INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL RANKINGS
A C E S   P E R   S E T
—	Hannah Kvitle	0.27	LOUISVILLE
—	Lexi Erwin	0.26	MICHIGAN
—	Jen Myer	0.25	BELMONT
—	Kelsey Robinson	0.20	TENNESSEE
A S S I S T S   P E R   S E T
32	Lexi Dannemiller	11.16	MICHIGAN
59	Mary Pollmiller	10.71	TENNESSEE
67	Hannah Miranda	10.55	BELMONT
—	Katie George	6.33	LOUISVILLE
B L O C K S   P E R   S E T
38	Gwen Rucker	1.29	LOUISVILLE
41	Jennifer Cross	1.28	MICHIGAN
63	DeeDee Harrison	1.21	TENNESSEE
—	Alex Martin	0.81	BELMONT
D I G S   P E R   S E T
50	Jamie Lundstrom	5.11	BELMONT
52	Caitlin Welch	5.11	LOUISVILLE
111	Ellen Mullins	4.55	TENNESSEE
224	Tiffany Morales	3.79	MICHIGAN
H I T T I N G   P E R C E N T A G E
7	Gwen Rucker	.426	LOUISVILLE
84	Brooke Mattingly	.337	LOUISVILLE
—	Allison McCoy	.331	BELMONT
124	Jennifer Cross	.321	MICHIGAN
131	Tatyana Lukyanenko	.318	LOUISVILLE
244	Claire McElheny	.289	MICHIGAN
—	DeeDee Harrison	.280	TENNESSEE
K I L L S   P E R   S E T
4	Lola Arslanbekova	4.95	LOUISVILLE
35	Kelsey Robinson	4.28	TENNESSEE
59	Lexi Erwin	4.02	MICHIGAN
—	Jen Myer	2.83	BELMONT
P O I N T S   P E R   S E T
6	Lola Arslanbekova	5.35	LOUISVILLE
28	Kelsey Robinson	4.91	TENNESSEE
58	Lexi Erwin	4.55	MICHIGAN
—	Jen Myer	3.39	BELMONT

For any one heading to Louisville early, you can check out the Lady Vols and the rest of the field during open practices on Wednesday. Louisville will take to the floor from 9:00am to 10:30am, Belmont from 10:35am to 12:05pm, Tennessee from 12:10pm to 1:40pm, and Michigan from 1:45pm to 3:15pm.

TENNESSEE

• Tennessee is making their 14th overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament, their 5th in a row, and their 8th in the last 9 years.
• The Lady Vols made their first appearance in the very first NCAA Tournament held in 1981. They made their furthest run in 2005, making it all the way to the Final Four. Last year they lost in the second round.
• The team is 13-13 all-time in the tournament, 9-4 in first round matches, 2-3 in first round road matches, and 1-1 in first round road matches where we don’t face the host team. They’ve won their last 3 first round matches in a row.
• The Lady Vols enter the Tournament having won 14 of their last 16 matches.
• This year the squad was 11-2 in sweeps, 3-2 in four set matches, and 8-3 in games that required the tiebreaker.
• The rest of the season will be played away from home, and in those matches the team went a very impressive 13-3 this year.
• Against ranked competition, Tennessee led the SEC this year, with a 3-1 record. No other team had more than a single win vs a ranked team.
• In the rally-scoring era Tennessee is 5-13 vs Big Ten teams, and have lost the last 8 in a row.
• The Lady Vols have done much better vs the Big East, going 21-3 since 2001, and winning the last 10 in a row. Two of the three losses were to Louisville.
• Tennessee is undefeated over the past 12 years against the conference Belmont just joined a few months ago, the Ohio Valley (4-0), and against the one they just left, the Atlantic Sun (7-0).
• A Big Ten team has knocked Tennessee out of the NCAA Tournament 5 times in their 14 appearances, including the last 3 in a row. The Lady Vols have knocked 3 Big Ten teams out.
• In 3 of the last 4 postseasons, UT has lost 15-12 or 15-13 in the fifth set of the second round.
• The class of 2012 is one win away from their 100th career victory, and becoming the first four year class since 1984 to accomplish that feat.

