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From Hoop Central
KNOXVILLE -- Undefeated Tennessee (5-0) welcomes a Florida State team (8-1) on a seven-game winning streak to Food City Center on Wednesday night for an SEC-ACC Women's Basketball Challenge between squads that rank among the nation's leaders in scoring offense, three-pointers, offensive rebounds and turnover margin. UT and FSU, who faced off last season in Tallahassee in a real barnburner the Seminoles won by a 92-91 count, will meet at 7:15 p.m. ET in a highly-anticipated match-up televised by SEC Network. Both teams, who rank one-two nationally in scoring at 98.2 and 96.2 ppg., respectively, are receiving votes and reside just outside the top 25 in the AP and USA TODAY/WBCA Coaches Polls. This will mark the Big Orange's sixth straight home contest during a run in which seven of the first eight take place on Rocky Top at the outset of the 2024-25 campaign. Tennessee is coming off its most dominant performance of the season, a 102-50 victory over Western Carolina on Nov. 26. It marked the third time Kim Caldwell's squad has eclipsed the century mark and tied her club's fewest points allowed in a game this season.
Florida State, meanwhile, won all three of its tilts at the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, over Thanksgiving weekend. After edging Texas Tech, 70-62, on Thursday, Brooke Wyckoff's unit blew out Missouri State (97-66) and Gonzaga (95-54) on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Tennessee carries a 2-1 series record into the game, including a 1-0 mark in contests played in Knoxville. This will mark only the second meeting between these programs since 1986.
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- Tennessee is set to wear its "Summitt Blue" uniforms vs. Florida State.
- COOP IS HOOPIN': Talaysia Cooper is coming off back-to-back games of 33 vs. Liberty and 20 vs. Western Carolina and is averaging 26.5 ppg. over that span. She leads UT this season at 19.2 ppg.
- 5-0 WITH FIVE DIFFERENT FIVES: UT has started the season 5-0 with five different starting lineups and eight different players appearing in the first five. Sara Puckett is the only player to start all five contests.
- PICK YOUR POISON: UT has had seven different players score in double figures, and every game has seen at least four Lady Vols tallying 10 or more points.
- GUARDS HITTING THE BOARDS: Tennessee's top two rebounders are guards. Ruby Whitehorn and Talaysia Cooper lead the way at 7.6 and 6.0, respectively.
- BIRTHDAY DISHES FOR SAM?: Samara Spencer, who has dished 5+ dimes in every game and ranks No. 4 nationally in assist/turnover ratio (4.50), will suit up for UT against Florida State on her 22nd birthday.
- LAST YEAR VS. FSU: Jewel Spear had 18 points, Sara Puckett 15 and Tess Darby 10 at FSU. Samara Spencer had 15 points and six assists for Arkansas in a win at FSU.
- RACKING UP STEALS: The Lady Vols lead the nation in steals per game, averaging 18.4 and netting 13 or more each outing.
- THAT'S A 10-COUNT: Tennessee has prevented the opposition from getting the ball over halfcourt in 10 seconds a total of 10 times already in five games. Five was the total number of violations forced by UT over the previous five years combined.
- PILING UP POINTS: The Lady Vols rank No. 1 nationally in scoring offense, rolling up 98.2 points per game. The lowest a Kim Caldwell team has ranked in scoring is No. 4, which Marshall did last season (85.3).
- LETTING 'EM FLY: UT leads the nation in three-pointers attempted per game at 38.8 per contest. That's more than the school's single-game record of 36 (2010).
- MAKING THREES IN BUNCHES: Tennessee, which also is No. 1 in 3FGs made per game at 11.6, has hit 10 or more treys four times this season and is one shy of tying the school best for most games with double-digit three-pointer production.
- A NOSE FOR O-BOARDS: UT is No. 1 in the nation in offensive rebounds per game at 23.6. It has twice eclipsed 30 this season.
- A NUMBER THAT COUNTS: UT is No. 1 nationally with 21 other teams with a win percentage of 100 through Dec. 2.
- WINNING THE FIRST FIVE: Tennessee has won its first five games for the initial time since beginning 2021-22 at 9-0.
