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He doesn't recall much about that Jan. 6, 1996, meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third time in 12 months his UConn Huskies faced Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Vols. But he remembers how electric the environment was, how there wasn't an arena of that size, with that energy, on any other college campus in the country.

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Despite having the higher national ranking, Tennessee ranks behind Missouri in conference at No. 7 with a 4-5 SEC record. Missouri is No. 15 nationally but No. 3 in the SEC thanks to a 6-2 in-conference record.

The UConn women’s basketball team begins a new chapter of its historic rivalry with Tennessee against Kim Caldwell’s Lady Vols in Knoxville.