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LADY VOL HOOPS CENTRAL: ETSU
December 01, 2015 | Women's Basketball
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The #8/8 Lady Vols (5-1) continue their eight-game homestand with a match-up against in-state foe East Tennessee State (3-4) at Thompson-Boling Arena on Wednesday. Tipoff is slated for 7:01 p.m., and the game will be broadcast online on SECN+.
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Gameday Time & Broadcast Info
- Opponent: East Tennessee State
- Tipoff: 7:01 p.m. ET
- TV: SECN+
- Radio: Lady Vol Network
- Online: Live Audio,
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Bob Kesling (PxP), LVFL Isabelle Harrison (Analyst) and Maddy Glab (Reporter) will describe the action on SECN+/WatchESPN. Fans can hear the Lady Vol Network broadcast on stations across the state as well as via a live stream worldwide with Mickey Dearstone calling the action.
Tickets for the game can be purchased online via UTTIX.com.
In-State Foes Reconnect On Wednesday
- The #8/8 Lady Vols (5-1) host their seventh of eight-consecutive home games to open the season, as East Tennessee State (3-4) visits Thompson-Boling Arena at 7:01 p.m. ET on Wednesday in a meeting of in-state foes.
- Tickets are available at UTTix.com.
- The Lady Vols play only two games during this calendar week, but this will mark UT's third game in six days after facing Albany (Fri.) and #8/8 Texas (Sun.) over the weekend.
- Tennessee is 1-0 vs. teams from the Volunteer State this season, edging RV/NR Chattanooga, 59-57, on Nov. 23.
- The Big Orange women will try to get back on the right track after Texas ended a 27-game home winning streak, 64-53, on Sunday.
- UT's streaks of 17-straight non-conference home wins and 16-consecutive November home victories came to an end.
- The Lady Vols, however, do have an opportunity to extend a spree of 43-straight home wins over unranked foes.
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About The Lady Vols
- Tennessee fell from No. 4 to No. 8 in Monday's AP poll, marking Tennessee's lowest spot since checking in at No. 8 during the eighth week last season. UT also is No. 8 in the USA TODAY poll.
- The Lady Vols actually hit a season low of 14th in week four of the AP poll last season after falling at Chattanooga.
- Under Holly Warlick, Tennessee typically bounces back after a loss. Only twice has UT lost following a loss, dropping back-to-back games to #3/3 Baylor and #1/1 Stanford in 2012-13 and to unranked Chattanooga and #6/9 Texas during the 2014-15 campaign.
- The Lady Vols held Texas, a team that entered averaging 81.2 points per game, to 64 on Sunday and put Tennessee's points allowed average this season at 57.3 through six games.
- The Lady Vols have out-rebounded all six opponents thus far, edging Texas by four, 45-41.
- Tennessee has four players scoring in double figures for the season, led by Mercedes Russell (13.0) and followed by Bashaara Graves (12.6), Diamond DeShields (11.3) and Te'a Cooper (10.3).
- Three of those four players didn't play for Tennessee a year ago.
- The Lady Vols were whistled for 23 fouls vs. Texas, more than in any game in the 2014-15 season.
- Tennessee continues to be a decent free throw shooting team, hitting 72 percent. Bashaara Graves leads the way at 93.8% (15-16).
About The Buccaneers
- East Tennessee State brings a two-game losing skid to Knoxville, standing 3-4 overall and 1-4 away from Johnson City.
- The Buccaneers dropped consecutive road contests at Eastern Kentucky (64-41) and Elon (50-38) on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
- ETSU is being outscored 59.9 to 54.6 and out-rebounded 41.3 to 41.0 this season, averaging only 39.5 points over its last two contests.
- Junior guard Shamauria Bridges, who was second-team All-Southern Conference in 2014-15, is the team's top player, averaging 17.0 points per game.
- Sophomore Tianna Tarter, another returning starter at guard and a SoCon All-Freshman Team selection a year ago, has played in only one game this season and averages 11.0 points per contest. She suffered a concussion and throat injury in the opener vs. UNC Asheville and is doubtful for Weds.
- Chandler Christopher is the team's third returning starter, and she is scoring 7.6 per game and dishing out 5.4 assists per game for the Buccaneers.
- In ETSU's 50-38 loss to Elon on Sunday, Bridges and freshman guard Carley Lytton paced their team with 10 points each, while sophomore guard Malloree Schurr grabbed 10 rebounds for the Bucs.
- ETSU led the game 21-20 at the half but was outscored 30-17 the rest of the way, including 18-4 in the third quarter.
- The Bucs shot 24.6% (15-61) from the field, including 18.2% (4-22) from the three-point line.
Series Notes
- Tennessee leads the series with the Buccaneers, 18-2-1.
- UT's records include games played in 1924 (ETSU, 22-16 in Knoxville), 1925 (25-all in Johnson City) and 1926 (UT, 50-16 in Knoxville), when the orange-clad players were called Volettes.
- After losing 62-56 in Johnson City on Feb. 12, 1971, the Lady Vols have won 16 in a row.
- These teams last met on Dec. 22, 2010, when #5/6 Tennessee raced by the Bucs, 102-53, at Thompson-Boling Arena.
- The Lady Vols have reached the 100-point plateau three times vs. ETSU, doing so in 2010 (102) and twice in 1977 (100, 102) with Warlick playing.
- East Tennessee State is back in the Southern Conference after being in the Atlantic Sun from 2005-06 to 2013-14.
- The Lady Vols are 59-20-1 all-time vs. schools from the SoCon. Tennessee defeated SoCon member Chattanooga earlier this season in Knoxville, 59-57, on Nov. 23.
- The UT women are 232-60-1 all-time vs. four-year college teams from the Volunteer State.
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