.Largest lead - WU by 1 1st-19:08, UT by 34 2nd-03:49.WU led for 02:13. UT led for 37:15. Game was tied for 00:32.
Score tied - 0 times.Lead changed - 2 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee State vs Tennessee11/24/14 7:02 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Billy Smith, Wesley Dean, Kim TheboTechnical fouls: Tennessee State-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 9137
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee State 27 19 46Tennessee 44 53 97
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchTSU 16 7 14 8 17UT 54 45 18 20 33
Last FG - TSU 2nd-01:13, UT 2nd-00:18.Largest lead - TSU by 8 1st-15:44, UT by 51 2nd-01:35.TSU led for 07:32. UT led for 29:36. Game was tied for 02:52.
Score tied - 1 time.Lead changed - 1 time.
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2014-15 BOX SCORES
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Chattanooga11/26/14 7:00 P.M. at Chattanooga, Tenn. (The McKenzie Arena)
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 21 42 63Chattanooga 37 30 67
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 42 13 26 6 33UTC 32 11 11 2 24
Last FG - UT 2nd-02:41, UTC 2nd-02:18.Largest lead - UT by 2 1st-18:58, UTC by 17 1st-01:00.UT led for 00:30. UTC led for 37:09. Game was tied for 02:21.
Score tied - 4 times.Lead changed - 1 time.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Texas11/30/14 5:40 P.M. at Austin, TX (Erwin Center)
Officials: Tina Napier, Lisa Mattingly, Bryan EnterlineTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Texas-None.Attendance: 4198
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 20 39 59Texas 30 42 72
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 26 10 13 2 18TEXAS 38 15 7 12 14
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:06, TEXAS 2nd-02:50.Largest lead - UT by 2 1st-14:25, TEXAS by 15 2nd-12:51.UT led for 00:14. TEXAS led for 37:19. Game was tied for 02:20.
Score tied - 1 time.Lead changed - 2 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsSaint Francis vs Tennessee12/03/14 7:02 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Joe Cunningham, Ed Novak, Erica BradleyTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Lipscomb-None.Attendance: 2742
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 39 46 85Lipscomb 15 36 51
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 34 36 16 4 58LIP 18 4 5 7 19
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:36, LIP 2nd-01:18.Largest lead - UT by 36 2nd-00:36, LIP by 1 1st-17:21.UT led for 37:13. LIP led for 00:28. Game was tied for 02:19.
Score tied - 0 times.Lead changed - 2 times.
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Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Rutgers12/14/14 3:00 pm at The RAC - Piscataway, N.J.
Officials: Lisa Mattingly, Dee Kantner, Denise BrooksTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Rutgers-None.Attendance: 4345
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 20 35 55Rutgers 23 22 45
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 22 11 11 4 21RU 22 11 3 12 3
Last FG - UT 2nd-00:33, RU 2nd-01:27.Largest lead - UT by 10 2nd-00:13, RU by 6 1st-08:39.UT led for 12:41. RU led for 20:04. Game was tied for 07:02.
Score tied - 7 times.Lead changed - 11 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsWichita State vs Tennessee12/16/14 7:03 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Laura Morris, Billy Smith, Pualani SpurlockTechnical fouls: Wichita State-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 9026
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalWichita State 28 23 51Tennessee 31 23 54
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchWICH 22 9 8 9 2UT 24 16 11 10 15
Last FG - WICH 2nd-00:25, UT 2nd-00:38.Largest lead - WICH by 4 1st-11:45, UT by 10 2nd-13:05.WICH led for 06:21. UT led for 31:11. Game was tied for 02:28.
Score tied - 4 times.Lead changed - 6 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsStanford vs Tennessee12/20/14 1:03 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Lisa Mattingly, Tina Napier, Mark ZentzTechnical fouls: Stanford-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 13056
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalStanford 15 25 40Tennessee 27 32 59
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchSTAN 10 17 4 2 17UT 24 17 10 6 27
Last FG - STAN 2nd-01:35, UT 2nd-02:48.Largest lead - STAN None, UT by 24 2nd-05:01.STAN led for 00:00. UT led for 39:36. Game was tied for 00:16.
Score tied - 0 times.Lead changed - 0 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsOregon State vs Tennessee12/28/14 1:02 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Jesse Dickerson, Bruce Morris, Kim TheboTechnical fouls: Oregon State-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 11123
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalOregon State 34 29 63Tennessee 35 39 74
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchOSU 36 6 11 4 12UT 32 26 15 10 23
Last FG - OSU 2nd-03:37, UT 2nd-02:39.Largest lead - OSU by 5 1st-01:34, UT by 11 2nd-00:35.OSU led for 16:31. UT led for 19:34. Game was tied for 03:54.
Score tied - 10 times.Lead changed - 7 times.
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Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsMissouri vs Tennessee01/02/15 9:08 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Officials: Bryan Enterline, Gina Cross, Eric KochTechnical fouls: Missouri-Robinson, Juanita. Tennessee-Harrison, Isabelle;Moore, Nia.Attendance: 9570Offsetting Flagrant-2 Technical Fouls resulted in ejection for Harrison (UT)and Robinson (MU). Moore (UT) was ejected for leaving bench.
