Parker Misses Start, but Lady Vols Roll to Victory
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Benched for the first half for missing curfew, Candace Parker scores 17 points and third-ranked Tennessee beats No. 15 DePaul, 102-68, on Wednesday night.
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The University of Tennessee women's basketball team has suffered a lot of hard knocks this season. The Lady Vols have dropped games to Duke, Texas, and Rutgers. Senior point guard Lorrie Moore underwent a tonsillectomy in early December and missed six games. Then, in a three-on-three game during practice Monday, freshman guard Alexis Hornbuckle went for a ball and poked ...
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Sidney Spencer scored 15 points and No. 5 Tennessee shook off poor shooting in the first half with a scoring burst early in the second for a 67-46 win Sunday over No. 23 Texas. In a matchup of college basketball's two winningest coaches, Tennessee's Pat Summitt got career win No. 922 and her second in a row over Texas' Jody Conradt, who has 889.
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ATHENS, Ga. -- Coming off a dismal performance the previous week, Erik Ainge threw a pair of touchdown passes to lead No. 17 Tennessee to a 19-14 upset of third-ranked Georgia yesterday. The Vols, 12 1/2-point underdogs, prevented Georgia from taking control of the SEC's Eastern Division. They built a quick 10-0 lead and held off the Bulldogs (4-1, 2-1 ...
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Monique Currie scored 6 points in the final 1:41 and No. 10 Duke upset fourth-ranked Tennessee, 59-57, last night, becoming only the seventh team in 17 years to beat the Lady Vols in Thompson-Boling Arena. The Lady Vols (4-2) have lost only 14 times at home since the arena opened in 1987, the most recent coming a year ago to ...
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With Candace Parker's status in doubt, fans listening to Tennessee's 87-69 win over Mississippi State on the radio had a few extra minutes of worry while waiting to hear Pat Summitt's postgame interview last night.
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The No. 2 Lady Vols begin their pursuit of a sixth sweep of the Southeastern Conference's regular-season and tournament titles by beating South Carolina, 81-63, in a quarterfinal game on Friday.
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Camille Little scored 16 points and No. 2 North Carolina got all the scoring it needed in the first half Thursday night in a 103-48 rout of UNC Greensboro. LaToya Pringle added 15 points, and Jessica Breland had 12 for North Carolina (7-0) as it tuned up for a Sunday showdown with Tennessee. North Carolina led 57-15 at the break.
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Candace Parker and Shannon Bobbitt each scored 13 points and No. 3 Tennessee jumped out to a 16-0 lead en route to beating South Carolina 72-36 Thursday night.
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Candace Parker dunked for the seventh time in her career and scored 20 points to help No. 2 Tennessee overcome a sluggish first half in a 79-51 win over Kentucky on Sunday.
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Alexis Hornbuckle scored 17 points for ninth-ranked Tennessee, which beat Louisiana Tech 70-59 Wednesday night to give the Lady Techsters consecutive losses at home for the first time in 14 seasons.
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BRISTOL, Connecticut (Ticker) - No. 13 Tennessee was able to survive a missed extra point. Fourth-ranked Louisiana State was not. In a pair of thrilling Southeastern Conference contests greatly influenced by late kicks on Saturday, LSU fell to No.
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Tyler Smith hit a layup with 4.2 seconds to play and No. 8 Tennessee handed No. 16 Mississippi its first loss of the season, 85-83 on Wednesday night.
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Chris Lofton scored 21 points, and Tennessee pulled away from No. 5 Florida in the first half and held on for an 86-76 victory last night in Knoxville, Tenn.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - James Wilhoit missed the easy one to tie, then made the tough one to win it...
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Katie Gearlds had 13 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute, and No. 15 Purdue held Arkansas without a field goal for the last eight minutes in a 55-51 victory on Thursday in the opening round of the Flint Hills Resources Islander Classic.
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The Titans won without running back Chris Brown, who missed the game with turf toe. They won with two rookies starting at defensive tackle.