KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kayana Traylor scored 18 factors and No. 9 Virginia Tech held off Tennessee 59-56 on Sunday in a Jimmy V Girls’s Traditional recreation.
Jordan Horston led Tennessee with 26 factors and 11 rebounds, however missed a pair of late photographs that may have tied the sport.
Trailing 58-56 with Three seconds left, Horston obtained pulled over for a jumper. Down three with 1.1 seconds left, her Three-point try from the highest of the important thing bounced.
“I hate to lose,” Horston stated. “I’ve to maintain reminding myself that this isn’t the tip.”
“(Horston) poured his coronary heart out,” Tennessee coach Kellie Harper stated. “I believed she was the chief.”
Cayla King scored 11 factors and Georgia Amoore and D’asia Gregg every had 10 for the Hokies (Eight-Zero).
“Everyone stepped up and did a bit little bit of one thing,” Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks stated.
“Jordan was unimaginable,” he added. “He is an amazing expertise.”
Tamari Key scored 11 for the Girl Volunteers (Four-5).
Virginia Tech shot 35 % from the sphere (20-of-57) and 28 % (9-of-32) from Three-point vary.
The Girl Vols struggled from the sphere (20-of-60, 33%) and Three-pointers (2-of-14, 14%).
Tennessee performed with out scorer and rebounder Rickea Jackson, who sat out attributable to a coach’s choice.
The Hokies led by 12 within the first half. Tennessee closed the hole with a 9-Three run to finish the half, 34-30.
The Jimmy V occasion is called after the late North Carolina State males’s coach Jimmy Valvano and raises cash and consciousness for the V Basis for Most cancers Analysis.
SURVEY IMPLICATIONS
Though they obtained off to a quick begin, Virginia Tech remains to be trying to play the No. 1 ranked workforce. He most likely will not get that likelihood till he entertains Notre Dame on Dec. 18.
OVERVIEW
Virginia Tech: Guard Georgia Amoore is an integral a part of the Hokie arsenal. In final week’s recreation in opposition to Nebraska, she collected this system’s first triple-double. She had 24 factors, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
Tennessee: The Girl Vols have been with out three gamers — Jasmine Franklin and Jillian Hollingshead have been injured and Jackson (17.6 factors, 6.6 rebounds) was held. No particulars have been supplied.
IT FOLLOWS
Virginia Tech: The Hokies hit Boston School on Wednesday to start Atlantic Coast Convention competitors.
Tennessee: The Girl Vols play Chattanooga on Tuesday within the first of three dwelling video games earlier than a matchup at Stanford on Dec. 18.
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