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Lady Vol Hoops Central: Stetson
December 28, 2015 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 28, 2015
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The #13/16 Lady Vols (8-3) return home for a game against Stetson (8-4) at Thompson-Boling Arena on Wednesday before beginning SEC play next week. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m., and the game will be broadcast online on SEC Network + and WatchESPN.
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- Opponent: Stetson
- Tipoff: 7 p.m. ET
- TV: SECN+
- Radio: Lady Vol Network
- Online: Live Audio,
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Bob Kesling (PxP) and Brittany Jackson (Analyst) will describe the action for the Tennessee-Stetson game, with their broadcast being carried online by the SECN+/WatchESPN. Mickey Dearstone will have the call for the Lady Vol Network radio/online broadcast.
Tickets for the game can be purchased online via UTTIX.com.
Back Home for the Final Game of 2015
- No. 13/16 Tennessee (8-3) plays its final game of 2015, as Stetson (8-4) comes to town for a Wednesday night contest at Thompson-Boling Arena.
- The Lady Vols and Hatters meet at 7:01 p.m. in a match-up carried online by SECN+/WatchESPN.
- UT has been off since carding a huge 53-50 road victory vs. #7/7 Oregon State on Dec. 19. That's a full 10 days between contests.
- The Lady Vols returned from winter break on Dec. 26 for shooting practice and a strength workout, and they resumed full practice on Dec. 27.
- The victory in Corvallis helped the Lady Vols wrap up a challenging three-game road swing at 2-1 and demonstrate that this team might be finding its way after a difficult start to the 2015-16 campaign.
- Stetson last played on Dec. 21, losing its home tournament, the Hatter Classic, to in-state foe Georgia State, 80-72, in overtime. SU had been on a five-game winning streak until that setback.
- Under Holly Warlick, Tennessee is 55-7 at home, 29-11 in road games and 10-5 at neutral sites for a total of 94-23.
- Tennessee is 408-30 (.932) all-time in Thompson-Boling Arena (1987-88 to present).
- The Big Orange women are 561-54 (.912) in all home games, beginning with the 1974-75 season.
The Series vs. Stetson
- Tennessee and Stetson first met on Dec. 3, 1987, and UT leads the all-time series, 5-0.
- The Lady Vols are 4-0 vs. the Hatters in Knoxville and 1-0 on the road.
- The teams have met in NCAA Tournament play on one occasion, with (then) #4/4 UT taking a 99-34 decision the last time these teams faced off on March 19, 2011.
- That game was an NCAA First Round game at UT's Thompson-Boling Arena.
- This will mark the first time Tennessee has faced Stetson when UT wasn't ranked in the top five.
- UT has scored 97 points or more in four out of five games vs. Stetson and limited the Hatters to 39 or fewer in three of those five contests.
- The Lady Vols have beaten SU by an average score of 98 to 35.3 in the teams' last three meetings.
- Stetson's point totals of 33 in 2005 and 34 in 2011 are tied for the seventh and 10th fewest ever scored vs. Tennessee.
- Stetson's eight first-half points vs. UT in 1989 remain tied as the fewest by an opponent during the opening 20 minutes.
- The Hatters' 14 second-half points vs. UT in 2011 stand as the third-fewest ever generated vs. the Lady Vols in the final 20 minutes of action.
- UT tied a school record with 46 defensive rebounds vs. Stetson on March 19, 2011.
- The series began to provide (then) UT standout Bridgette Gordon (1985-89) a game vs. a team from her hometown, which also happened to be Stetson's location -- DeLand, Fla.
- Tennessee is 7-0 all-time vs. current members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
- The last team from that conference UT faced was Lipscomb, which UT defeated in Nashville on Dec. 7, 2014, 85-51.
About The Lady Vols
- Tennessee is coming off its best road win since Feb. 19, 2007, when the Lady Vols knocked off a #7/7 LSU squad, 56-51, in Baton Rouge.
