University of Georgia Athletics
Lady Dogs To Face Tennessee In Season-Ending Showdown
March 01, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Date: March 2, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Stegeman Coliseum; Athens, Ga.
TV: ESPN2
Radio: Lady Bulldog Radio Network, www.georgiadogs.com (GXtra)
The basics
For the first time since 1995, the Georgia Lady Bulldogs and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers will wrap up the regular season in a showdown of the SEC’s traditional powerhouses.
Georgia moved to 21-7 overall and 8-5 in the SEC play with Thursday’s victory over South Carolina. The Lady Bulldogs are No. 22 and No. 20 in this week’s Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls, respectively.
Tasha Humphrey, the reigning SEC Player of the Week, continues to pace Georgia for the fourth consecutive season with averages of 17.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game.
Sophomore Ashley Houts also sports a double-digit scoring average of 11.9 points per game and leads Georgia in both assists (4.7 apg) and steals (2.9 spg).
Tennessee is 26-2 overall and 12-1 in the SEC. The Lady Vols are No. 3 in both national polls this week.
Junior Candace Parker paces Tennessee with averages of 20.4 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Tennessee sports a balanced offensive attack with five players averaging at least 9.5 points per game, including double-digit efforts from freshman Angie Bjorklund (10.1 ppg) and senior Alexis Hornbuckle (10.0).
The series with Tennessee
The Lady Vols sport a 37-14 advantage in the series, including a 10-7 record in games contested in Athens.
Georgia and Tennessee met twice during each of the past two regular seasons as part of the SEC’s scheduling rotation to ensure the NCAA mandate of a 14-game league slate to ensure an automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
In the last meeting in Knoxville on Feb. 5, Candace Parker scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Tennessee to a 73-57 victory.
In the most recent matchup at Stegeman Coliseum on Jan. 14 last season, the Lady Volunteers emerged with a 52-41 victory before a sell-out crowd. Nicky Anosike and Alexis Hornbuckle scored 14 points to lead Tennessee, while Christy Marshall paced the Lady Dogs’ offensive efforts with 12 points off the bench.
Keeping an eye on...
Entering the Tennessee game:
Andy Landers is...
13 victories shy of his 800th win as a collegiate head coach
Tasha Humphrey is...
Four starts from No. 7 Coco Miller among UGA’s career leaders
431 points shy of No. 1 Janet Harris among UGA’s career leaders
127 rebounds shy of No. 3 Wanda Holloway among UGA’s career leaders
15 FTs from No. 8 Chamique Holdsclaw of Tennessee among the SEC’s career leaders
Megan Darrah is...
Will tie No. 10 Teresa Edwards among UGA’s career leaders for games played at tip-off of the Tennessee game
28 points from No. 28 Saudia Roundtree among UGA’s career scoring leaders
20 3-pt. FGs from No. 5 Rachel Powell among UGA’s career leaders
2 3-pt. FG attempts from No. 6 Rachel Powell among UGA’s career leaders
4 3-pt. FG attempts from No. 5 Kim Berry among UGA’s career leaders
Ashley Houts is...
1 steal from No. 2 Teresa Edwards among UGA’s sophomore leaders
One of the game’s greatest rivalries
It would be difficult to find two conference hoops rivals if not in any sport who have met for as many significant stakes as the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Volunteers. Georgia and Tennessee have squared off with virtually everything imaginable from bragging rights to the game’s ultimate prize on the line, including:
The 1996 NCAA Championship;
The 1995 NCAA Final Four;
The “Elite Eight” round of the 1983 and 1984 NCAA Tournaments;
The “Sweet 16” bracket of the 1986 NCAAs;
The championship game of the 1992 and 1999 SEC Tournaments.
In addition, the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Vols produced the only tie for the SEC Championship in 2000 and also finished 1-2 in the SEC standings in 1984, 1995, 1996 and 2007.
Seniors celebrated prior to tip-off
Players Megan Darrah, Tasha Humphrey and Rebecca Rowsey, manager Liz Hathaway and athletic trainer Lissa Ragan Lady Bulldog Basketball’s five seniors all will be honored in pre-game ceremonies this evening, their final game at Stegeman Coliseum.
Each of the senior players has made their mark on Lady Bulldog Basketball.
Darrah became Georgia’s 29th 1,000-point scorer during Thursday’s win at South Carolina and will join the Lady Dogs’ top-10 leaders in games played this evening.
Humphrey ranks No. 2 and No. 4 among Georgia’s career scoring and rebounding leaders, respectively, and should become just the second player to lead the Lady Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding for four consecutive seasons.
