Tennessee pushed the #3 team in the country hard but fell short, dropping the match in four (24-26, 25-23, 25-22, 25-13). The team was just two points in the second and three points in the third away from a sweep victory. More details soon…
UPDATE: Danielle Mahaffey led the Lady Vols with a career-high matching 17 kills. Rocky Perinar had a career high 6 blocks, the most by any player on either team. Lily Felts had two solo blocks and three aces. Natalie Hayward put up 24 assists. Madison Coulter led both teams with 17 digs.
Coulter became the 17th member of UT’s 1,000 digs club.
The Lady Vols may have lost, but they did something very few other UT teams have done. This was Tennessee’s 37th match vs a top five school in program history. They were swept in 28 of those games. This was only the 9th match vs a top five team where UT took a set.
TENNESSEE’S TOP 5 OPPONENTS TEAM TIMES PLAYED WHILE
IN TOP FIVERESULTS Florida 24 18 losses: 0-3
5 losses: 1-3
1 win: 3-2Hawaii 3 2 losses: 0-3
1 loss: 1-2Pacific 2 2 losses: 0-3 Nebraska 2 2 losses: 0-3 Kentucky 2 1 loss: 0-3
1 loss: 1-3USC 1 1 loss: 0-3 Penn State 1 1 win: 3-1 Minnesota 1 1 loss: 0-3 Baylor 1 1 loss: 0-3 Just a heads up that the numbers on both the roster pages and the stats pages are being updated after each match!
Lady Vols fight hard in four set loss to UK