MICHIGAN

• Michigan is making its 7th straight and 13th overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Wolverines made their first NCAA Tournament in 1997. Their furthest run was in 2009 when they made it to the Elite Eight. Last year they were in the Sweet Sixteen.
• Michigan is facing an SEC team in the Tournament for the 3rd time, going 1-1 in those matches. They were knocked out of last years tourney by Florida in straight sets. Tennessee beat the Gators twice that season.
• This season the Maize and Blue went 5-5 vs ranked competition, including November wins vs Nebraska, Minnesota, and Ohio State.
• The Wolverines are 11-7 in road matches this year.
• Michigan played two common opponents with Tennessee: sweeping Missouri and defeating Arkansas in five.
• According to them, against the field Michigan is 3-1 vs Tennessee, 2-3 vs Louisville, and is meeting Belmont for the first time.
• St. Francis High School will be well represented in these first round games. Tennessee’s Kelsey Robinson attended as well as Michigan’s Carly Warner. In addition, Louisville has a player from the school on their squad too.

LOUISVILLE

• Louisville comes into the postseason as the Big East regular season and tournament champions. They are on a 13 match winning streak.
• If both teams play their cards right (ha!), the eight year rivalry with Louisville that seemingly ended this season would get a continuation. In that run, after a 2-2 start the Lady Vols won the last 4 meetings in a row.
• Louisville is making its 15th straight and 23rd overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Cardinals made their first NCAA Tournament in 1982. Their furthest run was in 1998, 2004, and 2005 when they made it to the Sweet Sixteen. Last year they lost in the second round.
• Louisville is 0-3 in matches vs an SEC opponent in the Tournament.
• The Cards went 3-2 vs ranked competition this year.
• At home Louisville is 17-3. If they make it past hosting the opening rounds they could be even more dangerous in their next two games in California. They have a perfect road record this year: 12-0. Only Hawaii can match that, but they only have 9 road wins. Then for the final two matches they would once again be at home. Not a bad schedule if you can get it!
• With one more win the ‘Ville would have their 5th 30-win season in school history.
• Tennessee and Louisville played two common opponents. They beat Kentucky in four and swept Cincinnati three times.
• In what has to be a rare coincidence, Louisville’s final game of the regular season was vs the team they will play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Belmont.
• According to them, against the field the Cardinals are 8-12 vs Tennessee, 4-2 vs Michigan, and 2-0 vs Belmont.
• Louisville and Tennessee share some connections. Their Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director, Julie Hermann, was the Lady Vol volleyball head coach prior to Rob Patrick. Junior outside hitter Carly Sahagian played for Tennessee the past two seasons before transferring to UofL. And until a few months ago former Tennessee assistant coach Dani Busboom was on the Louisville staff.

BELMONT

• Belmont comes into the postseason as the Ohio Valley Conference tournament champion. After starting the year 1-7, they’ve won 12 of their last 14 matches.
• The Bruins are making their 3rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament. They will be looking to get past the opening round for the first time.
• Belmont’s first ranked opponent was their last game of the season, a loss vs Louisville.
• The Bruins are 11-11 in road matches this year.
• In their first season in the OVC, Belmont won the conference tournament and made the postseason — without a single senior on the squad.
• If both teams plays their cards right (not as funny this time), Belmont could face Tennessee in the second round. If not, then this would be the 3rd season in Lady Vol volleyball history where the team does not play an opponent from the state of Tennessee.
• Belmont’s Deane Webb has been head coaching in Tennessee for 12 years: 2 years with ETSU and 10 with the Bruins.
• Against the field Belmont is 0-1 vs Tennessee, 0-2 vs Louisville, and would be meeting Michigan for the first time.

Congratulations to Jasmine Brown on being named to the SEC Community Service Team, which highlights an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts. UT has more. “A social work major that aspires to make a positive impact on her community after graduating from the University of Tennessee, Brown has participated in multiple community service projects both with her team and without. Around the holidays, she has been involved in wrapping and delivering gifts to needy children. Brown also makes frequent visits to patients at the children’s hospital and participates in free volleyball clinics for community members. The senior also helped construct a home for ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover show in Knoxville. Recently, Brown interacted and entertained children at the athletic department’s inaugural Halloween Event for the local community and has been an annual participant in the ‘Boo at the Zoo’ at the Knoxville Zoo.”

