The Lady Vols hit the road this weekend hoping to knock off a pair of Bulldog teams at Mississippi State and at Georgia.

• Tennessee is 43-9 all-time vs Mississippi State. The Lady Vols are 8-2 in the last 10 meetings.
• Tennessee is 42-26 all-time vs Georgia. They are 7-3 in the last ten meetings.
• Tennessee, Mississippi State, and Georgia are three of the bottom four teams in the SEC at this point in the season.
• This weekend Tennessee is playing the two teams in the conference they have the most wins against.
  

  UT TOTAL WINS VS SEC
  Mississippi State	43
  Georgia	42
  Mississippi	40
  South Carolina	36
  Alabama	33
  Auburn	29
  Kentucky	29
  LSU	21
  Arkansas	17
  Florida	13
  Texas A&M	6
  Missouri	2

• Mississippi State has won the last two matches, their first back-to-back wins over UT since 1996.
• Mississippi State has only won three matches vs UT during head coach Rob Patrick’s tenure. Two of those matches were in Starkville.
• Tennessee assistant coach Rachel Cooper was a four year starting outside hitter for Mississippi State from 2002-2005. She was twice named the team’s MVP, was the first MSU player named SEC Player of the Week, was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three times, and won the school’s Newsom Award which honors scholar-athletes. She still stands 3rd in school history in career kills, 3rd in attack attempts, and 10th in aces. Against Tennessee she had 258 attack attempts during her career, which is the 15th most by a UT opponent in the rally scoring era.
• Mississippi State’s head coach Jenny Hazelwood is the only current SEC head coach to also have played for an SEC school. She was at State from 1996-1999 and still ranks 8th in the conference record book for career assists.
• Hazelwood has been part of the only two win streaks for MSU in the UT series. She’s the head coach for the current two-match streak and was a player during part of the team’s five-match run from 1994-1996.
• Georgia is 6-4 in the last ten meetings in Athens.
• The UT/UGA match-up is the second longest in school history with 68 matches, and at least one meeting a year every year since 1979.
• Only two matches between the Lady Vols and Georgia in the rally scoring era have been decided in four sets; sixteen matches were sweeps for one or the other team, while eight matches took five sets.
• In the 34 meetings since coach Patrick took the helm, Georgia has swept Tennessee only three times.
• Tennessee is 24-27 in televised matches since 2001. They’ve lost the last seven in a row.
• Georgia head coach Lizzy Stemke comes from a family of sports players, including her brother Rob Fitzgerald who played baseball for Tennessee.
• In his 18th season at Tennessee, coach Patrick is by far the longest serving coach in school history and the winningest. But with the good milestones come the bad milestones. The team will look to prevent Patrick from reaching career loss #200 this weekend.
• Tennessee is trying to avoid just the third 0-7 conference start in school history and just the second 0-8 start. The 2013 squad went 0-7 before getting their first SEC win. The 1995 team went 0-14 on the season in league play.
• Lady Vol freshman defensive specialist Claudia Coco will have a homecoming of sorts this weekend. The Georgia native will face off against an opponent with five players who attended the same volleyball club she did, A5.

More information:

• Mississippi State (5-16, 0-6): Friday 10/17 at 8:00pm ET
  website | match info from MSU | live stats
• Georgia (9-8, 1-4): Sunday 10/19 at 12:00pm ET
  website | match info from UGA | live stats | live audio | TV: SEC Network
• Tennessee: website | match info from UT
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	LAST TEN MATCHES VERSUS
	2009 3-0 AWAY	2009 3-0 HOME	2010 3-0 HOME	2010 3-0 AWAY	2011 3-0 AWAY	2011 3-1 HOME	2012 3-0 AWAY	2012 3-0 HOME	2013 0-3 AWAY	2013 1-3 HOME
	2008 3-0 HOME	2009 3-0 HOME	2009 3-2 AWAY	2010 2-3 AWAY	2010 3-0 HOME	2011 3-0 HOME	2011 3-1 AWAY	2012 3-2 HOME	2013 0-3 AWAY	2013 1-3 HOME

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	TEAM STATISTICAL RANKINGS
	ACES PER SET	ASSISTS PER SET	BLOCKS PER SET	DIGS PER SET	KILLS PER SET	HIT PERCENT	OPP HIT PERCENT
	13th SEC 311th NCAA 0.87	12th SEC 272nd NCAA 10.60	11th SEC 127th NCAA 2.17	5th SEC 213th NCAA 13.99	12th SEC 278th NCAA 11.12	11th SEC 222nd NCAA .182	11th SEC 235th NCAA .218
	12th SEC 299th NCAA 0.92	13th SEC 302nd NCAA 9.91	13th SEC 238th NCAA 1.77	1st SEC 24th NCAA 16.61	13th SEC 305th NCAA 10.51	13th SEC 287th NCAA .141	13th SEC 284th NCAA .232
	6th SEC 213th NCAA 1.14	10th SEC 189th NCAA 11.57	2nd SEC 32nd NCAA 2.59	11th SEC 293rd NCAA 12.63	8th SEC 169th NCAA 12.54	7th SEC 63rd NCAA .246	9th SEC 177th NCAA .205

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	INDIVIDUAL STATISTICAL LEADERS
ACES PER SET	Kelsey Bawcombe 13th SEC 0.27	Payton Harris 20th SEC 0.23	Tirah Le’au 5th SEC 0.32
ASSISTS PER SET	Lexi Dempsey 10th SEC 8.24	Shelby Anderton 14th SEC 5.03	KayleKehoe 8th SEC 9.19
BLOCKS PER SET	Iesha Bryant 9th SEC 148th NCAA 1.07	Bali Leffall-Young 0.73	Desiree McCray 3rd SEC 26th NCAA 1.35
DIGS PER SET	Bridgette Villano 12th SEC 3.38	Payton Harris 1st SEC 1st NCAA 6.84	Gaby Smiley 9th SEC 3.49
KILLS PER SET	Jamie Lea 18th SEC 2.70	Alex Warren 3.59	Tirah Le’au 15th SEC 83rd NCAA 2.75
POINTS PER SET	Jamie Lea 3.08	Alex Warren 3.00	Tirah Le’au 15th SEC 347th NCAA 3.35
HITTING PERCENTAGE	Shealyn Kolosky .271	Bali Leffall-Young .307	Jasmine Eatmon 8th SEC 94th NCAA .346

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