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Tennessee Lady Vols report card in 78-51 loss at No. 1 Stanford

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - JANUARY 21: Tennessee Volunteers fans hold up a cardboard photo of women's basketball coach Pat Summitt during the game against the Connecticut Huskies at Thompson-Boling Arena on January 21, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee defeated Connecticut 60-57. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - JANUARY 21: Tennessee Volunteers fans hold up a cardboard photo of women's basketball coach Pat Summitt during the game against the Connecticut Huskies at Thompson-Boling Arena on January 21, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennessee defeated Connecticut 60-57. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /
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Starting guards

Rennia Davis: B

She was the one player to score double-figures for the Tennessee Lady Vols with 14 points. Rennia Davis proved why she is a leader. On top of that, she did it while shooting four-for-10 from three-point range, and she added six rebounds.

Davis also did a pretty good job on her counterpart defensively, holding Haley Jones to eight points, although she played the fewest minutes of the guards. However, Davis still gets a B because she was five-of-20 overall, shooting horribly from anywhere but three.

Jordan Horston: C

Like everybody else, Jordan Horston had a bad shooting night, and like everybody but Davis, that included missing every three-point shot attempt. But she was aggressive enough to still get nine points, and she had five rebounds.

However, Horston was not as great defensively, allowing her counterparts to score double-figures. That combined with her poor shooting is why we decided to give her a C. It was just an average performance against a great team.

Jazmine Massengill: F

Again, Jazmine Massengill is playing at a position she is having to learn on the fly. Doing that against the No. 1 team on the road is tough. But she still only had four points on two-of-nine shooting, and she had five turnovers to only one assist.

That’s horrible for a guard, even if she did have five rebounds. Meanwhile, her counterpart, Kiana Williams, was the star of the game with 19 points and seven assists. So Massengill struggled on both sides and had the worst night of anybody.

Overall backcourt grade: C-

Defense wasn’t great for anybody in the backcourt, but a few players did step up in other ways. Jordan Horston’s aggression, Rennia Davis’s three-point shooting and the rebounding by all of them counts for something.