Tennessee Woman Vols lose 79-67 to Indiana: Three takeaways

What has been an terrible begin to the season for the lads’s and girls’s Tennessee basketball packages continued into Monday, because the Tennessee Woman Vols misplaced to a second ranked workforce to open the 12 months. This time, they fell at residence after dropping to No. 11 within the AP Ballot, the place they have been No. 4 final week.

Kellie Harper’s workforce fell 79-67 to the Indiana Hoosiers. Led by Teri Moren, Indiana got here in undefeated and ranked No. 12 within the AP Ballot. An 11-0 run put the Hoosiers up 20-10 within the first quarter, and Rocky High, who was taking part in with out Jordan Horston resulting from an damage final sport, was by no means capable of get well.

With the win, Indiana improves to 3-0 and can subsequent host the Bowling Inexperienced Falcons Thursday. UT, in the meantime, falls to 1-2 and can head to The Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis Match, which they’ll open up with Saturday by going through the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Listed below are three issues we discovered from the Tennessee Woman Vols’ loss on this sport.

1. There was nowhere close to sufficient dominance within the publish.

Indiana runs 4 guards, so this sport screamed for UT to take over the within sport with its size. They didn’t do it. Tamari Key, to her credit score, hit all 4 of her pictures and had 14 factors, and Rickea Jackson added 17 factors. Nevertheless, they need to’ve been much more dominant than that.

UT obtained outrebounded 35-33 be the Hoosiers. Jasmine Powell led Rocky High in rebounding with 10, which is unacceptable. Jackson, in the meantime, had six turnovers. On the opposite facet, Mackenzie Holmes was the one beginning ahead for Indiana and dominated down low with 16 factors and 10 rebounds. This nullified an enormous edge.

2. Capturing was terrible contained in the arc.

Exterior of Key, who had an enormous benefit that she nonetheless didn’t exploit, the Tennessee Woman Vols have been horrible on non-three-point capturing performs. They have been 9-of-24 from the surface, which ought to have been sufficient. Nevertheless, they went 13-of-32 inside. Jackson was 4-of-11 on two-pointers, Tess Darby was 0-of-2, and Jordan Walker was 1-of-3.

Powell, who as we talked about, was aggressive, was the most effective exterior of Key and solely went 2-of-7. She had 16 factors. Free throw capturing from Walker didn’t assist, as she was 1-of-6 from the foul line. UT was 14-of-22 total from the stripe. That nullified Darby going 3-of-7, Jackson going 2-of-3 and Powell going 3-of-8 from three.

3. Protection was atrocious.

Indiana was 8-of-29 from three and 15-of-18 from the free throw line. These are typically about what the opposite workforce does, not the protection. Nevertheless, they have been far to efficient on two-point performs, going an unbelievable 20-of-34. That was all concerning the Woman Vols and the way terrible they have been.

On prime of that, the Tennessee Woman Vols solely had 4 steals and three blocks. They solely pressured 10 turnovers, which nullified a dramatic enchancment for them on ball safety, as they solely had 15 turnovers. Maybe they missed Jordan Horston’s aggression, however all of those points proved extraordinarily pricey, and the protection can’t appear to be that once more.