Lady Vol SEC Opponents Released

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Baylor was a one and done due to the SEC Big 12 Challenge. Kim was pissed that she had to come to Knoxville.

Stanford, Texas, and Notre Dame are on the schedule.
 
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mtsuraider06 said:
Baylor was a one and done due to the SEC Big 12 Challenge. Kim was pissed that she had to come to Knoxville.

Stanford, Texas, and Notre Dame are on the schedule.
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Welcome Back!

Possible revenge against VT or Penn State? Is JMU coming to UT because we went there last year? Any idea about other OOC opponents?
 
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Amb3096 said:
James Madison, Navy, ETSU, Tennessee State, Appalachian State, Troy and UNC Wilmington are cupcakes, no matter how much Tennessee plays down to their level. And if they do struggle, that's 100% on them because there is no justification for lowly teams like this to be able to compete with Tennessee.

Penn State and Va Tech would be considered cupcakes by most any other Top 25 teams, even if they did beat Tennessee.

Baylor, ND, Texas and Stanford were their only Top 25 OOC opponents. Granted, the SEC schedule brought up their overall SOS, but I thought the OOC was much, much weaker than it has been in the past. Although they played a bunch of top 10 teams, there weren't really any 2nd tier teams in that portion of the schedule for a change.



For the most part last season, the cupcakes were sweet, fluffy and satisfying. But there were 2 that were kind of rancid...
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"Cupcake" is relative to time and opponent. Not many years ago Miss St and SC seemed to be competing with each other for cellar supremacy. How things change!

Relatively speaking, we were a cupcake for Baylor last season.
 
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Putbacks said:
"Cupcake" is relative to time and opponent. Not many years ago Miss St and SC seemed to be competing with each other for cellar supremacy. How things change!

Relatively speaking, we were a cupcake for Baylor last season.
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Miss State and SC improved their programs because they got better players. With better players came better results.

There is a huge talent discrepancy between Tennessee and the cupcake teams I mentioned. Y-uge. I'm not going to pretend that those are really good (or even decent) teams or anything. They weren't. Those were considered gimme wins 10-15 years ago, and they should still be considered gimme wins because Tennessee would have to work harder to lose those games than to actually win them.

And yes, relatively speaking, Tennessee was a cupcake for Baylor...despite fielding a team that was just as talented (unlike Penn State or VT, who were able to win with far less talented teams).
 
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Penn State owns one of the most storied histories in women's basketball. Virginia Tech has beaten us twice in two years. Both compete in major conferences respectively. Evidence does not support that they are "cupcakes". Both are currently weak teams as SC and Miss St were once upon a time.

Scheduling the perceived "cupcakes" (ETSU, TSU, Appy St, UNCW) isn't unlike what all the other schools are doing and have been doing for years. Unfortunately, we have sunk to the level where those opponents are actually decent competition for us. We have to scrap to get a W sometimes against foes like that. That's who we are right now program-wise. Having the best names in the game isn't providing us separation from those Duncan Hines Icing Monsters!
 
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Putbacks said:
Penn State owns one of the most storied histories in women's basketball. Virginia Tech has beaten us twice in two years. Both compete in major conferences respectively. Evidence does not support that they are "cupcakes". Both are currently weak teams as SC and Miss St were once upon a time.

Scheduling the perceived "cupcakes" (ETSU, TSU, Appy St, UNCW) isn't unlike what all the other schools are doing and have been doing for years. Unfortunately, we have sunk to the level where those opponents are actually decent competition for us. We have to scrap to get a W sometimes against foes like that. That's who we are right now program-wise. Having the best names in the game isn't providing us separation from those Duncan Hines Icing Monsters!
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PSU has made 1 FF in the history of their program. I think you are being overly generous in assigning them "one of the most storied histories in WCBB". Every decade or so, a player like McConnell, Mazzante or Lucas would elevate them to a top 16 team, and when they didn't have a player of that caliber, they were at best a WNIT team.

VT may have beaten Tennessee two years running, but the minute ACC play started, they were absolutely abused. They went 9-23 in the ACC during that same period. No matter what they did against Tennessee, they were a weak team that Tennessee should have beaten like a drum. With the talent that Tennessee has, there is no reason they shouldn't be beating these teams (including PSU and VT) by 20+ points, excluding the occasional bad game. Just on talent alone, they are that much better. The fact that these games tend to be closer than they have any right to be is a reflection of Tennessee's uninspired play, not the competition. And before anyone brings up Diamond/Te'a, this is a problem Holly has been having since well before those two joined the team.

I don't really disagree with the second part of your statement. Baylor and MD are notorious for scheduling cupcakes during the OOC schedule, and it has been a problem that Tennessee consistently plays down to the level of their competition so that these games become closer than they should be. Where I do disagree with you is that I don't think these teams are NOT cupcakes just because Tennessee struggles against them.
 
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Alabama-W
Auburn-W
Georgia-W
Ole Miss-W
Mississippi State-Tossup
South Carolina- Tossup
Texas A&M-W
Vanderbilt-W

Arkansas-W
Florida-W
Kentucky-W
LSU-W
Missouri-W
South Carolina-L
Texas A&M-W
Vanderbilt-W
 
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HoopDR said:
Does anybody know why this article has been pulled from the UTSPORTS website?
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Does anybody know why I wonder if HoopDR's posts are a wink-wink comment on something happening behind the scenes? Every time. Lol
 
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