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LADY VOL HOOPS CENTRAL: UTC
November 21, 2015 | Women's Basketball
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The #4/5 Lady Vols (3-0) play their first of three games this week, as #24/RV Chattanooga (3-1) visits Thompson-Boling Arena on Monday. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m., and the game will be broadcast online on SECN+.
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Gameday Time & Broadcast Info
- Opponent: Chattanooga
- Tipoff: 7 p.m. ET
- TV: SECN+
- Radio: Lady Vol Network
- Online: Live Audio,
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Courtney Lyle (PxP), LVFL Ariel Massengale (Analyst) and Maddy Glab (Reporter) will describe the action on the SECN+/WatchESPN online broadcast. 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.
Lady Vols Host Mocs Monday Night
- The #4/5 Lady Vols (3-0) host their fourth of eight-consecutive home games to open the season on Friday, as #24/RV Chattanooga (3-1) invades Thompson-Boling Arena.
- The Mocs enter on the heels of a 67-63 upset victory over #4/5 UT a year ago in Chattanooga.
- While there was that excitement for UTC, the Mocs also saw their season end at Thompson-Boling Arena last year, falling to Pittsburgh in the NCAA First Round, 51-40.
- It will be a busy week for Tennessee, as Holly Warlick's squad hosts three games (Chattanooga, Albany, Texas) in this calendar week.
- It's already been a trying start to the 2015-16 season, as the Lady Vols opened with three games in the span of just six days (UCA on Nov. 15, PSU on Nov. 18 and SU on Nov. 20.).
- UT is averaging 9,525 in attendance over the first three home games, with a season-best crowd of 10,007 cheering the team to a 57-55 victory over Syracuse on Friday night.
About Chattanooga
- Chattanooga comes to Knoxville 3-1 after defeating Southern Miss Friday night in the consolation bracket of the 2015 Preseason WNIT.
- The Mocs had to work overtime to grind out a 53-48 home victory over the Eagles (1-2).
- After defeating McNeese State (68-53) and Butler (60-49) at home, UTC suffered its only loss on Nov. 17 in a 54-43 setback at Indiana in the second round of the WNIT.
- Keiana Gilbert, a 5-11 sophomore forward from Pulaski, leads the Mocs in scoring at 13.8 points per game, while 6-2 junior forward Jasmine Joyner paces UTC in rebounding (10.3 rpg.) and averages 10.8 points per contest. She also has blocked 21 shots in four games for a 5.3 average.
- Chattanooga is led by head coach Jim Foster, who is 61-9 in his third season at the school and 844-315 in 39 years of coaching.
- The Mocs have posted back-to-back 29-4 seasons and claimed consecutive Southern Conference titles with unblemished marks in league play.
- Foster, a 2013 inductee into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, was the first coach in women's basketball to take four teams (St. Joseph's, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, Chattanooga) to the NCAA Tournament.
- Chattanooga sophomore guard Shelbie Davenport was a high school teammate of Tennessee's Alexa Middleton at Murfreesboro Riverdale.
Series Notes
- This marks the 35th meeting between these sister schools.
- Tennessee leads the series with Chattanooga, 26-8, but the Mocs have won two out of the last three match-ups.
- Both of those UT losses came at UTC's McKenzie Arena, including 80-71 in Holly Warlick's debut on Nov. 9, 2012, and 67-63 on Nov. 26, 2014.
- The Lady Vols were ranked #20/16 in 2012 and #4/5 in 2014.
- Tennessee owns a 14-4 mark at home after the #3/3 Lady Vols beat UTC, 80-56, on Nov. 14, 2013.
- The Lady Vols haven't lost to Chattanooga in Knoxville since 1973.
- Tennessee is 58-19-1 all-time vs. teams from the Southern Conference.
Catching Up With The Lady Vols
- The Lady Vols face their second consecutive ranked opponent in #24/RV Chattanooga.
- Tennessee improved to 3-0 on the season Friday night, defeating #25/RV Syracuse by two, 57-55, at Thompson-Boling Arena.
- Bashaara Graves led four Lady Vols in double figures vs. the Orange, notching her second straight double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds in the victory.
- With the win, UT moved to 108-22 vs. the ACC.
- Tennessee now has had 11 of its 12 players appear in a game this season, as rookie Meme Jackson made her debut and play two minutes.
- Only sophomore Jaime Nared has yet to play in 2015-16, with Nared still not cleared to return to practice after breaking her left hand in the preseason.
- Three Lady Vols are scoring in double figures, including Bashaara Graves (20.0), Mercedes Russell (15.7) and Te'a Cooper (15.3).
- Graves, Russell and Cooper are the only three Lady Vols to score in double figures in every game this season.
- Cooper, Russell and Andraya Carter are the only three UT players to start every game thus far.
