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	Pat Summitt celebrates Tennessee's '96 NCAA title with Tyler. Photo by AP

Tyler Summitt battling alongside his legendary mom

 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Sitting in a conference room in the Tennessee basketball offices, I looked across the table at Tyler Summitt and saw myself. He's a more mature college sophomore than I was. Smarter, more polished, seemingly more secure. The son of Pat Summitt was raised in a celebrity coach's world, where lessons are learned early about how to carry and present yourself. He does those things well. But beneath the impressive persona is a regular guy with regular-guy problems. The biggest problem: His mom has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer's Type.

That's where I can relate. In 1984, when I was a sophomore at the University of Missouri, my family in Colorado got the official diagnosis that my mom was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's. She was 60 – the same age as Pat Summitt today. We knew something had been wrong for a few years – not just forgetfulness and confusion, but random mood swings and a gradual inhibition of her effervescent personality. Lynn Forde always was a lot of fun, but that joie de vivre was draining away. It was good to know what the problem was, but also very bad. Because we knew Alzheimer's was chronic and incurable.
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	Tennessee and South Carolina players fight for the rebound. Photo by AP

South Carolina ends Lady Vols' SEC home win streak, 64-60

 
Tennessee's 28-game home winning streak in SEC women's basketball play came to a stunning conclusion Thursday night. Led by Markeshia Grant's career-high 27 points, South Carolina pulled off the 64-60 upset before a crowd of 15,021 at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Gamecocks (18-5, 7-3 SEC) overcame a seven-point lead down the stretch for the dramatic victory. Ieasia Walker's driving layup gave them the lead for good. Glory Johnson led No. 8 Tennessee (16-6, 7-2) with 13 points but missed a potential game-tying shot at the rim inside the final minute. Before Thursday, UT's last home loss in conference play was to LSU on Feb. 14, 2008.

Before Thursday, UT's last home loss in conference play was to LSU on Feb. 14, 2008. South Carolina, which had never won in Knoxville and hadn't beaten UT anywhere since 1980, meant business right from the start. The Gamecocks didn't trail until a Johnson rebound basket gave the Lady Vols a 15-13 lead. Johnson, who had six rebounds early, picked up her second foul trying to grab No. 7 and sat for the final 7:47 of the first half. South Carolina recovered from a cold shooting snap thanks primarily to Grant, who had three 3-pointers and 15 points by halftime. An Alicia Manning rebound basket pulled UT to within 29-28 at the break.
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	Tennessee's forward Cierra Burdick #11 getting some good advice from head coach Pat Summitt during an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia Sunday. Photo by AP

Shekinna Stricklen leads Lady Vols past Georgia

 
ATHENS, Ga. - Ariel Massengale couldn't get a grip on her play, and the basketball wasn't helping matters. "That ball was pretty slippery," Tennessee's exasperated point guard said. "I don't know what it was." Twice, the ball got away from her in the first half Sunday night against Georgia. One of her slip-ups set up a Lady Bulldogs basket. Massengale's plight reflected Tennessee's predicament. They both needed to regroup at halftime. The result was just one more Massengale turnover and a second-half surge by the Lady Vols for a 67-50 SEC women's basketball victory before a crowd of 10,523 at Stegeman Coliseum.

Shekinna Stricklen led No. 7 Tennessee (16-5, 7-1 SEC) with 24 points. The senior, who returned to the starting lineup at power forward, scored 16 in the second half. Massengale, who hit two of UT's five 3-pointers, scored 13 of her 16 points after the break. She hit four free throws — part of UT's 17 for 21 shooting from the foul line (76.2 percent) — in the final 1:39. Stricklen and Massengale were enough to outscore No. 17 Georgia (16-6, 5-4) in the second half. The Lady Bulldogs made just five field goals and mustered 22 points. They finished at 28.8 percent accuracy (17 for 59). Although guard Meredith Mitchell led Georgia with 13 points, she shot just 2 for 10 from the floor. Jasmine Hassell scored 11.
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	Tennessee forward Alicia Manning (15) dribbles the ball downcourt during the first half. Photo by AP

Comfort zone for Lady Vols, 86-56

 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Tennessee found its lost scoring touch Thursday night. The Lady Vols put some distance between themselves and Monday's program-worst 44 points against Notre Dame with an 86-56 SEC women's basketball victory over Alabama before a crowd of 2,049 at Foster Auditorium. Usual starter Shekinna Stricklen came off the bench to score a team-high 14 points, leading four double-figure scorers. Glory Johnson added 13 and eight rebounds as the Lady Vols pulled away in the second half.