	TENNESSEE	MICHIGAN	LOUISVILLE	BELMONT
R E C O R D S
W-L	22-7 (.759)	23-11 (.676)	29-3 (.906)	18-16 (.529)
Conference	15-5 3rd SEC	11-9 6th Big Ten	14-1 1st Big East	11-5 3rd OVC
R A N K I N G S
Seed	–	–	10	–
AVCA	27	33	9	–
RPI	21	31	4	167
Pablo	19	23	22	122
S T A T S national ranking in parentheses
Aces/set	0.85 (316th)	1.18 (173rd)	1.12 (203rd)	1.12 (205th)
Assists/set	13.16 (35th)	12.86 (59th)	13.46 (21st)	12.10 (131st)
Blocks/set	2.68 (25th)	2.22 (111th)	2.39 (62nd)	1.69 (263rd)
Digs/set	16.17 (84th)	14.81 (186th)	16.68 (60th)	16.83 (56th)
Kills/set	14.15 (37th)	13.77 (60th)	14.36 (22nd)	12.71 (163rd)
Hitting %	.254 (29th)	.247 (44th)	.276 (14th)	.198 165th
Opp. Hitting %	.182	.210	.162	.200
Serve %	.902	.921	.913	–
Reception %	.967	.948	.962	.956

Congratulations to Kelsey Robinson and Tiffany Baker who were both named to the All-SEC team today. This is the the third All-confernece honor for both players.

Player of the Year: Chloe Mann, Florida
Libero of the Year: Stephanie Klefot, Kentucky
Freshman of the Year: Živa Recek, Florida
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Amanda Anderson, Arkansas
Coach of the Year: Mary Wise, Florida

First Team All-SEC
Roslandy Acosta, Arkansas
Taylor Brauneis, Florida
Chloe Mann, Florida
Živa Recek, Florida
Tangerine Wiggs, Florida
Whitney Billings, Kentucky
Lisa Henning, Missouri
Kelsey Robinson, Tennessee
Alisia Kastmo, Texas A&M
Lindsey Miller, Texas A&M

Second Team All-SEC
Kayla Fitterer, Alabama
Jasmine Norton, Arkansas
Sarah Bullock, Auburn
Camila Jersonsky, Auburn
Betsy Smith, Florida
Stephanie Klefot, Kentucky
Molly Kreklow, Missouri
Whitney Little, Missouri
Juliette Thévenin, South Carolina
Tiffany Baker, Tennessee
Allie Sawatzky, Texas A&M

All-Freshmen Team
Liz Fortado, Arkansas
Živa Recek, Florida
Jasmine Eatmon, Georgia
Sara Schwarzwalder, Kentucky
Nakeyta Clair, Ole Miss
Ty Laporte, Ole Miss
Roxanne McVey, Mississippi State

For a school record fifth year in a row, Tennessee has earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament! This is their 14th appearance in the tourney (tied for second most in the SEC).

The Lady Vols will face Michigan in the first round. If they win they move on to the host #10 seed Louisville or Belmont in the second round.

Michigan: 23-11 (11-9 Big 10)
Louisville: 29-3 (14-1 Big East)
Belmont: 18-16 (11-5 Ohio Valley)

Against the field Tennessee is

• 1-3 vs Michigan (last match: 3-1 loss in 2009)
• 14-7 vs Louisville (last match: 3-0 win in 2011)
• 1-0 vs Belmont (last match: 3-0 win in 2007)

Other SEC teams in the Tournament:

• #14 seed Florida will face Tulsa in the first round and either Miami FL or College of Charleston in the second
• #16 seed Kentucky will face ETSU in the first round and either Ohio State or Notre Dame in the second
• Texas A&M will face North Carolina State in the first round and either #3 Texas or Colgate in the second
• Arkansas will face Wichita State in the first round and either #11 Kansas or Cleveland State in the second

If Tennessee makes it to the Regional round they will head to Berkeley, California.

Tennessee played 9 teams this year that made the NCAA Tournament. In those matches they went 6-6. The Lady Vols played 5 of the seeds, going 2-4.

This is the Lady Vols’ 8th appearance in the past 9 years.

In First Round matches Tennessee is 9-4.

Interactive and printable PDF brackets are now online.

Tennessee’s first round game is slated for 5pm on Thursday, November 29th, while the potential second round game would take place Friday, November 30th at 7:30pm.

Tennessee, Michigan, Louisville, and Belmont have posted stories about their tourney bids.

this post will be updated throughout the day as needed

Don’t forget that the 2012 NCAA Tournament selection show is tonight at 4pm ET on ESPNU (and WatchESPN.com for certain cable subscribers).

