WBB Preview: #15/13 Lady Vols vs. Coppin State

November 21, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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No. 15/13 Tennessee (4-1) is back inside Food City Center on Sunday and will play its last home game until Dec. 14, as Coppin State (1-4) comes to town for a 2 p.m. matinee.

The game will be broadcast by SECN+ and carried on the Lady Vol Radio Network and SiriusXM Satellite Radio (Channel 389).

The Lady Vols carry a four-game winning streak into Sunday after defeating in-state foes ETSU (97-47), UT Martin (72-61), Belmont (68-58) and Middle Tennessee (85-41) in succession. The only thing separating Kim Caldwell's squad from being undefeated is a three-game setback, 80-77, to then-No. 9/8 NC State in the season opener in the Greensboro (N.C.) Ro Invitational.

Coppin State, meanwhile, claimed its only win on Nov. 6 vs. Lincoln (Pa.), 80-47), and has suffered losses at Arizona State (67-53), at Ohio State (88-59), at Penn State (90-62) and at Towson (65-54). The Lady Vols and Eagles are meeting for the first time.

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GAMEDAY TIMES & BROADCAST INFO

Opponent: Coppin State
Date: Sunday, November 23
Tip-off: 2 p.m. ET
Venue: Food City Center
Watch: SECN+
Radio: Lady Vol Network
Online: Live Audio , Live Stats

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BROADCAST DETAILS

Zack Nelson (play-by-play) and Niya Butts (color analyst) will describe the action for the SECN+ broadcast.
All of the games included in the ESPN package (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 or Xbox One to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider.
The contest also can be heard on Lady Vol Network stations and by audio stream, with Brian Rice providing play-by-play and Jay Lifford serving as studio host.
A link to the live audio stream can be found on the WBB Preview page or the schedule on UTSports.com.
For a list of Lady Vol Network affiliates, please click the Fans tab at the top of UTSports.com, select Vol Network and then click on the Vol Network Affiliates tab.
Air-time generally occurs 30 minutes prior to tip-off.
The Lady Vol Network broadcast also will be available on SiriusXM Satellite Radio channels 389.

A LOOK AT THE LADY VOLS

With four straight victories, Tennessee has tied its second-longest winning streak of the Kim Caldwell era. The longest was 13 straight to open 2024-25, and the other four-game spree was from Feb. 13 to Feb. 23 during SEC play.
UT will seek program win 1,500 on Sunday.
Tennessee is led by a trio of national player of the year candidates in 6-0 redshirt junior guard Talaysia Cooper (17.2 ppg., 7.0 rpg., 3.2 spg., 3.0 apg., 12 3FGs) and 6-4 senior forwards Janiah Barker (14.4 ppg., 6.2 rpg., 6 3FGs) and Zee Spearman (10.4 ppg., 7.4 rpg., 6 3FGs).
After hurrying Middle Tennessee into 27 turnovers, Lady Vol foes are averaging 24.0 miscues per contest since Nov. 7.
After carding 17 steals vs. MTSU, UT is averaging 14.8 swipes in its last four games.
Tennessee is out-rebounding foes 45.0 to 32.3 (+12.8) in its past four contests.
The Lady Vols get 29.4 points per game from their bench in 2025-26, including a season-high 42-10 edge vs. MTSU.
UT is scoring 27.0 points off turnovers per contest after racking up a 36-7 advantage vs. Middle Tennessee.

ON THE VERGE OF A MILESTONE

The Lady Vols enter the Coppin State game with a 1,499-398 mark in 81 recorded years of program history.
As the all-time wins leader in NCAA women's basketball at any level, Tennessee would become the first to hit 1,500 victories.
UConn stands in second around 150 wins behind UT, followed by Stanford, James Madison and Texas.
The first documented UT women's basketball victory occurred in 1907, when a team coached by Thomas Snoddy Myers beat Central High School, 28-0, on Feb. 16 that season.

LAST TIME OUT

No 15/13 Tennessee put together a pair of 16-0 first-half runs to build a 48-16 lead at the intermission and never looked back, blowing past Middle Tennessee, 85-41, on Thursday night in front of a crowd of 10,212 at the Murphy Center.
The Lady Vols (4-1) won their fourth straight game, all against in-state opponents, and tied their largest margin of victory in the 25-game series vs. the Blue Raiders (2-3). On Feb. 1, 1974, Margaret Hutson's UT squad won 77-33 in Knoxville to also notch a 44-point triumph.
Senior forward Janiah Barker led the Big Orange, turning in season highs of 20 points and 12 rebounds behind 6-of-10 shooting from the field and 7-of-8 accuracy at the free-throw line. Freshman guard Deniya Prawl produced a career-high 15 points, while redshirt junior guard Talaysia Cooper tallied 13 and freshman guard Mya Pauldo tossed in a career-best 10 as their squad claimed its second wire-to-wire win of the year.
Savannah Davis led MTSU, which was limited to 26.5-percent shooting and forced into 27 turnovers, with 18 points.

