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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee and Texas enter their annual womens basketball matchup amid unusual circumstances.The 17th-ranked Longhorns (2-4) will remain below .500 whether it wins or loses Sundays matchup in Austin, Texas. Tennessee (4-3) has tumbled out of the Top 25 and would drop to .500 with a loss, which would mark the latest point in a season that the Lady Volunteers havent had a winning record since starting out 4-5 in 1981-82.Weve just got to have more of a sense of urgency, Tennessee coach Holly Warlick said of her team. I think the atmosphere and the tone in practice has been, `Lets go to work. This is a business. Youve got a job. Youve got to get it done. Both teams reached regional finals last year but havent been able to carry that momentum over thus far.Texas had to replace three players who started nearly every game for Texas last season in first-team all-Big 12 center Imani Boyette, Empress Davenport and Celina Rodrigo.The Longhorns record also is somewhat deceiving because all four of its losses have come against top-10 teams: No. 1 Connecticut, No. 5 Mississippi State, No. 6 South Carolina and No. 10 Stanford. Of those four losses, only the South Carolina game was on Texas home floor.There are teams across the country that have maybe played one high-level game, Texas coach Karen Aston said. We could easily have put ourselves in that situation, and we wouldnt have many losses and wed probably have a false confidence about ourselves because young players have to learn by trial and error.Texas instead has learned some tough lessons while averaging 17.3 turnovers per game.Tennessee is coming off an 88-66 loss to No. 3 Baylor that matched the Lady Vols most lopsided home defeat ever. Tennessee trailed that game by as many as 35 points.We started off kind of slow and got ourselves in a hole we couldnt get out of, Tennessee center Mercedes Russell said. We werent dictating. We were just letting them do whatever they wanted.Tennessee committed 15 turnovers against Baylor and had 21 more in a loss at Virginia Tech a week earlier. The Lady Vols have spent the last few days emphasizing the importance of playing with more energy than they showed against Baylor.The more we would turn the ball over or do things (wrong), the more kind of hesitant we got, Warlick said. When you get hesitant, you worry about how youre playing, and you dont have any energy and you dont have any effort.Both teams still have plenty of time to turn things around.Tennessee need only point to last year, when the Lady Vols had their most losses (14) in school history yet rallied late in the season to reach a regional final. And while Texas is only one defeat away from matching the loss total from last seasons 31-5 campaign, all those early lessons could pay dividends for the Longhorns as the season wears on.Im not displeased at all, Aston said. I would be displeased if in a month we dont look like weve made some improvement because of the situations weve been in.---Follow Steve Megargee at www.twitter.com/stevemegargee Wholesale Air Max 1 . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. Air Max 1 Ireland .C. Lions has come to an end. 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England have taken the highly unusual step of delaying their team announcement for Saturdays clash with Fiji by 24 hours as they monitor the fitness of a trio of players.In a break with established protocol, the starting XV and replacements bench will be named on the eve of the second autumn international at Twickenham as Billy Vunipola, Nathan Hughes and Elliot Daly battle to prove their availability.Mystery shrouds the nature of their ailments with England willing only to offer broad descriptions -- Vunipola has upper body soreness, Hughes is struggling with a lower leg injury and Daly has an upper body injury.However, Hughes and Daly were able to take an active role in training on Thursdays final session of the week.Furthermore, Tom Wood has rejoined the squad to provide injury cover having been sent back to his club on Tuesday, although the Northampton captain is struggling with illness.World Rugby has confirmed that England have not broken any regulations in the postponement, although from January a recently-ratified rule stating team announcements must be undertaken 48 hours before kick takes effect.Weve had a really good weeks preparation, albeit a few injury concerns which were trying to sort out at the moment, head coach Eddie Jones said.Well have those sorted out by tomorrow so well announce the team tomorrow which is a deviation from our normal procedure but in line with the regulations of team announcements.So were looking forward to the game and were going to put on a really vibrant, aggressive display.Bill and Nathan are still carrying knocks from the South Africa game, Elliot Daly is still carrying knocks from the previous game so were looking to see how they resolve tthemselves in the next 24 hours before we make a final decision.ddddddddddddThe South Africa game was a very tough game physically so we are still carrying some knocks and bruises from that. Well resolve that in the next 24 hours.England are wrestling with uncertainty in the back row and on the left wing with the possible loss of Vunipola and Hughes leaving Jones plans in tatters.Hughes has been earmarked for openside, but the Grand Slam champions could face Fiji with a loose trio of Chris Robshaw, Harrison and Wood, forcing cover to be summoned from outside the squad to provide bench cover, most likely Ben Morgan.Jonny May was rested on Tuesday and Thursday, but it was thought that Daly was the preferred choice for the left wing with his fitness issue confusing matters.England are 1/150 favourites to extend their flawless record against Fiji to seven matches and Jones intends victory to be delivered by boring them to death.The free-spirited Pacific Islanders are famed for their power, athleticism and unpredictability, so Jones predicts that success lies in the form of a structured game.They want to have a kava party but you cant join the party. We dont want to have a kava party, we want to eat fish and chips, so we will be making sure we eat fish and chips on Saturday, Jones said.You just dont want to open the game up too much. You go anywhere in Fiji and kids are playing with the ball, they are throwing it around.At the age of 10 kids can throw 15-metre torpedo passes through their legs, so weve got to play a very structured, controlled, positive game. ' ' '