KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee guard/forward Rennia Davis has been named SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week by both the Southeastern Conference office as well as College Sports Madness.
Davis broke out of an early-season shooting slump in a big way, scoring a season-high 19 points and pulling down a career-best 15 rebounds as the Lady Vols took down preseason Big Ten favorite #15/15 Indiana in Bloomington, 66-58, last week.
The 6-foot-2 senior from Jacksonville, Fla., scored 10 of UT’s 14 points in the fourth quarter to propel UT to its biggest win of the Kellie Harper era and help the Lady Vols overcome the loss of starting center Keyen Green, who went down two days before the Indiana game with a season-ending leg injury. Davis had a 5-of-6 shooting effort in the final frame and finished nine of 16 for the game for 56.3 percent.
Combined with a nine-point, six-rebound effort in only 15 minutes vs. UNCG on Sunday in a game devoted to providing maximum playing time to reserves, Davis averaged a double-double of 14.0 points and 10.5 rebounds last week. She added 2.5 assists per contest and shot 59.1 percent from the field, including 66.7 percent from the three-point arc.
Davis also was instrumental in a Tennessee defensive effort that limited opponents to an average of 49.0 points as well as 30.1 percent (37 of 123) field-goal shooting and 17.5 percent (10 of 57) futility from the three-point arc last week.
The double-double vs. Indiana was her second of the season and 31st of her career, tying her for seventh all-time at Tennessee with Isabelle Harrison. Davis’ next double-double will tie her with 2021 Naismith Memorial and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Tamika Catchings at 32.
Davis and the Lady Vols (5-1) return to action on Dec. 28, as in-state foe Lipscomb University comes to Thompson-Boling Arena for a 7 p.m. contest. The game will be streamed on SECN+.
-UT Athletics
