Tennessee beat Rutgers and ended Cappie Pondexter's college career.

Candace Parker showed why she's special in ways that have nothing to do with dunking. She scored inside and outside, with back-to-the-basket moves and face-up moves. She played good on-ball defense and great help defense. She had 29 points, 6 blocks, and 5 rebounds.

Coach Stringer described the difficulty of guarding Parker.

Essence Carson was on her, but Essence has to deny her first. There's no way we were going to stop her when she was posted. When Essence has to play her on the perimeter, she has no answer for her in the post. Then we went to (Mariota) Theodoris. As a center, she was a better matchup in the post, but she'd go out to the perimeter and we'd expose more people and pick up fouls.

Cappie was dejected. "It's hard when you've worked so hard to come back, only to be disappointed," she said between sobs. "I hope that I taught Matee Ajavon a lot, and she can move on and help the team. I just have to move on with my life."