Tennessee Turns It Up for the Postseason

Tennessee Coach Pat Summitt has been waiting for her third-ranked Lady Volunteers to recover from their national championship hangover.

Starting a new postseason, she was finally pleased with the effort they brought in a 92-61 win over Florida in the Southeastern Conference tournament yesterday in Nashville.

"We played a 40-minute game, didn't we?" Candace Parker asked, with Summitt's approval. "Somebody mark that down."

Parker scored 26 points, and the No. 3 Lady Vols (28-2) advanced to the semifinals, where they will play No. 21 Vanderbilt. Second-seeded Tennessee hasn't lost a quarterfinal game since 1993.

Florida (18-13) made its third consecutive trip to the quarterfinals, but hasn't gotten any further since 1997. The Gators have lost 15 straight games to ranked opponents.

Shannon Bobbitt scored 22 points for Tennessee. Sha Brooks scored 20 points for Florida.

Summitt has a dislocated shoulder following an encounter with a raccoon. She had taken her golden Labrador out for a walk Wednesday night when they came back to find the raccoon on the deck at her home.

"I momentarily lost it," Summitt told WBIR-TV in Knoxville. "I just knocked it off the deck, and fortunately nothing happened but a dislocated shoulder, and it's back in place."

¿ LSU 80, MISSISSIPPI 36: In Nashville, Quianna Chaney scored 17 points to help the No. 7 Lady Tigers reach the SEC semifinals for the seventh straight year.

Top-seeded Louisiana State (26-4), which will play Kentucky tonight, is trying to reach the championship game for the fourth consecutive season.