Coach Jumper
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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
- Opponent: Colorado State
- Date: Wed., Dec. 11
- Tipoff: 7 p.m.
- Venue: Thompson-Boling Arena
- Watch: SECN+
- Radio: Lady Vol Network
- Online: Live Audio, Live Stats
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- Game Notes (PDF)
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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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