For a sneak preview of where Tennessee might stand you can check out “Figgie’s” unofficial calculation of the RPI (be sure to click the “Unmodified RPI” link). It doesn’t include any of the bonus/penalty points that get included but not publicized, but it should still be fairly close to the real results. According to him(?) the Lady Vols fell from #15 to #21 after playing Texas A&M and Mississippi State this week, probably dropping us out of seed contention.

Figgie, who posts on a Dayton fan site, has also used his numbers to come up with a bracket prediction — which should definitely be taken as more of a fun exercise since so many factors go into choosing the 64 teams and where they play that it would be stunning if anyone could predict even half the bracket with accuracy. So just for the sake of interest, Figgie has us playing at #16 seed North Carolina along with ETSU and, his team, Dayton.

I just wanted to apologize again for being so lax on posting photos this season. I’ve made my excuses before so won’t repeat them now! The good news is I did take photos during a lot of the matches this year so once the season is over I can start going back through them and getting them up. As a small step towards that goal I’ve gone ahead and posted the images from the final regular season match vs Mississippi State. And I’m looking forward to taking more in the coming weeks!

Unlike last year when I said most of the SEC season ending awards were pretty much slam dunks, this year things are not as clear cut. Since I’ve been doing this I’ve predicted 12 of 14 of the annual awards correctly and I expect that record to get worse not better today!

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
With no obvious superstar dominating the conference, the award this year will go to a player who gets the job done for their team without the glare of the constant spotlight. And there are several players who fit the bill. Tennessee’s Leslie Cikra is one of only two non-freshmen to win the SEC Offensive Player of the Week award twice. Kentucky setter Christine Hartmann is the other. Missouri’s Lisa Henning leads the league in scoring, with Lady Vols Kelsey Robinson and South Carolina’s Juliette Thévenin right behind. Mizzou’s Whitney Little is a strong candidate if the Defensive Player of the Year award has been discontinued. She’s the only player in the conference with multiple 10+ block games — and she has 5 of them. But I think it will be hard to ignore Florida’s Chloe Mann, who helped lead the team to a 25-4 (19-1) record and the conference championship. Tangerine Wiggs is another top Gator (and a senior), but Mann is the only player in the SEC hitting over .400. She’s also near the top of the league in kills, blocks, and points. — Chloe Mann wins

LIBERO / DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Up front let me say I don’t know if the SEC has completely discontinued the Defensive Player of the Year award for Libero of the Year, or if it’s something they can switch on a whim each season. So I’ll predict based on both being possible. In eight of the last nine years the player who led the conference in digs won this award. This season that player is Roxanne McVey and it’s not even close. In all matches she has 5.64 digs per set — an SEC record previously held by two-time Defensive Player of the Year Elena Martinez. In a match vs LSU she had a national season high 50 digs. So why is there any question on who wins this? Not only is McVey a freshman, her team, Mississippi State, went 0-20 in conference play. Either might disqualify her in some minds. LSU’s Meghan Mannari, who I thought would win it last year, and Georgia’s Allison Summers are next in line stat-wise, but both also have losing seasons so why pass over McVey for them. Of the teams with top winning percentages, Tennessee’s Ellen Mullins stands out with the numbers to win it. She’s also the only player with three Defensive Player of the Week awards. Taylor Unroe has the flashy play and the championship trophy, though her numbers may not warrant the prize this year. And if we don’t limit ourselves to liberos, Missouri’s Whitney Little has to be in the discussion. In fact if the coaches want to avoid the issue of a 0-20 freshman, this could be their way to do it. For my pick, I’m giving myself an out: if the award is Defensive Player of the Year, I’m saying Little. If it’s Libero of the Year… I’m very torn! There is a Freshman of the Year award, so they could overlook McVey here and vote for her there. In fact, maybe they aren’t even allowed to vote for freshman outside the Freshman of the Year award. Without knowing what this award is called and who is eligible to win it chances are even better that I’ll get this one wrong for the third year in a row! But, along with what I’m about to say in the next paragraph, and the fact the the coaches in the past have been pretty slavish to the digs stat, McVey’s numbers are really just too impressive to ignore. — Roxanne McVey wins

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
This award is complicated by the Defensive/Libero award. If the coaches don’t honor Mississippi State’s Roxanne McVey there, she has a solid chance of winning this. But another freshman out there is getting a lot of attention from the coaches. Florida’s Živa Recek has won the Freshman of the Week award three times AND Offensive Player of the week twice. In the Gators’ storied volleyball history, Recek is the first player to win five weekly SEC awards in one season. So who gets this one? If the coaches give McVey the Libero award then this one easily goes to Recek. If they don’t honor McVey for Libero things get complicated. Both are very worthy. But no matter what happens with the Defensive award I think this one is Recek’s. — Živa Recek wins