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalMissouri 25 28 53Tennessee 21 42 63
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchMU-W 22 16 10 6 5UT 14 22 13 6 23
Last FG - MU-W 2nd-00:03, UT 2nd-01:34.Largest lead - MU-W by 7 1st-02:56, UT by 13 2nd-00:56.MU-W led for 13:18. UT led for 22:31. Game was tied for 04:11.
Score tied - 4 times.Lead changed - 6 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs Vanderbilt01/05/15 6 p.m. at Nashville, Tenn. (Memorial Gym)
Officials: Dee Kantner, Bob Trammell, Felicia GrinterTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Vanderbilt-None.Attendance: 7212
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 25 32 57Vanderbilt 17 32 49
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 18 17 12 2 12VANDY 16 16 4 4 38
Last FG - UT 2nd-05:49, VANDY 2nd-00:16.Largest lead - UT by 15 2nd-14:40, VANDY by 1 1st-18:20.UT led for 37:27. VANDY led for 00:16. Game was tied for 02:09.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 2 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTexas A&M vs Tennessee01/08/15 7:02 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Texas A&M 58 • 14-3, 2-1Total 3-Ptr Rebounds
## Player FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF TP A TO Blk Stl Min35 Ade, Achiri f 3-7 0-0 2-3 3 7 10 2 8 0 0 1 0 3612 Terry, Jada c 4-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 2 4 8 0 6 0 1 3401 Williams, Courtney g 4-14 0-2 3-5 0 6 6 3 11 0 2 0 0 2924 Jones, Jordan g 1-5 0-1 2-2 0 2 2 2 4 8 2 0 0 3033 Walker, Courtney g 12-24 0-0 1-3 1 4 5 1 25 1 0 0 1 4011 Knox, Curtyce 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1013 Jennings, Chelsea 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 215 Scott, Tori 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1123 Mitchell, Rachel 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 432 Scott-Williams, T. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
Officials: Bob Trammell, Sue Blauch, Gina CrossTechnical fouls: Georgia-None. Tennessee-None.Attendance: 13428
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalGeorgia 25 26 51Tennessee 30 29 59
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUGA 28 13 2 6 25UT 24 20 10 6 25
Last FG - UGA 2nd-00:37, UT 2nd-02:49.Largest lead - UGA by 8 1st-05:59, UT by 11 2nd-00:46.UGA led for 13:40. UT led for 21:11. Game was tied for 04:45.
Score tied - 2 times.Lead changed - 6 times.
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Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsTennessee vs #10/10 Kentucky01/29/15 7:02 pm at Lexington, KY (Memorial Coliseum)
Officials: Mark Zentz, Roy Gulbeyan, Troy WindersTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. #10/10 Kentucky-None.Attendance: 7407
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 25 48 73#10/10 Kentucky 31 41 72
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 46 12 14 4 11UK 34 14 12 4 24
Last FG - UT 2nd-01:24, UK 2nd-01:16.Largest lead - UT by 5 1st-04:59, UK by 6 1st-00:52.UT led for 16:49. UK led for 19:29. Game was tied for 02:37.
Score tied - 7 times.Lead changed - 12 times.
Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final StatisticsMississippi State vs Tennessee02/01/15 3:06 p.m. at Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena)
Mississippi State 67 • 22-3, 7-3 SECTotal 3-Ptr Rebounds
Officials: Tina Napier, Frank Steratore, Kevin PethtelTechnical fouls: Tennessee-None. Georgia-None.Attendance: 3624
Score by periods 1st 2nd TotalTennessee 39 31 70Georgia 27 32 59
In Off 2nd FastPoints Paint T/O Chance Break BenchUT 20 14 6 2 11UGA 22 15 8 2 9
Last FG - UT 2nd-03:47, UGA 2nd-03:19.Largest lead - UT by 13 2nd-00:55, UGA by 5 1st-14:13.UT led for 34:42. UGA led for 03:06. Game was tied for 02:12.
Score tied - 3 times.Lead changed - 2 times.
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JASMINE JONES Jr. • F • 6-2 • Madison, Ala./Bob Jones H.S.
JORDAN REYNOLDS So. • G • 5-11 • Portland, Ore./Central Catholic H.S.
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BASHAARA GRAVES Jr. • F • 6-2 • Clarksville, Tenn./Clarksville H.S.
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ISABELLE HARRISON Sr. • C • 6-3 • Nashville, Tenn./Hillsboro H.S.
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• Produced eight points, including fi ve from the charity stripe, six rebounds, two assists and a steal at Georgia. Also tied her season high in blocks with one.
• Scored 10 points for her seventh game this season with 10-plus and dished out a team-high three assists vs. #2/2 South Carolina.
• Grabbed a personal SEC-high seven rebounds and had two points, two assists and a steal in win over Alabama.
NIA MOORE Jr. • C • 6-3 • Chicago, Ill./Bolingbrook H.S.
