Category: Tennessee Lady Vols

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference women’s basketball preseason coaches poll was released Tuesday, and the Tennessee Lady Vols have been picked to finish third in the league in 2023-24 by the league’s skippers. UT, previously picked third in the SEC by the media and ranked 11th in the AP Preseason Poll and 12th in the…

LVFL Cierra Burdick and the 2023 USA 3×3 Women’s Basketball Team have captured the gold medal at the 2023 Pan American Games at Estadio Español in Santiago, Chile, finishing with a perfect 5-0 record. The USA men also completed a sweep en route to gold. The USA women faced Colombia for the gold medal, and…

Tennessee Head Coach Kellie Harper  Opening Statement…“Thank you guys for being here today. Before we get started talking about our current team, I want to send our condolences as a family to the family of Tasha Butts. Obviously, today we heard of her passing. It’s another gut punch for our program. We have heavy hearts today.…

Former Tennessee Lady Vols standout and current Georgetown women’s basketball head coach Tasha Butts has passed away at the age of 41 following a valiant battle with breast cancer. “Our program is heartbroken to lose a member of our Lady Vol sisterhood much, much too soon,” UT head coach Kellie Harper said. “Tasha was the type of…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced their 20 preseason watch-list candidates for the 2024 Cheryl Miller Award, and 2023 finalist Rickea Jackson of Tennessee is among them. Named after the three-time Naismith Player of the Year and Class of 1995 Hall of Famer, the annual award, in its…

The Tennessee women’s basketball team will begin the season ranked in the top 12 of both major preseason polls that were released Tuesday, coming in at No. 11 in the Associated Press Top 25 and at No. 12 in the USA TODAY Sports/WBCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. It marks the third consecutive year the UT women…

The USA Basketball Women’s National Team program announced Thursday it will play a pair of exhibition games against college teams, and one of those contests will take place in Knoxville against Kellie Harper‘s Lady Vols on Nov. 5. Tennessee and the USA National Team will meet on that Sunday at 6 p.m. ET in Thompson-Boling Arena at…

The Lady Vols held their first official basketball practice of the 2023-24 season on Wednesday, and fifth-year head coach Kellie Harper put her 13-player squad through a spirited two-hour workout in Pratt Pavilion. The team has been in the midst of preseason on-court activities and strength and conditioning workouts, but Wednesday’s gathering had a different feel. Coaches…

The Associated Press announced on Tuesday that it has named LVFL and Seattle Storm forward Jordan Horston to its WNBA All-Rookie Team. Horston, who starred at Tennessee from 2019-23 and was the No. 9 overall pick in the 2023 WNBA Draft by the Storm, was one of five players chosen to the squad. The official WNBA awards will…