Kamiko Williams and Isabelle Harrison each scored 10 for No. 7 Tennessee (15-5, 6-1 SEC). Kyra Crosby scored 15 for Alabama (10-11, 0-7). After shooting just 27.9 percent from the floor against Notre Dame, the Lady Vols hovered around 50 percent for most of the game against the Crimson Tide before leveling off at 45.1 percent (32 for 71). They also had 22 assists with freshman point guard Ariel Massengale recorded half of that total. "We were happy with the pace we played," UT associate head coach Holly Warlick said. "Obviously we wanted to score, but we wanted an untempo game."
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	Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, right, and players on the bench watch the final minutes of an NCAA college basketball game against Notre Dame. Photo by AP

Notre Dame holds Tennessee to lowest output ever in rout

 SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame lost the first 20 times it played Tennessee. Now the Irish have carved out a modest but impressive two-game winning streak against the Vols. It wasn't so much how second-ranked Notre Dame won Monday night but how easily the Irish did it, routing the Vols 72-44 and holding No. 7 Tennessee to the lowest-scoring game in the school's history. "That's a pretty amazing accomplishment against a team of that caliber," coach Muffet McGraw said after her team won its 17th straight game. Skylar Diggins matched her season high with 27 points and Devereaux Peters added 16 points and a career-high 16 rebounds.

Notre Dame got a breakthrough win over the Vols in the NCAA regional finals last march in Dayton, Ohio. The Irish haven't lost since Nov. 20, to top-ranked Baylor, and have now beaten both UConn and Tennessee on their home floor this season after toppling both in last year's NCAA tournament. "This feels good. This team is actually undefeated against Tennessee," McGraw said. "I think we are in a really good place right now. I think we are doing a lot of things well on the offensive end and then defensively I think that we are doing a lot of good things. We are on a good trajectory right now.
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 A big victory for the Vols on the court didn't take the spotlight off the honoree of the night: Pat Summitt. All this week, the SEC sponsored "We Back Pat" week at both men's and women's basketball games to bring awareness to Alzheimer's. Saturday night the UT men's team showed their support in their game against University of Connecticut. Summitt announced she was fighting dementia - Alzheimer's type earlier this year. "It was a good night to support Pat and what she brings to the table. Obviously what she's done over the course of 30 plus years it was a wonderful night across the board," said Vols Basketball Coach Cuonzo Martin.

The Vols went on to beat University of Connecticut 60-57. Pat and her son Tyler accepted a $55,000 check from "Football Fanatics" for the Pat Summitt Foundation. Big names from East Tennessee came out for the game including Governor Bill Haslam and his father Jim. The senior Haslam wore his "We Back Pat" shirt. But the game didn't just get support from the UT family. UConn players and fans pitched in for the cause by wearing shirts that said, "I bleed blue and white, but I wear purple to back Pat." Purple is the signature color for Alzheimer's charities.
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	Tennessee's Meighan Simmons had the game high of 19 points in a physical game. Photo by AP

Lady Vols hold off LSU, 65-56

 Tennessee was the last team standing Thursday night. The Lady Vols survived a gritty, injury-filled SEC women's basketball struggle with LSU, winning 65-56 at Thompson-Boling Arena. Meighan Simmons scored a team-high 19 points for No. 9 Tennessee (14-4, 5-1 SEC), which had an injury scare involving Glory Johnson. The senior forward suffered an apparent left shoulder injury but returned in the second half, wearing a sleeve on the shoulder.

