The University of Tennessee women’s basketball team dominated from start to finish in rolling to an 85-63 home win over Wofford Tuesday night inside Food City Center.
Four Lady Vols finished in double-figure scoring, led by senior Jewel Spear with 18 points. Junior Karoline Striplin finished with 16 points and narrowly missed a double-double as she also had eight rebounds in front of the crowd of 7,900.
Junior Sara Puckett and fifth-year senior Rickea Jackson added 12 and 11 points respectively for the Lady Vols (6-5), while fifth-year senior Jasmine Powell had nine points, eight rebounds and tied a career-high with 10 assists.
Jackson returned to the lineup after missing the past eight games with a lower right left injury. Besides her 12 points, she also had six rebounds and two assists.
After Wofford (7-5) cut the Lady Vols lead to eight early in the third period, Striplin answered with a 3-pointer and Puckett followed with a layup to push the lead back to 13 just 90 seconds into the second half.
Wofford, which was coming off a road upset of Virginia last weekend, was led by Rachael Rose’s 23 points and 13 rebounds, while Maddie Heiss finished with 14 points and Annabelle Schultz contributed 11.
Tennessee will close out the non-conference portion of its schedule when it travels to Lynchburg, Virginia to take on Liberty on Dec. 31 at 2 p.m.