Pat could definitely back this.
Rickea Jackson scored a game-high 16 points, fellow senior Jordan Horston added 14 with 10 rebounds for yet another double-double, and the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team went 14 deep on its roster in a 74-56 win against Florida on Thursday night in Knoxville.
The Lady Volunteers completed a season sweep of the Gators, having won 77-66 on Dec. 29 in Gainesville, while improving to 15-6 overall and 7-0 in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee is 7-0 in the league for the second straight season, matching its best start since a 13-0 run in 2015, when the Lady Vols wound up 15-1 in the SEC to win the regular-season title.
Tennessee has won eight games in a row overall and 13 of its past 15, and the latest triumph came during “We Back Pat” week, which honors late Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt and brings attention to her namesake foundation that fights against Alzheimer’s disease.
Kellie Harper, the Tennessee native in her fourth season in charge at her alma mater, was a point guard who in the late 1990s helped the Lady Vols to three of their eight total NCAA tournament titles won under Summitt. Asked after Thursday’s victory against Florida (12-7, 1-5) about whether she has a favorite story about the legendary leader, Harper said there are too many to pick one but that a benefit of being Tennessee’s head coach is adding to the files.