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Summitt joked that her reaching 1,000 might be why Knight may be thinking about coaching again.
No coach has beaten Summitt more than Landers, whose hometown is a short drive away from Knoxville and who used to scrimmage the Lady Vols when he was at a nearby community college. His Lady Bulldogs came in having won four straight in a streak that included wins over Vanderbilt and Auburn after those teams had beaten Tennessee.
The Lady Vols erased any doubt that this would be the night to celebrate by grabbing the lead in the first half of a sloppy game and pushing the lead to double digits on the first bucket of the second half, a layup by Glory Johnson.
Johnson finished with a career-high 20 points to lead the Lady Vols. Alex Fuller had 13, Kelley Cain added 12 and Angie Bjorklund 11.
Georgia (15-8, 5-3) went cold for nearly seven minutes in the first half and couldn’t recover. Christy Marshall led Georgia with 16, Ashley Houts had 11 and Porsha Phillips 10.
“She’s one heck of a coach,” Marshall said.
Summitt won her 40th overall against Georgia and improved to 16-4 in this series in Knoxville even in a game the banged-up Lady Vols took a few more lumps.
Vicki Baugh, who tore her left ACL against Oklahoma, is out for the rest of the season. Then Shekinna Stricklen pulled a groin muscle and had to leave briefly with Alicia Manning bruising her left quadriceps muscle.
This team has been a challenge for Summitt, not like the dominant ones she’s used to coaching. That doesn’t mean the ultimate goal isn’t the same.
“We may be young and we may be inexperienced, but our goal is to be in St. Louis at the Final Four. And that is something that we talk about,” she said. “I think you’ve got a vision, you have to talk about that vision. We have a vision, and that’s where we want to be.”
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