Four days after its first Southeastern Conference loss this season, the Tennessee women’s basketball team returned to both the game court and the win column.
Rickea Jackson had a game-high 19 points as one of four scorers in double figures for Tennessee, and the Lady Volunteers overcame a double-digit deficit in the second quarter to beat Mississippi State 75-64 on Thursday night in Starkville.
Jackson also had a team-high seven rebounds for Tennessee (11-6, 4-1), which bounced back from Sunday’s 71-56 loss at Texas A&M, while Kaiya Wynn scored a career-high 13 points with five rebounds and three assists in 22 minutes off the bench, and the Lady Vols got 11 points apiece from Jasmine Powell, whose seven assists were a game high, and Sara Puckett, who also had six rebounds.
Tennessee coach Kellie Harper described it as a “gutsy” win in her postgame news conference.
“I thought we had a lot of people step up and make plays to get it done,” she said.