• In 10 minutes at Georgia, shot 4-for-4 to contribute eight points and a rebound in the win.• Blocked a career-high six shots and added six points and two steals vs. Alabama.• Scored most points since having 25 vs. Tenn. St. with nine points against #9/8 Texas A&M. She was
4-for-4 in fi eld goals and added fi ve rebounds in the win, which was a personal SEC high.• One of only six players in UT history to record back-to-back 20-point games to open a season.• Played with twin Annaya (Lady Vol manager) & UT teammate Ariel Massengale at Bolingbrook High School.
• Has not played since the Stanford game due to concussion-like symptoms. Is out for season, and UT will seek a medical hardship waiver.
• Tallied 12 points, six rebounds, a season-high two steals and a block in the win over #17/19 Rutgers.• Scored 19, 10 and 16 points in consecutive games vs. Chattanooga, Texas and Saint Francis, marking
the fi rst time in her career she scored in double fi gures in back-to-back and three-straight contests.• Her mom, Latrish Jones, is a former standout player at Alabama.
• Needs three assists to become only the third Lady Vol with 1,000 points and 500 assists. • Helped lead UT to a win at Georgia, tallying 17 points, including three treys, two rebounds and a steal.
Dished out a season-high fi ve assists.• Played a game-high 40 minutes and produced eight points, two rebounds and an assist vs. #2/2 South Carolina.• Tied her personal SEC high in three-point shots made (5) going 5-for-11 for a total of 17 points vs. Alabama.
• Contributed seven points, seven rebounds and two assists in the win at Georgia.• Produced a game-high 20 points and tallied seven rebounds and an assist vs. #2/2 South Carolina. • In 15 minutes vs. Alabama, produced 14 points, going 6-for-10 from the fi eld, with three rebounds. • Tallied 11 points, nine rebounds, four assists and block in the home win over #10/10 Kentucky on 2/12.• Was perfect from the fi eld going 7-for-7 for 17 points while adding four rebounds, two steals and an
assist vs. Ole Miss.
• Tallied nine points and added two rebounds, two assists and a steal in 33 minutes at Georgia.• Scored 10 points, including 2-for-2 from the charity stripe vs. #2/2 South Carolina. Added two re-
bounds, two assists and two steals.• Produced nine points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals in the win over Alabama.• One of fi ve LVs to score in double digits in the 2/15 win over #10/10 Kentucky, producing 11 points.
• Suff ered a torn ACL in her right knee vs. Kentucky. Will be out for the remainder of the season. Fin-ishes her UT career with 1,071 points, 778 rebounds and 31 double-doubles.
• In her fi nal game as a Lady Vol, scored six points and added seven rebounds and a block in 15 minutes of play.• Led the team vs. Ole Miss with 21 points and 14 points for her seventh double-double of the season.
Added an assist and two blocks.• Despite foul trouble, played an effi cient 17 minutes to tally a team-high 17 points vs. Florida.
• Played 21 minutes at Georgia, grabbing four rebounds and dishing out an assist.• In 16 minutes vs. #2/2 South Carolina, grabbed fi ve rebounds and added two points, an assist and the
only UT block of the game.• Dished out a career-high fi ve assists along with four points and three rebounds vs. Alabama. • One of fi ve LVs to earn double-digit scores vs. #10/10 Kentucky on 2/15. Scored 10 points and pro-
vided four rebounds, a steal and a game-high two blocks in her most minutes played (28).Name Pronounced: JAY-mee NARD
JANNAH TUCKER RS-Fr. • G • 6-0 • Baltimore, Md./New Town H.S.
4 • Made her Lady Vol debut and made her fi rst appearance on the court for the fi rst time in two years at the end of the game vs. #7/7 Stanford. She grabbed one rebound.• Part of gold-medal-winning USA U18 unit at the FIBA Americas Championship in August 2012.• Was ranked the No. 8 player nationally in 2013 by HoopGurlz/espnW.• Her father taught her the sport of boxing to help increase her speed and shooting.
• Burdick is 17 pts. away from reaching 1,000 career points. She will be the fourth to do so this season.• Notched her sixth double-double of the season with a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds at Geor-
gia. Stole a career-high four balls and dished out three assists.• Carded her fi fth double-double of the season vs. #2/2 South Carolina with 16 points and 10 rebounds. • Voted 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team. Named to SEC Community Service Team for the 2nd yr in a row.
13 •Tallied two points and a rebound in nine minutes in the win over Alabama.• Scored her most points (5) since tallying six vs. St. Francis. Added a rebound while playing a per-
sonal SEC-high 10 minutes vs. Ole Miss.• Scored her fi rst points since the Lipscomb game with three in the win over #22/19 Georgia. Her
33 • In 10 minutes at Georgia, produced three points by way of a trey and added an assist.• Totaled a career-high in free throws made vs. Alabama, shooting 5-for-5. Produced seven points, two
assists, two steals and a rebound vs. the Crimson Tide.• In 19 minutes vs. Ole Miss, produced four points, two rebounds and two assists.• Middleton’s 11 assists vs. Penn were the second highest ever tallied by a Lady Vol freshman.