Rowsey started 63 of her first 100 games played at UGA but her career ended prematurely earlier this season due to a knee injury. Rowsey sports better than a 3.7 GPA and already has been accepted to start classes at the University of Tennessee’s Medical School in Memphis this fall.
Equally impressive, in May, Darrah will receive her degree in Management, Humphrey will receive her degree in Sports Studies and Rowsey will receive her degree in Biology. That trio will up the graduation rate of Lady Bulldog four-year letterwinners under Andy Landers to 96.2 percent (51 of 53).
Landers, Summitt among elite
Tonight’s matchup features two of the game’s premier coaches in Georgia’s Andy Landers and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt.
Summitt and Landers rank among the game’s leaders in virtually every category imaginable and are 1-2 on several lists, including number of weeks with a team in the AP poll, NCAA Tournament bids and consecutive winning seasons.
Music City banter
Georgia enters tonight’s game at 8-5 in SEC play and in fifth in the current league standings. The Lady Bulldogs will be either the No. 4 of No. 5 seed for next weekend’s SEC Tournament in Nashville.
Georgia’s seed may be determined prior to the Tennessee game. Should Kentucky defeat South Carolina on Sunday afternoon, the Lady Bulldogs will be the No. 5 seed regardless of tonight’s outcome. Should the Gamecocks upset the Wildcats and Georgia top the Lady Vols, the Lady Bulldogs would climb to the No. 4 seed and receive a first-round bye.
UGA, UT among NCAA’s top-five winners
The 2005-06 campaign represented the 25th season that women’s intercollegiate basketball has fallen under the auspices of the NCAA. During that span, Georgia and Tennessee were among the winningest programs in the nation. Tennessee ranked No. 1 in wins and winning percentage, while Georgia was No. 4 in both categories.
The Lady Bulldogs and Lady Vols are two of only four programs to post a winning record during each of the past 26 seasons, being joined by Louisiana Tech and Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Lady Bulldogs secure 20 wins once again
Georgia’s 68-56 victory over Auburn provided the Lady Bulldogs with their 24th 20-win campaign during Andy Landers’ 29 seasons as head coach.
UGA was a woeful 37-85 (.303) during the Lady Dogs’ first six seasons of intercollegiate competition from 1973-79 prior to Landers arrival. During his tenure, Georgia has amassed a 704-222 (.760) mark.
These Lady Bulldogs have a little work to do to reach the 25-win mark for the 17th time under Landers.
Lady Bulldogs back in AP poll
Georgia returned to the Associated Press poll last Monday after being left out a week earlier and snapping a streak of 98 consecutive weeks of being ranked. The last weekly edition prior to the Feb. 11 poll not to include the Lady Bulldogs was on Jan. 13, 2003.
Since women’s hoops came under the auspices of the NCAA with the start of the 1981-82 season, Georgia has been ranked in 428 of 477 (.897) weekly polls released, including 251 (.526) weeks in the top-10.
Humphrey named SEC Player of the Week
Tasha Humphrey was tabbed SEC Player of the Week on Feb. 25, a day after she posted game-high tallies of 22 points, 14 rebounds and four assists against Auburn.
Humphrey equaled her season-best totals for rebounds and assists in Georgia’s only game of the previous week. She sealed the win with consecutive field goals at the 2:08 and 1:25 marks in the contest after Auburn had trimmed a 21-point lead with 9:07 left down to six points.
During the contest, Humphrey moved past both Kelly Miller and Katrina McClain into the No. 2 position among Georgia’s career scoring leaders. She also inched into the No. 8 spot among the Lady Dogs’ career leaders for games started with 116.
Humphrey has now been named SEC Player of the Week eight times during her career, the most by any Georgia player and one shy of the league record shared by Sylvia Fowles of LSU, Candace Parker of Tennessee and Armintie Price of Ole Miss.
Houts logging major PT
At this point, Ashley Houts may have forgotten where the bench is located.
Houts has played every minute of 12 games this season, including all 45 of an overtime victory against Florida State and in seven of 13 SEC games to date.
In the past seven contests, Houts has taken a seat just three times when she fouled out with 26.2 seconds left at LSU, for the final three minutes of a blowout win over Florida and for the last 4.9 seconds of the first half at South Carolina.
Houts leads the SEC in minutes played at 36.32 per game 1.43 minutes per game more than any other player in the league. In conference games, that averages jumps to 39.08 minutes per game the league’s most by 1.85 minutes per game.
The Georgia record for average minutes keeping in mind that is a statistic first tracked during the 1982-83 season is 36.7 by Sherill Baker in 2005-06 as outlined below. That season, Baker played every minute of 13 contests.
