MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Rick Insell can still remember the first time he led the Lady Raiders onto the court.
It was at UT-Chattanooga, a Friday night game on an unseasonably warm day in Chattanooga (if Weather Underground's records for Chattanooga's weather on November 18, 2005 are to be believed, the high that day got up to 82 degrees before the game's 7 p.m. tip). Unfortunately, it wasn't a debut to write home about. The Lady Raiders struggled shooting, finishing the night 24-for-70 from the floor and 5-for-22 from three, while the Mocs scored 54 percent of their attempts in a 76-66 loss for MT
What Insell remembers most from that night, though, is the phone call he got on the bus ride home.