No. 12 Tennessee (3-1) defeated Belmont (1-2), 68-58, Thursday at Food City Center. Thursday’s game marked the Lady Vols’ fourth contest in 10 days to open their 2025-26 basketball season.
Tennessee tipped off its regular season with a top-10 matchup on Nov. 4. North Carolina State defeated the Lady Vols, 80-77, in the Ro Greensboro Invitational at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Tennessee won its home opener, 97-47, over ETSU at Food City Center on Nov. 7. The Lady Vols also won at UT Martin, 72-61, on Sunday.
Second-year Tennessee head coach Kim Caldwell discussed the Lady Vols’ schedule after facing Belmont on Thursday.
“When we talked as a team, we knew that we were going to have to kind of patch this one together,” Caldwell said. “We’re not playing great right now and we haven’t really had a lot of practice time or space to fix it. Just the way our schedule has been loaded, and it’s been a grind, and we haven’t had a string of more than two days of practice without a game around it since we started playing games.
“It’s good to get out of here with a win because it was touch and go at times, and we knew that’s a great team, and now we finally do have some time to fix it, and we will.”
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