SATURDAY'S SCORES
Tennessee 75, Austin Peay 42

TENNESSEE 75, AUSTIN PEAY 42
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - It didn't take long for Tennessee to put last year's first round NCAA tournament loss behind it.

Kelley Cain had 18 points and 12 rebounds as top seed Tennessee beat No. 16 seeded Austin Peay 75-42 on Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA women's tournament.

The Lady Vols (31-2), playing in their NCAA-record 29th first-round game, have advanced out of the opening weekend every season except last, when they lost 71-55 to Ball State in the first round as a No. 5 seed.

Cain, who spent much of the Southeastern Conference tournament on the bench in foul trouble, hit a jumper 30 seconds into the game, and the Lady Vols scored the first 15 points before Austin Peay hit a basket.

The Lady Govs (15-18) got their first points when Ashley Herring hauled in a rebound off Brooke Faulkner's missed jumper and hit a jumper with 13:14 left in the first half.

Herring scored 21 points for Austin Peay, which worked its way into the tournament as only the eighth team in history with a losing record by winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

By halftime, the Lady Vols had expanded their lead to 37-16 and they expanded their margin to 38 points in the second half off a 3-point shot by Taber Spani that made it 73-35 with 3:45.

Austin Peay turned the ball over 14 times in the first half, leading to 17 of Tennessee's points.

Despite being smaller at every position, the Lady Govs found success in the paint against the imposing Lady Vols posts and scored all but two of their first-half points in the lane. They finished with 20 points in the paint.

And Austin Peay's loss still wasn't as bad as the last time it visited Knoxville, when it lost 80-38 to Tennessee in the opening round of the 2001 NCAA tournament.

Tennessee went everywhere to score, putting up 36 points in the paint and getting 14 points from Angie Bjorklund around the perimeter.