GOOD-NEWS: Kim Caldwell, The Powerhouse Coach Behind The Tennessee volunteer, Has Just Been Crowned The 2025 Naismith Coach of the Year – and She’s Walking Away With A Jaw-Dropping $2 million! The Award, One Of The Most Prestigious In College Basketball And……
GOOD-NEWS: Kim Caldwell, The Powerhouse Coach Behind The Tennessee volunteer, Has Just Been Crowned The 2025 Naismith Coach of the Year – and She’s Walking Away With A Jaw-Dropping $2 million! The Award, One Of The Most Prestigious In College Basketball And……
Senior point guard Samara Spencer didn’t feel like the team was connected. She struggled to uplift her teammates, because they were letting mistakes affect them. No matter what anyone said to them, they couldn’t turn it around.
Tennessee has struggled on the road in the SEC, but even Thursday’s performance was shocking after the way the Lady Vols have played recently. They carried a four-game win streak into the game, and they climbed to No. 12 overall in the NCAA Tournament committee’s top-16 seed reveal 30 minutes before
Tennessee didn’t have consistent effort all game. In an effort-based system, that’s a recipe for a loss every time, especially when Caldwell saw players take plays off when things didn’t go their way.
“Kentucky wanted that game more than us, and it wasn’t even close,” Caldwell said. “We will not burn the tape. We will watch it in slow motionlargest margin of a loss to the Wildcats in program history.Tennessee (21-7, 8-7 SEC) has fallen behind by double figures multiple times and come back. But it didn’t do it against Kentucky (22-5, 11-4). For the first time all season, it felt like the game was over at halftime for the No. 11 Lady Vols.
They got outrebounded at every turn and didn’t even crash the boards at times against the tallest frontcourt in the SEC. They couldn’t defend in the half court, they couldn’t defend in transition, and Kentucky picked apart the press. They showed more quit than they normally do, and it snowballed into thlooked at them, and they didn’t really look like they had a whole lot to give back,” Caldwell said. “(That’s) the first time that I’ve really seen that out of them.”
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