I got dinged for posting my preview of our last game too early, leading to thread drift, so delayed but got beaten to the punch! In any case, here is my preview:
Preview:
Tennessee is undefeated this season at 9-0 and has the fans there excited more than they have been since Pat’s days. They are ranked 7/9 and Massey has them at 8. They have not played the highest ranked teams so far, so we are their chance to make a statement. Tennessee's best wins were over South Florida and Texas, which both beat us—they edged both of those two by 3 points and 4 points respectively, and they have noticed this--it was mentioned in their presser. All in all, Tennessee has proven they are good this year—but the truth is that even they don’t know exactly how good, and once they play us they will have a better idea.
Coaching Tennessee is Kellie Harper, in her 3rd year after replacing Hollie Warlick. Kellie is also an alum of their program and seems to be doing much better than Hollie. Last year they were 17-8, her first year 21-10, and their 9-0 start has the fans excited about a possible return to greatness.
Tennessee is not a big three point shooting team, making 26% and fewer than 4 baskets per game. However, they do have three players each shooting 33-34% from three point range which is enough to keep defenses honest about defending the perimeter.
Tennessee has been turnover prone this year, having more turnovers than their opponents—averaging 18 per game, but they have nearly 7 blocks per game, indicating a strong inside presence.
6’2” Junior guard Jordan Horsten is their leading scorer at 16 ppg. 6’6” Junior center Tamari Key is second with 10 ppg and 10 rpg and has blocked 36 shots already. Brink will not have an easy time with her. The rest of the scoring is distributed fairly evenly throughout the team—they do not seem to be too dependent on any one player to score other than the two mentioned. Rae Burrell is out indefinitely with an injury, having played in only 1 game this year, and this led to much discouragement among the Tennessee fans until the team showed it could win without her.
Here is what Harper said about Stanford:
Preview:
Tennessee is undefeated this season at 9-0 and has the fans there excited more than they have been since Pat’s days. They are ranked 7/9 and Massey has them at 8. They have not played the highest ranked teams so far, so we are their chance to make a statement. Tennessee's best wins were over South Florida and Texas, which both beat us—they edged both of those two by 3 points and 4 points respectively, and they have noticed this--it was mentioned in their presser. All in all, Tennessee has proven they are good this year—but the truth is that even they don’t know exactly how good, and once they play us they will have a better idea.
Coaching Tennessee is Kellie Harper, in her 3rd year after replacing Hollie Warlick. Kellie is also an alum of their program and seems to be doing much better than Hollie. Last year they were 17-8, her first year 21-10, and their 9-0 start has the fans excited about a possible return to greatness.
Tennessee is not a big three point shooting team, making 26% and fewer than 4 baskets per game. However, they do have three players each shooting 33-34% from three point range which is enough to keep defenses honest about defending the perimeter.
Tennessee has been turnover prone this year, having more turnovers than their opponents—averaging 18 per game, but they have nearly 7 blocks per game, indicating a strong inside presence.
6’2” Junior guard Jordan Horsten is their leading scorer at 16 ppg. 6’6” Junior center Tamari Key is second with 10 ppg and 10 rpg and has blocked 36 shots already. Brink will not have an easy time with her. The rest of the scoring is distributed fairly evenly throughout the team—they do not seem to be too dependent on any one player to score other than the two mentioned. Rae Burrell is out indefinitely with an injury, having played in only 1 game this year, and this led to much discouragement among the Tennessee fans until the team showed it could win without her.
Here is what Harper said about Stanford:
Quote:"Well, Stanford, they present a lot of challenges. I think you start looking at the personnel, they're going to be bigger than us. That doesn't happen a lot, but they will be bigger than us. They're very intelligent. They pass the ball extremely well, so if you goof on defense, they're going to make you pay. They shoot the ball well. They obviously have interior scoring. It's really been their go-to. They get the ball inside, and then they've got a lot of options outside of that. Their transition offense is spectacular. And then, defensively, they just take away your strength. Whatever your strength is, each team is going to find out what their strength is, and they're going to play through the weaknesses. That's their game plan, defensively. So, I think those are things we're going to have to combat. We're going to have to play really well, we know that, but it's, again, just such an exciting opportunity.https://utsports.com/news/2021/12/16/kel...16-21.aspx