Sixth-year Tennessee women’s basketball head coach Holly Warlick lured the nation’s top-rated recruiting class to Knoxville for the 2017-18 season. The four newcomers combine with senior leaders Jaime Nared and Mercedes Russell to comprise a talented but thinly insulated roster that is aiming to get the program back to the Final Four. Tennessee has made three Elite Eights and two Sweet 16s under Warlick but hasn’t been to the national semifinals since 2008.
Its quest to end that streak begins this afternoon against East Tennessee State at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville.
Here’s how the 2017-18 Lady Vols look:
Backcourt
GONE: Jordan Reynolds, Diamond DeShields, Alexa Middleton, Te’a Cooper