- The Lady Vols staved off a potential second straight loss on Dec. 19 when they upset #7/7 Oregon State in Corvallis, 53-50, in front of a raucous crowd of 8,223.
- It was the highest ranked team UT had beaten in almost a calendar year, as the 2014-15 team toppled a #7/7 Stanford squad in Knoxville on Dec. 20, 2014.
- The win over OSU in Corvallis was the Beavers' first loss at home since Notre Dame prevailed on Dec. 29, 2013.
- The Lady Vols, who've struggled from the field all season, were the first team to shoot more than 40% from the field (.439) vs. Oregon State this season.
- That field goal percentage was UT's third-best of the season and highest since shooting .486 vs. East Tennessee State.
- Tennessee started its sixth different lineup of the season vs. Oregon State, as Holly Warlick sent Bashaara Graves, Kortney Dunbar, Mercedes Russell, Jaime Nared and Andraya Carter onto the floor.
- UT's starting five at OSU actually was its third different unit in as many games on the road swing.
- That lineup helped Tennessee surge to a 17-11 first-quarter lead and go up by 17, 35-18, at the half.
- Tennessee's defensive effort limited the Beavers to a .308 shooting percentage, the second-lowest of the year behind a .265 effort by Central Arkansas in the opener.
- As UT hosts Stetson, it will attempt to avoid back-to-back home losses for only the second time in school history.
- The Lady Vols lost to Virginia Tech, 57-43, on Dec. 6 the last time they played at home.
- Pat Summitt's 1996-97 squad is the only Lady Vol unit to lose back-to-back home games, doing so on Dec. 8 vs. #5/5 Georgia (94-93 OT) and Dec. 15 vs. #1/1 Stanford (82-65) as the nation's (then) No. 4/4 and No. 5/5 squad.
About The Hatters
- Stetson enters with an 8-4 record and is 3-1 away from home this season.
- SU is coming off a disappointing loss in the 28th Hatter Classic, its own tournament, falling to in-state foe Georgia State, 80-72, in overtime on Dec. 21.
- Prior to that setback, the Hatters had put together a string of five consecutive wins.
- Stetson suffered a loss at SEC opponent Georgia in the second game of the season, 76-55, and fell to Minnesota (72-69) and Boise State (71-65) by respectable margins at the San Juan Shootout against its most notable opponents.
- Junior guard Brianti Saunders fuels the Stetson attack, averaging 18.7 points per contest.
- On Dec. 20, Saunders torched Georgia Southern for a school-record 40 points, connecting on 12 of 16 attempts from the field, including four of six from three-point range. She also hit 12 of 13 free throws and tossed in eight rebounds in 35 minutes.
- SU was more balanced in its last game, an 80-72 OT loss to Georgia State.
- Saunders led the way with 17 points, followed by Aisha Turner with 16, DeAsia Beal with 13 and Breana Bey with 11 to go along with 17 rebounds.
- A three-time Atlantic Sun Conference champion as a head coach, Lynn Bria is in her eighth season at the helm of Stetson women's basketball.
- Bria is 139-99 leading the Hatters, guiding the program to 20-win seasons in each of the past five years.
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- Tennessee recorded its two lowest turnover totals the past two games, tying its (then) season low vs. Stanford with 14 and then committing only nine miscues vs. Oregon State.
- That was the lowest total since UT had only eight turnovers at South Carolina on Feb. 23, 2015.
- Tennessee has held three of its last five opponents to 51 points or fewer.
- Tennessee made zero three-pointers vs. Oregon State, marking the first time since last year's OSU game that the Lady Vols had failed to hit a trey.
- UT only fired two threes vs. OSU, their lowest total since trying only one vs. Fla. on Jan. 21, 1999.
- Mercedes Russell is the only Lady Vol to start every game this season.
- Since returning from being sidelined with a broken left hand for the first nine contests, Jaime Nared has started UT's last two games.
- Three different Lady Vols have led Tennessee in rebounding the past three games (Graves-13, Russell-8, DeShields-9).
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