

UT took care of Buffalo, 80-67 in the first round last Saturday. The Lady Vols got a 20-point, 11-rebound double-double from Alexus "Snoop" Dye and 18 points from Tamari Key, but a go-ahead corner trey by Sara Puckett with just under 18 seconds left put UT up for good and accounted for the icing on the freshman's 12-point night.Īlso worth noting, Key became the school's all-time career blocked shots record-holder as a junior, surpassing Candace Parker's 110-game total of 275 with 276 in only 89 contests. 12 seed Belmont on Monday night at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville. Tennessee survived and advanced in the 2022 Big Dance with a thrilling 70-67 home victory over in-state foe and No. 10 South Dakota (29-5) will match up on the other side of the bracket, tipping off approximately 30 minutes following the conclusion of the UT/UL contest. ET) at INTRUST Bank Arena in downtown Wichita, Kansas. 1 seed in the Wichita Regional, on Saturday at 3 p.m. Kellie Harper joins her college head coach Pat Summitt and college assistant coach Holly Warlick among UT skippers who've led the Big Orange into the Sweet 16, and she makes her second career appearance in the NCAA Regional Semifinals, having taken Missouri State in March 2019 before being hired at Tennessee that April.

18/17 Tennessee (25-8) returns to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the 35th time in history and for the first time since 2016.
