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Tennessee competes in the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division, along with Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt, and competes in longstanding football rivalries with all of them along with another long-time rival, Alabama, in The Third Saturday In October. The Volunteers won the 1998 NCAA Division IA National Championship in football. They are coached by Phillip Fulmer. Tennessee has one of the strongest women's basketball teams at the college level. Pat Summitt, the Lady Vols' head basketball coach, is the all-time winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, having won over 900 games as of 2006. Tennessee and Summitt also have a rivalry with the University of Connecticut in women's basketball. These two schools have consistently fought great games against each other in recent years, occasionally with the national championship on the line. The main women's basketball rivals for Tennessee within the conference are Georgia, Vanderbilt, and LSU. The men's basketball program is headed by Bruce Pearl. Through his guidance, the men's program has been revitalized and claimed the 2005-2006 SEC East Title and closed the season with a 22-8 record and a NCAA Tournament berth. In men's basketball, the most important rivalries are with Kentucky and, to a slightly lesser degree, Florida and Vanderbilt. UT's best-known athletic facility by far is Neyland Stadium, home to the football team, which seats over 107,000 people and is one of the country's largest facilities of its type. Neyland is currently undergoing a $100+ renovation. The men's and women's basketball teams play in Thompson-Boling Arena. The former home of both basketball teams, Stokely Athletics Center, still stands and is now used by the women's volleyball program. The Alumni Memorial Gym is another indoor athletic facility. It was built in 1934 during a construction campaign under school president James D. Hoskins, and was replaced by the Stokely Athletics Center in 1967. The facility hosted the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament in 1936 and 1937 and again in 1939 and 1940. It is now used as a performing arts center and seats 1,000 spectators.
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