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.

First-year coach Kim Caldwell and No. 19 Tennessee got their first signature win of the season and it came against the Lady Vols’ longtime rival — UConn. A back and forth game went Tennessee’s way in the end as the team came away with an 80-76 victory Thursday night.

Just 18 days after giving birth to her son Conor and in the first win for No. 19 Tennessee in this epic rivalry since 2007, first-year coach Kim Caldwell’s Lady Vols took down No. 5 UConn at home, 80-76.