CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga women's basketball team will head up I-75 to take on the seventh-ranked Tennessee Lady Vols Monday evening at Thompson-Boling Arena.
 
The Mocs are 2-11 after snapping a nine-game skid last week against UNC Asheville at The McKenzie Arena. Abbey Cornelius leads the team in scoring (14.4), rebounding (9.5) and blocked shots (1.3). She is ranked fifth in the NCAA for defensive rebounds. Dena Jarrells has a team-best 24 three-pointers and 43 assists. Sigrun Olafsdottir is second on the team in assists with 35 and tied with freshman Addie Grace Porter for second in rebounds.
 
Tennessee is ranked seventh in the AP Top 25 Poll released last week and 10^th in the USA Today/WBCA Coaches' Poll. The Lady Vols are 10-1 on the year and 6-1 at Thompson-Boling Arena, falling only to Stanford. Jordan Horston leads UT with 15.1 points per game and is second on the boards with 9.4 per game. Tamari Key is the Lady Vols' top rebounder with 9.5 per game and averages 9.5 points.
 
CHATTANOOGA vs. TENNESSEE
This will be the 23rd meeting between the Mocs and Lady Vols dating back to 1975 when the two teams met three times with Tennessee winning each one. UTC has won just twice in the series. The Mocs snapped a 18-game losing skid to UTK in 2012 with a nine-point victory at the Roundhouse under former head coach Wes Moore. It was Holly Warlick's first game as head coach and Pat Summitt was in attendance behind the team bench in the stands. In 2014, Jim Foster led the Mocs to a four-point victory over a familiar foe, beating UTK 67-63 in Chattanooga.
 
THE LAST TIME THEY MET
Chattanooga mounted a three-quarter comeback after trailing 26-7 through the first 10 minutes. UTC would outscore the Lady Vols 50-33 over the next 30, falling short, 59-57 as time expired. Jasmine Joyner who saw foul trouble early, hit a 3-pointer as the final horn sounded. UTC shot 60 percent in the second half in the road game, outscoring UTK 38-21. Joyner hit a 3-pointer to start the fourth quarter to cut the Vols lead to six points and UTC would get as close as two points three times in the final frame. Queen Alford led all scorers with 19 points and Ansley Chilton scored a career-high 15 points and was 3-of-4 from long range. The Mocs shot 43.8% in the game and was 7-of-15 from the 3-point line. Tennessee outscored UTC 32-24 in the paint and scored 20 points of 21 Chattanooga miscues while the Mocs converted 19 Lady Vol turnovers into 16 points.
 
FOLLOW THE ACTION
Time: 6:30 p .m.
Site: Knoxville, Tenn. | Thompson-Boling Arena
Watch: ESPN+
Listen: WFLI 97.7 FM | 1070 AM
Follow: Live Stats
All links available at GoMocs.com on the women's basketball schedule page.
 
FORMER PLAYER AND ASSISTANT COACH TO MEET AS HEAD COACHES
In Katie Galloway's second season with the Chattanooga Lady Mocs, Wes Moore added Kellie Harper and her husband Jon to his staff as assistants. Over the next three seasons, they would combine to win 83 percent of their games (78-16), win three Southern Conference regular season titles with a record of 50-6 (.893) and earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after claiming the SoCon Tournament crown each year. In their final season at UTC, the trio saw the Mocs win a program-record 27 games including a 20-0 run through the league, and it's best seeding in the NCAA tournament to that point at #10. UTC beat Rutgers in the opening round before falling to #2 seed Vanderbilt two days later.
 
Now Katie Galloway Burrows and Kellie Harper will meet up on the court again but this time as opposing head coaches. Burrows is in her fourth season at Chattanooga and Harper is a just over a third of the way into her third with her alma mater.
 
This will be the second time Burrows has met a former coach since taking over at UTC. In her first season, she hosted her former head coach Wes Moore at the Roundhouse where, for just the second time in his career, he sat on the visitor's bench. UTC and NC State met twice with the Wolfpack winning both.
 
Burrows graduated from UTC in 2004 and returned in the 2010-11 season as an assistant for Wes Moore. She stayed on as an assistant for Jim Foster and became head coach upon his retirement following a nation-wide search.
 
ABBEY CORNELIUS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS
Center Abbey Cornelius is ranked fifth in the NCAA for defensive rebounds with 8.5 per game and 18^th for overall rebounds with 123. She averages 9.5 boards per game, 44^th in the NCAA.
 
DENA JARRELLS RECORDING CAREER GAMES
Point guard Dena Jarrells scored a career-high 19 points in the Mocs win over UNC Asheville and dropped in a career-best five 3-pointers against Cincinnati. She is second in the SoCon for assists averaging 3.3 per game.
 
SIGRUN OLAFSDOTTIR POSTS SEASON-HIGHS IN WIN
Guard Sigrun Olafsdottir dished out a season-best seven assists in the Mocs win over UNC Asheville last Monday and matched her career-high for rebounds with eight against the Bulldogs. She is second on the team for rebounds and assists.