Tennessee Lady Vols: Ranking toughest players to replace for 2019-2020

We’re sticking with the forwards toward the bottom of this list. Again, that’s because of Lou Brown’s return to health, the addition of junior college transfer Jaiden McCoy, the return of Kamera Harris and Kasiyahna Kushkituah, and the addition of two 6’5″ recruits in Tamari Key and Emily Saunders. There is room for replacements.

But Cheridene Green is a big loss. She was the best inside player for the Tennessee Lady Vols in 2018-2019, starting every game. Although she did average the fewest minutes of any starter at 24 a game, she was the team’s leading rebounder, averaging over seven and a half a game, and she also averaged nine points a game.

Green was the scrapper underneath the basket at 6’3″, so her loss is a brutal blow. Kellie Harper has some talented players she can turn to, but none of them had proven as much as Green. She was the Kyle Alexander for the women’s basketball team. While the guards did all the scoring on Holly Warlick’s team, Green did her job to clean up everything she could under the basket.

Mimi Collins’s transfer hurts specifically because she was brought in to replace Green in the future. That’s what makes both of these guys leaving so devastating, but as the proven starter, we have Green higher on this list. Harper’s got her work cut out for her trying to find an adequate replacement for this year.