The Eggman (goog-goog-a-chook) nailed what is probably major reason for the lack of ear-busting cheering. In researching this matter, I was trying to find a video of the 2002 regular season game between the Huskies and te Evil Empire. This was a game I attended with JS and some guy who may or my not have been Rasputin, the game in which DT kept the streak alive by tieing the game with a highly improbably 3 with about 3 seconds to play, and then leading the Huskies to victory in overtime. I wanted to see if I could determine what the noise lever was then. (I t was zero decibels while the ball was in the air, and prolly incalculable after it hit the cords.
However, what I actually found was the 2002 NC game, also with Tennessee, and I am really glad I did, because that may have been Diana's finest hour. She was playing with the remnants left after the gradation of the TASS force and freshmen Annie Strother and the Barbara Turner Express. She was also playing with a bad back and a foot problem; Geno said she was at about 65%/ So all she did was score 28 points and carry the Huskies to a five-point win. This was the game in which she made the incredible ldft-handed shot as she was falling out of bounds under the UT basket. It is also the game in which Brittany Jackson made the most unlikely 3-point shot in the history of UT basketball, not really a shot so much as a desperation heave as she was falling on her face that hit the backboard and bounced in, reducing it to a four point Husky lead. Annie made two clutch freebies with 20 seconds left to increase the lead to five, and then the Huskies stole the inbounds pass.
Many interesting facets to the game; the Vols outrebounded the Huskies about two to one, but the Huskies hit over of% of their threes. Probably not the most artistic game ever played, but way exciting. If your memory of just how all-fired good D was as a Husky, pop over to You Tube and five a look.