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Tennessee Lady Vols basketball vs UConn Huskies on Feb. 6, 2025, at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center in Knoxville, Tennessee

He doesn't recall much about that Jan. 6, 1996, meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third time in 12 months his UConn Huskies faced Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Vols. But he remembers how electric the environment was, how there wasn't an arena of that size, with that energy, on any other college campus in the country.