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Kim Caldwell’s Tennessee roster decimated by transfers after ugly season

Nypost · · 359 words · By Justin Tasch
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Tennessee’s women’s basketball program is in tatters.

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Topics 3

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What happened

Tennessee’s women’s basketball program is in tatters.

Why it matters

Long gone are the days of Pat Summit leading the Lady Volunteers to national championships and consistent contention.

Common ground

Current head coach Kim Caldwell now barely has a roster after her second season at the helm, with all eight players with remaining eligibility entering the transfer portal after the team’s first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament as a No.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 30% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Caldwell, 37, ruffled some feathers after a blowout loss to South Carolina on Feb. 8 when she said her team 'had a lot of quit in us.'”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Kim Caldwell's comment about her team having 'a lot of quit' after the Feb. 8, 2023, loss to South Carolina.
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Claim 2: “Long gone are the days of Pat Summit leading the Lady Volunteers to national championships and consistent contention.”
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Wikipedia confirms Pat Summitt coached the Tennessee Lady Volunteers and holds the record for most career wins in college basketball history, corroborating her leadership during championship seasons.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2009–10 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Lady Volunteers, coached since 1974 by Pat Summitt, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–10_Tennessee_Lady_Volunte…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Patricia Susan Summitt (née Head; June 14, 1952 – June 28, 2016) was an American women's college basketball head coach and college basketball player. She coached 1,098 career wins, the most in college…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Summitt
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers
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Claim 3: “Freshman twins Mia and Mya Pauldo ... announced last week they were entering the portal.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Mia and Mya Pauldo entered the transfer portal in 2023.
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Claim 4: “Caldwell is making $1 million a year and has a $4 million buyout, per The Athletic.”
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Claim 5: “Current head coach Kim Caldwell now barely has a roster after her second season at the helm, with all eight players with remaining eligibility entering the transfer portal after the team’s first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 10 seed.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming the specific claim about eight players entering the transfer portal after the 2023 NCAA Tournament exit.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's bask…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_NCAA_Division_I_men's_bas…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a 68-team single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball nation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_NCAA_Division_I_women's_b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a 68-team single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball nation…
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Claim 6: “Last year’s Lady Vols went 24-10 and reached the Sweet 16 and entered this season with high expectations, but they lost their final eight games, including a 76-61 defeat to No. 7 NC State in the first round of March Madness.”
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Claim 7: “Junior Talaysia Cooper, who led the team in scoring at 16 points per game, also entered the portal.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Talaysia Cooper entered the transfer portal in 2023.
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Claim 8: “Tennessee hasn’t reached the Elite Eight in a decade and hasn’t won an SEC regular-season title since 2015. Their last national championship was in 2008.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 9: “The only player left for next season is incoming freshman Gabby Minus, the No. 62 ranked recruit by ESPN.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Gabby Minus was the only freshman remaining on Tennessee's 2023-24 roster.
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Claim 10: “Tennessee hired Caldwell in 2024 after just one season as a Division I coach with Marshall, whom she led to Sun Belt regular-season and conference tournament titles and its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1997.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Kim Caldwell was hired by Tennessee in 2024 after leading Marshall to NCAA Tournament qualification.
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Claim 11: “Junior Alyssa Latham has already committed to Virginia Tech.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Alyssa Latham committed to Virginia Tech in 2023.
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Claim 12: “Tennessee was already losing seniors Janiah Barker, Zee Spearman, Nya Robertson and Jersey Wolfenbarger.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming the departure of the listed seniors prior to 2023.
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Claim 13: “Incoming forward Oliviyah Edwards, ranked No. 2 in the class of 2026 by ESPN, has decommitted from the program.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or web search results confirming Oliviyah Edwards decommitted from Tennessee in 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 McDonald's All-American Girls Game was an all-star basketball game that was played on March 31, 2026, at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The game's rosters featured the best an…
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Claim 14: “She took over for former Tennessee national champ Kellie Harper, who was fired after five seasons as the team couldn’t break through past the Sweet 16.”
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