UGA Season MPG
“T-Hump” passes Kelly, Katrina in win over Auburn
Tasha Humphrey moved past two of the greatest names in Lady Bulldog history on Feb. 24 when a 22-point effort against Auburn supplanted Kelly Miller and Katrina McCain to put her into the No. 2 position among Georgia’s career scoring leaders as outlined below.
Humphrey is an almost unrealistic 431 points away from the Lady Bulldogs’ career scoring record of Janet Harris. FYI, if Georgia logged four SEC Tournament games and then played the maximum of six contests in the NCAA Tournament, Humphrey would need to average 39.2 points in those 11 theoretical games to reach Harris’ mark.
Humphrey became the Lady Bulldogs’ fifth 2,000-point scorer during a 25-point outburst against Alabama on Jan. 20.
Humphrey began the season in the No. 9 position but inched past Tracy Henderson with a pair of free throws at the 3:38 mark of the first half versus Georgia Southern on Nov. 13, moved ahead of Wanda Holloway in the waning moments of the Oakland game on Nov. 29, surged in front of La'Keshia Frett with a three-pointer with 13:22 remaining in the victory over Georgia Tech on Dec. 2, overtook Teresa Edwards late in the second half of the loss at Vanderbilt on Jan. 17, climbed over Coco Miller with a three-pointer 12 seconds into the Florida game on Feb. 14 and knocked off Kelly Miller and McClain in the aforementioned Auburn game.
“T-Hump” fourth 1,000 boards
Tasha Humphrey became the fourth Lady Bulldog with 1,000 career rebounds during a 32-point, 11-rebound outing against Florida on Feb. 14. Humphrey is a probably unattainable 127 away from catching Wanda Holloway among Georgia’s career rebounding leaders.
The National Player of the Year candidate is currently in the No. 4 spot among the Lady Bulldogs’ career rebounding leaders as outlined below.
Humphrey began the season at the No. 10 spot but inched past Tracy Henderson against Southern Cal on Nov. 24, overtook La'Keshia Frett during a Nov. 29 win over Oakland, moved ahead of Cynthia Collins in a Dec. 9 victory over Davidson, surpassed Tawana McDonald vs. FIU on Dec. 30, supplanted Christi Thomas in the Presbyterian win on Jan. 3 and bested Tammye Jenkins during the SEC opener against Ole Miss on Jan. 10.
UGA Career Rebounds
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Stegeman Coliseum; Athens, Ga.
TV: ESPN2
Radio: Lady Bulldog Radio Network, www.georgiadogs.com (GXtra)
The basics
For the first time since 1995, the Georgia Lady Bulldogs and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers will wrap up the regular season in a showdown of the SEC’s traditional powerhouses.
Georgia moved to 21-7 overall and 8-5 in the SEC play with Thursday’s victory over South Carolina. The Lady Bulldogs are No. 22 and No. 20 in this week’s Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls, respectively.
Tasha Humphrey, the reigning SEC Player of the Week, continues to pace Georgia for the fourth consecutive season with averages of 17.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game.
Sophomore Ashley Houts also sports a double-digit scoring average of 11.9 points per game and leads Georgia in both assists (4.7 apg) and steals (2.9 spg).
Tennessee is 26-2 overall and 12-1 in the SEC. The Lady Vols are No. 3 in both national polls this week.
Junior Candace Parker paces Tennessee with averages of 20.4 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Tennessee sports a balanced offensive attack with five players averaging at least 9.5 points per game, including double-digit efforts from freshman Angie Bjorklund (10.1 ppg) and senior Alexis Hornbuckle (10.0).
The series with Tennessee
The Lady Vols sport a 37-14 advantage in the series, including a 10-7 record in games contested in Athens.
Georgia and Tennessee met twice during each of the past two regular seasons as part of the SEC’s scheduling rotation to ensure the NCAA mandate of a 14-game league slate to ensure an automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
In the last meeting in Knoxville on Feb. 5, Candace Parker scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Tennessee to a 73-57 victory.
In the most recent matchup at Stegeman Coliseum on Jan. 14 last season, the Lady Volunteers emerged with a 52-41 victory before a sell-out crowd. Nicky Anosike and Alexis Hornbuckle scored 14 points to lead Tennessee, while Christy Marshall paced the Lady Dogs’ offensive efforts with 12 points off the bench.
Keeping an eye on...
Entering the Tennessee game:
Andy Landers is...
13 victories shy of his 800th win as a collegiate head coach
Tasha Humphrey is...