TURNING THEM OVER

The Big Orange women are forcing 21.20 turnovers per game vs. their foes.
UT has forced its last four opponents into 20+ turnovers, hurrying Middle Tennessee into a 2025-26 opponent high of 27 miscues. Seventeen of those 27 turnovers came in the first half.
The Lady Vols forced 754 turnovers (most by the program since 784 in 2007-08) and finished No. 9 nationally and No. 1 in the SEC in TOs forced per game at 22.18 last season.
Twenty-one of UT's 34 foes in 2024-25 committed at least 20 miscues.

GENERATING POINTS OFF TURNOVERS

Tennessee is beating its opponents, 27.0 to 11.2, per game in points off turnovers and has won that statistical battle in all five games.
The Lady Vols outscored MTSU, 36-7, on points off turnovers, recording their highest total of the season and holding a foe to its lowest sum of the year.
As a direct result of foes' turnovers, UT generated 29.0 points per game off those miscues vs. its opposition (while allowing 13.6 ppg.) in 2024-25.

BENCH BRIGADE

In five games thus far, the Lady Vols are outscoring opponents' reserves, 29.4 to 15.2 ppg., and have won the battle of the bench in all five contests.
Lady Vol reserves scored a season-best 42 points vs. Middle Tennessee, holding the Blue Raider bench to just 10 for a margin of 32.
Five different players have led UT's bench scoring efforts this season: Jaida Civil (13 vs. NC State), Mia Pauldo (12 vs. ETSU), Nya Robertson (17 vs. UT Martin), Talaysia Cooper (22 pts., 14 rebs. vs. Belmont) and Deniya Prawl (15 points vs. MTSU).
Tennessee finished No. 5 nationally and second among SEC schools in bench points per game (29.8) last year.

UT/CSU SERIES NOTES

This is the first meeting between Tennessee and Coppin State.
The Lady Volunteers are 3-0 all-time vs. current members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
Most recently, Tennessee faced MEAC school NC Central on Dec. 14, 2024, defeating the Eagles at Food City Center, 139-59, and setting Southeastern Conference and school records for points scored (139) and NCAA, SEC and UT bests for three-pointers made (30).

A LOOK AT COPPIN STATE

Coppin State has begun the season at 1-4 and carries a three-game losing streak to Knoxville.
Three of the Eagles' losses, however, have come at Power 4 schools Arizona State (67-53), Ohio State (88-59) and Penn State (90-62).
CSU is led by two players scoring in double figures, including Khila Morris (14.6 ppg.) and Patricia Sosa Lora (12.7 ppg.).
Sosa Lora also leads the team in rebounding at 7.3 per contest.
Coppin is getting outscored 71.4 to 61.6 through five games and out-shot from the field, 41.9 percent to 36.4.
The Eagles are turning the ball over 22.2 times per contest and allowing 13.4 steals per game, while grabbing 9.8 steals and forcing 21.6 miscues by opponents.

ABOUT THE HEAD COACH

Darrell Mosley is in his first season at the helm of the Coppin State program after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant at Arizona State, the final two as the associate head coach.
Mosley had a six-year stint as the head coach at NCAA Division II Lincoln (Pa.) from 2015-21, fashioning an 82-66 record there.
He guided that school, where he played collegiately, to a 23-6 overall record in 2019-20 and was named the CIAA Women's Coach of the Year.

THE EAGLES' LAST GAME

Erin Henry and Patricia Sosa Lora scored 12 points apiece as Coppin State fell at Towson, 65-54, last Sunday afternoon at TU Arena.
The Eagles dropped to 1-4 on the year, while the Tigers improved to 3-2.
Henry's 12 points were a career high, as the junior guard hit four of 10 attempts from the floor and a trio of three-pointers to go with six rebounds and two assists. Sosa Lora buried five of 10 field goal attempts to go with four rebounds off the bench.
Paris McBride also finished in double figures with 10 points.
Towson narrowly out-shot Coppin, 38.6 percent to 32.8, but it finished 12 of 23 from beyond the arc. The Eagles made just nine of 19 tries from the free-throw line, but they out-rebounded the Tigers, 46-40.

NEXT UP: TWO ON THE WEST COAST

After facing Coppin State, the Lady Vols will prepare for a post-Thanksgiving trip to the West Coast for games against No. 3/3 UCLA and RV/NR Stanford.
Tennessee will start first in Los Angeles, where it will play the Bruins at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) on Nov. 30 at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial in a game televised by FS1.
UT will then make its way to Northern California for a 6:15 p.m. PT (9:15 p.m. ET) tilt at Stanford on Dec. 3 in Maples Pavilion. ESPN2 will televise that contest, which is part of the ACC/SEC Women's Basketball Challenge.
Both games will be available on Lady Vol Radio Network stations and via live stream on UTSports.com.