Game Thread: #23/24 TENNESSEE VS. COLORADO STATE

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GAMEDAY TIMES & BROADCAST INFO
After Game notes: I said we should not take our foot off the gas and even though we did more subbing than I would have done, we did continue the whole game to pressure and push and not let them cut into the lead. So as far as I'm concerned mission accomplished. Next up no more cupcakes time for pot roast
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The No. 23/24 Lady Vols (7-1) play host to Colorado State (5-5) at Thompson-Boling Arena in a 7:02 p.m. ET contest on Wednesday. This match-up between SEC and Mountain West Conference Schools will be the first between these programs.

The Lady Vols close out a six-game home stand before hitting the road for a West Coast swing next week at Stanford and Portland State.

Tennessee suffered its first loss of the season on Sunday afternoon, as unranked Texas ended a two-game skid in the series with a 66-60 victory at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville.

Colorado State, meanwhile, comes to town on the heels of back-to-back MWC losses to San Diego State (59-49) and Boise State (72-69).


RECAPPING OUR LAST GAME

  • The No. 17/19 Lady Vols suffered their first loss of the season on Sunday, falling to Texas in Thompson-Boling Arena, 66-60.
  • Tennessee (7-1) was led by junior Rennia Davis who finished the day with 15 points and seven rebounds. Sophomore Jazmine Massengill was also in double figures for the Lady Vols with 10. Junior Kasiyahna Kushkituah led the team in rebounding with nine.
  • Overall, Tennessee won the rebounding battle, 54-42, but was outshot, 36.2 to 30.6, from the field and committed 14 turnovers to Texas' eight.
  • Seniors Sug Sutton and Lashann Higgs were the leading scorers for the Longhorns (5-4), posting 19 each.
NOTES FROM THE LAST GAME

  • Big-Time Post Play: The Texas duo of Charli Collier and Joyner Holmes had been combining for an average of 33.6 points per game. The Lady Vols held the pair to just eight total points and 15 rebounds. Meanwhile, Tamari Key and Kasiyahna Kushkituah combined for 16 points and 16 rebounds for Tennessee.
  • Winning The Board Battle: The Lady Vols out-rebounded the Longhorns, 54-42, marking the seventh time this season they've bested an opponent on the boards. Tennessee is averaging 51.4 rpg. while holding opposing teams to 36.3 rpg.
HARPER HISTORY IN THE MAKING

  • Kellie Harper coached the 500th game of her head coaching career on Dec. 1, as the Lady Vols defeated Air Force, 81-54, in Knoxville.
  • Harper opened the 2019-20 season at 7-0, the best beginning to a year in her head coaching career. She twice opened 4-0 at NC State in 2011-12 and 2012-13 before topping that at UT this season.
  • On Nov. 18, 2019, Kellie Harper became the 40th person to play for and coach an AP-ranked women's basketball team when UT debuted at No. 23.
  • She became the 13th person to accomplish that feat at the school where she also played. According to Hoops Guru Mel Greenberg, UT and USC are the only schools with two alums to accomplish that feat. Harper and Holly Warlick did so at Tennessee, while Cheryl Miller and Cynthia Cooper-Dyke did so at Southern Cal.
  • Harper is one of only 11 coaches to lead three different women's teams to NCAA Tournament appearances (Western Carolina, NC State, Missouri State).
  • She will attempt to join Jim Foster (St. Joseph's, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, Chattanooga) in becoming the only coaches to take four different women's teams to the NCAA tourney.
TENNESSEE TOPICS
  • Tennessee has outworked seven of eight opponents on the glass this season and has a +15.1 rebound margin.
  • The Lady Vols average 16.1 second chance points per game and have won that category in every contest but one (Central Arkansas). UT is outscoring opponents 40.5 to 21.5 in points in the paint, and has won that battle in six games and tied in two others.
  • The Lady Vols' bench has been a strength this season, with the Big Orange holding a 29.6 to 13.8 advantage in points from reserves. Texas (21-20) is the only team to top Tennessee in that category in 2019-20.
  • UT has been at its best offensively in the first quarter this season, averaging 20.4 during that period. On the defensive end, the Lady Vols are their stingiest in the second frame, allowing only 12.1 points over that 10-minute stretch.
  • Tennessee has shot for a higher percentage from the field in every game except the Texas match-up, in which the Longhorns knocked down 36.2 to UT's 30.6 percent.
  • The Lady Vols are allowing opponents only 29.5 percent shooting from the field and have allowed no one to shoot better than 36% this season.
  • Tennessee has had 16 or more assists in each game this season and a season-best 25 vs. UAPB.
  • The Big Orange women have won the opening tip in all eight games.
  • A season-best 9,371 fans attended the game vs. Texas on Dec. 8.
ABOUT COLORADO STATE
  • Colorado State returned three starters and five overall letterwinners from a year ago, when the Rams were 8-22 overall and 2-16 (11th place) in the Mountain West Conference.
  • CSU welcomed four newcomers and five other players who redshirted last season due to injury or after transferring in.
  • Last year's results aside, Colorado State has typically been a contender for the MWC title in recent years. The Rams claimed four straight league crowns from 2013-14 to 2016-17.
  • Colorado State is led by eighth-year head coach Ryun Williams, who is 149-85 during his time in Fort Collins. He is 461-276 in his 22-year career as an NCAA coach.
  • The most famous alum of CSU women's basketball has to be Becky Hammon, a six-time WNBA All-Star as a player who is currently an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. She was the first woman to become a full-time coach in one of North America's major professional sports leagues.
RECAPPING THE RAM'S LAST GAME
  • Redshirt senior forward Andrea Brady led all scorers with 23 points, but it wasn't enough as Boise State held off Colorado State, 72-69, in Fort Collins on Sunday.
  • Megan Jacobs, a 6-1 redshirt junior guard/forward, aided the CSU cause with an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double, while 6-2 senior forward Makenzie Ellis chipped in 14 and 6-0 redshirt junior guard/forward Jamie Bonnarens added 12, all via three-pointers.
  • The Rams hit 49.1 percent from the field, but 17 turnovers helped limit them to 55 shots for the game.
  • CSU trailed by seven at the half, 40-33, but outscored BSU 36-32 over the final 20 minutes to make a push toward earning a victory.
  • Plagued by injuries, Colorado State played only eight players and received no bench points vs. BSU.
VolNation