Four starts from No. 7 Coco Miller among UGA’s career leaders
431 points shy of No. 1 Janet Harris among UGA’s career leaders
127 rebounds shy of No. 3 Wanda Holloway among UGA’s career leaders
15 FTs from No. 8 Chamique Holdsclaw of Tennessee among the SEC’s career leaders
Megan Darrah is...
Will tie No. 10 Teresa Edwards among UGA’s career leaders for games played at tip-off of the Tennessee game
28 points from No. 28 Saudia Roundtree among UGA’s career scoring leaders
20 3-pt. FGs from No. 5 Rachel Powell among UGA’s career leaders
2 3-pt. FG attempts from No. 6 Rachel Powell among UGA’s career leaders
4 3-pt. FG attempts from No. 5 Kim Berry among UGA’s career leaders
Ashley Houts is...
1 steal from No. 2 Teresa Edwards among UGA’s sophomore leaders
One of the game’s greatest rivalries
It would be difficult to find two conference hoops rivals if not in any sport who have met for as many significant stakes as the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Volunteers. Georgia and Tennessee have squared off with virtually everything imaginable from bragging rights to the game’s ultimate prize on the line, including:
The 1996 NCAA Championship;
The 1995 NCAA Final Four;
The “Elite Eight” round of the 1983 and 1984 NCAA Tournaments;
The “Sweet 16” bracket of the 1986 NCAAs;
The championship game of the 1992 and 1999 SEC Tournaments.
In addition, the Lady Bulldogs and Lady Vols produced the only tie for the SEC Championship in 2000 and also finished 1-2 in the SEC standings in 1984, 1995, 1996 and 2007.
Seniors celebrated prior to tip-off
Players Megan Darrah, Tasha Humphrey and Rebecca Rowsey, manager Liz Hathaway and athletic trainer Lissa Ragan Lady Bulldog Basketball’s five seniors all will be honored in pre-game ceremonies this evening, their final game at Stegeman Coliseum.
Each of the senior players has made their mark on Lady Bulldog Basketball.
Darrah became Georgia’s 29th 1,000-point scorer during Thursday’s win at South Carolina and will join the Lady Dogs’ top-10 leaders in games played this evening.
Humphrey ranks No. 2 and No. 4 among Georgia’s career scoring and rebounding leaders, respectively, and should become just the second player to lead the Lady Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding for four consecutive seasons.
Rowsey started 63 of her first 100 games played at UGA but her career ended prematurely earlier this season due to a knee injury. Rowsey sports better than a 3.7 GPA and already has been accepted to start classes at the University of Tennessee’s Medical School in Memphis this fall.
Equally impressive, in May, Darrah will receive her degree in Management, Humphrey will receive her degree in Sports Studies and Rowsey will receive her degree in Biology. That trio will up the graduation rate of Lady Bulldog four-year letterwinners under Andy Landers to 96.2 percent (51 of 53).
Landers, Summitt among elite
Tonight’s matchup features two of the game’s premier coaches in Georgia’s Andy Landers and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt.
Summitt and Landers rank among the game’s leaders in virtually every category imaginable and are 1-2 on several lists, including number of weeks with a team in the AP poll, NCAA Tournament bids and consecutive winning seasons.
Music City banter
Georgia enters tonight’s game at 8-5 in SEC play and in fifth in the current league standings. The Lady Bulldogs will be either the No. 4 of No. 5 seed for next weekend’s SEC Tournament in Nashville.
Georgia’s seed may be determined prior to the Tennessee game. Should Kentucky defeat South Carolina on Sunday afternoon, the Lady Bulldogs will be the No. 5 seed regardless of tonight’s outcome. Should the Gamecocks upset the Wildcats and Georgia top the Lady Vols, the Lady Bulldogs would climb to the No. 4 seed and receive a first-round bye.
UGA, UT among NCAA’s top-five winners
The 2005-06 campaign represented the 25th season that women’s intercollegiate basketball has fallen under the auspices of the NCAA. During that span, Georgia and Tennessee were among the winningest programs in the nation. Tennessee ranked No. 1 in wins and winning percentage, while Georgia was No. 4 in both categories.
The Lady Bulldogs and Lady Vols are two of only four programs to post a winning record during each of the past 26 seasons, being joined by Louisiana Tech and Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Lady Bulldogs secure 20 wins once again
Georgia’s 68-56 victory over Auburn provided the Lady Bulldogs with their 24th 20-win campaign during Andy Landers’ 29 seasons as head coach.
UGA was a woeful 37-85 (.303) during the Lady Dogs’ first six seasons of intercollegiate competition from 1973-79 prior to Landers arrival. During his tenure, Georgia has amassed a 704-222 (.760) mark.
These Lady Bulldogs have a little work to do to reach the 25-win mark for the 17th time under Landers.
