So the game everyone is talking about is, of course, Ball State's upset of Tennessee. (2nd most emailed story at the NYTimes) Writes Jere in A Shocking First for the Tennessee Women
It is difficult to overstate how unprecedented and unexpected the Lady Vols’ defeat was. This is a program that has won eight national titles and is the only university to have made the field every year since the N.C.A.A. began sponsoring a women’s tournament in 1982.And notes Mechelle: Day 2: The bell tolls for Tennessee … at least for now
Tennessee never dropped out of my Top 25 poll this season, and I had the Orange Crush moving on to the Sweet 16 in my bracket (which I reluctantly fill out every year).
But now Tennessee is out of the tournament after the first round - a sentence I never thought I would type. Not even this season.