Less than a week to go until the Lady Vols hit the court!

• UT is posting videos featuring the players. So far we’ve seen Shealyn Kolosky, Lexi Dempsey, Jamie Lea, and Kalyn Helton.
• Another new sorting feature has been added to the stats page. Now you can view what players wore which jersey numbers.
• With the launch of the SEC Network this month, conference schools are looking forward to a lot of additional exposure, recruiting advantages, and, of course, more money. But as they say, you have to spend money to make money. The network has required each league school to retool their production facilities and capabilities. The Knoxville News-Sentinel has more on that effort:
  

  Tennessee is constructing a $10 million studio in the first floor of its Brenda Lawson Athletic Center. Athletic department spokesman Jimmy Stanton said the studio is privately funded and will have other university uses beyond the SEC Network, such as training students in television production.

  The studio’s glass windows will allow viewing opportunities for fans walking past the building on their way to football and basketball games.

  “Those fans will be able to literally look through the windows, almost like a New York City environment, and see our coaches being interviewed, our student-athletes being interviewed,” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said. “… It’s one more opportunity for us to create a fan-friendly environment on game day.”

• The Lady Vols will make six appearances on TV this year, matching their regular season high number of appearances set in 2010 and last season, and one short of their all time high of seven set in 2005 during their Final Four run. In addition, six other games will air on the SEC Network+, the online component of the channel.

  Coach Patrick said about the launch: “We are very excited about the SEC network especially since the network reaches across the nation into everyone’s homes. We are excited to have our fans across the nation be able to watch us play and since we recruit nationally, it is a great way for the families of our players to be able to watch out team and their daughters play on a weekly basis.”
  

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