The University of Mississippi Athletics
Armintie Price To Be Featured On SEC-TV Thursday
1/11/2006 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 11, 2006
ATLANTA, Ga. - Ole Miss junior guard Armintie Price will be featured on this week's SEC-TV. SEC-TV on Thursday (1/12 at 6:30 p.m. ET; re-airs Friday, 1/13 at 10:30 p.m.) recaps the first weekend of conference matchups across the Southeastern Conference basketball landscape. As January play unfolds, the SEC men have eight teams already at, or beyond, the 10-wins mark, including No. 2 Florida (14-0). The SEC women boast four top-20 teams, highlighted by No. 1 Tennessee and No. 3 LSU.
On the strength of each starter averaging double digits in scoring - all clustered between 11.9 and 13.4 points per game, Florida is off to its best start in school history and its highest ranking since the Gators ascended to No. 1 in early December, 2003. Tennessee has both barrels blazing as the top-ranked Lady Vols are 15-0 and the Vol men are 10-1. The UT women are coming off last weekend's win over No. 7 UConn, before a Thompson-Boling Arena crowd of 24,653 - the largest in school history. First-year men's coach Bruce Pearl, owner of the third-highest winning percentage (.794) among active Division I men's coaches, has the Vol men off to their best start since the 1999-2000 team opened 11-1.
SEC-TV profiles key women's players to watch this season, such as - LSU's Seimone Augustus - the 2004-05 national player of the year (19.8 points per game); Georgia's Tasha Humphrey (SEC-leading 20.2 ppg); Tennessee's Shanna Zolman (15.7 ppg) and Candace Parker (14.2 ppg); and Ole Miss' Price (17.7 ppg, SEC-leading 10.7 rebounds per game).
Also, reporter Jenn Hildreth travels to Athens, where she visits with Georgia women's basketball coach Andy Landers about his 26th Bulldog edition. This Georgia coaching icon has amassed a 645-202 (.762) record and has earned four national coach of the year citations, while leading the Dawgs to five NCAA Final Fours and nine SEC Tournament championship game appearances (four titles).
Thursday's SEC-TV sits down with Auburn men's basketball coach Jeff Lebo, to learn his expectations for a team sporting nine newcomers. The rebuilt Tigers are off to an 8-4 start in Lebo's second year with the program, and his experience as a player - two-time All-ACC point guard at North Carolina - and as a coach - three-time OVC coach of the year, superbly complements his squad's description of its leader as the consummate "players' coach."
Thursday's SEC-TV also features the "Quick Question," which this week queries SEC men's and women's basketball players - "What's one material possession you could not live without?"
SEC-TV, hosted by Dave Neal, is a live, weekly, half-hour Southeastern Conference studio program originating from FSN South's Atlanta headquarters. The show reaches 11 million homes throughout Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, on the nation's largest regional sports television network. In the states of Arkansas and Louisiana, SEC-TV airs live on FSN Southwest, and throughout the state of Florida, SEC-TV airs live on Sun Sports.
