KNOXVILLE — Nya Robertson is a college basketball veteran, but the senior is just getting started in her University of Tennessee career, having joined the Lady Volunteers this year after playing last season at SMU and the two before that at George Washington.
Sunday afternoon, she still manged to put her own touch on a milestone victory that was decades in the making for the storied program.
Robertson set a Lady Vols record by making 10 3-pointers and finished with 32 points, leading 15th-ranked Tennessee to an 88-35 blowout win over Coppin State at Thompson-Boling Arena for the 1,500th win in program history.
In the postgame news conference, Lady Vols second-year head coach Kim Caldwell shared an exchange she had with senior forward Janiah Barker, an offseason transfer from Texas A&M.
“When I was walking into the locker room, Janiah said, ‘Coach, you’re etched in history, you’re etched in Tennessee history,” Caldwell said. “I said, ‘So are you.’ And we both just had a moment where we said it’s a really big deal. It is a really big deal.