Vols T logoKNOXVILLE – Bashaara Graves and Cierra Burdick recorded double-doubles Friday night as the 13th-ranked Tennessee women’s basketball team trounced Davidson 75-40 to avoid its first three-game losing streak in nearly 27 years.
Graves scored 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for the fifth double-double of her freshman season despite resting for the game’s final 10 minutes, 47 seconds. Burdick added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Isabelle Harrison played only 19 minutes but nearly gave the Lady Vols a third double-double before finishing with 13 points and nine rebounds.
Tennessee (8-3) had fallen 76-53 at No. 3 Baylor and 73-60 to No. 1 Stanford in its last two games. The Lady Vols haven’t dropped three straight games since losing 68-54 to No. 8 Mississippi, 66-60 to No. 11 Auburn and 59-56 to No. 3 Louisiana Tech in the Feb. 5-10 stretch of 1986.
Sophia Aleksandravicius had 12 points and seven rebounds to lead Davidson (4-7) in both categories. Laura Murray added 11 points on 4-of-15 shooting.