No. 2 Lady Vols Top Sooners Before Record Crowd, 71-55

Shyra Ely scored 17 points and Shanna Zolman added 14 Sunday to keep No. 2 Tennessee unbeaten through its most grueling road trip with a 71-55 win over No. 13 Oklahoma.

Tennessee (9-0) played its third game in 10 days and posted its second win over an unbeaten Top 15 team. It also defeated then-No. 6 Stanford and DePaul on the trip.

This game was played before a crowd of 12,080, the largest to watch a women's basketball game in Oklahoma history.

The Lady Vols have stayed undefeated despite facing five ranked opponents in their last six games. They'll play two more -- No. 5 Texas and No. 22 TCU -- in the next three games.

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Loree Moore had 12 points and eight rebounds for Tennessee, and Tasha Butts finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Caton Hill led Oklahoma with 17 points and nine rebounds. Dionnah Jackson added 12 points and Maria Villarroel had 11.

Early in the second half, Zolman sandwiched a couple of jumpers around a 3-pointer as part of an 14-2 run that gave Tennessee a 48-36 lead. The Sooners (8-1) never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.

Tennessee surged to a 19-4 lead, making all three of its 3-point attempts, slicing into the lane at will and forcing the Sooners to miss 13 of their first 15 shots. But Oklahoma then went on a 13-2 run over the next six minutes.

Villarroel brought Oklahoma within 29-28 before the halftime buzzer, scoring on a breakaway layup off a crosscourt pass from Jackson.

Oklahoma briefly took the lead after halftime on Erin Higgins' basket that put the Sooners up 30-29. But the Lady Vols kept up their defensive pressure. The Sooners shot only 34 percent, including 13 percent (3-of-24) from 3-point range.