Lady Bulldogs back in AP poll
Georgia returned to the Associated Press poll last Monday after being left out a week earlier and snapping a streak of 98 consecutive weeks of being ranked. The last weekly edition prior to the Feb. 11 poll not to include the Lady Bulldogs was on Jan. 13, 2003.
Since women’s hoops came under the auspices of the NCAA with the start of the 1981-82 season, Georgia has been ranked in 428 of 477 (.897) weekly polls released, including 251 (.526) weeks in the top-10.
Humphrey named SEC Player of the Week
Tasha Humphrey was tabbed SEC Player of the Week on Feb. 25, a day after she posted game-high tallies of 22 points, 14 rebounds and four assists against Auburn.
Humphrey equaled her season-best totals for rebounds and assists in Georgia’s only game of the previous week. She sealed the win with consecutive field goals at the 2:08 and 1:25 marks in the contest after Auburn had trimmed a 21-point lead with 9:07 left down to six points.
During the contest, Humphrey moved past both Kelly Miller and Katrina McClain into the No. 2 position among Georgia’s career scoring leaders. She also inched into the No. 8 spot among the Lady Dogs’ career leaders for games started with 116.
Humphrey has now been named SEC Player of the Week eight times during her career, the most by any Georgia player and one shy of the league record shared by Sylvia Fowles of LSU, Candace Parker of Tennessee and Armintie Price of Ole Miss.
Houts logging major PT
At this point, Ashley Houts may have forgotten where the bench is located.
Houts has played every minute of 12 games this season, including all 45 of an overtime victory against Florida State and in seven of 13 SEC games to date.
In the past seven contests, Houts has taken a seat just three times when she fouled out with 26.2 seconds left at LSU, for the final three minutes of a blowout win over Florida and for the last 4.9 seconds of the first half at South Carolina.
Houts leads the SEC in minutes played at 36.32 per game 1.43 minutes per game more than any other player in the league. In conference games, that averages jumps to 39.08 minutes per game the league’s most by 1.85 minutes per game.
The Georgia record for average minutes keeping in mind that is a statistic first tracked during the 1982-83 season is 36.7 by Sherill Baker in 2005-06 as outlined below. That season, Baker played every minute of 13 contests.
UGA Season MPG
“T-Hump” passes Kelly, Katrina in win over Auburn
Tasha Humphrey moved past two of the greatest names in Lady Bulldog history on Feb. 24 when a 22-point effort against Auburn supplanted Kelly Miller and Katrina McCain to put her into the No. 2 position among Georgia’s career scoring leaders as outlined below.
Humphrey is an almost unrealistic 431 points away from the Lady Bulldogs’ career scoring record of Janet Harris. FYI, if Georgia logged four SEC Tournament games and then played the maximum of six contests in the NCAA Tournament, Humphrey would need to average 39.2 points in those 11 theoretical games to reach Harris’ mark.
Humphrey became the Lady Bulldogs’ fifth 2,000-point scorer during a 25-point outburst against Alabama on Jan. 20.
Humphrey began the season in the No. 9 position but inched past Tracy Henderson with a pair of free throws at the 3:38 mark of the first half versus Georgia Southern on Nov. 13, moved ahead of Wanda Holloway in the waning moments of the Oakland game on Nov. 29, surged in front of La'Keshia Frett with a three-pointer with 13:22 remaining in the victory over Georgia Tech on Dec. 2, overtook Teresa Edwards late in the second half of the loss at Vanderbilt on Jan. 17, climbed over Coco Miller with a three-pointer 12 seconds into the Florida game on Feb. 14 and knocked off Kelly Miller and McClain in the aforementioned Auburn game.
“T-Hump” fourth 1,000 boards
Tasha Humphrey became the fourth Lady Bulldog with 1,000 career rebounds during a 32-point, 11-rebound outing against Florida on Feb. 14. Humphrey is a probably unattainable 127 away from catching Wanda Holloway among Georgia’s career rebounding leaders.
The National Player of the Year candidate is currently in the No. 4 spot among the Lady Bulldogs’ career rebounding leaders as outlined below.
Humphrey began the season at the No. 10 spot but inched past Tracy Henderson against Southern Cal on Nov. 24, overtook La'Keshia Frett during a Nov. 29 win over Oakland, moved ahead of Cynthia Collins in a Dec. 9 victory over Davidson, surpassed Tawana McDonald vs. FIU on Dec. 30, supplanted Christi Thomas in the Presbyterian win on Jan. 3 and bested Tammye Jenkins during the SEC opener against Ole Miss on Jan. 10.
UGA Career Rebounds
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