A box score summarizes a sporting event by giving information about scoring as well as the major statistical categories for each player. While not as ubiquitous as the ones for baseball you’ll find in most newspapers, volleyball also has box scores. They can be useful in several ways, including: to check what happened in a game you missed, to compare how a team stacks up against its competition, or to see how a player is progressing throughout a season. To the casual fan the box score may seem like an unintelligible listing of random letters and numbers. However, making sense out of them is not too difficult and may help improve your understanding of the game.

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The Lady Vols open the season at the AVCA Showcase. CSTV will broadcast 3 games of the 4 game tournament live. #5 UCLA will take on #21 Utah Friday, August 24th at 7pm ET, followed by Tennessee taking on #1 Nebraska at 8:30pm ET. The losers of these two games play in a consolation game that will not be aired, while the winners play in the championship airing live on Saturday, August 25th at 9:30pm ET.

Information on where you can find CSTV in Knoxville follows:

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The Lady Vols were picked by SEC coaches to finish third in the SEC East division behind Florida and Kentucky. In the West, Alabama edged out LSU as the predicted division winner. Florida was unanimously picked to win the conference. — SEC Sports

The full conference projections follow.

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The CSTV/AVCA Preseason Coaches Poll was was released today. The Lady Vols didn’t make the top 25 cut, but they did receive some votes. Extrapolating beyond 25 places with the remaining votes puts Tennessee at #43.

Other SEC teams on the list include: #7 Florida, #23 LSU, #37 Kentucky, and #39 Alabama. The three teams joining Tennessee to open the season at the AVCA Showcase made the list: #1 Nebraska, #5 UCLA, and #21 Utah. Other ranked teams on Tennessee’s schedule are: #26 Louisville and #29 Notre Dame.

Lady Vols head coach Rob Patrick is one of the 60 poll voters this year.

The full preseason top 25 follows.

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The University of Tennessee volleyball team officially opened the 2007 campaign for Lady Vol athletics, conducting the first team practice of the season… “It was good to be back in the gym,” UT head coach Rob Patrick said. “Our coaching staff and the players are very excited to get things going. We were very glad to get some of the rust off and it’s always fun to work with players that are so motivated”… — UTLadyVols.com

Hello and welcome! My name is James and I’ve created this website and forum for fans of the Tennessee Lady Vols Volleyball Team. I’m not sure how many of you are online and want to chat with fellow fans, but I’ll give this idea a shot this season and see how it goes.

I’ll be posting news about the team and keeping track of their progress on this main page of the site. You can join in by heading to the forums where you can talk about Tennessee volleyball with other fans from around the world. The forum also features a section to talk about local Knoxville area high school volleyball. You can leave comments, suggestions, and criticisms about the site in the forum as well.

This site is just launching so things may seem slow at first, but that is all the more reason for you to join in now – so other fans will see your support and also want to take part!

Based on attendance at games I know this may not be the most popular team to do this for, but I hope to meet any of you other Vol fans that are out there!