UT's Cierra Burdick scored 15 points off the bench. Courtney Jones scored 16 points for LSU (13-5, 4-2). The Lady Tigers weren't as fortunate, losing starting guards Jeanne Kenney and Destini Hughes to injury. Tennessee already was without Shekinna Stricklen and Taber Spani, who were sidelined with knee injuries. Then the Lady Vols lost Johnson, who left the court and headed for the locker room late in the first half, holding her left arm. At that point, Tennessee had held its own, leading by as many as six points against LSU's tenacious defense. The Lady Tigers, who led early, pulled even at 26 at the break. They also suffered their share of attrition. First, Kenney left with an apparent concussion. Then Hughes went down after leaping for a long pass and landing awkwardly. She was taken off in a wheel chair.
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	Tennessee's Glory Johnson steals the ball way from Vanderbilt's Jasmine Lister, right. At left is Elan Brown. Photo by Saul Young

Lady Vols hammer Vanderbilt; Shekinna Stricklen injured

 Tennessee won a women's basketball game Sunday afternoon. The Lady Vols hope that they didn't lose a key player for any length of time. Shekinna Stricklen suffered a right knee injury late in the second half of an 87-64 SEC victory over Vanderbilt. Stricklen led No. 6 Tennessee (13-4, 4-1 SEC) with 20 points. The senior forward was at the forefront of a strong second-half effort before a crowd of 17,879 at Thompson-Boling Arena. Christina Foggie led Vanderbilt (14-3, 2-2) with 27 points, Stricklen came to the postgame interview session on crutches with ice on her knee and offered one of the initial reports on her condition. She banged knees with a Vanderbilt player after grabbing a rebound with 3:24 left.

"All I remember, I was going up for ball,'' Stricklen said. "I don't know, her knee hit my knee and I came down wrong. I probably hyperextended it, but I really don't know nothing ... I'm not sure." Tennessee started out with more struggles against a solitary scorer. Foggie's 14 first-half points kept the Commodores within 39-36 at the break. The sophomore guard was at her best when Vanderbilt needed her most. UT threatened to make a break, building a 35-26 lead after consecutive baskets by Briana Bass and Vicki Baugh.
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	Tennessee's Shekinna Stricklen (40) shoots under pressure from Kentucky's Samarie Walker during the second half. Photo by AP

No. 6 Tennessee women's 36-game SEC streak ends

 LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)-Glory Johnson will not focus on the last play when A'dia Mathies abruptly ended sixth-ranked Tennessee's 36-game Southeastern Conference winning streak. Instead, she'll dwell on all the little things the Lady Volunteers did wrong in a 61-60 loss to No. 9 Kentucky on Thursday night. Mathies drove the lane and scored in traffic with 4.2 seconds left to finish with a career-high 34 points. "Mathies did a great job of getting to the basket," said Johnson, who had 17 points. "We're not going to look at that one play, we're going to look at missed layups and missed free throws and turnovers and everything that happened that shouldn't have."

With Kentucky trailing 60-57, Mathies followed her own shot to cut it to one with 46 seconds left. After Tennessee (12-4, 3-1) was called for a charge and Kentucky (15-2, 4-0) used a timeout, Mathies took the ball at halfcourt, dribbled into the lane and hit a 7-foot floater. "We didn't have an answer for her tonight, it didn't start with the last shot," Tennessee associate head coach Holly Warlick said. "She was outstanding. My hat's off to her. She was outstanding." Tennessee's Kamiko Williams drove the length of the floor, but missed an off-balance 16-footer as time expired. Tennessee rallied from 12 points down with 7:46 left to take a lead, but lost for the first time in the SEC since falling 53-50 at Georgia on Jan. 21, 2010."Our defense got us back in the game," Warlick said. "We made a couple of runs."
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	Kentucky Wildcats coach Matthew Mitchell yells at a referee during the first half. Jan 30, 2011 - Photo by AP

Matthew Mitchell makes most of Summitt's second chance

 LEXINGTON, Ky. - No matter how many victories pile up behind him or how many times his team shows up in the top 10, Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell won't forget how and where it all started. Nor will he forget that it almost didn't start at all. The memory of what happened - as opposed to what could have happened - will be more vivid this evening when he shakes hands with Tennessee coach Pat Summitt before the ninth-ranked Wildcats play the sixth-ranked Lady Vols at Memorial Coliseum.