COACH OF THE YEAR
Winning the conference championship with a 19-1 record when you were picked to finish third in your division is probably all Mary Wise needs to lock up this award. Other possible contenders include Laurie Corbelli for guiding the Aggies to a West Division title in their first season in the SEC, and Robert Pulliza who has taken Arkansas from a 7-23 record his first season in 2008 to a 22-9 season this year and a possible school first NCAA Tourney bid since 2006. — Mary Wise wins

Tennessee completed their regular season schedule today with a 3-0 win over Mississippi State (25-10, 25-15, 25-22). The Lady Vols officially end up second place in the SEC East and third place in the conference with a 15-5 record. Their overall record is 22-7.

Kelsey Robinson had 15 kills, hit .448, and had 3 blocks. DeeDee Harrison had 14 kills, hit .370, and had 6 blocks. Leslie Cikra hit .455 and had 4 blocks. Olivia Okoro hit .429 with two blocks. Kayla Jeter contributed 4 blocks, 2 of which were solo. Ellen Mullins dug up 15 balls. Mary Pollmiller put up 38 assists.

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• Tennessee is 42-7 all-time vs Mississippi State. They’re 9-1 in their last ten meetings and are undefeated in their last ten in Knoxville.
• Since 1981, Tennessee is 18-13 in their last regular season match of the season. Under head coach Rob Patrick they are an impressive 13-2.
• The Lady Vols are 7-7 in matches played the day after Thanksgiving, with Coach Patrick 5-1. This is the first season in school history the team is playing both the day before and the day after Thanksgiving.
• The Bulldogs are trying to avoid becoming the unlucky 13th team in SEC history (and the first in a decade) to go through a season without a conference win.
• This match ends the career of Mississippi State’s lone senior, and her sister will get to watch her play one last time up close. Chanelle Baker is the sister of Tennessee’s Tiffany Baker.
• Tennessee assistant coach Rachel Cooper was a four year starting outside hitter for Mississippi State from 2002-2005. She was twice named the team’s MVP, was the first MSU player named SEC Player of the Week, was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three times, and won the school’s Newsom Award which honors scholar-athletes. She still stands 3rd in school history in career kills, 3rd in attack attempts, and 10th in aces. Against Tennessee she had 258 attack attempts during her career, which is the 14th most by a UT opponent in the rally scoring era.
• UT’s only loss to MSU in the past 16 years was in 2007, a 24-1 record. Their previous loss to Mississippi State was in 1996. The setter for that Bulldog squad was freshman Jenny Head — now Jenny Hazelwood, their head coach.
• Hazelwood is the only current SEC head coach to also have attended an SEC school. She played for State from 1996-1999 and still ranks 8th in the conference record book for career assists. She’s looking for her first win against Rob Patrick today. As a player, her MSU team defeated Tennessee during the 1996 regular season then later that year did it again knocking them out of the SEC tournament. In 1997, Coach Patrick took over the UT program and the Lady Vols defeated the Bulldogs during the remainder of Hazelwood’s playing career. As a head coach, she is 0-8 vs Tennessee, with 7 losses vs the Lady Vols at MSU and 1 loss in 2006 when she was the head coach at Centenary.

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SEC TEAM RANKINGS COMPARISON
TEAMS	ACES	ASSISTS	BLOCKS	DIGS	HIT%	KILLS	OPP HIT%
	11th	3rd	2nd	2nd	4th	3rd	3rd
	12th	13th	13th	5th	13th	13th	13th

TOP PERFORMERS – SEC INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
ACES	Nikki Brice NR (0.16)	Roxanne McVey NR (0.16)
ASSISTS	Mary Pollmiller 4th (10.67)	Rachel Williams NR (9.36)
BLOCKS	DeeDee Harrison 2nd (1.22)	Lainey Wyman NR (0.79)
DIGS	Ellen Mullins 4th (4.88)	Roxanne McVey 1st (5.47)
HITTING %	DeeDee Harrison 12th (.296)	Sarah Nielsen NR (.153)
KILLS	Kelsey Robinson 3rd (3.91)	Taylor Scott 20th (2.86)
POINTS	Kelsey Robinson 3rd (4.47)	Taylor Scott NR (3.15)

At one of his recent chalk talks, Coach Patrick was asked who the funniest person on the team was. His answer was our last senior, DeeDee Harrison. No one looks like they are having more fun, whether on the court playing or the sidelines cheering. Sometimes the juxtaposition is striking, those long limbs, the imposing jump, the powerful swing — and that big smile!

