{"id":745579,"date":"2026-05-27T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/745579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:03:37","slug":"lady-vols-set-to-face-baylor-in-music-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/745579\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Vols Set To Face Baylor In Music City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee and Baylor will square off in women&#8217;s basketball in Nashville on Dec. 18 at Bridgestone Arena, Complete Sports Management announced on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe match-up between the Lady Vols and Bears will be one of two contests played at the downtown Music City venue on that Friday. Vanderbilt and Belmont will face one another in a game that follows. Tip times and broadcast information will be released later.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPre-sale tickets are on sale\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1B0064B41FDFEC23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0using the promo code NASHVOLS26.\u00a0\u00a0Tickets will go on sale to the public Friday at 11 a.m. ET (10 CT) at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1B0064B41FDFEC23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUT and BU will face off for the ninth time, but this will mark the first occasion they&#8217;ve played each other since 2016.\u00a0 The Bears lead the all-time series, 6-2, winning the past six meetings since the Lady Vols claimed the first two battles between the schools in 2004 and 2009. The Big Orange is 1-2 in neutral site contests vs. Baylor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTennessee, which is ranked No. 25 in the USA TODAY Sports &#8220;Way-Too-Early&#8221; Top 25, heads into year three of the <a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/kim-caldwell\/5691\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5691\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Caldwell<\/a> era and seeks its third straight NCAA appearance under her watch. The Lady Vols finished 16-14 (8-8 in the SEC) in 2025-26, tying for sixth in the league and falling in the NCAA First Round. Caldwell will lead an entirely-new 15-player roster, comprised of 13 transfers and two freshmen that she and her staff finalized in just 22 days.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBaylor, meanwhile, finished 25-9 overall (13-5 in the Big 12) a year ago, placing\u00a0third in league play and falling in the NCAA Second Round. The Bears, who are coached by sixth-year skipper Nicki Collen, welcome back one of the nation&#8217;s most prolific scorers in Taliah Scott (19.7), but they lost their second through sixth-leading scorers from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee and Baylor will square off in women&#8217;s basketball in Nashville on Dec. 18 at Bridgestone Arena, Complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-745579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116648332744283568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}