Summitt is his friend and mentor. She's also the coach who had cause to fire him before they ever met. They weren't exactly traveling in the same basketball circles at the time. She was in the midst of winning three consecutive national titles from 1996 through 1998; he had just been hired to coach the boys and girls basketball teams in Lexington, Miss. A former basketball player himself, he was more concerned about coaching the girls. In search for help, he signed up to work Summitt's summer basketball camp. Mitchell was one of the scores of high school coaches hired as instructors. College players served as camp counselors. Buses transported them all over Knoxville. The small-town Mississippi high school coach was taken aback by the enormity of it.
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	Brittney Griner has company [middle]-- Elena Delle Donne [left] and Nneka Ogwumike [right] -- for player of the year. Photo by AP

 1. Baylor really is the team to beat: The scary thing is you could take Brittney Griner out of Baylor's lineup and this team might still be chasing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. After spending part of the offseason playing with WNBA players on the U.S. national team, Griner looks even more like someone playing a different game than her college peers. Her skills continue to bloom on the offensive end, she's averaging double-digit rebounds for the first time and she remains a defensive presence unlike any ever seen before in the women's game. Full seasons from Destiny Williams and Brooklyn Pope mean there is plenty of frontcourt depth alongside her, and point guard Odyssey Sims is an All-American in her own right. The Lady Bears were far from unanimous at No. 1 in the preseason. There isn't much debate now.

2. There is life after Maya Moore for Connecticut: Put the name on the jersey aside for a second and consider that a team that graduated the best player in college basketball is 12-2 with wins against Stanford and Texas A&M -- and that the two losses came on the road against the teams now ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in games Connecticut led in the second half. It's not clear just how good this team is, but it's abundantly clear it's better than many, if not most, expected in the first year after Maya Moore. Sophomore guard Bria Hartley is emerging as a big-game star, a player too fast for even the likes of Stanford, Baylor or Notre Dame to fully contain.
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	Glory Johnson

Glory Johnson earns SEC honors

 After being selected for conference honors Jan. 2, Glory Johnson followed up with outstanding showings against Chattanooga, Georgia and Arkansas and was again tabbed SEC Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Monday. Johnson averaged 15.7 points and 13.3 rebounds and added three assists and eight steals, while playing 27.3 mpg in the team’s three victories.

Against Chattanooga on Tuesday, the 6'3 junior from Knoxville put up her third-consecutive double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds in just 20 minutes in the 90-47 win. Following her standout game against the Lady Mocs, Johnson recorded her fourth-consecutive double-double in the 51-80 victory over Georgia on Thursday. She finished with a season-high 22 points and 13 boards in the Lady Vols’ second SEC win. Johnson had a monumental game against Arkansas, using 13 rebounds in her fifth consecutive double-double to reach the 1,000 rebound plateau. In reaching the benchmark, Johnson became only the fourth in Lady Vol history to collect 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her Tennessee career. She joins elite company that includes Chamique Holdsclaw, Sheila Frost and Tamika Catchings in the 1,000/1,000 club.
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	Arkansas' Keira Peak (1) fouls Tennessee's Glory Johnson, left, as she shoots during the first half. Photo by AP

Defense sets tone as Lady Vols roll Arkansas, 69-38

 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Tennessee's Shekinna Stricklen enjoyed another happy homecoming Sunday. The senior forward entertained a large turnout from her hometown of Morrilton, Ark., with a game-high 19 points against Arkansas. Stricklen's cheering section had a pretty good vantage point, sitting right behind Tennessee's bench. A few feet in front of them, UT coaches were enjoying the prevention more than the points.

Stricklen and the Lady Vols collaborated on their best defensive effort of the season in a 69-38 SEC women's basketball victory. Before a crowd of 5,258 at Bud Walton Arena, No. 6 Tennessee (12-3, 3-0) limited the Razorbacks to 10 field goals and 18.2 percent field goal shooting (10 for 55), a season low by a UT opponent. Leading scorer C'eira Ricketts, a first-team All-SEC preseason honoree, shot 1 for 11 from the floor and scored only two points. Lyndsay Harris led Arkansas (11-4, 0-3) with 14 points but the senior guard needed 14 shots for her scoring. "This is the most we've ever talked on defense,'' Stricklen said. "I thought that helped a lot today. We had each other's back and were rotating right. We were all on the same page."
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