Tennessee is on the road this week with matches at Florida and South Carolina.

MATCH NOTES

Tennessee is 13-48-1 all-time vs Florida. The Gators won both meetings last season. The teams are 3-7 in their last ten meetings, and 2-8 in their last ten in Gainesville. The Lady Vols are hoping to snap a six-match losing streak.

Tennessee is 37-29 all-time vs South Carolina. The Gamecocks won the only meeting last season in five. The teams are 6-4 in their last ten meetings, and 5-5 in their last ten in Columbus.

UT will be facing a #1 team for the 7th time in school history and looking for their first upset. The first #1 team Tennessee faced was Hawaii in 1982, the inaugural year of the poll.

Florida has reached #1 in the poll three times in their history — 1996, 2010, and 2017 — and the Vols have played them while they held the top spot each time.

TENNESSEE VERSUS #1
	Hawaii	1982	L 2-1
	Hawaii	1983	L 3-0
	Pacific	1984	L 3-0
	Florida	1996	L 3-1
	Nebraska	2007	L 3-0
	Florida	2010	L 3-0
	Florida	2017	?

Four teams have held the #1 spot in the AVCA Coaches Poll this season, and as of this Friday the Vols will have faced two of them. The other is Minnesota who was #2 when UT played them but held the top spot for three weeks.

UF is one of just two teams in the country with 4 wins over top 20 opponents.

UT’s last two matches vs #1 were televised — this one will not be.

The head coaches of Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina have all celebrated milestone wins in 2017. Rob Patrick earned win #400 at UT, Mary Wise got win #800 with the Gators, and in his last match, Scott Swanson reached win #100 with the Gamecocks.

SC is 6-0 in three-set matches this year, but only 2-5 when the match goes to four or five sets.

Tennessee is 1-4 in their last five televised matched vs South Carolina.

LINKS OF INTEREST

This week’s AVCA Coaches Poll

The Lady Vols are doing relatively well in a couple of recent ranking systems. The team started the season at #74 in the Pablo Rankings but is currently up to #53. And in an early look at the unofficial RPI, UT stands at #50.

MATCH SCHEDULE

	FLORIDA GATORS 9-0, 1-0 SEC
	Friday, September 29, 7:00pm ET Gainesville FL // SEC NETWORK+ // LIVE STATS

	SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS 8-5, 1-0 SEC
	Sunday, October 1, 1:00pm ET Columbus SC // SEC NETWORK // LIVE STATS

NATIONAL & CONFERENCE STATISTICAL RANKS

		aces per set	assists per set	blocks per set	digs per set	kills per set	hitting percent	opp hit percent
	STAT NCAA SEC	1.27 161 8	12.88 58 6	3.02 10 1	16.79 37 2	13.82 49 5	.272 23 2	.141 13 1
	STAT NCAA SEC	1.18 210 10	11.44 194 12	2.97 13 2	14.26 193 6	12.41 175 11	.242 66 7	.156 25 2
	STAT NCAA SEC	1.35 113 7	11.71 161 9	2.47 55 6	13.45 257 11	12.49 167 10	.264 36 4	.178 81 7