Tennessee ends the SEC season how they began it: with matches vs Auburn and Georgia, but this time here in Knoxville.

• Tennessee is 29-17-1 all-time vs Auburn. The team is 5-5 in their last ten meetings. The Vols have only lost six matches to Auburn in the rally-scoring era, but the Tigers currently hold a four match winning streak in the series. The last time Auburn won four in a row over UT was 1995-1998.
• Tennessee is 43-27 all-time vs Georgia. The team is 6-4 in their last ten meetings.
• UT has only played six matches in program history on Thanksgiving-eve, five of them occurring since 2009. They hold a 4-2 record.
• Day after Thanksgiving matches are more common for UT. They’ve played 15 such games all-time, going 8-7.
• This Friday’s match vs Georgia is senior night. Under head coach Rob Patrick the team is 13-5 when honoring the seniors.
• Vol senior Megan Hatcher is the only player on the roster who was on the team the last time Tennessee beat Auburn.
• This Vol squad has a chance to become just the fourth team in school history* not to lose a single five-set match all season. The 1980 and 1989 teams went 3-0. The 1998 team went 2-0. And, so far, the 2015 team is 3-0. ( * during the era when best-of-five matches became the norm — in all the years prior to 1979, less than ten matches total were played best-of-five, so I’ve not included them here.)
• Both head coaches meeting Tennessee this weekend faced off against the Vols at all of their previous collegiate coaching jobs.
• Auburn head coach Rick Nold is 4-3 with the Tigers, was the head coach at Jacksonville State who were swept by UT in 2005 when they made the school’s first ever NCAA Tournament appearance here in Knoxville, and defeated the Vols in five in 2001 as an assistant at Louisville.
• Georgia head coach Lizzy Stemke is 3-4 with the Bulldogs, was an assistant coach of the #1 Nebraska team that defeated UT in front of the second largest crowd to watch a Tennessee volleyball team play in 2007, and was an assistant coach with North Carolina when the Vols swept her team at a tournament in Los Angeles in 2006.
• Last time vs Auburn: Tennessee lost their conference opener and just their second match of the season (25-16, 30-32, 25-22, 25-19). Bri Holmes had 11 kills and four blocks. Kanisha Jimenez earned a double-double with ten kills and 16 digs. Erica Treiber had nine kills. Raina Hembry knocked back eight blocks and Stephanie Buss had three. Lexi Dempsey put up 36 assists and dug up 12 balls to get her seventh double-double of the season. Bridgette Villano had 28 digs, a career best and the tenth most in a four set match in school history. Auburn won the match despite only hitting .151 — the ninth lowest percentage by a winning UT opponent in the rally-scoring era.
• Last time vs Georgia: Tennessee picked up their first SEC victory of the year (25-15, 25-18, 25-21). Kenisha Jimenez led the match with 11 kills. She also had six digs and seven blocks. Bri Holmes had ten kills, while hitting .429 and knocking down three blocks. Erica Treiber and Kendra Turner had seven kills each. Treiber also put back ten blocks — the first time since 2012 a UT player has reached double digit blocks, and just the third time in the past five seasons. Lexi Dempsey had 31 assists and 14 digs, giving her her 30th career double-double. Bridgette Villano had 11 digs, and the libero got just the third kill of her career.