Lady Vols basketball has won five-straight games following a loss in Greensboro to NC State to open the season. The result is a No. 14 ranking in the country in the refreshed AP Poll.
This past week, Tennessee beat MTSU on the road by 44 points and Coppin State at home by 53. This led to the one-spot jump. UT moved past Baylor and USC, but was leapfrogged by Iowa.
This is good for the sixth-best mark in the SEC. Tennessee is behind just No. 2 South Carolina, No. 4 Texas, No. 5 LSU, No. 9 Oklahoma and No. 13 Ole Miss.
Other Lady Vols opponents on the schedule include No. 1 UConn, No. 3 UCLA, No. 16 Kentucky, No. 17 Vanderbilt, No. 23 Louisville and No. 25 NC State. Stanford is also receiving the most votes of any unranked team.
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Through six games, the Lady Vols are led in scoring by Talaysia Cooper. She has posted 16.2 points per game on 46.3% shooting from the field and 34.2% from range. Behind her is Janiah Barker at 15.2 points per contest on 48.4% shooting from the floor. Third place is Nya Robertson, who jumped up to 11.5 points per game after dropping 32 against Coppin State on Sunday afternoon.
The leading rebounder is Cooper, as well. She is up to 7.7 points and recorded a double-double in the win over CSU. Zee Spearman is right behind her at 7.3 boards per game. Barker is at 6.5.
It’s Cooper again leading in assists. She’s up to four per game at the moment. This goes with 3.8 steals per game, as well. Jaida Civil is second in assists at two per match.
Next, Tennessee will take the week off from game action before traveling to California. First is a contest at UCLA on Nov. 30 before matching up at Stanford on Dec. 3 in the ACC/SEC Challenge.
