Baugh to undergo surgery next week

The date for Vicki Baugh's knee surgery has been set for Feb. 24.

The Tennessee women's basketball forward will undergo the second reconstructive procedure on her right anterior cruciate ligament in less than a year. She went down during an 80-70 loss to Oklahoma in Oklahoma City on Feb. 2. The 6-foot-4 sophomore suffered the original knee injury last season during the national championship game against Stanford.

In other news from the training room, center Kelley Cain and forward Alex Fuller both missed Tuesday's practice because of illness. Jenny Moshak, the Lady Vols associate athletics director for sports medicine, said Fuller's absence was unrelated to the hard fall she took in the second half of Monday night's 62-54 loss to Duke.

Freshman forward Alyssia Brewer sat out the latter portion of Tuesday's workout after jamming her right knee.

Moshak said that Cain, Fuller and Brewer should be available for Thursday's SEC game at Kentucky.

Starting Over: After second-guessing her decision to not start Briana Bass against Duke, UT coach Pat Summitt said that Bass likely will start against Kentucky.

The 5-foot-2 freshman, the lone true point guard left on UT's active roster, scored a season-high 14 points against the Blue Devils and committed just one turnover.

Polls: UT actually rose two spots to 19th in the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll.

Summitt To Speak: Summitt will be the featured speaker at the final luncheon this season of the Big Orange TipOff Club at noon today at Calhoun's on the River. Also speaking will be UT baseball coach Todd Raleigh.

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