We're playing a taller team, a more experienced team, but one with no marquee wins...They're probably looking for one.
Be ready Lv's

Coach J
 
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Coach Jumper said:
A season-best 9,371 fans attended the game vs. Texas on Dec. 8.
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That's not true at all. The university uses the number of tickets sold when releasing the official attendance number. There is a huge gap between the number of tickets sold and the number of turnstile clicks representing butts in a seat. It would be a correct statement to say the official attendance was 9,371. It would also be correct to say there were 9,371 tickets sold for the game. But to say "A season-best 9,371 fans attended the game" is just not true.
 
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thanks Coach...hope you got with the girls and practiced those 1-2 footers...:D

GO LADY VOLS...RAM THE LADY RAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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So Col St 8-22 and only 2 wins in the MWC last year seriously records like this must have been what Holly and Phil were looking for when they made out this years schedule. Pathetic but it is what it is the concerning part is the AD was ok with it!
 
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PG1 said:
So Col St 8-22 and only 2 wins in the MWC last year seriously records like this must have been what Holly and Phil were looking for when they made out this years schedule. Pathetic but it is what it is the concerning part is the AD was ok with it!
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I don’t think this team has any chance of beating Stanford or UConn, and ND isn’t nearly the quality win it appeared to be at the time. This schedule is going to put a lot of pressure on this team in SEC play if they’re going to avoid being the first ever LV team to miss the NCAAT. They may have to win 9 or 10 games to get in.
 
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Okay back to the game that matters now... Colorado State... What do we know about em?


We know that this game precedes what could be the most important game of the early-season Stanford. We need to come out attack this team and put them away and not back off of the pedal but instead push the pedal further than we pushed it all season. We will then have a cupcake or two and then we're in the SEC. I think that Uconn coming up in the middle of the SEC run is perfect for us. Because however we are playing against SEC teams should translate over into that game.

So come on Lady Vols, don't just come out to win this game, come out to kick some butt
 
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Massey rates Colorado State at 209, and their SOS at 255. I believe that qualifies them as a cupcake. Like the majority of our schedule, they do not have a winning record. Even Texas didn't until they played us. Kicking a cupcake's butt will provide further evidence that ...


we are good cupcake butt kickers.
 
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1reVOLver said:
Massey rates Colorado State at 209, and their SOS at 255. I believe that qualifies them as a cupcake. Like the majority of our schedule, they do not have a winning record. Even Texas didn't until they played us. Kicking a cupcake's butt will provide further evidence that ...


we are good cupcake butt kickers.
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Yes but we haven't really kicked a cupcakes butt at this point. We win by just a few points. And that's okay these early games are for instruction and growth. But now it's time to change gears. Now it's time to get serious and show me the team we're going to go into this season with. It's time now for the cream to rise to the top and it's time for us to lace up our sneakers and start showing what we're truly made of. It's time to represent Tennessee lady Vol basketball
 
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Coach Jumper said:
Yes but we haven't really kicked a cupcakes butt at this point. We win by just a few points. And that's okay these early games are for instruction and growth. But now it's time to change gears. Now it's time to get serious and show me the team we're going to go into this season with. It's time now for the cream to rise to the top and it's time for us to lace up our sneakers and start showing what we're truly made of. It's time to represent Tennessee lady Vol basketball
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So kicking their butts will mean we have arrived?
 
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They are a little better than a cupcake were only a 20 point favorite have been a much larger favorite over some other teams we've played. They actually have some height and some deadly three point shooters. The worse loss they have suffered is like 12 points and they just got through playing Boise State lost by three. We definitely should win but I'm sure plenty will be upset if we win by less than 20 which could happen.
 
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We need to start KK over Lou
I still like Rae off the bench but Lou is not an influence like KK is

We give too easy a 3 shot...got to quit leaving them open 3's
 
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Someone needs to stop Jaz shooting, nevermind, posted this after several early missed shots, and remembering so many missed shots from earlier games. Maybe she’s improving, still would feel more confident in Rennia getting extra shots.
 
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What, we didn't play Saunders in the 1st????
Why not, we played everybody else.

Horston is in need of "the right words",,,she is playing in a funk and expecting to do so....She needs to communicate and to be communicated to...she will only get deeper in a funk if not handled right
 
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