Game thread: #11 Lady Vols host Georgia. Sunday, March 2, Noon ET, SECN

[Orange.]

Venue:
The Summitt
Thompson-Boling Arena
at Food City Center

TV: SECN
Radio: Lady Vol Network
Audio-stream: UTSports.com and SiriusXM Satellite Radio (Ch. 81).
Live stats: (during the game) StatBroadcast Mobile Stats


The Lady Vols are 13-3 at home this season — with the only losses here to No. 9/10 Oklahoma, No. 6/4 LSU and No. 2/2 South Carolina. We have won four of our last five games and six of our last eight entering Sunday. UT, though, is coming off an 82-58 loss at No. 15/14 Kentucky on Thursday night in which the Lady Vols scored their lowest point total of the season and shot their second-lowest field goal percentage at 31.1.

Senior Day ceremonies will take place immediately after the game with the Lady Vol careers of Favor Ayodele, Tess Darby, Jillian Hollingshead, Sara Puckett, Jewel Spear, Samara Spencer and Destinee Wells being celebrated.

Seeding for next week's SEC Tournament is at stake in the LadyVols home finale: either the No. 7, 8 or 9 spots in the bracket.

A Tennessee win over Georgia would make it 9-7 and an Ole Miss loss at LSU would make it 9-7, with the Big Orange winning a tiebreaker and getting the No. 7 seed due to its head-to-head win over Ole Miss this season.

An Ole Miss win over LSU would make it 10-6 and relegate UT to the No. 8 seed, regardless of its outcome vs. UGA. A Lady Vol loss to Georgia and a Vanderbilt win over Missouri would knot UT and VU at 8-8, with the Commodores winning the tie breaker and dropping Tennessee to ninth.

The No. 7 seed opens tourney play at 6 p.m. on Thursday, the No. 8 seed plays at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday and the No. 9 seed plays at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.


Georgia, which is 0-8 in road games this season, ended a three-game losing skid to the likes of Kentucky, LSU and Texas on Thursday night, knocking off Auburn in Athens, 62-59.

Leading the Puppy-ettes are Trinity Turner (12.2 ppg.), De'Mauri Flournoy (11.2 ppg.) and Mia Woolfolk (11.0 ppg., 5.2 rpg.). Asia Avinger is right behind at 9.7 ppg.

Mia Woolfolk led the Bulldog’s win over Auburn with 17 points, hitting 5-5 from field and 7 of 9 free throws.

 

[KrazyVolFan]

Thank you, now let's move on and let that other thread die. A night I can't forget fast enough.

 

[knoxvol52]

Lady Vols put the pups back in the kennel...

 

[AllVols3]

Lady Vols put the pups back in the kennel...

I have 4 for Georgia if anybody wants them!! Text (423)552-1192

 

[volz2wallz]

GBO!!

 

[Orange.]

Thank you, now let's move on and let that other thread die. A night I can't forget fast enough.

I agree. We can’t let a negative focus drag us down. I think this and this (if you have a little longer) is good medicine. It’s basketball. Bad games happen. We want to keep perspective.

My perspective:



Go LVs! Beat Georgia!

 

[MAD]

Beat Georgia!

 

[Volfan2012]

Senior day ceremonies will commence after the end of the game. That is a little different than usual. I Have seen it mostly done before the game.

 

[RAVOL]

Lady Vols 93- dogs 65 . Tennessee will play very inspired today. Tess on senior day and Sam hit 8 3's between them. Will be 7 seed in Greenville after ole miss loses. Go Lady Vols. In CHRIST Alone

 

[chuckiepoo]

Senior day ceremonies will commence after the end of the game. That is a little different than usual. I Have seen it mostly done before the game.

Too early.

 

[NoBackBoard]

Nice recovery by Jill in the paint after giving up the ball.

 

[NoBackBoard]

The fans are still standing 3 mins in….

 

[NoBackBoard]

Georgia’s interior defense is bothering us.

 

[ttharp]

 

[volforlife10]

offense how how looks worse than it did last time

 

[LadyViking/Vol]

These kids just need to find their confidence!!

 

[knoxvol52]

Not the start everyone was hoping for. Hope we score soon those older people can't stand like that all quarter..

 

[utVolFanInVA]

This is unwatchable! Almost 5 minutes in and 0 points. Just throwing prayers up close to the basket & hoping instead of going off 2 feet & shooting. Seems like regression over the last 2+ games.

 

[Voltopia]

Five minutes in, still no points. I'm not sure what the record is for "time before first basket" but if UT hasn't broken it they've got to be close.

 

[volnationnj]

I hope the alarm clock goes off soon. Because it seems we are sleepwalking through the first 5 minutes.

 

[ttharp]

Congratulations, Catch!!

 

[SGMVols]

Uhhhh better wake up because a loss today and you’re traveling in the dance. WTF

 

[SGMVols]

This would be a 2 seed penalty loss. UGA is that bad

 

[Voluble2]

Whatever got into the team before the last game apparently hasn't gotten out yet.

They look awful.

And that tradition of clapping until the team scores needs to be trashed because all it does is put pressure on a team when it struggles. That has to be one of the worst and dumbest traditions in sports.

 

[UT Challenger]

This team has hit a concrete wall. Not a good sign at this point in the season.