• Hard to believe but we’re already at the half-way point in the season. With 16 matches left to go, the Lady Vols are 7-9 in their first 16 games.
• In conference openers since 1978, the team is 18-19. Under coach Rob Patrick UT is 9-9.
• UT is 17-17 all-time vs Arkansas. This was Tennessee’s first loss in Fayetteville since 2006.
• UT is 2-4 vs Missouri. Tennessee has never won a match played in Columbia.
• Lady Vol setter Lexi Dempsey put her name into the Tennessee record book this weekend. With 1,458 assists in her two seasons in Knoxville she has moved into the top ten for career assists at UT.
  

  UT TOP TEN CAREER ASSISTS
  1	Julie Knytych	5,803	2002-2005
  2	Erica Lear	5,069	1998-2001
  3	Molly Mooney	4,674	1991-1994
  4	Wendy Jones	3,541	1986-1989
  5	Laurie Caraher	2,957	1984-1987
  6	Christy Warren	2,904	1995-1998
  7	Mary Pollmiller	2,740	2011-2012
  8	Kelsey Mahoney	1,857	2008-2011
  9	Allison Stricklin	1,530	1994-1997
  10	Lexi Dempsey	1,458	2013-

• Tennessee has started 0-2 in SEC matches for the ninth time since 1978: 1981, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014. The 1981 team went on to win the conference championship. The 1981, 1990, and 1993 teams would go on to post-season play. Only the 1994, 1995, and 2013 teams would end up with losing league records.
• Arkansas’ Meredith Hayes put down 24 kills — the most by a UT opponent in a three set match in the rally scoring era.
• The Missouri match was the first since at least 2001 where no player reached double-digit assists.
• Two players (excluding newcomers) matched or exceeded a personal career high this past weekend: Lexi Dempsey (kills, attacks in a three set match, hitting percentage, and points vs UARK); Jamie Lea (hitting percentage with 10-19 attempts vs UARK and assists vs MU).