How Kim Caldwell explained terrible season for Lady Vols, 'worst year' as a coach
Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell said she turned to a Plan B, and it led to the worst season of her career and for Lady Vols basketball.
ANN ARBOR, MI – Kim Caldwell fell into her own trap searching for answers to Lady Vols basketball's problems. The second-year Tennessee coach did the very thing she tells any coach not to do if they want to play a style like hers, if they want to press like she does. Caldwell came up with a Plan B.
"You can't play this style of play and put it in a Plan B, and we put it in a Plan B," Caldwell said. "I think when you do that, you lose your identity. You lose your buy-in, you lose your staff a little bit, and there's fault from the top, and that's from me.
I did that in the middle of the season, and I know better than to do that, and it was the worst year of my professional career. " It wasn't just Caldwell's worst season – it was Tennessee's worst season in program history. No.
10 seed Tennessee finished 16-14 after falling to No. 7 seed NC State 76-61 in the first round of the Women's NCAA Tournament on March 20 at the Crisler Center. The .