March 24, 2008

Purdue-Tennessee Game Notes

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‎ ‎WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - ‎

No. 1 Seed Tennessee (31-2, 13-1 SEC) at No. 9 Seed Purdue (19-‎‎14, 11-7 Big Ten)
‎ Tuesday, March 25, 2008
‎ ‎7 p.m. Eastern
‎ Mackey Arena (14,123)
‎ West Lafayette, Ind.

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‎Television
‎ ESPN2
‎ Dave O'Brien: play-by-play
‎ Krista Blunk: analysis
‎ Kim Anthony: reporter

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‎Radio
‎ WBPE (95.3 FM)
‎ ‎ Tim Newton: play-by-play
‎ ‎ Jane Schott: analysis

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‎On The Web
‎ Gametracker at purduesports.com
‎ live subscription radio broadcast at sports.yahoo.com

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‎Rankings
‎ Tennessee is ranked 3rd in the AP Poll and the USA Today/ESPN poll.
‎ Purdue is unranked

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‎The Series
‎ Purdue trails 1-6

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‎The Coaches
‎ ‎Purdue - Sharon Versyp (Purdue '89)
‎ ‎ ‎ School Record: 50-20, 2nd year
‎ Overall Record: 167-85, 8th year

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‎Tennessee - Pat Summitt (UT-Martin `74)
‎ School Record: 978-182, 34th year
‎ Overall Record: same

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‎Boilermaker Send Off
‎ Join the Black and Gold Sound, the Purdue women's basketball pep band, along ‎with the Purdue cheerleaders and Purdue Pete as they send off the Purdue ‎women's basketball team on Tuesday, from 5-5:15 p.m. outside the Hilton ‎Garden Inn in the Wabash Landing in West Lafayette. Bring the family and get ‎the players fired up to take on Tennessee at 7 p.m. in Mackey Arena.‎

‎Ticket Information
‎ Tickets are still available for Tuesday. The cost is $18 for adults and $11 for ‎students which will gain admittance for both the Purdue-Tennessee matchup as ‎well as the Oklahoma-Notre Dame game. While supplies last, a special offer of ‎four single-session tickets plus popcorn is available for $44. Tickets can be ‎purchased though the Purdue Athletic Ticket Office by calling (800) 497-7678 or ‎‎(765) 494-3194, in person at the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility or by clicking ‎here. Group rates are available only by calling the Purdue Ticket office. On ‎Tuesday, the ticket office will open at 9 a.m. and tickets will remain on sale until ‎‎11:30 p.m. ‎

For more information from the NCAA Tournament first- and second-round events ‎in West Lafayette, Ind., please click here.‎

‎ A Boilermaker win would ...
‎ ‎- make their record 20-14 in 2007-08
‎ ‎- give them a 20-win season for the 18th time in the last 21 seasons
‎ ‎- improve their all-time record to 637-339
‎ ‎- improve them to 40-17 all-time in NCAA Tournament games (19-5 in NCAA Tournament games ‎in Mackey Arena)
‎ ‎- advance them to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the second consecutive year and 7 of the last 10
‎ ‎- make them 2-6 against Tennessee
‎ ‎- bring Sharon Versyp's all-time record to 168-85
‎ ‎- give them a 4-2 record on ESPN2 and give them a 10-8 record in all nationally televised games ‎this season (Big Ten Network, CBS, ESPN2).

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‎Purdue vs. No. 3 Tennessee
‎ ‎- Purdue is 1-6 all-time against Tennessee, with the Lady Vols winning the last matchup 75-54 on March 22, ‎‎2005, in the second-round of the NCAA Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn. The Boilermakers one win occurred ‎when fifth-ranked Purdue knocked off top-ranked Tennessee 78-68 on Nov. 15, 1998, in Mackey Arena, ‎ending the Lady Vols' 46-game win streak.
‎ ‎- Purdue is 1-1 against Tennessee at home; 0-4 against the Lady Vols in Knoxville and 0-1 vs. UT in neutral ‎site games.
‎ ‎- Purdue is 0-1 against the Lady Vols in the NCAA Tournament.
‎ ‎- Purdue is 4-4 all-time against Southeastern Conference teams in the NCAA Tournament, with wins against ‎Arkansas, Georgia, LSU and Vanderbilt and losses to Georgia, LSU, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

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‎What's Next
‎ If the Boilermakers win their second-round NCAA Tournament game, Purdue will ‎advance to the regional semifinal in Oklahoma City and play the winner of No. 4 seed ‎Oklahoma- No. 5 seed Notre Dame on March 30. Oklahoma and Notre Dame face off in ‎Mackey Arena on Tuesday, 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Purdue-Tennessee ‎matchup.

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‎ Purdue In The NCAA Tournament
‎ Purdue is making its 19th overall and 15th straight NCAA Tournament ‎appearance. The last time the Boilermakers missed the Big Dance was in 1993. ‎The Boilermakers own a 39-17 all-time NCAA record (.696). Since the field ‎expanded to 64 teams in 1994, Purdue has advanced to the second round of the ‎tournament 14 of 15 times, and has advanced to the Sweet 16 11 times. The ‎Boilermakers played in the 1994, 1999 and 2001 NCAA Women's Final Fours; ‎they won the title in 1999 and finished as runners-up in 2001.

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‎ Keeping The Streak Alive
‎ Winning the Big Ten Tournament guaranteed Purdue its 15th straight NCAA ‎Tournament appearance, the fifth longest streak among the nation's women's ‎basketball programs. Only Tennessee (26 straight), Stanford (20), Connecticut ‎‎(19) and Old Dominion (16) have more.

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‎NCAA Tournament In Mackey Arena
‎ Mackey Arena has played host to NCAA Tournament first- and second-round games on 12 occasions prior ‎to 2008. The first time was in 1989 and the most recent was 2006. Additionally, the NCAA Mideast Regional ‎was played in Mackey Arena in 1992 and 1997. Purdue's record in NCAA games played in Mackey Arena is ‎‎18-5, a .783 winning percentage. The Boilermakers' overall record in Mackey is 319-98, a .765 winning ‎percentage. This season Purdue is 12-3 at home.

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