Jeff Duncan: “Mr. Speaker, I have the privilege and honor of representing Knoxville and the surrounding area, which is the home of the…”

“Mr. Speaker, I have the privilege and honor of representing Knoxville and the surrounding area, which is the home of the main campus of the University of Tennessee and the home of the great basketball team, the Tennessee Lady Vols. I have sometimes said, Mr. Speaker, that the colors orange and white are almost as patriot or more patriotic in my district than red, white and blue. And I also have said that oftentimes it appears that the biggest thing in my district is Tennessee football and Tennessee women's basketball, although Tennessee men's basketball is coming back under the leadership of our great new coach, Coach Bruce Pearl. But we are especially proud of our Lady Vols basketball coach, Ms. Pat Head Summitt. Under Coach Summitt, Tennessee women's basketball sometimes frequently had crowds of two and three times the number of fans that the men's basketball team would draw, sometimes drawing crowds as large as 24,000, 25,000 people. Pat Summitt is the NCAA's winningest coach, man or woman, in Division I, and has posted an overall record of 947 wins against only 180 losses, a phenomenal winning percentage of 84 percent. Her 2007 NCAA title was the seventh in her 33-year career at Tennessee.”