{"id":649255,"date":"2026-05-04T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:26:12","slug":"lady-vols-basketball-listed-inside-notable-publications-post-transfer-portal-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649255\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Vols Basketball Listed Inside Notable Publication’s Post-Transfer Portal Top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>COLUMBUS, OH \u2013 March 21, 2025 \u2013 Head Coach Kim Caldwell of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers during the first round of the 2025 NCAA Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament game between the South Florida Bulls and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Value City Arena in Columbus, OH. Photo By Kate Luffman\/Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

Lady Vols basketball may be turning over its entire roster, but expectations are still relatively high. After the majority of transfer portal movement settled, USA TODAY\u2019s Mitchell Northam updated his top 25 rankings<\/a> ahead of the 2026-27 women\u2019s college basketball season.<\/p>\n

In his rankings, Tennessee clocked in at No. 25 in the country. This is good for the seventh-best mark in the SEC. UT clocks in behind No. 1 South Carolina, No. 6 Vanderbilt, No. 7 LSU, No. 13 Texas, No. 14 Ole Miss and No. 18 Kentucky.<\/p>\n

The top teams in the nation on the list are the No. 1 Gamecocks, No. 2 USC, No. 3 UConn, No. 4 Duke and No. 5 Michigan.<\/p>\n

More From RTI:\u00a0Lady Vols Basketball Left Out of Post-Transfer Portal Top 25 Rankings by The Athletic<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lady Vols enter year three under Kim Caldwell with no returning players from last season\u2019s team. Instead, she went out and landed the signing of 13 transfers and a pair of high school signees to fill up her 15-man roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really wanted to make sure that from the jump of the portal, we were getting those floor spacers out there,\u201d Caldwell said. \u201cYour bigs and your point guards are harder to come by, and so we have been really trying to get key pieces there that fit that with what we the way we want to play. You got to be willing to play fast, you got to be willing to play hard. You got to be willing to come in and work and want to win for Tennessee. And those are conversations we\u2019ve had openly and pretty upfront with every player we\u2019ve brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the potential returners, all eight entered the portal and landed at Power Four schools. This included Talaysia Cooper and Jaida Civil heading to Ole Miss and Kaniya Boyd landing at Texas A&M to stay in the SEC. Five-star high school signee Oliviyah Edwards also requested a release and later signed with South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, OH \u2013 March 21, 2025 \u2013 Head Coach Kim Caldwell of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,314108,314109,314110,85,314111],"class_list":["post-649255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-kim-caldwell","tag-lady-vols","tag-lady-vols-basketball","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-lady-vols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}