As the final buzzer sounded, the sports town known as Rocky Top undoubtedly fell completely silent as the Tennessee Lady Vols fell to Brittany Griner and the Baylor Lady Bears by the final score of 77 to 58. It wasn't the fact that this was the first senior class in Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt's thirty-seven year tenure that failed to reach a Final Four in their time at Knoxville—a remarkable feat that will never be duplicated at any level of college basketball—that left the Tennessee faithful speechless, nor was it about Summitt's past; it was the uncertainty that clouds her future. As Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey and the Lady Bears celebrated and moved another step closer to a championship, a more somber, serious storyline presented itself on the opposing sideline: is this the last the basketball world will ever see of Pat Head Summitt?
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