!Christmas bells are R??N????N??! The coaches and players scattered after the game with evening flights planned to get everyone home over the weekend. It's there. Jazmine Massengill also kept piling up assists – she would finish with 10 helpers – and found Lou Brown, Burrell, Kamera Harris and Jessie Rennie for baskets in the third quarter to stake the Lady Vols to a 65-35 lead through three quarters. “You’ve got to make shots against a top 25 team.”. “We didn’t make them,” Kennedy said. “You can’t have that against a team like that.”. 1995-96 found the Lady Vols returning to the Final Four after a championship game loss to Connecticut the previous season. Desirae Hansen finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. “They pass the ball really well, and they started picking us apart and then we turned the ball over.”. Tennessee, 9-2, led by 14 points against Portland State, 6-3, at halftime and nearly doubled its lead by the final buzzer. HT. Tennessee changed how it defended ball screens after halftime and attacked on offense. We're headed home to Knoxville for the holiday and some basketball back on Rocky Top. “I like to pay attention to where it’s being shot from,” Burrell said. “Twenty-eight second-chance points. The Vikings led 19-18 at the end of the first quarter. Before the game, Jon Harper also said that the Lady Vols needed to “settle back into what we’re trying to do here. mike099; Jul 9, 2020; Replies 15 Views 2,728. New posts. ding ????N?? ???? “We gave up some open threes,” Harper said. Tennessee Assistant Coach Jon Harper had the scout against Portland State and noted that the Vikings are “a good team that’s used to winning games.”. The Vikings swished six 3-pointers on 15 attempts for a clip of 40 percent. What's new. The Lady Vols dominated the scoring in the second and third quarters, 47-16, and Portland State took the fourth quarter, 26-23. The Lady Vols were able to push the pace – in part by swarming the glass – and rocketed to a 40-26 lead at halftime. You can count on me." Burrell also added nine boards to her stat line with four on the offensive end. The Lady Vols followed up a 27-point loss to Stanford with a 27-point win over Portland State to send Tennessee home in a festive mood for the holiday break. “It didn’t carry over.”. Forums. Tennessee didn’t let up in the third quarter and kept attacking the glass. “We were ready,” Kennedy said. Portland State shot 31.7 percent (19-60) overall, 40 percent (12-30) from the arc and 61.1 percent (11-18) from the line. The Lady Vols shot 48.6 percent in the first 20 minutes, while the Vikings connected at 33 percent. #GoViks #ProudViks pic.twitter.com/kS0NGdZuUi, “I’m not taking anything away from Tennessee, they’re a good team, but we didn’t do the things we needed to tonight,” Kennedy said. pic.twitter.com/bSNXNbXFHR. “She plays so hard. “It’s a big deal – their history and their program and what Pat Summitt means to the basketball community,” Kennedy said. @kmjimenez3 led the Vikings with 15 points. Kennedy’s assessment is an accurate one as the Vikings won five straight entering the game and claimed the Big Sky Conference tourney last season and the league’s automatic NCAA tourney bid. Tennessee got the start it wanted at Viking Pavilion and led 9-0 after buckets by Horston and Key. Volfaninfl2. Tennessee dominated the boards, 56-26, including 20 on the offensive end that led to 28 second-chance points, and repeatedly had open lanes from which to crash the glass. “I know they had a lot of fans here, too, but it’s amazing to see the support for women’s basketball in Portland.