Today On Rocky Top: 3 Lady Vols Ejected

From The Tennessean

"Tennessee (11-2, 1-0) needed someone to pick up the slack because it didn’t get much from senior center Isabelle Harrison, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder. Harrison, a former Hillsboro standout, played just seven minutes due to foul trouble. She made the game’s first basket and didn’t score again.Harrison and Missouri guard Juanita Robinson had to be separated as they exchanged words after battling for rebounding position with less than three minutes remaining. Both players received flagrant-2 fouls, resulting in their automatic ejections. Tennessee reserve center Nia Moore also was ejected after officials determined she left the bench during the incident.Read more at The Tennessean"

From The Times Free Press

"How about that start to the new year for Tennessee’s football program?The Volunteers will head into an offseason leading into a 2015 season that will feature elevated expectations on the heels of an impressive showing in the program’s first bowl game since 2010.Tennessee jumped all over Iowa in the game’s first 18 minutes and made a quick 28-0 lead stand up in a 45-28 win against the Hawkeyes in the TaxSlayer Bowl in front of an announced crowd at EverBank Field of 56,310 that was more than 80 percent orange.Read more at The Times Free Press"

From NBC Sports

"All those who thought the East would be the SEC’s postseason “savior,” raise your hands.  Now put them right back down because all y’all are lying.Yet that’s where things stand as Tennessee (7-6), after jumping out to a 35-7 lead at halftime, cruised home to a 45-28 win over overmatched Iowa (7-6) in the TaxSlayer Bowl.  It marked the football program’s first bowl win since the 2007 season, a 21-17 win over Wisconsin in the 2008 Outback Bowl.  Since that win, UT has changed coaches on three different occasions.Read  more at NBC Sports"