KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Coppin State's women's basketball team will take on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers on Sunday, November 23 at Food City Center, it was announced late last week. This will be the first meeting between the two schools.
The Lady Vols, who have won eight NCAA National Champions, are led by second-year head coach Kim Caldwell and advanced to the Sweet 16 last year. Zee Spearman, Talaysia Cooper and Ruby Whitehorn are set to return to he program that is ranked seventh in the ESPN Way-Too Early Top 25 for the upcoming season. Among the newcomers for the Vols include UCLA transfer Janiah Barker and Nya Robertson who averaged 18.5 points per game last year at SMU.
The Eagles advanced to the Second Round of the WNIT last season and are led by
Darrell Mosley, who was an assistant/associate head coach at Arizona State the last three seasons. Mosley previously served as an assistant at Delaware following a five-plus season stint as head coach at Lincoln (Pa.) where he won 82 games, was the 2020 CIAA Coach of the Year and a finalist for the WHoopDirt.com National Coach of the Year.
CSU returns just one player from last season in Baltimore native,
Mickelle Lowry, but Mosley and his staff quickly built a new roster featuring eight Division I transfers, a post transfer from the NAIA, and five true freshmen.