Besides being the funniest, and the one having the most fun, she also might be the friendliest. In September of 2011, the team travelled to Blacksburg to play in the Hokie Invitational. The team won the championship in dominating fashion, losing only one set in three matches. After the final match, it was time for a small ceremony. Virginia Tech head coach Chris Riley was passing out the awards. Besides the tournament championship, Tennessee also had three players on the All-Tournament Team. Mary Pollmiller’s name was called and she walked out on to the court to accept her award and a handshake from Coach Riley. Kelsey Robinson, likewise, shook the coach’s hand as she was recognized. When DeeDee’s name was called she walked out on to the court. Coach Riley extended his hand to her. To his surprise, DeeDee drew him in for a big hug to appreciative laughter from the teams and remaining fans! (Here’s the photo play-by-play!)

Fans will obviously gravitate to the the best players on a team. Fans also love to watch the intense players who they can tell are as emotionally invested in the game as they are. But it’s always nice to know that there are great players on the court who don’t forget that in the end this is a game and if you’re not having fun then what is the point of playing?

UPDATE: The local Knoxville newspaper has a feature on DeeDee Harrison today as well. The piece ends with what Coach Patrick will remember most about her: “When you say DeeDee, the first thing I picture is this big smile and warm laugh.”

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With a total disregard for those of us who still had some last minute Thanksgiving grocery shopping left to do, the Lady Vols decided to play yet another extended five set match. OK, truth be told I was in no hurry and would rather be watching volleyball than shopping at 10 o’clock at night with all the other saps who waited until the last minute! While it was an exciting match, the result didn’t go Tennessee’s way with the Aggies knocking off the Lady Vols (15-25, 25-22, 25-20, 27-29, 15-9).

This was the 11th five-setter this season, breaking the school record of 10. Despite not being able to finish the job tonight, the team is an impressive 8-3 in matches that go the distance. It was the first five set match in the Texas A&M series since 1982. And it marked Tennessee’s first ever loss Thanksgiving eve.

Have a great Thanksgiving, and see you again Friday!

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• Tennessee is 6-2 all-time vs Texas A&M. While the frequency will obvious go up with them now conference foes, this is only the third meeting of the teams in the last 17 years. Of the 8 matches played almost all (6) were sweeps.
• In their first year in the league, the Aggies have already clinched at least a share of the Western Division title. Both teams are currently tied for second place overall in the SEC with one more game remaining each after tonight.
• Something has to give — Tennessee and Texas A&M are both riding 7 match winning streaks coming into tonight’s game.
• Both teams are playing for a potential NCAA Tournament seed. The Lady Vols are ranked #15 in the latest RPI while the Aggies are just behind at #18.
• Tennessee is undefeated in matches played the day before Thanksgiving.
  

  TENNESSEE ON THANKSGIVING EVE
  November 25, 1981	vs Alabama	W 3-0
  November 25, 2009	#10 Kentucky	W 3-2
  November 24, 2010	Kentucky	W 3-0
  November 23, 2011	#16 Kentucky	W 3-1
  November 21, 2012	Texas A&M	?

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SEC TEAM RANKINGS COMPARISON
TEAMS	ACES	ASSISTS	BLOCKS	DIGS	HIT%	KILLS	OPP HIT%
	11th	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd	2nd
	3rd	1st	8th	4th	4th	1st	3rd

TOP PERFORMERS – SEC INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
ACES	Nikki Brice NR (0.16)	Alisia Kastmo 7th (0.27)
ASSISTS	Mary Pollmiller 4th (10.68)	Allie Sawatzky 3rd (10.73)
BLOCKS	DeeDee Harrison 2nd (1.21)	Lindsey Miller 7th (0.97)
DIGS	Ellen Mullins 4th (4.99)	Megan Pendergast 7th (4.16)
HITTING %	DeeDee Harrison 12th (.293)	Lindsey Miller 9th (.341)
KILLS	Kelsey Robinson 3rd (3.94)	Alisia Kastmo 6th (3.78)
POINTS	Kelsey Robinson 3rd (5.4.49)	Alisia Kastmo 5th (4.28)