UT Foes Revealed For West Palm Beach Classic

The Tennessee women's basketball schedule finally is complete after organizers at the West Palm Beach Classic revealed tournament matchups on Tuesday. Kim Caldwell's squad will meet 2024 conference championship and postseason tournament teams Richmond and Tulsa on Dec. 20 and 21, respectively.

The Lady Vols will face the Spiders at 2:15 p.m. ET on Friday and follow with an 11 a.m. affair with the Golden Hurricane on Saturday at Rubin Arena on the Palm Beach Atlantic University campus in West Palm Beach, Fla. Tickets can be purchased via tourney organizer Coast 2 Coast Basketball's website.

The Lady Vols play at Memphis on Dec. 18, so the tournament in Florida will provide UT with a three-game stint of contests away from home prior to a brief winter break.

SERIES NOTES

vs. Richmond (Dec. 20)

This will mark the second-ever meeting between these programs.
The only other women's basketball contest between these schools came on Jan. 14, 1991, when the No. 2/3-ranked Lady Vols rolled to an 80-54 victory in Knoxville.
Tennessee has a 26-0 all-time mark vs. schools from the Atlantic-10 Conference.
Richmond put together a 29-2 overall record and 16-2 result in A-10 play in 2023-24 to sweep both the regular season and tournament titles.
The Spiders were the aggressor against Duke in the 2024 NCAA First Round, taking a 37-28 lead into the locker room at the half before eventually falling, 72-61.
UR is led by head coach Aaron Roussell, who is 94-57 entering his sixth season at the school and 406-179 beginning his 21st year of coaching.
He was named the 2024 A-10 Coach of the Year.

vs. Tulsa (Dec. 21)

This will mark Tennessee's first-ever meeting with the Golden Hurricane.
UT is 44-1 all-time vs. women's basketball programs in the American Athletic Conference.
Tulsa finished 25-10 overall and tied for first in AAC play with a 13-5 record a year ago.
The Golden Hurricane made the 2024 Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament quarterfinal round before falling to Illinois, 69-61.
Tulsa is led by fourth-year head coach Angie Nelp, who previously was associate head coach for Charli Turner Thorne at Arizona State.
In three seasons, Nelp has compiled a 59-34 record at Tulsa, becoming the first coach in program history to achieve winning seasons in her first three campaigns.

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