Tennessee (3-0) defeated New Haven (1-1), 83-40, Tuesday at Food City Center. The Lady Vols led, 37-24, at halftime.

Third-year Tennessee head coach Kim Caldwell discussed the Lady Vols' performance after the game.

"We appreciate coach (Debbie) Buff and New Haven for coming," Caldwell said. "It was a game we needed. Wasn't a pretty game on our end, but I think right now the more game experience we can get, the better, and we're learning a lot in games with 15 new players, and you guys saw that tonight. We threw a lot at them. We had switched up our groups and our rotations for this game on a one-day prep. We intentionally had them call their own sets, and didn't call a lot of plays for them, for them to try to work their way through it.

"I think that was part of the result of the slow start, but those are things we need. Those are things we need because we are going to get in high pressure situations very quickly where 15 players on the floor have to figure it out together, and so we've talked in the locker room a lot about what our response to this is going to be. Again, there's only so many things we can replicate in practice that now our game experience is going to be very important for us to learn from quickly moving forward."

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