Tennessee Lady Vols: Five potential breakout players for 2019-2020

Before Jordan Horston and alongside Zaay Green, there was Jazmine Massengill. She was also a five-star recruit for the Tennessee Lady Vols in 2019-2020, and everybody forgot about her in that mix of guards.

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However, Kellie Harper already went with Massengill’s experience and started her at point guard in Tuesday’s exhibition despite Horston playing more minutes. Massengill, well, struggled, missing both of her only two free throw attempts and and scoring only two points with no assists on one-of-six shooting.

But it was an exhibition game, and she did have no turnovers. So it might be a bit unfair to judge her too harshly at this point. We know that she has a ton of potential to take a major leap at 6’0″, and she will have a critical role to play in helping to offset the loss of Evina Westbrook.

Last year, Massengill played in 32 games, starting one of them, and averaged just under 18 minutes a game. So she could have almost qualified as a starter last year or somebody who wouldn’t make this list.

She averaged nearly three and a half points, three and a half rebounds and over one assist a game off the bench. But going 15.4 percent from three and 33 percent overall raises concern about her start in that exhibition game. So she has plenty of work to do, but her potential to take a major leap is clear.