Tyler Summitt said the Nashville bid for a WNBA expansion team, named the Tennessee Summitt, is the "perfect way" to honor ...

and the team would be called the "Tennessee Summitt," honoring legendary Tennessee women's basketball coach, Pat Summitt. The Nashville Predators owner submitted his bid to the WNBA commissioner ...

Toronto and Portland join in 2026. Pat Summitt was arguably the most influential person in women’s basketball history. She won eight NCAA titles and 1,098 games as Lady Vols coach, retiring in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and his wife Crissy Haslam submitted an expansion bid to bring a WNBA team named after legendary Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt to Nashville.

The team also would be named the Tennessee Summitt in honor of the late Pat Summitt ... the WNBA team that also would be used for youth basketball. Parker said in a statement "Tennessee is ...

But it wasn't until the WNBA began that it stuck, and even then, Pat Summitt knew not all her players would have a career in the league. "It wasn't about winning basketball games as much as it was ...