Patience is key for Lady Vols basketball: 4 takeaways from Kim Caldwell’s 1st basketball media day
Lady Vols basketball hosted its annual media day to preview Kim Caldwell’s first season in Knoxville on Wednesday.
Tennessee will take the court for an exhibition against Carson-Newman on Oct. 31 (6:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network+) before opening the season against Samford on Nov. 5 (6:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network+).
Here are four takeaways from the day.
Jillian Hollingshead in concussion protocol
Caldwell said the team is “a little banged-up” but none of them are major injuries outside of senior guard Kaiya Wynn, who was announced out for the season Tuesday with a torn Achilles.
Senior forward Jillian Hollingshead, who is in concussion protocol, was not present at Market Square Madness on Friday because of the noise level and lights. Caldwell said Hollingshead is returning this week, but is still in protocol and limited in practice.
“She can shoot, but she’s still not full contact yet,” Caldwell said. “Then we have a few more that are banged-up, but they should be back, hopefully, by the exhibition.”
Hollingshead has been in concussion protocol at least once in each of her three seasons at Tennessee. As a sophomore, she missed the Virginia Tech loss because of a concussion and last season, she missed UT’s loss to Middle Tennessee State with one.