The Lady Vols head to West Lafayette, Indiana this weekend for their last out-of-conference matches before SEC play begins. They’ll take on Purdue Fort Wayne, Jacksonville State, and home-standing and 9th ranked Purdue.

UT will be facing Purdue Fort Wayne for the first time. The school was created in 2018 when Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (also known as IPFW) split into two different colleges.

UT is 2-1 all-time vs Jacksonville State. Tennessee swept the first two meetings in the early 2000s, while JSU won the last meeting in 2013.

UT is 1-6 all-time vs Purdue. Tennessee lost the first five meetings from 1980 to 1991, before getting their first win in the series in 2004. The last meeting was a UT loss in 2005.

In the rally-scoring era, Tennessee is 2-1 vs the Horizon League, 12-1 vs the Atlantic Sun Conference, and 8-17 vs the Big Ten Conference.

The Big Ten is one of only three conferences to have a winning record over Tennessee since 2001.

TENNESSEE VS CONFERENCES
	American Athletic Conference	24-5	.828
	Atlantic Coast Conference	17-8	.680
	ASUN Conference	12-1	.923
	Atlantic 10 Conference	9-2	.818
	Big East Conference	0-2	.000
	Big Sky Conference	1-0	1.000
	Big South Conference	6-1	.857
	Big Ten Conference	8-17	.320
	Big 12 Conference	7-5	.583
	Big West Conference	2-0	1.000
	Colonial Athletic Association	3-0	1.000
	Conference USA	12-2	.857
	Horizon League	2-1	.667
	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	1-0	1.000
	Mid-American Conference	11-4	.733
	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	3-0	1.000
	Missouri Valley Conference	5-2	.714
	Mountain West Conference	4-1	.800
	Northeast Conference	1-0	1.000
	Ohio Valley Conference	13-2	.867
	Pac-12 Conference	2-3	.400
	Patriot League	3-0	1.000
	Southeastern Conference	212-161	.568
	Southern Conference	18-2	.900
	Southwestern Athletic Conference	1-0	1.000
	Summit League	3-1	.750
	Sun Belt Conference	6-2	.750
	West Coast Conference	4-2	.667
	Western Athletic Conference	2-2	.500

Jacksonville State’s three matches vs the Lady Vols were all memorable for different reasons: one because of a player, one because of the road it led to, and one because of a rain delay! The first meeting in 2000 was at a tournament in Knoxville that featured current UT head coach Eve Rackham as a player on one of the other teams. The second was in the first round of the 2005 NCAA Tournament that would see Tennessee reach the Final Four. The third in 2003 saw the match delayed due to a leak in the roof of Thompson Boling Arena raining down on to the court.

Purdue’s coaching staff — head coach Dave Shondell, associate head coach John Shondell, and assistant head coach Kathy Jewell — have all served in their roles in West Lafayette for the last 18 years.

Tennessee is 36-74 (.327) in the rally-scoring era vs ranked opponents and 11-39 (.220) vs top ten teams.

The Lady Vols will have faced three different top ten teams in just their tenth match of the season. There have been only six full seasons where Tennessee matched or beat that number.

TENNESSEE VS THREE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOP TEN TEAMS IN A SEASON
1982	#1 Hawaii #5 USC #6 Stanford #7 Arizona
1983	#1 Hawaii #2 Pacific #6 Kentucky #9 Arizona State #10 Texas
1984	#1 Pacific #6 Nebraska #8 Texas #9 Hawaii
2005	#2 Penn State #3 Washington #4 Florida #6 Louisville #7 Notre Dame #8 Missouri
2009	#5 Florida #7 Kentucky #7 Michigan
2017	#1 Florida #2 Minnesota #6 Kentucky
2021	#7 Pitt #9 Baylor #9 Purdue
highest ranking shown for teams played multiple times in a season

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