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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Comments » 11
pammyvol1000 writes:
Poor Gal! After 1 year of re-hab only to start all over. Bless her little heart! Our thoughts are with you Vickie!
huntined#565710 writes:
Dang....Vicki, ALL of VOL NATION will be PRAYING for you..
CTOWNICON writes:
Get well Vicki. God is with you and so are my prayers. Good job coach in inserting Bass back into the starting lineup.
gnm53108 writes:
Son of a ....Dont let anybody named Murphy anywhere near this girl.
Get well soon Vicki.
Thoughts and prayers are with you.
ladyvolfaithful62 writes:
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Vickie. I'll also add a prayer for your patience during rehab. I know how trying that can be.
98reax writes:
Is 'dadgum' a word? It seems to fit the situation. Bad things happen to good people.
You know what, dadgummit, this team has suffered it's share and some more of tough times. Just imagine, if you will, and I'm quite certain most of us have, the complexion of the 08/09 LVs sans the perils they have been plagued by:
a healthy Cait, point guard
a fit & furious post player, Baugh
a bigger, stronger post, completely rehabbed Cain
Alex & Bj, free from the burden of carrying the whole load
a returning 5th-year Super Star, bp, Candace Parker
a long bench of rookies willing to soak up the Patspeak
Good grief! It sends shivers up my spine how fine this team would be. Visions of '98 hath 98. I shall not hold my breath.
allvol9 writes:
Tough break for sure. Great talent and my best wishes go out to Vicki that she heals completely this time. We really need her next year in the lineup.
rockytopron writes:
Mike, your jerkdom never ends. You are one arrogant SOB who will fall mighty hard soon.
Tennessee is the 2 time defending champs & your paid for pros and your slick as a crook coach haven't won anything yet.
reachkim00 writes:
Amen rockytopron.
My prediction.. Uconn loses by 1 to I care who in the final 4.. that would be SWEEETTTTTT!!
reachkim00 writes:
We're all pulling for you Vicki. Take care of yourself and don't push it, let the healing take it's time and you'll be better than ever. We fans love ya girl!! GO LADY VOLS!!!
anosikefan writes:
Get well Vicky! We miss you and need you next year! Many thoughts and prayers are with you...you can do it!
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