- BEST STARTS FOR CALDWELL: UT's 5-0 start ties for the second-best opening of a season in Kim Caldwell's nine years as a head coach. She matched her 5-0 start at Glenville State in 2018-19. Her 2021-22 GSU squad started 29-0 on its way to 35-1.
- SIX STRAIGHT AT HOME: This marks the first time since 2015-16 that UT has opened a campaign with six straight games at home. Tennessee played eight in a row here to start the 2015-16 schedule.
- 8K SEASON TIX: UT has sold 8,000+ season tickets -- the most since 2015-16.
- DRAWING CROWDS: UT has drawn five crowds of 9K+ in five games. That marks the best attendance start since 2013-14.
- UT NO. 31 IN NET RANKINGS: UT is at No. 31 in the NCAA's Dec. 1 NET rankings.
- NO. 39 TOUGHEST SCHEDULE: UT's cumulative schedule ranks No. 39 on the NCAA's Toughest Schedule report.
- Tennessee is averaging 98.2 points per game to rank No. 1 in the nation in scoring through five games.
- UT stands No. 7 in scoring margin at 34.0.
- Five times Kim Caldwell's teams have led the nation in scoring, with all five coming at Glenville State in 2019-20 (106.8), 2018-19 (102.3), 2020-21 (98.4), 2021-22 (95.5) and her first season as a head coach, 2016-17 (94.1). She was No. 4 in NCAA Division I in 2023-24 at Marshall (85.3).
- UT has scored 89 or more points in each of the first five games of a season for the first time in school history. It had previously set the record at four straight to open a campaign.
- It also marked only the third time Tennessee has scored 89+ in five straight games at any point and the fifth time it has done it four times in a row.
- If UT scores 89+ vs. Florida State, it would mark the first time in UT women's history it has carded six straight games with that point total.
- UT has had five straight contests of 89+ points in 2024-25 11/5 to 11/26...), 1987-88 (12/13 to 1/3) and 1997-98 (1/6 to 1/20), and four in a row in 1993-94 (1/2 to 1/13) and 2000-01 (2/1 to 2/11).
- UT has reached 100 points three times in 2024-25.
- The Lady Vols have never reeled off three straight games of 100+ in their history.
- The program record for most 100-point games in a season is seven in 1987-88.
- Tennessee ranks No. 1 nationally in three-pointers attempted per game at 38.8.
- UT also is No. 1 in three-pointers made per game, firing in 11.6 per contest through the Western Carolina game.
- The program best average for three-pointers per game is 6.8, which came last season (223 in 33 games).
- As of Dec. 2, Tennessee ranks No. 1 in the NCAA in steals per game at 18.4 per contest.
- UT's 92 steals over the first five games in 2024-25 is the most to begin a season in program history, topping the previous best of 81 in 2001-02.
- The Lady Vols rank No. 2 nationally and No. 1 in the SEC in turnovers forced per game at 30.4.
- Florida State enters at 8-1 and on a seven-game winning streak, with its only loss coming at Illinois on Nov. 7 by a score of 83-74.
- The Seminoles defeated common foe Samford, 101-68, on Nov. 14, while UT opened its season with a 101-53 triumph over SU on Nov 5.
- FSU features four players scoring in double figures, led by all-star guard Ta'Niya Latson, who fires in 26.1 ppg. and adds 5.1 rpg. and 4.5 apg.
- Latson is joined in double figures by Makayla Timpson (18.7), O'Mariah Gordon (16.1) and Sydney Bowles (11.2).
- The Seminoles are shooting 45.6 percent from the field while averaging 96.2 points, winning by a margin of 33.2 points and making 9.6 treys per game.
- FSU averages 11.8 steals and forces 22.0 turnovers.
- Tennessee travels to New York City on Friday, where it will take part in the Shark Beauty Women's Champions Classic in Brooklyn on Saturday night.
- The Lady Vols will meet undefeated Iowa (8-0) at 7 p.m. ET in the first game of a doubleheader at the Barclays Center that will be televised nationally by FOX.
- UConn will face Louisville in the second contest.
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question that stuck out was when a reporter asked; how CKC doesn’t really call timeouts and has that shifted since being at this level. Her response “No” I loveeeeee it. 