Mechelle previews the Stanford/Tennessee game: Rivals ready for the next chapter Stanford trails 21-5 in all-time series, but matchup has often produced great games (The game is on Fox Sports Net at 1:30p central on Saturday.)

Credit Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer with not trying to turn the Cardinal's 21-year series against Tennessee into something it hasn't really been.

"We haven't held up our end of the bargain in terms of a rivalry," she said, referring to Tennessee's 21-5 advantage. "But I think we have had good games with them."

Yes, that's true. But Stanford has had a Vanderbilt-esque experience against Tennessee, sometimes seeing victories snatched away in the final seconds, sometimes playing well only in one half, sometimes having the game slowly but torturously wrested away. And sometimes getting clobbered.